As usual, I was bouncing around on various projects last week.  But I have something to show for it this time.  I’ve finished my sister’s wedding quilt.  It measures 80 x 85 and is quilted with a red variegated or a sand variegated thread on the top and solid red on the bottom.  It’s an overall heart/ivy meander on the background and simple out line around each of the names.

Here’s a bit of the detail.

The back is a red, white and black plaid that I found on-line.

Also completed this week is Baby Glow.

The white lines around the stars on the purple fabric glow in the dark — I found that out after I brought the fabric home.  It’s also what I used on the back of the quilt.  Warm and Natural batting, 36 x 36 and yellow thread.

Have no fear, I’m still bouncing around.

Here are my log cabin blocks I’m piecing.  They’ve gotten too big to use as  leader/enders, so I’m doing 10 at a time and then a HST square for the Ocean Waves quilt.  There are 80 blocks in the pile on the left and 100 in the pile on the right.  There are 4 more logs after this round.

And the Ocean Waves quilt?

I’ve made another 100 HST squares this week bringing my total bonus and new to 600 or about 1/3 of the total I need for the quilt.   In addition to the log cabin blocks, I’ve pieced a couple of the Ocean Waves block — I’ve got two with the turquoise center, but I’m not sure where I put the other one.

It has been my intention to begin Orca Bay on Friday, but I think I may have to step back and reconsider that — or just stick to the HST square for Ocean Waves — my sewing table is getting crowded as I try to keep all the parts and pieces lined up for these two quilts — at least there’s no chance for me to get the parts mixed up.

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It’s been a long week.  But the good news is that I’ve gotten plenty of quilting done.

Tuesday I finally made it to Rocking Chair Quilts and quilted the hearts/ivy on the Crossword Puzzle quilt.  I finished up the quilting at home on Thursday, took it up to the school to square it up — I think it finished at 81 x 84 — I’ll have to remeasure it now that I’ve got it washed.  The last stitches in the binding were taken just in time to pick up T to go to Second Friday Night Sew-In.  That’s where I added 4″ dark log to all of my log cabin blocks.

Somewhere along the way I quilted “Baby Glow” and I bound it Saturday.  In between I ran all sorts of errands and I’m ready to go back to work — just to get some rest!

I’m not counting the log cabin fabric until the top is complete, but I am counting the fabric for the HST squares for the Ocean Waves quilt as I make them. It will help counter the 5 yards of background fabric I bought for the quilt. 🙂

Fabric Added Last Week: 5 yards
Fabric Added to Date: 124.254 yards

Fabric Used Last Week: 2.283 yards
Fabric Used to Date: 162.219 yards

Net Used for 37.965 yards

Pictures tomorrow — so in the meantime, check out how others are doing with their stash by following the links over at Patchwork Times.

Not much is on my design wall this week — just this single block from my  Ocean Waves quilt — which I may not use since the main fabric hasn’t been settled on!

I finished up a quilt top Saturday, and I have the crossword puzzle quilt prepped for quilting on Tuesday.  I’ve worked a bit on my log cabin quilt and have moved on to another size log.  Also, I’ve been piecing those HST into squares — I did 100 this past week (not including those pictured above), so that brings my total to 500 HST squares.  I think the HST Squares is going to be the easy part of this quilt.

I see this week as a binding and labels week with three quilts needing labels and two needing binding.  Friday night my quilting buddies are getting together for a night of quilting fun, so I hope to get at least one more round on my log cabin quilt.

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I picked up a 1/2 yard of “turquoise” fabric is see if it’s what I want to use in my Ocean Waves quilt.  The jury is still out, but there is still time to make that decision.

This past week, I didn’t spend much time quilting – but I still managed to finish a quilt top from a stack of blocks — one of those things which got pulled together without much thought so it makes you wonder why it took so long to do.  I also added a few logs to my log cabin blocks and of course pieced those HST squares.

Fabric Added Last Week: .5 yards
Fabric Added to Date: 119.254 yards

Fabric Used Last Week: 1.031 yards
Fabric Used to Date: 159.936 yards

Net Used for 2011: 40.682 yards

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This is UFO # 3 off of my Quilts In Progress list.  The border blocks were what I salvaged from a mystery quilt I started in 2006.  I’m not sure why I made the string star, but it was about the same time frame so some of the same fabrics are in both.  The top finishes at about 44″ which is a little bigger than I like my square quilts, but I’m sure someone will love this quilt once I get it quilted.

I’ve decided to join quilters around the world and make Bonnie Hunter’s mystery quilt – Orca Bay.  Fabric requirements were posted yesterday HERE.  The first clue will be posted on 11/18.    It’s been a while since I’ve done any string piecing, so this should be fun.

Judy’s UFO Challenge # for October was #5.  I worked some on my Victory Quilt blocks, but did not get them into a quilt top.  #5 off my other list was a baby quilt, which I finally started quilting last Monday evening.  Imagine that — it’s still not finished. (Maybe tonight).  But have no fear, I did complete a UFO in October.

Pictured above is my Texas Braid quilt.  I started this quilt top at a Bonnie Hunter workshop my Guild sponsored in May 2010.  I’m counting this as my October UFO.

As for November, Judy picked # 3 — that’s either my 2006 Retreat Mystery Quilt

or my Yellow Thangles quilt.

Stay tuned to see if I get either of these quilts done this month — and follow the links over at Patchwork Times to see what others accomplished during this past month.

The Texas Braid is done! It just needs washing.

Today, a little bit of several things.

On the wall proper, are 15 of the 20 blocks from Victory Quilts.  I think I can safely say that this quilt top won’t be finished in October.  But I have 8 more blocks than I did at the beginning of the month.

Closer to a UFO finish for October is the Texas Braid.

I have a few spots I need to fix on the binding and then this one will be done.  I would have finished it last night, but I dropped my seam ripper and couldn’t find it.  By the time I found it, I had changed my foot and thread, so this will have to be done while I wait for Trick or Treaters.

In the meantime, I pulled out my log cabin which I was working on as my leader/ender project.  I added one more log to 40 blocks.  There are another 80 blocks for this round.

As I mentioned last week I’ve decided to make an Ocean Waves quilt.  It needs 1536 half square triangle blocks.  I have a deadline of mid-May to have the quilt completed. Based on these two facts, I’ve decided I need to make 75 a week.  Then I started digging for my bonus HSTs.

After my marathon pressing and counting session of my bonus HSTs I came up with 320 usable HSTs.   I’ve since sewn another 80 – meeting my target of 75 a week for a total of 400 triangles.

Even though I’m ahead of the game so to speak, I’m going to continue to aim for 70 or 80 a week.  I might need more time than I’ve ‘allowed’ for the block assembly.

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There they all are. My bonus HST units.  These are 2″ so they’ll finish at 1 1/2″.  There are a few less than 1400 squares — or right at 8 yards of fabric!  All of this fabric is already counted “out”, so as I make additional HST for the Ocean Waves quilt, I’ll go ahead and out the fabric out.  This past week I made 40 HST using about a 1/4 of a yard.  I also made the binding for the Texas Braid quilt, but is still needs to be attached to the quilt.  What can I say — I got distracted.

On the other hand, no new fabric came into the house (nor is there any hiding out in the car).

Here’s this week’s report:

Fabric Added Last Week: 0 yards
Fabric Added to Date: 118.754 yards

Fabric Used Last Week: .855 yards
Fabric Used to Date: 158.905 yards

Net Used for 2011: 40.151 yards

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