Quilting and Stuff by Knitnoid

Stash Report

January 26, 2014 12:33 am ⋅

charms

More music fabric came into the house. A friend ordered this charm pack for me when she placed an order and Saturday was the first time we’ve seen each other since it came in. For now it will reside in the music stash until I’m ready to make another music quilt.

This fabric is balanced out by a little quilt I made from orphan blocks on Saturday.  Pictures tomorrow.  Now if I can just figure out what I’m going to do about Deadline III, I’ll have a large backing to count soon.

Fabric added this week: .729 yards
Fabric added to date: 2.479 yards

Fabric used this week: 1.5 yards
Fabric used to date: 22.677 yards

Net used to date: 20.198 yards

Check out the links over at Patchwork Times to see how others are doing.

Posted in: Stash Busting Report

New Quilt or UFO?

January 25, 2014 11:20 am ⋅

logcabintop

 

Since I finished my last couple finishes two weeks ago, I’ve been stalling. You see, I have a quilt to quilt — one with a rapidly approaching deadline — and I’ve been struggling to figure out how to quilt it.  And since it’s a mystery quilt to be published next fall, I can’t post it here to ask for advice.

It hung on my design wall for a week and finally I knew how I wanted to quilt it. But I needed to mark it since the current plan is to quilt it on my DSM.  A week later I have the quilt marked and ready to baste — only it’s not.

Earlier this week I thought it was odd that I came up with a quilting design that completely missed a significant piece of the piecing, but instead of stopping to figure out why, I kept marking the quilt.  Today the plan was to baste the quilt.

When I pulled out the backing I discovered it needed to be pressed again. That required moving the ironing board and I found the drawing of the quilting.  I laid it over the quilt top and sure enough I’ve marked the quilt wrong.  Now I have to figure out what to do, which brings us to the title of the post and the picture above.

This is the year I plan on working my UFOs. I really want to quilt the Scrappy Trips that I just finished on the treadle, but I know I need to quilt something smaller to see if I’m going to like the results.  I know how I want to quilt Scrappy Trips, but need to finish the mystery quilt first.  But given my current frustration have decided I need a break (like I haven’t had one for the past two weeks).

So, this morning I pulled out the dozen left over log cabin blocked from THIS QUILT. I threw them together and added a blue border.  The little quilt currently measures 26″ x 33″ which ought to give me enough space to practice quilting on the treadle without it being too time consuming.

But is this a New Quilt or a UFO that I’ve completed the top of?  I suppose if I get it finished in the next day or two it doesn’t really matter.

 

 

 

Posted in: quilt top, UFOs

Another Quilt in Use

January 21, 2014 7:00 am ⋅

rubyquilt

This is my version of Kansas Spirit. It’s make entirely of Kansas Trouble Quilts fabrics and was a BOM at Heritage Fine Fabrics in Belton, Missouri in 2008 – 2009.  I finished it in 2011 during the Spring 2011 Lost My Mind self challenge. I gave this quilt to my SIL Ruby and this weekend she sent me a picture of it on one of her beds.

She also sent me a picture of the wall hanging I made her for Christmas 2007.

rubywall2

I love it when I know that quilts I’ve made are being used.

Posted in: Kansas Spirit, Magnolia Wall Hanging

What’s On My Design Wall

January 20, 2014 7:53 am ⋅

stringfling

This past week I’ve spent time marking Deadline III, so there are no pictures.  However, this weekend was String Fling in Manhattan, Kansas. Over 650 5th – 9th grader  string players.  This is the 8th/9th grade orchestra that Sydney played in.

I’m not sure what I was thinking, I didn’t bring my camera, so today’s photos are off my camera.

While she was at practise, I spent the weekend trimming the rail fence blocks.

designwallcuttingarea

I set up a cutting station.

designwallsyd

The bed became the design wall.  Half the blocks are trimmed.

dw-book

I started reading Publish Your Patterns! by Nancy Restuccia.  The link will take you to Amazon – no affiliation.  Before Christmas I checked the book out from the library. Things were crazy and I didn’t open it until the day before I had to take it back (after the 2nd renewal!)   What I saw in those few minutes made me want to buy my own copy to read at leisure.

And I did work on one of my own projects.  I grabbed my redwork.

dwred

Check out the links over at Patchwork Times to see what others are working on.

 

Posted in: designwall, red work, String Fling, Sydney

Stash Report

January 19, 2014 8:38 am ⋅

I do not have access to my spreadsheets at the moment, so I’m going to make my best guess to the fabric usage.

Fabric added this week: .75 yards
Fabric added to date: 1.75 yards

Fabric used this week: 4.183 yards
Fabric used to date: 21.248 yards

Net used to date: 19.498 yards

When I get to my spreadsheet I’ll validate my numbers and correct them if necessary.  Others stash reports can be seen through the links over at Patchwork Times.

Posted in: Stash Busting Report ⋅ Tagged:

In the Mail

January 18, 2014 3:54 pm ⋅

endyr

Yesterday in the mail was a wonderful surprise. Three FQs and two  coordinating spools of thread all tied together in a neat package.  This is what Shelly at Prairie Moon Quilts sent me when she drew my name from the participant of her End of Year Countdown.

Thanks, Shelly!

Posted in: Uncategorized

A Quilt In Use

January 16, 2014 1:37 pm ⋅

carolinephoto

 

I just received this picture of the Spool quilt I made and sent to a friend before Christmas. It now lives on his daughter’s bed.  I love the old-fashioned feel the combination of the quilt and bed frame give off.

 

Posted in: Spools

The Lull After the Finish

January 15, 2014 10:08 pm ⋅

railfence0114

 

It seems that after I have a big finish, I need to step away from quilting for a bit to catch my breath and work the kinks out of my shoulders.  Here it is the 15th of the month and I have had 3 “big” finishes.

  • Quilted, bound, labeled and turned in directions for Deadline IV
  • Finished piecing Scrappy Trips.
  • Quilted & bound Sydney’s quilt from gifted swap blocks

The first two items are on my to-do list for this year. The third is a bonus, but doesn’t get me off the hook for finishing the rest of my list.  There may be a lull, but it just means I’m not sitting at the sewing machine. For the past few days, I’ve been playing with quilting ideas for Deadline III and I’ve settled on one.  Now to get it marked on the quilt, the quilt layered and to start the quilting. I really want to have it finished before the end of the month.  I also need to get the rest of these rail fence blocks trimmed

 

 

Posted in: Uncategorized

What’s On My Design Wall

January 13, 2014 1:04 am ⋅

sydcomposite

 

The plan was to work on the red, white and black Rail Fence. I was going to trim the blocks and Sydney would assemble the quilt top.  The Bobbin Winder fiasco threw that plan off, and then Sydney said the quilt didn’t have a deadline, but she had another that did. Her teacher’s child has been in the hospital and she wanted to give her a quilt.

I’m not positive how it came about, but my husband asked me if I had any partially completed tops Sydney could finish for this quilt. I looked through my UFOs and pulled swap blocks. Between my husband and Sydney they decided the 7 purple blocks and 14 log cabin blocks could be put together into a quilt.  These blocks had been given to me by another quilter who didn’t think she would get around to making anything with them.  I had them on my Quilts In Progress list as two quilts.  They make an awesome quilt together and I get to cross 2 UFOs off my list!

The quilt finishes at about 47″ x 58″. Soft and Bright batting. Yellow thread in the bobbin and top. Quilted in a wavy crosshatch.

Also “completed” this week is Scrappy Trips which I made on my grandmother’s treadle machine.

ScrappyTripsTop

 

I know how I want to quilt it, I just have to decide on a backing fabric and decide if I want to attempt to quilt it on the treadle.

Up next — trimming the rail fence blocks for Sydney’s next visit and figuring out how I’m going to quilt Deadline III.

railfenceblocks

To see what others are working on, checked out the links over at Patchwork Times.

Posted in: designwall, Scrappy Trips, treadle, UFOs

Stash Report

January 12, 2014 1:56 am ⋅

It’s been another big week usage wise.  It started with quilting and completing Deadline IV and a matching pillowcase. The week ended when I completed Scrappy Trips, which I’ll show  on tomorrow’s Design Wall Monday.

Additionally, I magically got rid of two UFOs – not that there’s any fabric to count in that.  They were incomplete block sets given to me. Sydney sewed them together and made a quilt top for her teacher’s daughter who has been in the hospital. I’ve got about 1/4 of it quilted so should be able to count the backing and binding on next week’s report.

The only thing purchased this week were 3 rubber rings for the bobbin winders on the two Genie’s and the treadle machine and the service manual on the Genie.

So here’s the report:

Fabric added this week: 0 yards
Fabric added year to date: 1 yards

Fabric used this week: 8.526 yard
Fabric used year to date: 17.065 yards

Net used: 16.065 yards

Don’t get too excited about my fabric usage — many of the UFOs I plan to work on this year have already had their fabric counted or will require the purchase of fabric to complete.

To see how others are doing this second week of the year, check out the links over at Patchwork Times.

Posted in: Stash Busting Report