Progress was made on multiple fronts quilts Friday night.

The outer light log was attached to 50 log cabin blocks.

60 pairs of quarter square triangles were sewn for Orca Bay.

20 half square triangle squares were made for Ocean Waves.

1 Ocean Wave block was made.

1 HST for Ocean Waves + 10 QSTs for Orca Bay + 1 HST for Ocean Waves + 10 logs for the log cabin

Not the fastest way to make progress on a quilt, but progress none the less.

I have my fabric all picked out for Orca Bay the Bonnie Hunter mystery which starts TOMORROW.

However, I have several things on my plate right now:

There’s the log cabin  – 180 blocks which still need two more light and two more dark logs added to the blocks; Ocean Waves – which needs who know how many more HST cut and sewn;  a purse my niece picked fabrics out for; and mini-quilt for my nephews Build-a-Bear frog using the peppermint fabric.

The log cabin is the only thing which doesn’t have a firm deadline — and it’s the one closest to completion.

Maybe I’ll just print out the instructions and not start Orca Bay until I get further along on one of these four projects.

Each November the Guild hosts a “Country Store”.  It’s a chance to go through your sewing room/studio and pull out those duplicate books, the “what was I thinking” fabric, orphan blocks, etc and sell them to other guild members.  If you don’t have enough stuff for your own table, you can donate it to the guild table.

This was the first year I managed to get to the November meeting.  For $2 I brought home a pile of strings and the two pictured books.

Also, I found out that I won a participation prize from the year-long challenge.

Now to figure out how much fabric this is to add to my stash report.

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

Follow the links over at Patchwork Times to see how others are doing with their stash.

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.