Quilting and Stuff by Knitnoid

Stash Report

August 15, 2010 7:00 am ⋅

If you’ve been following Bonnie Hunter’s blog you know that last week she was in Kansas City visiting area quilt guilds.   I met Bonnie in May when she was at the Kaw Valley Quilt Guild in Lawerence, Kansas, which is where I met also met Marci.  Marci invited me to visit the Nitetime Needlers Quilt Guild and last Thursday I did, where – yes – Bonnie  Hunter was the guest speaker.

So what does this have to do with a Stash Report?  At  the end of the meeting I won one of the door prizes! (Or maybe my husband did – he gave me his ticket at the break).  The items pictured above were in my bag.  That FQ is the only fabric I brought into the house this week.  But it’s a wash as I made the KVQG BOM last night.

Fabric Added this Week: .25 yards
Fabric Added to Date: 132.261 yards

Fabric Used this Week: .25 yards

Fabric Used to Date: 57.106 yards

Net Stash for 2010: 74.155 yards

Check out how others are doing over with their Stash Busting efforts over at Patchwork Times.

Posted in: Bonnie Hunter, Stash Busting Report

KVQG BOM – Block 2

August 14, 2010 10:52 pm ⋅

The Kaw Valley Quilters Guild meeting is Monday, so this evening I pulled the fabrics and made this month’s block. The BOM is called Jewels in the Crown and it’s by Reeze Hanson of Morning Glory Designs.

Posted in: KVQG BOM 2010

Quilting Funk

August 14, 2010 11:33 am ⋅

I don’t know if it’s the heat or the clean sewing room, but I’ve not wanted to quilt.  That’s not to say I haven’t been working on the Double Wedding Ring in spite of the heat – but no machine piecing.

My husband gave this puzzle to me for Christmas.  I started working on it, but then put it up unfinished.  I wasn’t able to focus on it since the sewing machine was calling me.  So, this week, since I couldn’t sit still long enough to piece, I pulled out the puzzle and started on it again.

It took a week, but it’s done now.  I stayed up late and finished it.  So, now it goes back in the box.

And I think it broke my quilting funk.  I’m ready to finish Oklahoma Backroads.

Posted in: Uncategorized

QA Wednesday

August 11, 2010 12:01 pm ⋅

Last week’s goals

  • Finish quilting and bind the 1000 Pyramids –  DONE
  • Every day quilt on my DWR. – 6 of the 7 days
  • Clean the sewing room.  – DONE

It’s a good thing I didn’t have much more planned.  I’ve been rather listless.  I think it’s the clean house and sewing room – I don’t want to mess anything up.  It has however afforded me plenty of time to work on the DWR.

I’ve got the DWR in a laundry basket and it sits beside my recliner with a basket of supplies on the table (I don’t pretend to be a decorator).  In the evenings I watch the summer dramas on either USA or TNT and quilt.  With the new hoop, my wrists aren’t giving me as much trouble as I was having on the floor frame.  I think it’s because I can change positions more easily.

So what’s up for this week?

  • Continue working on the DWR.  I need to complete a ring every two days if I’m to finish this quilt by November.
  • Make the this month’s KVQG block – the meeting is Monday!
  • Make at least one Sylvia’s Bridal Sampler block – 4 or 5 would be better.
  • Make progress on Oklahoma Backroads.  I have all the blocks sewn together in pairs

Check out what others are have planned by following the links over at Bari’s.

Posted in: goals

99 Pyramids

August 10, 2010 5:15 pm ⋅

99 Pyramids. Back in April 2008 I took a class to learn how to use my Wonder Cut Triangle Ruler.  I quickly finished up the front and then pieced together a scrappy backing and binding from the leftover pyramids and green fabric.

At one point I even had this quilt quilted — but the tension was really bad, not to mention the quilting design didn’t work as expected, so I ripped the quilting out.  It wasn’t very hard given the bad tension.  A couple of weekends ago I decided the quilt had aged appropriately (that, and I have a great-nephew on his way sometime this month) and this quilt needed to be quilted.

There’s lots of love pieced and quilted in to this quilt and it will be great for dragging around when the baby gets big enough to drag it.  Most importantly it has no pink in it.  My niece told me she “hates pink!”.  As soon as the baby get’s here I’ll add a label and get it to my niece – not that there’s a big hurry — there’ a heat warning through Thursday.

Posted in: 1000 Pyramids, baby quilt, finish

What’s On My Design Wall

August 9, 2010 7:03 am ⋅

Literally nothing today – except threads. I’ve started sewing the Oklahoma Back Roads blocks together that I showed yesterday.

Check out other design walls by following the links over at Patchwork Times.

Posted in: designwall, Oklahoma Backroads

Oklahoma Backroads Blocks

August 8, 2010 7:58 am ⋅

Yesterday’s plan was to work on Star Struck. However, in cleaning up the sewing room, I found a stack of blocks that needed to be contained in a project box. I grabbed an unlabeled box and found my Oklahoma Backroads blocks. I finished up the last 20 blocks, so now I’m ready to start sewing them together.

I started working on this quilt as a leader/ender project back in October. It is a Bonnie Hunter pattern that you can find here.

Posted in: Bonnie Hunter, Oklahoma Backroads

Stash Report

August 8, 2010 7:29 am ⋅

When I picked these gloves up at the store, my husband assured me he knew where my gardening gloves were.  I guess I gave him a funny look because he made the connection.  These aren’t gardening gloves — they just look like gardening gloves.  I hope they become my machine quilting gloves.  The ones I bought which were designed specifically for machine quilting creep off my hands.

This was my sole quilting related purchase for the week. Although I quilted – baby 1000 Pyramids, DWR and Oklahoma Backroads (finished all of the blocks), the fabric has previously been counted. I did however send out a length of fabric to a friend looking for a sunflower print.

Fabric Added this Week: 0 yards
Fabric Added to Date: 132.011 yards

Fabric Used this Week: 1.25 yards

Fabric Used to Date: 57.956 yards

Net Stash for 2010: 74.155 yards

Check out how others are doing over with their Stash Busting efforts over at Patchwork Times.

Posted in: Stash Busting Report

Clean – Or At Least Close Enough

August 7, 2010 8:44 am ⋅

A month ago I said I needed to clean my sewing room.  Today it’s clean — or close enough.  Sure there’s stuff piled on my sewing table and desks, but the cutting board is cleared and there’s space for three to sew.  Admittedly the ironing board is in the other room, but that’s only so I can get to my design wall.

One of these days I’ll get through all the boxes on the black shelves and maybe even get the shelves out of this room.

Posted in: cleaning, studio

QA Wednesday

August 4, 2010 12:15 pm ⋅

Last week’s goals:

#1 – move the Double Wedding Ring from the floor frame to the lap hoop. I don’t know if this will require re-basting or not. I guess I won’t know until I try. – DONE, didn’t rebaste.
#2 – work on Star Struck – Ignored
#3 – since the rest of the house is clean, I now need to work on my sewing room – not much – did get the floor frame taken down.

The DWR didn’t get pulled out of the frame until Monday, which did allow me to take down the floor frame.  Already the sewing room feels bigger.    Part of the delay was I wanted to practice with the new quilt hoop.  I wasn’t able to find my whitework  hand quilting project (it’s here somewhere), so I pulled out my baby 1000 Pyramids.   I quickly realized that was not a good hand quilting project, so I began to quilting to my sewing machine.  I’m just about finished.

So what’s on my list to do this week?

  • Finish quilting and bind the 1000 Pyramids —  I’m going to bind it in the scrappy green binding pictured
  • Every day quilt on my DWR.
  • Clean the sewing room.  I just offered to host my quilting buddies for a sew-in  this month, so this has to get done.

Check out what others are doing by following the links over at Bari’s.

Posted in: 1000 Pyramids, dwr, goals