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.
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.
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.
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?
Check out what others are doing by following the links over at Bari’s.
This month I hope to spend more time in my sewing room. I don’t have to work any weekends, so that will help tremendously. My Double Wedding Ring and my Sylvia’s Bridal Sampler quilts have not been touched for months, so I really need to get back to these two quilts. Naturally there are other bits and pieces I’d like to accomplish as well.
Will I finish everything I’ve put out on my list? Who knows. Check back with me through the month to see.
July apparently was the month to quilt and bind. Three quilts (approximately 40 x 40) quilted and bound. On the piecing front, some progress was made on Star Struck and I started the guild BOM. The month started with putting a new sink in the hall bath and finished with a clothesline coaster.
Since my calendar is not as crowded this month, I hope to spend more time in my sewing room.
A couple of years ago I attempted to quilt this on a Little Gracie. The tension was horrible, so I pulled all the quilting out and the quilt has sat waiting to be quilted again. I pulled it out Friday night, thinking I’d try hand quilting it, but decided quickly that with the Warm and Natural batting and all of the seams on the back, that wasn’t a good idea. So, I pulled out my walking foot and started machine quilting it.
I’m just shy of halfway done. I should be able to finish it up this week. And maybe I’ll also get some work done on my Star Struck. It’s still stuck at 18 blocks on the wall.
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No new fabric was used this week. I worked a bit on Star Struck and I pulled out my 1000 Pyramids baby quilt and started quilting it. Since this quilt had previously been quilted before (bad tension), I can’t count the backing. I’m not even going to be able to count the binding as it was made at the same time I did the backing. But I WILL be able to cross off a UFO that’s been hanging around since April 2008. I just have to finish it. I’m not quite halfway through the quilting.
Oh wait. I did use the equivalent of 1 5/8″ of fabric from my 1 1/2″ strip bin to make a clothesline coaster, but hardly enough fabric to count.
Fabric Added this Week: 0 yards
Fabric Added to Date: 132.011 yards
Fabric Used this Week: 0 yards
Fabric Used to Date: 56.606 yards
Net Stash for 2010: 75.405 yards
Check out how others are doing over with their Stash Busting efforts over at Patchwork Times.
From last week’s post:
So this week will be devoted to finding the guest room and if I’m lucky I’ll get to sneak a few minutes of sewing in.
The house is clean – if you don’t look in my sewing room – so now I can sew. Three of the girls arrived last night and then they went to a movie. I took a nap, but did get about 15-20 minutes of piecing done on Star Struck. With 8 more seams, I’ll have another 8 blue stars.
This afternoon I’m off work (and tomorrow too) — originally, I was going to pick up the 4th girl for our Justin Bieber concert party, but my wonderful husband took the three girls and drove up to get her. I think they’ve gone to the mall so I have time to QUILT — or maybe I’ll go take a nap. I’ve been told I get to stay up tonight with the girls after the concert.
So, what’s on the agenda for this week?
#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.
#2 – work on Star Struck
#3 – since the rest of the house is clean, I now need to work on my sewing room
Check out what other’s have planned by following the links over at Bari’s.
Is anyone surprised that Star Struck is still on the wall? We’ve been cleaning and working in the yard, so no quilting has been done since about Tuesday. Although only two new blocks have been added, I now have the gold sewn to all of the blue units. They are also paired up so I can quickly sew together units to make 1/2 blocks — whenever I get back to the sewing machine.
Check out what other’s have on their wall’s by following the links over at Judy’s.
