The Kaw Valley Quilters Guild newsletter arrived in my inbox this morning with the first block of the new BOM. It’s called Jewels in the Crown and it’s by Reeze Hanson of Morning Glory Designs. So, instead of cleaning my sewing room while I was waiting on a call for work, I pulled out my fabrics, rooted around and came up with this combination.
Perhaps tomorrow while I’m waiting on the call for work I’ll clean up my sewing room.
Earlier this evening I finished stitching down the hanging sleeve on Dancing Flowers. It’s even been washed and dried. But I still haven’t gotten a good picture of the quilting or the right colors of the border and sashing.
The label is the same fabric that is in the border. I love the Laurel Burch fabric I bought for the backing. It hides my quilting — unless you are up close and in good light.
I’ll try tomorrow in the daylight — provided it’s not raining to get a better picture.
Last week simple goals:
So here are this weeks goals:
This disaster is my sewing room. Last September there was space for 4 women to sew in this room — comfortably. I think the issue is that I didn’t take the tables down – or maybe I did and then put them up again to use when I was quilting one of my larger quilts. Regardless, a flat surface in my house is a place to put stuff.
Check out the links at Bari’s to see what others are planning for this week.
Not a whole lot of quilting going on here. My Star Struck blocks are still on the wall – not that I’ve added to them since I got distracted by my Texas Braid. What I’m really working on is Dancing Flowers. This evening, I finished trimming the threads, did touch up quilting and then squared it up. Before I put the binding on, I’m going to make a hanging sleeve – but that implies I can get to the ironing board. I can barely get to my sewing machine this evening.
Check out what’s on others’ design walls by following the links over at Patchwork Times.
Nothing in and nothing out this week so my numbers have not changed. In fact the only thing I’ve done in my sewing room is hem a pair of my niece’s pants.
Fabric Added this Week: 0 yards
Fabric Added to Date: 131.511 yards
Fabric Used this Week: 0 yards
Fabric Used to Date: 52.139 yards
Net Stash for 2010: 79.327 yards
Keep reading to see what has kept me from my sewing room, or to see if anyone else got any quilting done follow the links over at Patchwork Times.
The reason for no time in my sewing room starts with this:
It’s a new sink and faucet in our hall bath (new drain pipes as well). As my husband says “I’m not a plumber. And I don’t even play one on TV”, but he humored me I badgered him until he gave in and between the two of us and my sister’s fiance we managed to get this done. The good news is when we get to the master bath, there’s more space and we’ll know what we are doing.
Once the sink was in place, family started arriving. My sister and her fiance stayed with us two nights, and we had my brother’s kids for the same two nights. Thursday we went to see the musical Annie at Theater in the Park. Friday night we grilled and Saturday the kids saw Karate Kid with my husband while I hemmed the pants, a Chick-fil-a lunch and finally out to my brother’s for more family, visiting and the annual 4th of July party. We got home (just the 2 of us) shortly after midnight.
This evening we’ll go to the Overland Park Civic Band concert in the Park (I’ll watch, my husband plays French Horn with the group). Tomorrow I get to relax as I have the day off. Who knows, perhaps I’ll get Dancing Flowers finished!
It’s July, so time to review how I’m doing on my quilting goals.
Keep up with the Sylvia Bridal Sampler Block of the Week
It looks like I’ve completed half of my goals and have partially completed another 4, leaving 3 I haven’t looked at. additionally I’ve also done a few things which weren’t on my list – blocks for a swap, tissue covers, pincushions, pillow cases and worked on my red work snowmen. Check back to see if I accomplish the rest of my goals by the end of the year.
Dancing Flowers is quilted! At least I think it is. It’s tough quilting with invisible and black thread. I still need to trim the threads on the back and then I’ll know if I did all of the quilting in the cornerstones.
The quilting is not fancy, but I hope it’s effective – 1″ crosshatching behind the applique, stitch in the around each applique piece and stitch in the ditch on the border. I am planning on sewing the hanging pocket on when I stitch on the binding. I hope to get that done this week, but who knows if it will happen or not with everything going on around here.
Check out the links to other design walls over at Patchwork Times.
Judy has reminded me that this is the halfway mark for the year. So here’s a mid-year view.
This time last year I had used about 1 1/2 yards more fabric than I have this year. On the other hand, I’ve brought 30 yards less fabric into the house this year. Given that both years I’ve been given fabric from other quilters clearing their stash, what impresses me more is that I’ve bought 1/2 as much fabric this year than I did last year. Now If I could use twice as much then I’d actually make a dent in my stash.
This week the only fabric I used was what I needed to finish the Texas Braid. I’ve been working on Dancing Flowers and all of that fabric has been counted (including the binding). No new fabric came into the house by any means.
So here are the numbers:
Fabric Added this Week: 0 yards
Fabric Added to Date: 131.511 yards
Fabric Used this Week: .64 yards
Fabric Used to Date: 52.139 yards
Net Stash for 2010: 79.327 yards
Check out the links at Patchwork Times to see how others are doing mid-year.
This morning I woke up at 3:30 AM and couldn’t get back to sleep. I oscillated back and forth between quilting and surfing the web. I found this story and thought — hey I’m up, let’s go watch it.
I wandered back into the bedroom and didn’t try to be quiet, but DH didn’t wake up. Grabbed my camera and the binocular camera and headed to my favorite sky watching location about 20 minutes away. Got there in plenty of time, but misremembered the news article (ok, probably didn’t comprehend it correctly at 4 AM) and started home, just as the eclipse started. Fortunately, I figured this out and turned around to take these pictures. Unfortunately I didn’t have good batteries in the binocular camera so I had to make do with my point and shoot digital camera.
The first of these pictures was taken at 5:26 AM according to my camera (allowing for Day Light Savings Time). The last one was taken at 5:45 AM. All I’ve done to them is roughly crop them to the same landmarks. I moved the car twice as the power pole got in the way as the earth rotated. They will enlarge if you click on them.
After my sky watching, I came home ate breakfast and then crawled back into bed for another 3 hours before resuming work on Dancing Flowers. I hope to have the quilting done tonight.
