Quilting and Stuff by Knitnoid

What’s on My Design Wall

May 2, 2010 11:35 pm ⋅


I’ve been putzing around in my sewing room all weekend and finally got enough stuff put up, I was able to re-hang the design wall. Not only have I been cleaning, but I’ve been quilting and finally came up with the setting for my Dancing Flowers wall hanging. The picture above is from EQ. I imported pictures of my blocks and then set them into the quilt design.


So far all I have done is the inner sashing.

I settled on this layout since I’m making it to go with my Black and Bright Swap block quilt. Here’s an EQ rendering of the quilt. Perhaps by the end of the year this quilt will make it into the top 5 UFOs to finish.

To see if others are working on their UFOs or something new, check out the links at Patchwork Times.

Posted in: applique, designwall, UFOs

Stash Report

May 2, 2010 12:08 am ⋅

This week I pulled more Christmas fabric from Mom into my stash.

I also picked up a cute FQ at the quilt show last week and the fabric I’ll need to finish up Dancing Flowers and the Black and Bright Swap.  I know what you are thinking — “What is she thinking putting the turquoise and lime in Dancing Flowers?”  You’ll just have to come back tomorrow to see my design wall.

Outbound, I made the pillow case and got a few more squares stitched on Oklahoma Backroads.  It sure doesn’t add up fast when you count as you use it and it’s a leader/ender project!

So here’s this week’s tally.

Fabric Added this Week: 17.25 yards
Fabric Added to Date: 79.431 yards

Fabric Used this Week: 1.087 yards
Fabric Used to Date: 31.333 yards

Net Stash for 2010: 48.098 yards

See how others are doing by checking out the links at Patchwork Times.

Posted in: Stash Busting Report

I’m on a Roll – Part 2

May 1, 2010 10:21 pm ⋅

The applique is finished. It really didn’t take much time, so I don’t know why this project got set aside 3 years ago. Now I’m off to work on the sashings.

Posted in: applique

I’m on a Roll

May 1, 2010 1:22 pm ⋅

This is Block 4 from Dancing Flowers. Now I’ve got to back up and prep the applique for Block 3. Click HERE to see the other blocks I have done.

Posted in: applique

May’s Quilting Goals

May 1, 2010 11:21 am ⋅

It’s time to figure out what I want to accomplish this month. Again there’s probably too much on my list, but at least I know I’ll have one thing crossed off at the end of the month. I finished the pillowcase to go with the 4-Patch Strippy this morning!

  • Keep up with the SBS BOW  & make a few extra blocks
  • Work on Scrap Basket – specifically blues and neutrals
  • Complete the Carolina Christmas Top
  • Finish Dancing Flowers
  • Ship out 2 baby quilts
  • Resume hand quilting on the Double Wedding Ring
  • Make 4-patch pillow case – DONE!
Posted in: finish, goals

April Recap

May 1, 2010 8:41 am ⋅

I had a lengthy list of goals for April. Didn’t do to well on them.

* Finish and Quilt Stripy 4-Patch Top – DONE
* Enter a quilt in the guild quilt show – Two quilts entered
* Complete the Carolina Christmas Top – Part 5 completed
* Finish and Quilt Dancing Flowers – ripped out what I did get done
* Resume hand quilting on the Double Wedding Ring – nothing
* Keep up with the Sylvia Bridal Sampler BOW – nothing
* Keep Scraps Cut Up and Make Progress on the Scrap Basket – did pull the blue scraps

Sewing the hanging sleeves took much longer than I expected. I also cut the fabric for Texas Braid, made dozens of pocket tissues covers and a few pincushions.

I’m still deciding on what I want to get done in May.

Posted in: goals

This is Sad…

April 30, 2010 10:00 pm ⋅

I have things I want to finish with self-imposed deadlines of next month. What am I doing? Cleaning my sewing room and digging through my scrap basket for blue and light scraps. However, now that I’ve found all the blue and light scraps (need them for a workshop next month), I think I will go make myself make a pillow case. At least I haven’t started a new quilt…yet.

Posted in: scraps

QA Wednesday on Friday

April 30, 2010 7:34 am ⋅

I have no idea why I didn’t get this posted Wednesday.

Last week two goals:

  • Finish sewing on the hanging sleeve for Music Lessons
  • Stuff pin cushions

Both were done by Thursday evening! I also finished Part 5 of Carolina Christmas.

Yesterday I outlined a few little (and not so little) things that I want to get done. So my goal for this week is to make progress on at least two of these tasks.

Check out Bari’s and others’ lists of weekly goals over My Crazy Quilting Life.

Posted in: goals

So Many Little Things to Finish….

April 29, 2010 5:15 pm ⋅

How hard is it to make a pillow case and attach a label to a quilt?

Sew blocks into a quilt top?

Do some simple machine applique and finish a small quilt ?

Catch up on my Sylvia Bridal Sampler Blocks? (not pictured)

Pick one of my Bonnie Hunter designed quilts and quilt it? – OK, this one is tougher

Several of these things have self-imposed deadlines — Dancing Flowers preferably by mid-May, but at least by mid-June.  Quilt one of the Bonnie Hunter quilt tops and complete Carolina Christmas and Oklahoma Backroad tops by mid-May.  Keeping up with the SBS is simply prudent since I have less than 50 blocks done.  The pillowcase and label need to be done so I can put up the rest of the fabric.

I could easily do one or more of these over the next few days, but I’m sitting here contemplating starting something new.  Why is it I can’t finish a project before starting a new one?

Update — before I left this evening for the concert, I got the label on the quilt.  I also discovered the baby due in May arrived today!

Posted in: goals

My Favorite Quilting Notion — Today

April 28, 2010 11:50 am ⋅

My favorite quilting notion varies by what I’m working on. The current favorite is this seam ripper.

Yesterday I pulled out Dancing Flowers to finish up. Applique is not my favorite, but darn it I want to finish this wall hanging. Just two more blocks. Besides that, I finally decided on and bought sashing fabric for this and the coordinating king size quilt, so I need to get the top done, so I can pull a backing so my numbers don’t look so bad Sunday. But I digress.

I’m using invisible thread on top, black in the bobbin. I’ve set my machine to a blind stitch at .03 length and 1.0 width – in other words tiny. Instead of placing all my pieces on the background to verify they are in the right place, I started with the stems. I thought they might be a tiny bit high on the background, but I wasn’t worried. It wasn’t until I had two stems, two leaves and one of the two part flowers on the background that I admitted defeat and knew I had to rip it all out.

Tiny stitches. Invisible and black thread on a black background. Ugh.

But this wonderful seam ripper came to the rescue. I was able to slide the blade between the pieces and the background to slice the thread where it bit into the piece. Had the whole block ripped out in no time. I still have to pull the bits and pieces of thread from the background, but that won’t take long. Then when I do this block again, I’ll verify ALL of the pieces before I start sewing.

Posted in: notions