Burton over at Quilting Literati ran a contest for finishing UFOs. I was one of two winners. She sent me this pincushion and Halloween panel.
Thanks Burton!
Won a Prize
Another Block Finished
I promised I worked on my DWR. I sewed the arcs to nine melon sections and added the corner stones to two of those. Then I quilted. Since this block was so easy, I pushed myself and kept working on it during the news and the first part of the Tonight Show.
Tomorrow I need to work on this week’s SBS BOW.
One More Row of Blocks
I got an extra 2 hours of quilting in tonight with the premier of Dancing With the Stars. So, I finished up this block tonight. That leaves just one more row of blocks to quilt and I’m about 1/4 of the way through the first of the last three blocks. The question now is will I get any sewing done on my DWR?
What’s On My Design Wall? – 9/21
More rings.
I hope I’ll only be showing rings for another week, but if I find I really do have enough fabric to make the quilt bigger, this may go on for two or three more weeks.
Here’s a sneak peek of what I’ve got done so far:
6 x 7 rings. Still need to sew the 4-patches on two sides. Based on the amount of fabric I bought, I was intending the quilt to be 7 x 8 rings. I wouldn’t mind it being 8 x 8 or 8 x 9 rings, but I don’t know how much extra fabric I’ll have when it reaches the original size.
Check out other’s design walls over at Judy’s blog.
Stash Report Week # 38
I love my friends. I love that they want to give me their scraps and cast off fabric. It enriches my stash both in size and by adding sparkle to my own scraps since our tastes are not the same.
However, I simply can’t sew fast enough to keep up!
In the picture above, there is approximately 40 yards. I say approximately, because I weighed the scraps and figured 4 yards = 1 pound, more or less.
On the other hand, I cut the cornerstones for my DWR, pulled and cut pieces for my Monterry Medallion and Milky Way quilt, and made two Jacob Ladder blocks to send off for a charity quilt. It just doesn’t add up to make a dent.
Fabric Added this Week: 40.125 yards
Fabric Added to Date: 280.708 yards
Fabric Used this Week: 1.81 yards
Fabric Used to Date: 72.504 yards
Net Stash: +208.204 yards (161.708 was gifted)
Check out Judy’s page to see how others are doing in the endeavor.
One Block Closer
It’s not like I’m doing any fancy quilting — just stitching 1/4 inch from each seam. But why does it take me so long to get it done?
I suppose not sitting in front of the quilting frame might be part of it. This week I’ve stopped whatever I was doing and plopped myself down in front of the quilting frame at 9 PM Central for an hour. Tonight I kept going until I finished this block.
When I ‘watch’ television, I can’t just sit there and do nothing. I’m reading a book during commercials or flipping though quilting magazines. Hand quilting doesn’t work for me, unless I can just ‘listen’ and look up only when it sounds like I need to see what is going on. Jay Leno’s new show is perfect for this. I can listen to the monologue and interviews and look up during the sketches.
I probably won’t try to quilt with black thread on black fabric again either. There simply isn’t enough light to make that easy. But tonight I ran out of my cheap 1/4 inch masking tape and had to pull out the 1/4 Tiger tape. That worked really well on the black dotted fabric – and my stitches are more even — not that anyone will be able to see that.
Four more blocks to go and then I can pull this quilt off the frame and machine quilt the borders. Surely if I watch Leno for an hour each week night I’ll get this finished by the October 15th.
Mid-September Update
September 15th and time to review my goals for the month. Where did the 1st two weeks of September go?
* Complete remaining 2 sets of blocks for the SBS Brown/Blue SwapDone and Mailed
* Keep up with the SBS BOW: 3 of the 4 blocks done
* Work on Josh’s Quilt – needs to be off the frame by 10/15 – quilting while watching Leno
* Work on DWR – top needs to be done by 10/15 — 4 melons completed, 9 more need cornerstones
* Complete Finishing Instructions for both sizes of Kansas Spirit BOM – still tweaking smaller layout instructions
* Quilt a baby quilt – may give this up completely
* Keep Scraps Cut Up – don’t look in my scrap bin. I added those scraps I found at the beginning of the month — but I have 2 more weeks to get to them!
Doesn’t seem like I have much done, but I guess I really am halfway through my list. I’ll keep plugging away at it.
SBS Block Due 9/20
J7 – Pinwheel 2
I made this block a few weeks ago when I was picking the blocks I was willing to make for the Blue and Brown SBS swap. So, more time for me to work on my DWR this week
What’s On My Design Wall? – 9/14
Is anyone surprised?
It’s another row to my Double Wedding Ring. Saturday I finally got last week’s row sewn together and onto the quilt. I pieced these Sunday.
See what other quilter’s have on their design walls following the links over at Patchwork Times.
Diamond Links
I finished this quilt top back in March 2007 with no idea of who it would go to when it was quilted. I now know where it’s going and have to figure out how to quilt it — or if I want to send it out to be quilted. Since I need it mid-January, I guess I best start to figure this out. I’ll not be able to work on it until mid-October after I finish the DWR top and the quilting on Joshua’s quilt.
