Quilting like a Maniac- Relaxing through Quilting.

One of the quilt groups that I really like is the Block Lotto, a blog that I discovered and has raffles if you enter one or more of your blocks.  This Lotto is open to all quilters at any level of experience.  You can make the blocks and enter them when you want or like I've been doing, just making my blocks and working on making my queen size quilts. But I am ready to enter the game now.  I've done the January Block and February block, and just have the march to go. On the first of each month, the new block and guidelines are published.  Participants make blocks and post photos of them.  Each block made becomes a chance to win a set of blocks at the end of the month. You contact by email at  jeansophie (at) blocklotto (dot) com  or by posting a comment on the block lotto blog indicating that you’d like to join the group. Once we’ve connected, email me with your real name and mailing address and URL of your blog, if you have one.  Register on the site using <firstna

Here we go..... Globe Trotter centre piece - the one she started with.... Centre Piece - January Debbie Mumm's Stars of Honour has been caught up - two block patterns, one I needed 5 blocks, and the other I need 4 blocks of.  Next one is coming in May. In reds and browns, but I have golds in the corners. Caught up with the Crafty 2013 online free course.  You need to look this one up because I can't link to it unless you are logged in.  This one I used all Batiks and bright colours because some of the patterns are very modern.  Loving how it's turning out. April March Block 2 February block 1 February Block 2 March Block 1 Can you believe the colours?  It will look fantastic when it's all done but I'll have to have stashing with white to make everything balance. Get to cross off some things now off that list from my last blog entry. ..  Still some to go but I'm quite please.  Have my FVQG meeting on Tuesday and I hav

Going back to school soon and not all my quilts are caught up.  So I decided to make a list and check it off to see what I've done so far and what I need to complete: We can all dream can't we?  ;) Stars of honor from Debbie Mumm  3 of January (already did two) 2 of February (already did two) Center piece of Globe Trotter - need to finish. Down the Rabbit hole Flying Geese - need a lot of them. Material Girl's Layer Cake 3 and 4 Material Girls' Layer Cake 5 and 6 Material Girls' Layer Cake 7 and 8 Material Girls' Layer Cake 9 and 10 Free Motion Quilt along  Crafty 2013 Quilt Along February (2 of them) Crafty 2014 Quilt Along March (2 of them) Aurifill's quilt for the end of bed Aurifill January Aurifill Feb. Aurifill March Block Lotto January Block Lotto Feb. Block Lotto March Quilt Doodle March Vice Versa March sycamore-rose-block-1 sycamore-rose-block-2 - half way there sycamore-rose-block-3 Quilt along Block 2 - all four o

OK, my plan today was to catch up on the Layer Cake block of the month. So here they are, the 1st two. Square 3 Square 1 Square 2 Square 4 Star 3 Also I had to finish my homework on the "Galaxy of the Stars" quilt from the FVQG.  I had to do paper piecing, not one of my favorite.  And to top it off, the pattern was off, so we had to add .5 to the pattern on the outside section.  They need to be 12 1/2 inches, and some areas were off, but it turned out OK in the end.  Check it out.  Love the colours.  I love how this quilt is turning out with the batik.  How can you go wrong with batik. 2nd Star 3. Also I was interested in continuing on with the Thangles quilt.  So I finished with block 2 and 3.  Here they are, it's my Apple Quilt. This one is bigger then the others Nice to mix and match. So that's what I did today.  I did cut up another layer cake, but you need two for each square, so I'll have to continue on. BE

Today I joined 4 other ladies to just work on crafts, to talk and share how life is going.  It was quiet, enjoyable with friends that don't need to continuously yack, yet we could talk about anything under the sun.  Being so ADHD I brought about 4 things with me but really, didn't do a lot of crafting, although I did enjoy myself tremendously, and did relax, the key to all this quilting and crafting.  So I know, it was a great time of just being happy.  Isn't that way a girls day out is, a sharing of happy thoughts, and happy times.   So what did I work on?  The next Prairie Flower quilt block, and my Ladder Hooking hot pad that I started on Saturday, with a course I took at Wineberries . I'm half way though.  It was traditionally developed in England during the 1900's to make wool rugs but now you use fabric.  It has a large needle with a hook at one end that you use to hook the fabric through the netting.  It's a little hard to explain but this is the

Can you tell that I'm not working this week?  That I'm on Spring Vacation? I started this quilt close to two years ago on my birthday.  I used my mother's birthday money to get going on this block of the month, and I've been working on and off with it ever since.  But it's on my list of quilts to complete this year and I'm bound and determine to get it done.  So another one done, and I do enjoy the hand stitching.  It's on flannel but the  applique is button stitched on wool. That's six done and six to go.  You won't believe the finished edging.  There's baskets in each corner using HST's, and applique vines all around it.  I don't even want to think about it for now, it's a huge job in the end.  So here are some of the completed squares, of course Lynxy needs to check it out. Four here.... Two more here.  Need to add beads to the sunflower one. Started another one now, block 8 - Wild Morning Glory.  Love th

Well, my valentine quilt is finally quilted, and I did the changes that I said I would do, I added more flowers.  But now someone has suggested buttons added to the flowers to make them more 3 dimensional.  And of course, I agree. Take a look at the quilting though, been working on my free style quilting and I'm very excited about how it turned out.  If you can't make it out, it's tiny hearts here and there. Look at the flowers Notice the hearts? Tried to get them almost everywhere Did not quilt the red, but the back is great. I also completed my Secret Santa quilt.  Just sewing around the edges for that one.  It was one of my 2014 NewFO Quilt challenges (a quilt that is started but not completed).  The challenge asked that we keep them updated so I have.  Here is that one. Purples and blues. Look at the free style quilting Flannel is so comfy... But that's not the best part of this quilt.  I also pieced the back, using techniqu

One of the things that I am enjoying the most is the fact that I get to share pictures with people from all over the world of the great work I am doing producing a quilt.  Not all the pictures are great, and I am trying to be honest with the mistakes on the quilt, but what's even better is seeing others' work.  I really enjoyed seeing that others are doing what I'm doing, and others are having as much fun as me. Flickr is a collection of what you've accomplished, not just sharing vacation pictures, but sharing the stages in making a great quilt.   One of the groups I've joined as well this year is a quilt group that sharing their unfinished quilts, and then updates people on their blogs of when they completed them.  It's progressional, but you also get to see what others are starting and to see their grow.   Join a group, and make sure you join their Flickr Group as well, to meet new people and to see what others are doing as well.  It's worth

February's Quilt block. If you've never did a block of the month from Generation X Quilters then you're really missing out.  I am having so fun doing this quilt and I am really enjoying the colours that I chose.  These are the first great pictures I've taken for this quilt, they really show the colours.  I redid the last block because I didn't like how the colours sat together.  I had the two darks on top and the two lights on the bottom.  This looks so much better.  I realized I had to watch where things went so I needed to place everything ahead of time, to make sure it looks great in the end. March This month's quilt looks so much better because I was aware of the colours.  I took my time, and made sure all the pieces were the correct size, recutting once each half quarter was completed.  Take a look at the size.  Perfect points on the claws, and perfect placement!!! In the end the quilt will look fantastic with that pink background and the

Just started Spring Break here in Vancouver and as usual I started with a cold.  Was sick as heck on Friday night, went to bed at 9:00.  Was coughing all day and night on Saturday, not getting much sleep and having a fever but we had concert tickets for Colin Raye (great singer -  go to his site to hear some of his stuff), so I didn't get much sleep that night. Didn't feel like sewing on Sunday, but I really wanted to catch up on my BOM projects, so I cut a number of projects.  And yesterday, early Monday morning, I cut one final one and then started sewing.  What follows is a number of my BOMs completed.  Here they are below.  The first one was from the Doogle Designs.  The March Block.  The Christmas tree to go with all the winter blocks.  But I made a mistake at the very end.  Can you spot it? Doogle. Down a Rabbit Hole. The second one that I worked on was "Down the Rabbit Hole".  It's the centre piece of the block, quite large, with