Quilting like a Maniac- Relaxing through Quilting.

My guild meeting is tomorrow, and half these quilts are leaving me in February, so a quick note to show you what I've done during Christmas: Jelly Roll Race. From  Quilting Magazine, with some changes.  Backing for the top one Notice the stitching?!! From Pat Sloan and her friends Row by Row From Quilt Doodle All quilted and binded, and  fully completed.

I was considering not doing any of the blocks of the month this year, just working very hard on getting many of my old blocks of the months completed (or even started in many cases) or cleaning up many of my different projects that I've started or have everything for and are just waiting to be started. But there are so many beautiful blocks of the month just starting and I simply just can't resist.  They're just sooooooo beautiful.   Here's a few that I'm very interested in and some that I've even purchased.  This one is from Sew Incredibly Crazy and her friends. It starts the 1st of February..  This year there is a mix of pieced and applique blocks.  So, a little bit of something for everyone.  There is a total of 24 blocks.  All the blocks will also be 10 1/2" square unfinished size.  All the pattern are free for the month that they have been released.  After that, there will be a small fee.  So timing is everything on this one.  The link is

Finished my OMG for the month already...  But's that only because I have had the time to really work at it.  I've spent about 10 hours quilting it and sewing the binding.  So I'm ready to show my quilt and more on to the next.  I love this quilt but it's for another aunt who's been so super and supportive this year.  Here it is. I love this quilt design by Wendy Sheppard.  She designed it for Quilt Magazine I quilted the middle line with flowers (hard to make out here).  All the rest are quilted around the objects/blocks. The green binding was perfect for the quilt....  but..... The backing is superb.  I love this backing and didn't want to give it up.  But I did....  Can't get any other, it was in the clearance section and I don't even know the maker....  Got to start tracking that.  So it's done.  Here's where I put my goal.....  As well as this quilt I've completed a few more quilt tops.  But most importantly, from m

OK, I have to do something today.  Tomorrow I'm busy, and the next and the next, and now I'm going back to school next week, which means I'll be busy as usual, so today is the day to clean up this mess.  Take a look...  each one is a quilt that I need to finish, part of my list of UFOs and quilts that I want to do.  I won't finish them all, but I would like to do as many as possible.  Take a look... My sewing desk, crowded in with sewing to the right, and a bookcase full of organized sewing to the left.  I idea is to finish the sewing at the right. On my desk is a folder of a star wars smaller quilt.  It's not the one pictured although I want to do that one as well, it's a paper piece of all the characters of the first movie, one of my favorite movies.  Three characters are completed, two to go.  On my list of things to do. All scrap material, pieces, and leftover stuff, waiting to be used.  I am looking at getting rid of most of it in two scrap

Another year, and I've haven't done that badly last year.  Looks like I've done at least one quilt a month, even though I never made some of my goals, I was usually side tracked with a different quilt. This year I've made myself some promises, one of which is to get the number of quilts that I have as UFO's down.  I keep on wanting to have or make a new quilt from a great pattern I've seen, or I get a new book, and I go crazy about it, so I'm definitely want to get some of these quilts down.  My sewing room is starting to be over crowded. As for family, I have three more quilts to go and I've made a quilt for every aunt and uncle, and every 1st cousin.  So I'm very happy to have this done.  All have a memento of what I can do artisitcally wise.  So this month's quilt UFO is to finish the quilt that I started with my guild, the one that I made into a BOM for three months.  I want to show the quilt to my guild this month as well as I need