November's OMG for the Month.

 I've been overly tired from teaching in this time and age.  Although everyone thinks that teaching two courses is easy, it's not.  And truthfully, I teach two blocks per class, so it was four classes instead of the two everyone is talking about.  The school term switches over the 2nd week of November and goes until December, and with only one class (a double class again) this term with a 1/2 day spare, I think I can manage a big project this time.  The HST quilt by Lee A Heinrich at Freshly Piecing.  

I have all the material, and I have the paper work to make perfect HST squares.  I have not even started this quilt, but it's a new way of doing HSTs and it's suppose to be easy to do, so I'm trying it.

This is my first goal.  My 2nd goal is to complete another door for the Barn door set up that I have in the dining area.  I want to make something artistic.  It's something to start to make the house more welcoming.

Hooking up to Elm Street Quilts for November.  Wish me luck.  

And I'm DONE!

 Well last blog entry I said I was going to do two for one quilts and finished two different quilts, and guess what?!  Miracles of miracles, I got both done!

The first was going to be a Christmas gift for a friend but certain situations came in and I'm giving it to him next week.  It's perfect for a man, and about 60 inches both ways.  Take a look,  it's called Oh Deer...  yes, great name.  One block below.

Look at the antlers.  The piecing was stitch and flip, and there were a lot of pieces.

The full quilt is four deers, that are very large finished squares.  Then I added a border.

the backing is deers as well, and a nice brown.

In the end, I loved it.  Looking great and how I want to make one for myself  :) This quilt is on my list of "To complete" for 2020, and it's a done deal.  it was on the list from AQS and now done.

But that was not the one that I said I would complete.  The one for this month (and for the summer as well) is my row by row for the year of 2015.  That's right, 5 years old.  I was making the rows, and most ended up in a lap quilt which I gave to a cousin, four or five different table tops (last month's goal) but in the end I got what I wanted, my queen size quilt that is a memento or rather a scrap book of our trip down to the Grand Canyon and Arizona in 2015.  But no, I have a gorgeous quilt that now I can sleep under for the winter season.  Take a look:

Row from Demoine

In Arizona itself, with the cactus the bit of lake and the coyote.

A friend of mine got this one from Alaska, but the one lower is from a quilter place in Kirkland

Liked this one that we came across by accident at Segai Wooley.  Loved the crab pattern.  Looking at making one just for me of all crabs.

the total quilt really looks great, all pieces together.  There are 18 of them and three in the middle are blocks that I made.  The top is a paper piece.  The 2nd and third is from Sew Fresh from Ontario.  Love how all the water ones came together.  The theme of 2015 row by row was H20 Row by Row.

Can really see all of them in this one.  Was really pleased that it fits the queen size bed perfectly.

and the seagull at the bottom, makes me want to do a full quilt of them.  Maybe I'll do a quilt with one row seagulls, then one row of crabs.

All the different rows were different styles of quilting.  So I was so pleased when everything showed up so wonderfully.

this one is from Seattle, with the different laser cuts.  Very native the design.

the duck one is from Arizona as well.

And the above was from Anacortis.  I love that town.  So cute and antique.

In the end I was very happy, with sleeping under this quilt.  I couldn't believe I finished it.  Pinch me, was I dreaming?

So I'm done, got this queen size quilt completed, as promised in this blog link.  Now linking up to Elm Street Quilts and the OMG One Monthly Goal quilt for October.  So happy I got it done and I'm sleeping under it.  

Good luck to all the other.

What's next on the hit parade????

 Well it's time to make October's goal, and I'm happy to say that I've completed the All People's Quilt challenge selection already.  So maybe this month's goal is to catch up on another one that keeps on trudging along but I don't get it done.  So here it is, my row by row....

I have 18 row by rows completed.  All are quilted.  I am using Quilt as you Go to attach them all in two rows.  I now need to make the center row because three rows of row by rows will look stupid. See what they look like so far.  Below are two more sections of 3 to add together then to the 3 more for the right side of the quilt.

Need to quilt these.

For the middle I have purchased a pattern from SewFresh for a seagull, a crab, and the posts that are in the water (I don't know what they're called).  I also already have from her a pelican pattern (I made this one before and gave it away to someone in Florida).  Plus I have a little surprise for the top (a paper piece design).  This is what I hope to finish this month.  

It should be queen size, quilted massively, and it will be one more for our bed.  The hard part is done, 18 row by rows, each one taking at least a month to complete (remember I work also).  So wish me luck.  Hooking up to Elm Street Quilts for Octobers finish.

PS this is also's June or July's finish off of All People's Quilt Challenge.  So once more, two stones with one throw  :) 

Back to School Quilting

 With work resuming the time spent on quilts and quilting is small, but I'm still trying to get in some creativity time.  Now my quilting has changed from creativity to a stress releaser.  Two cases reported in our school and we continue to work.  School is two blocks a day with lectures of 2 1/2 hours a session.  I prep 4 classes in total (2 different classes in each of my blocks) and prepping for all.  Marking is piling up, but exhaustion is bigger.  I don't know if I can keep up this pace but quilting does help to release the stress.

But I did get my September's goal for OMG completed.    Hanging with pride.  Here's my initial blog entry saying I was going to try to get it done....

The pattern is by Elizabeth Hartman.  It's called Dwight the Deer.  I'm calling it Oh Deer!!  since it was done during the Corvid era of going back to school with this.  The pattern is easy, but label all your parts because there are a lot of pieces.  But it makes a good size block.  This one is 56 by 56 in the end.  It's already earmarked for someone for Christmas.  But I am considering another one for a pillow for Christmas.  They're cute.  All her patterns are adorable.  Check them out here.  I have the clock, the sasquatch, and a couple of others.  When I'll get this done I don't know....

I'm going to hook up to Elm Street Quilts to enter for the OMG One Monthly Goal completion .  Pleased with it.

This is also the August quilt for the All People's Quilt Challenge so it was a two for one!!!

And I'm still plugging along with my Row by Row queen size quilt.  I have 18 completed and I'm making one large block for the middle to bring it all together because three rows of row by rows is too hard on the eyes.  I should be done that in October (My October goal of the month) but I had this one, and I got it at Prescott AZ in a small quilt shop there.  It was a souvenir of a 2015 trip to the Grand Canyon, so on the way we got this one.  The French wedding.  (I can say that because I'm french by birth, and people have called me a french frog every once in a while.).  Anyways, both my husband and I wanted this as a table topper for our buffet, so that's where it is.  You have to take a closer look at this one.

All the members of the wedding party.

The parents of the groom

The bride's side of the family.  A little different. Dad is hung over

And the bride and groom.  Veil included.

I had fun with that one but I had even more fun with this one.  I took a 2nd class of Quilting with Rulers by Silly Moon Quilting Co.  This is my second class and this one is with half circles.  It's amazing what you can do with 4 of these rulers which make 8 different sizes.  And the patterns you can do, check it out below.  At the end of the course, you're almost completed the table runner.  Took about 2 more hours to finish the end thing.  And I love it considering it my first time using these rulers.  Take a look....  I highly recommend it.  The class is online.  You buy the rulers online, they send it and then they send you the pattern to make the top first, and the session on Zoom for 4 hours quilts that quilt top.

Can see where I backtracked but not on all of them.

My favorite above

The edge work - there are four edges she teaches you.  This is one that I wanted done.  Had fun with this.

So for a month, this is not bad, partly finished another one, then all of this.  Is it my usual amount of quilting?  No but as I said I'm back at school and I have some finishes.  So I'm happy.  

How's your quilting going?  Getting anything done besides masks?  (I've done 14 more.....  )