I always wanted to complete this quilt and I'm excited to get it done by the end of September. This one is for me.
Quilting like a Maniac- Relaxing through Quilting.
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
Very productive month.
I always wanted to complete this quilt and I'm excited to get it done by the end of September. This one is for me.
Sunday, August 18, 2024
Got it Done!
Look at the quilting of these ones, I practiced with my rules. I took a close up on one of the mats with the quilting.
Monday, August 5, 2024
On to a new Month
Well, like many other people I didn't get as much sewing and painting as I wanted to, but that's Ok because I did do some. It seems this month I have a bit more time on my hands but the heat is killing me in my small little sewing room, with the big windows in my condo, so I'm doing small projects. Lets get to them right away shall we.
Four goals this month, and I'm not entering it into anyone's blogs, just doing it on my own.
- I wanted to get my scrap box down a bit so I'm making 7 - 12 inch blocks for mug rugs for my book club, one each. There's the tea cup and the books under. I have fine acrylic pens so that they can write the book names on the books. I have made one for the testing (top right) and three others, four more to go. They need to be done by the 25th for the next meeting.
2. Some scrap trees to make a pillow for my chair. It's using duo sided interfacing, so it should be a quick one. Thus the idea of doing two different projects this week and getting down my mess in my sewing room.
3. I have a Block of the month that I want to do . It's called "Be my Neighbor" by Moda. It was a free block of the month in 2015 that's still available and so adorable, that I always wanted to do it. I started it as a UFO, and now I'm saying I'm going to do 3 a month. I already have one row. See the picture below that is someone else's completed. The blocks are very large, and there are four blocks a row. First row is all done, and I like how it looks. Oversized twin. For the free pattern click HERE on this link to get all the patterns.
4. The final and most important. I am doing a round robin quilt with a box of fabric I found. I've put them together, and I need one more row. It was last month's goal, and not completed, so just one more and it goes off to my friend Corinne.
Thursday, July 11, 2024
What a day of cleaning!!!
I also decided to do something that has been bothering me for ages, I cleaned up my sewing room. Most of you sewers with a lot of UFOs (Unfinished objects or projects) know that when your sewing room gets overcrowded you cannot be creative in the room. Well it came to that with me. There are three really big passions in my life right now, painting, sewing and reading. The reading (actually the books) were beginning to take over my closet so I bought one of those revolving bookcases that are not suppose to take a lot of room and they revolve 360 degrees. Take a look at my addition in my office. It cleared out my entire closet and gave me back walk in space in my closet.
Wednesday, July 3, 2024
July’s Challenge an OMG
This month is a busy month of small trips. Retired life seems to be busier than working life, but in a different way. There’s plenty to do. I retired at the end of February and in a week went off to a trip to Palm Springs to see my uncle for a week.
In March I saw tons of friends all wanting lunches to wish me happy retirement. Don’t get me wrong, that’s a great thing, but boy was I exhausted after it.
In April it was off to Scottsdale Arizona for two weeks. There was also some financial paperwork to complete for the retirement. That was relaxing and stressful together.
In May, more small trips, some nesting (repairs to condo), paying off the mortgage (yeah!) and from April to end of June a lot of subbing in the schools. At least 2 times a week, In all of this there was three cancer scares, and in June the surgery for one of them That’s why the subbing, to get my mind off it all. But all is ok now, I’ve changed in all of this worry and stress, and now my husband and I just want to be happy, and live life in comfort, and at our own pace. We are happy. Painting and sewing make me very happy.
From my painting class.This month’s challenges to complete will be two quilts as usual. One is the Campfire by Suzy Quilts. Easy 2 1/2 strips to get rid of some of my scraps l it will also be a large one for a queen. Picture is what it’s supposed to look like.
Love and Peace
Decided to join a new group with the inquiring quilter called Wednesday’s Weight loss. It’s a motivational thing to get your quilt load down, and boy do I have many. I set a goal of doing 2 quilts a month and since I’m now retired I’m hoping to do it. I have so many UFOs it’s overwhelming me. So here’s my first post and my second finish this month of June, although I officially finished it July 1st.
The quilt is the Love and Peace quilt from Sherri Noel, really easy to make, big blocks so it came together rather fast once I concentrated on it. She did a free quilt along for donations for the Ukraine of the quilt or just cash 2 years ago. I did the cash donation. But you can still buy her quilt at the same location.
It could be a king. It was a twin that I was going to give to a friend but husband loved it and wanted to keep it because it was the LA Chargers colors, so then I had to make it larger. Thus the ribs at the bottoms.2 1/2 inch strips sewn together to make the extension, quilt as you go style. 16” long,
Used a ribbon to tie the corners at the bottom together. Binding was the same material as how I attached the piece to the main quilt.
Love the colors. And the dark lines of fabric used to attach the pieces really set the quilt off.
Quilted with heart patterns on a domestic sewing machine. Was happy with the entire effect. And nice and light for the summer. Any questions? On to the next one then.
Sunday, June 9, 2024
June's UFO is completed... On to the next.
I love the whale one. It was so easy to do. And because I had extra time that day, I found a blouse that was cut out so I finished it.
I made a promise to myself, do two UFOs a month and I'm allowed to start a new quilt. I have one that is blue, with all these different blocks, a bird, a fence, and big enough for a queen which is the idea.
So the 2nd quilt for the month will be the embroidery quilt that has a woman in a large dress, holding some flowers. I made some of the blocks from the Riley Blake web site (this is their link) web site (this is their link) and I'm putting them around the embroidery section. I'm surrounding each block with red and also adding some light red/white flower pattern material around it all to extend the quilt to a queen. This quilt will be very light for the summer. I'm excited to complete this one as this quilt is 11 years old, and I don't know how old the embroidery section is. It was made as a duvet cover, so I took off the back and I am adding the squares to spruce it up a bit. Can't wait to see if it makes it better.
That's the plan, wish me luck.
Very productive month.
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