Quilting like a Maniac- Relaxing through Quilting.

The month of August was great for me, where I got tired of looking at so many UFO's.  My sewing room is still so full of stuff, and it frustrates me when I'm sewing, so I've decided to get as many of the UFOs done as possible.  That's were Elm Street Quilts and the One Monthly Goal comes into play. I listed my Sewology Quilt, got that one done and also completed the goal that I had for July which was my Snowflake quilt (another queen as well).  See the entry here..... So what's next?  Another UFO BOM (wow, all these acronyms....).  This one was done by my favorite quilt designer Sew Fresh Quilts.  She made a BOM for Harry Potter fans.   And although I'm not a crazy, crazy fan of Harry Potter, I do so love her designs so much, I just had to do it!!!  Guess what?  YES!!!  Another queen.  But for this quilt I've been doing "Quilt as you Go", so it's more than half done. Here is the design Isn't it fantastic?!!!  I got the 2nd and

Well, it's soon back to school and that means that I'll be very busy in a month's time, trying to find time to quilt.  But because I was crazy crazy busy in May and June, I've been trying to catch up on a number of my BOM's.  And while no one was looking (anyone out there????) I got caught up in two more BOM's.  Really, am I crazy or what?  So one of them which I am enjoying so much because I'm doing nothing but using scraps, that I've got caught up in a lot of the blocks (two per month - sometimes three) with "A Time for All Seasons" by Sew Incredibly Crazy.  I love this girl, the designs are so delicious, and so much fun to do.  If you're into applique they have one a month, and if you're not the other block is always a traditional style block to do.  Don't believe me?  Give it a look yourself... 16 blocks in total so far. Top and bottom are the matches.  May and June here. Traditional blocks (March here

Can't believe how much I accomplished this summer in finishing up a number of my UFOs and cleaning up my room.  There was so much unfinished UFOs and many of them were just sitting there, completed, but not sandwiched or quilted.  Well no more..... Here's my OMG for August....  Hooking up to Elm Street Quilts. All blocks are completed.  Look at the thread, it's a ribbon that I sewed on. All attached together, all quilted.  the sides are light gray with sewing machine pictures on it, and thread, etc.  Really goes with the quilt theme. Each block a bit of a sewing tool list This quilt has a polar fleece backing, and no batting.  It's so thick as is.  And so warm as well.  You can't see the thread when I was quilting it.  I also didn't want to quilt the entire thing for the simple reason that the polar fleece is stretchy and I need the quilt to be flexible, so thus not a lot of quilting around everything.  It looks great as is.  This quilt pr

If at first you don’t succeed try, try,.........  It's a queen size quilt, with a backing of a blanket that my aunt gave me.  It's even bigger than that polar fleece blanket.    I need to quilt it.  Here's what sit looks like now. That's one of the blocks.....  Wait until it's entirely done, because that's the goal, having the entire quilt completed.....  Wish me luck. Hooking up to One Monthly Goal (OMG) at Elm Street quilts.  Check out all the entries, they're beautiful.