Missed it by that much!!! August's "ALYOF"

OK, I didn't make my goal last month but gee, was that hard to do!!! Over 16 hours of quilting on a small machine in 30 degrees heat.  OK> enough complaining.  So I'll do something smaller, and that will give me time to finish the old goal (I hate leaving something unfinished).

This is from Aurifil Threads, a modern QAL going on.  One of the blocks was a spool pattern (I'm doing all flowers) from Chez Claire's for February's block (click on the Aurifil Label to see all the blocks), but she was also kind enough to show a pattern for making a small quilt for the end of the bed.  I was gathering up some indigo and I thought that would be the perfect think to do.  Make it so it also has a pocket at the end so you can keep some stuff in it, like your book, reading glasses, etc.

My quilt will be for a queen size quilt, so I want it to hand a lot on the sides (to protect those glasses), and I like quilts draping.

I"m gone for two weeks, so that's all the time I'll have to complete this, 2 weeks, but I think it's doable, just not with all the other BOMs that I'm in.  So I'll try.  Then I'll complete my other one, the top section to quilt going vertical lines (1/2 inch apart), and 6 more blocks to complete!!

Vertical lines to do on the top part (missing those
yellow squares on top...

6 more 12.5 inch blocks to complete

Darn, there I go complaining again!!!  By the way, the husband loves this quilt, and right now the cat is under it in 30 degree heat!!  Crazy cat!  He wants to break it in  ;)  Notice the bump?

OMG for the Lovely Year of Finished!!!

OMG!!  OMG!!  That's all I can say for this one!!!  Down to the very wire!!!  And I missed it!!!  But that's OK because I"m not done still!!!

Material Girl's BOM

20 blocks - all using a layer cake and material of my choice

Free style bubble quilt.  Can't see it well,
but you can definitely feel it.

Real small circles around the circle.

Picture was above that pink triangle
That' small the quilting

That's it.  Hand binded as well.  The back is all black with white dots as well except for the top (had left over squares), which is light pink.  I still have 6 blocks to do!!!!  OMG!!!  I didn't make it!!!

As for the other things in total, here is my done list - I must be nuts!!!

July's Lovely Year of Finishes.

OK, I know I go overboard, and it states that you only have to do one, so that's what I'm doing, I'm giving in to only one because it's a queen size quilt, and I'm doing tiny, tiny circles of quilting.  You've seen the picture....

Material Girl's Block of the Month Layer Cake.

Here's some of the quilting already quilted and for you to understand the size of the circles:

Section between the blocks and more.

Can you see the circles?

Need to pick the quilted section on the pastel.

This would take a lot of time for me to complete, the entire month for sure....

If I complete that one, I do have another that I would love to complete, it's an Aurifill Quilt with Spools that can download at this site.  Its the feature Designer Brigitte Heitland.  Here's a picture of the one she made:

From the web site January 'sAuribuzz

Mine is twice the size of this one for an end quilt for the bed.    I have cut some of it already and have done two rows but still have a third to complete, as well as put it all together.  This is for the NewFO Challenge 2014 at Cat Patches.

Now, if I have some extra time I still need to do my 9 blocks for the 9 BOMs I'm participating in, and I have two classes I signed up for at Crafty (http://catpatches.blogspot.ca/p/newfo-challenge.html) , one is painting fabric, and the other is the Pre-Cut Piecing Made Simple by Camille Roskelley, The Crafty Block of the Month 2012 by Amy Gibson (this one is free ladies, and great - I'm on July in this one), or I can start the Pixel Quilt that I've learned to do on Crafty by Caro Sheridan or there's the Pictorial Quilting Technique...or...... (did I say two that I signed up for??!!0  

There it is, my 2 goals for July (and the extras at a blog entry called July is another month to catch up.)

Material girl's BOM almost done

Well it's almost completed. Got all the pieces together, and now I'm free style quilting it. The quilt is king size now, so backing it was difficult, but I'm doing my best.  The background is small white dots on black, so I'm making free style circles on the black.  It will take me quite a while, but I have until the end of the month to get this done for the "2014 - A lovely year of finishes."  I promised myself two quilts finished, and I almost have the backing completed on the other one.  I'm so happy with how the quilt looks below!  Three inches in between each block and each block is 12 inches in size.  It's a big quilt!  Click on the size tags to see the process.

I would definitely do another quilt like this, maybe do one or two blocks only.