Another completion..... Missouri Star.

 It's the colassal Churn Dash from Missouri Star.

The video to help you is here.  It's three different churn dashes for you to do.  The videos are self explanatory, you don't need a pattern.  But unfortunately, my colossal churn dash is not featured on this so you have to go to this link to get the pattern which is usually $6 - 9 American dollars.

It was so quick and easy to do, I did the flimsy in 2 day (one day cutting - one day sewing).  It uses a layer cake, one fabric for the accent churn dash, and another bit of fabric for the layer around.  Here's their pattern:

Now here's mine.  It was quilted in different squares, and the churn dash in the middle was straight stitch.  Some of the squares are triangle quilted, some square.  The centre is quilted as a large star.  It's huge!!!

Its easier to sew them in fours, but the bottoms should be in sixes as you see here.

It comes together really easily as you can see here.  I tried to stitch a row right across the bottom, but it's easier in 4s and 6s.

the material is so old, it's from Craftsy when they were selling kits and materials (at least 15 years old).  A good time to let it go.

I love it.  It's a giant lap quilt that fits the top of my queen size bed (74" by 93"), but no drape so I just use it as a cuddle quilt.

Hope your quilting days are going great.  Take care.

Working at it....

With two snow days (actually I only had the one to catch up) I was able to complete a number of quilts, and that gives you great satisfaction.  But it's only because of all this snow in Vancouver (over 5 inches in a day.).

So lets get right to it and show what we've done....

The Harry Potter QAL from SewFresh has four of their blocks out and ready to go.  So far I have 3 completed, and I'm even starting to quilt as I go.  Here they are:

Each one so unique...

 And so much fun to do!!

Three done, one more to go for February.  They're close to 20 inches each, so it's going to be a very large quilt.  That's why I'm going to do "Quilt as you Go".

The other quilt I completed was one for my mother's 80th birthday party.  It was a quilt by Missouri Quilts.  Here's the video I watched.

And here is the finished production...  People signed the light blue around the quilt.  It worked out perfectly as my aunt's theme for the birthday party was daffodils.

I stitched in the ditch and got it all done.  It was so easy, using a jelly roll, two whites and one color sewn together, then sew two colors with a white in between, then sew it all together on top of each other, then cut.  Really, see the video, which is really well done.

So now, no more rushing to sew.  Now I can finish (or rather catch up) on my quilt alongs.  It's suppose to snow again tonight and into tomorrow and I have family day, so we'll see how much I get done this weekend.  I do have 3 quilts to actually finish off and quilt so they're off the UFO table.  We'll see.

Hope you all have a sunny, happy day.

Update for American Patchwork and Quilting Challenge

New drawing this month, and it's number 11.  It's a Missourri Quilt Company quilt.  The one I am very interested in doing this one

This one needs 1 roll 11/2" white strips - includes inner border
1 roll 21/2" print strips
3 packages of 21/2" squares
- 84 count
OUTER BORDER is 1 3/4 yards
BINDING is 3/4 yard
BACKING is 71/2 yards - vertical seam
for a 80 x 80 quilt

or

This one needs 1¾ yards dark solid fabric
1¾ yards light solid fabric
BINDING:  ¾ yard
BACKING:  3¼ yards - horizontal seam(s)
This one is smaller.

This one will satisfy my #11.  But I am also trying to complete my #11 which is the table runner for a very good friend of mine, Anna.  So I'll try to do both this month as well as my UFO challenge.

So far I've done two on this list, one I give away and one that's hanging in my condo, so I'm pleased.  See below for all the ones I said I would complete in 2018.  Those in yellow are the quilts that should be completed.

THE TWENTY EIGHTEEN

ufo challenge

AMERICAN PATCHWORK & QUILTING

PROJECT	STATUS BEFORE	STATUS AFTER
1Pat Sloans BOM	Have about 55 to go out of 100.  Need to step it up
2Black and white squares	For my aunt.  Just quilting left on a king size quilt.  Fully completed now.
3Sewing BOM	Am currently 2 blocks behind but doing very well on this challenge
4Quilt Doddle BOM	Currently caught up with all the months except for the new one that came out yesterday.
5Bird Runner	Have all material but not cut
6 Green Wool flowers	All put together – need to quilt borders and quilt squares	Midnight Garden
7Triangles in old fashion	Got all material but that’s it
8 Black & White modern	Paper pieced, have material, need to start squares.  Only have 3 squares out of 100 started.
9Table runner for Anna	Have most done, adding because it’s too small, then need to quilt it.
10Mona’s quilt	All material there.  Flowers, purple and green with butterflies on it.
11aMissouri quilt	Have Cake material, need to complete rest.  It's the choice for June
l2  Barn door to complete	One done. Other pieces all over need to put together	Garden - Sew Kind of Wonderful

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