No links yet!

I haven't really had the time nor done anything really worthy of linkin anywhere yet but it's only Wednesday morning (my day off yay!) and lots of time left to pull off something.  I've got  a list of things to sew so hopefully I can post more about it later.  Kind of feel like the energizer bunny right now hope it lasts.

Finish Friday

I hope to get a lot more sewing done today because I really can't come up with a reason not too (other then the fact that there is still no TV in the basement).  I have however come up with a couple of finishes to share this week.  I am done with two lovely pin cushions from Liberty Love.

I got two blocks done for Quilt for Boston and sent off.  I might be able to make more but  I didn't want to take the chance of letting my procrastination get in the way of me following through with this.

I finished some embroidery as well.

This one for my niece, Abigail's, birthday bag.

This is to be used as a center panel for a quilt as Aneely did in her book Sweet Stitches.

I got to sew the pieces for my Bloom Bloom POW top together. 

What do you think of the color?  I like everyone individually but together it takes some getting use to.  I don't know but its a little to late I guess.  I am however enjoying the process of making it and learning new things and ways of putting things together, thanks to our fantastic guide Lee from Freshly Pieced.  All that's left is to make sure I like this lay out and sew the half hexis together into rows and the rows together.


There are a few things I will be working on over the weekend as well as some stuff I would love to day dream about starting.

Already started:
English Paper Piecing Tickety Tock
Abigail's bag
Virtual Bee Blocks
April's Sisters Ten Block (I've really been holding off on this one, best for last right?)

Thanks for joining me, I'm linked up over at TGIFF w/ What a Hoot and Crazy Mom Quilts

Quilts for Boston

I learned about Quilt For Boston just yesteday and decided that this is the least I can do. I haven't been able to follow through on a lot of good for the world deeds but this one is definitely going to be a quick finish and no procrastination involved. 

I pulled some fabric from my stash of scraps (not really I was using these on other projects, they just happen to be big enough fo this).

And then I decided my first set of blocks would be Gift boxes by Brioni Greenberg from Shape Workshop for Quilters.

They're all cut ready to sewn.
If you would like to partipate all the info is in the link above and there is also a flickr for this.

Before this I was working on a couple of other projects.  I'm making a couple of scrappy log cabin pincushion from Liberty Love by Alexia Marcell Abegg.  I need to go get some ric rac today and it should be a quick finish.  I can tell this will be a repeated project with lots of my scrap fabric.

I started this Tickety Tock mini clock quilt as well.  At first I was quit taken back by not only the need to make templates but to double the size.  How is a girl suppose to do that. Then my math background (not really) kicked in and I grabbed my protractor (whick I knew I would need one day) and just went for it.  I drew a master copy and then traced it only freezer/quilter paper.  I'm quit please with myself and it was really therapeutic.

This is also from Shape Workshop for Quilters.

We also got to work on my 2 and half quilt this past weekend.  My husband decided he would press it, 1 because he believes is a master presser and 2 because I wasn't going to do it.  So he agreed to press if I sewed them together and may I say it looks marvelous as a table cloth on our dining room table.

 

 

It just needs to be sandwiched and quilted, drew up some ideas at work for the quilitng, his favorite is the flower on the corners but I can't do that on my industrial JUKI so lets cross our finger I get my way (most likely not) and get a new machine soon :) 

 

 

 

I've also decided to make a couple more tote bags soon, one for my daughter and one for my neice whose 7th birthday is in May.  I decided to do an embroidered front pocket, again another first, and this is what I've got so far.

 

 

This pattern is from Stitched for Fun by Fiona Goble.  While at Joanns today I have to pick up a few more colors to finish is up.  This was also a lot easier to catch on then I thought it would be.  I also picked up Aneela Hoey's book Little Stitches from the library earlier this week so lots more little cute pictures to embroider.  I'm also watching the first and second season of Downton Abbey.  Extra exciting things happening and its just Wednesday.  Join me and all the other WIP over at Freshly Pieced for WIP Wednesday.



Sunday Stash and Weekend Wrap Up

I came across this lovely panel from JoAnn and decided to make lots of baby quilts out of it. I've got a few ideas running through my head but here is my first one, pieced, quilted and binded.  It's reversible!!!  I'm hoping it will be the first item I sell.

Next up are my Virtual Bee BOM, as you can see I got a little overzeaulous and accidetally cut off a corner I wasn't suppose to.  At least the 2nd one is completely done.  I'm starting to think I might not ever catch up.

 

 

I did however get completely caught up on my Bloom Bloom POW and had lots of pretty left over scraps.

 

 

Now for all of my goodies.  I got three packages in the mail this week as well as trips to JoAnn to share.

My JoAnne trip

My package from Hawthorne Threads

 

 

My package from Rasberry Creek Fabric

I know I need to do better with listing fabric names and I thought I would try this week but I have lost my receipts, maybe next week.

 

Finally I would like to share my new and improved organized stash:

 

BEFORE

 

TA DA .... AFTER

Thanks for joining me with this crazy week's wrapup.  I'm linking up over at  Kate Quilts for Sunday stash.  I almost feel like my "stash" is used in the slang kind of way ;)  Have a great Sunday people. 

Almost forgot but this was my third package:

 

 

I won this from Linda over at Little Bits and Pieces.

 

 





 

 

 



 



WIP Wednesday

I got a list for you this week.  I finally got my lazy procrastinating butt motivated to work on my QAL and BOMs.  The Bloom Bloom POW is about 95% there and the 3 Virtual bees blocks are 50% of the way there.  The whole process stop once I had to go press them in between sewing, that's what happens when your sewing machine is in the basement but everything else is upstairs.

I also decided to start this with a panel and some fabric I got at JoAnns, who is having a great SALE. I started it today and got it basted ready for some sort of quilting.  Let me tell you i never how complicated it is to make something up without a pattern to follow.  A lot of math!!! I think this is going to be the first item I'm going to try to sell.  I figured if nobody wants it there's plenty of people we know having babies but I really want to try this out.

This doesn't have anything to do with sewing but look what I saw yesterday.

Join me over at WIP Wednesday hosted by Freshly Pieced.

Bucket list of Quilts

One of my favorite parts of quilting is getting super excited about an idea.  I love looking at everybody's quilts and wanting to make one some day.  I realize that my problem with that is I always lose the idea or forget about it (which probably does my wallet some good).  So I've decided to keep a list of Want to DO Projects and hopefully have links or books connected to them. Here it is in no particular order.

Farmers wife sampler quilt 

Farmers wife barn QAL

Marcelle's Medallion

Geta's Hexi Sphere

Disappearing four Patch Quilt
Disappearing 9 patch quilt
Curve it up QAL

String Heart Block
Maple Leaf Rag Quilt from Material Obsession 2 and here
Puzzled Triangle
Divided Basket by Noodlehead
Three ring Circus from Material Obsession
Shams
Tohoku Tote


Books:
Anna Marie's Needleworks

Dream Fabrics:

Children at Play by Sarah Jane available at Hawthorne ThreadAnna Marie's Needleworks

Making A Plan Success

So I used the last post as an outlet over the weekend and it worked.  It got my butt back to work and so far I've cleaned my room, finished the top for my 2 and half quilt, and pieced together the fabric for Bloom Bloom POW (about 90% done at least).  Now just a few more things and I'll reach my goal. 

 

This is the top inspired by Kaffe Fassett's "Red Frames".

 

The strips on the side are for the back, all pressed and ready to by sewn together, I'm pretty sure I'm going to need to do at least ten more rows. 

 

 

I've also got some new motivation to help my hubby with his table.  Here's a sneak peek at what we might end up doing:

 

Hope you're having as nice of a time with your WIPs!!!