4th Quarter Finish Along

Good Evening All

I was able to get a lot of sewing done yesterday.  So excited.  I finished the top for the competition quilt.  I will put up pictures after I know the results of the competition.  This is the first quilt that I will enter, so not really expecting much.

I also finished putting the blocks together for the Learn to Quilt I enrolled in on Quilt University.   I need to now add 3 borders, 1 which is pieced.

I'm linking up to Rhonda at Quilter in the Gap 4th Quarter Link Up Party.  If you have any unfinished projects, you should link up too.


Project 1:  QU Learn To Quilt

 

Project 2:  Still need to put a hanging sleeve on this wall hanging

Project 3:  This is the pieces to my competition quilt.  Guess I like Black, White and Red LOL

Project 4:  Christmas Table Runner - Need to applique berries and leaves on, then quilt it.

 

Project 5:  Quilt Little Guys Quilt

Project 6:  Wilderness Quilt - Basted, Needs Quilting

Project 7:  Wedding Quilt - Needs Applique, then Quilting

Project 8:  Tops `N` Tails Quilt - some strips sewn together

Project 9:  Circle Dance Quilt - this one`s been started 2 years ago.

Project 10:  Mystery Quilt - Pieces cut

Wow, I can`t believe that I have that many UFO`s listed. And I haven`t even made a dent in the piles around my room.  :)

Hope you`ve had a great Monday!

Vicky K

1st Quarter Finish-A-Long End Report

First off - Wow, I can't believe that its been so long since I posted.  I got really busy doing taxes for my Mom's estate and I'm still not done. Now back to my post....

Rhonda at Quilter in the Gap is hosting an amazing Quilt-A-Long with great prizes.  At the beginning of the year, all who were interested in joining, linked up all their UFO's they would like to finish in the first quarter of the year.  Now we link up the finished UFO's.

This is my first posting that listed 19 UFO's.  Can you say CRAZY!!

Here are my results:

#6 Charity Block

#4 Red Mug Rug

#15 December Block Lottery for Guild

#2:  Quilt for my Little Girl

Four out of 19 is the official count for the contest but I did finish a few more.  They just didn't qualify for the contest.  Two of the Mug Rugs were finished by some friends.  And I finished the November Block Lottery for guild, but I didn't have a picture of it when we started.

Now to start thinking what I need to take pictures of for the next quarter.

Good Luck Everyone!!

Vicky

I'm so Happy, I'm so Happy

I'm singing the title above!  I finally finished my little girl's first quilt.  I purchased the material when she was about 4 months old.  She will be 3 in a little over a month.  It wasn't a hard quilt, just kept putting it aside and would work on other things.  And then I picked flannelette for the binding because of slim pickings.  I did not like working with the it, especially for hand sewing the binding on.  I will never purchase it again.  It took me forever to sew the binding on.  I couldn't catch the fabric properly with my needle.  But I am DONE!

This is also one of the projects I added for the 2012 Finish-A-Long.  Will have to check my list to see what else I should be working on.

Have a great evening!
Vicky K

Mug Rugs finished with help

Good Morning All

For the Finish-A-Long, I listed three mug rugs that needed to have the binding finished.  All three are finished but I can only submit one.  I have a bag that I take with me that holds some hand sewing.  I don't get a lot of opportunities to work on it but at the last guild meeting I pulled it out.  There are a group of 8 of us that are in a smaller bee.  One of the gals usually has hand work.  So that evening, She and I were sewing away when one of the others says "Where's my hand work"  My eyes lit up and jokingly said "I have it for you"  I even had extra needles and thimbles.  Well she took me up on the offer and another friend took another one.  They ended up finishing both that evening.  One of my friends said she had to finish it because she's left-handed and I wouldn't be able to complete it easily.  Aren't they nice.

Here is a picture of the 3 finished.

Have a great day!

Vicky K

December Block Lottery Finished

Good Morning All

I was able to finally finished the December Block Lottery.  At my local guild, members have the opportunity to participate in a Block Lottery.  Everyone gets the same pattern and piece of fabric.  Participants make the block and bring it back to the next meeting.  Everyone who finishes the block puts their name in for the draw.  And the lucky winner gets all the blocks to make their own quilt.  There are anywhere from 20 - 30 blocks finished on a monthly basis.
I like to participate even knowing that I won't win.  It very rare for me to win things.  But its still fun to make the blocks.

I put this in the Finish-A-Long to motivate me to have it finished for the Guild meeting next week.  But since it wasn't started yet, it doesn't really count.  But again, its all in the fun of participating!

Have a great day!

Vicky K

Another UFO finished - December Block Lottery

Good Evening

Just a warning, this post is jumpy.

Again, I'm sitting on the couch with my little girl laying beside me not sleeping, trying to catch up on past pod casts from Pam on Hip to be Square. And I'm trying out listening at double speed. Its okay, do prefer normal speed, but would love to catch up to current times. LOL

We have no idea how to get little girl to sleep in her own bed and for the whole night. She is like me and when not feeling right, sleep is the first to go. She's been in our bed at some point if not the whole night since before Christmas. She's two months shy of turning 3. Loving the terrible two's - NOT. :)

So to my quilting, I finished the December Block Lottery that was due last month.  I was able to complete in Monday evening.  I need to bring it to my guild meeting tomorrow.
At the November meeting, we were given the pattern and the Beige with Red Poinsettias and had to add the rest of the fabrics from our own stash.  BTW, this is a voluntary lottery.  You are supposed to make the block and bring it to the next meeting.  Then all the blocks are put on display.  Everyone who completed a block, gets to put their name in for a draw.  The winner of the draw gets all the blocks.  Its a great way to use up your stash and if your lucky, get a quilt or two out of it.  There are anywhere from 25 - 35 blocks completed every month.


Last night I found the pattern and fabric for the November Block Lottery.  I didn't get a chance to spend anymore time on it as little girl was needing me again.

I tried to get to it tonight and would have finished it if I wouldn't have remembered about Sandy's interview with Jaye.  Where she talked about Quilt of the Year.  If I'm remembering correctly, at the beginning of the year, she decides on a shape - ex: triangle.  Through out the year, she will cut out that shape from the fabrics she is using.  Then in the last part of the year, she puts all the pieces together to make a quilt.  Its a great memory quilt of the past year.  I loved the idea and thought I hope I remember to do that for next year.  Yea, I did.  Just a few days into the New Year, so all is good.

I had to decide on a shape that I wanted to make for 2012.  I'm already in a HST swap for this year with my guild, so I didn't want to do triangles.  I didn't really think of strips.  What I kept going back to - its gonna be from my scraps, so the sizes couldn't be that big.  So I finally decided on a kind of pattern instead.  Or idea of pattern.  I choose to cut:
      5" blocks, max of 1
      2 3/4" blocks, max of 2  and
      2 3/4 X 5" bricks, max of 1
I'm not sure or can't believe that I will be able to make a quilt, just using current year's scraps.  I'm scared, no, that's not the right word, unsure??  that I don't complete or start enough quilts to be able to have enough to finish.  While typing, I decided, if its turns out to be Quilt of 2 Years or 3 Years, that's okay.  The thing that pulls me the most to make this kind of quilt - All the Memories.   And as someone else said, the quilt has double the love from being handled the first time to have pieces cut and the being handled and quilted into the second quilt.

I was going to work on the binding for my little girl's quilt while I was sitting with her, but this post is taking me a while to write.  I keep getting distracted when I'm looking for the links.  LOL  Its 12:30 in the am, I think I should head to bed.

Good night All.
Vicky

TableTopper top finished

Good evening all

I've had a busy few days around home. For the last few days, my little girl has had a fever. And when she's sick, she's attached to me. Very wearing and not very productive.

Well, I've got to play a bit tonight. I was able to put a table topper together from the many Christmas blocks that I made. I used 4 out of the 12.

Here is the single block:

And here is the finished top:

I'm using the white fabric for the backing and the black for the binding. What do you think?

Now I need to figure out how I want to quilt it. I'm not sure if I want to just Stitch in the Ditch r play around with the quilting.

Need to go to sleep. Talk soon.

Vicky

1st Quarter Finish-A-Long Start

Of course, when I'm finally ready to start writing my post after reading all the other participants, my little girl wakes up.  Hope I can get this written and it makes sense.  If you ever read one of my posts and are thinking - "what is she writing? Nothing make sense."  It'll probably be a post my kids were up, beside me, and creating havoc.  LOL.

I took pictures last night of my quilting space, UFO's and Projects-Not-Yet-Started.  Today I posted them on Flicker.  I haven't really played with Flicker before.  So that is what I did this morning.  Hubby was driving my brother and his girlfriend to the bus station, so I thought I would sneak in some time for blogging. 

I'm really excited for the Finish-A-Long.  I usually find out about these Group things, either, 1 - after they have started and is kind of too late to join in, or 2 - after they have finished.  I just read about Quilt 101 by following a link to a fellow participant.  It started and finished last year.  I'm still going to check it out.

So I'm really excited about Rhonda's FAL!!  And if you get to the bottom of my post, you'll understand. LOL.  If you are interested in joining, click on the above button and Rhonda will tell you all about it.

Another new thing for me to try to do today - A Linky Party!!!  I'm new to blogging and hoping to be able to keep up on the posting.  What a great way to have a history of your quilting life.  So many times at my guild meetings, I can't remember what I worked on the past month.  So far so good - Have competed 100% daily posting this year.  LOL  2 days - 2 posts hahaha.

Here is my list for the first quarter (I'm gonna go big in the first quarter, hope not setting myself up for disappointment)

1.  Quilt for my little man- Needs quilting and binding.

2.  Quilt for little girl - Needs binding (have been working on this quilt for 2 years LOL)

3.  Green Mug Rug - Need to sew binding (didn't get these finished in time for Christmas)

4. Red Mug Rug - Binding is 1/3 finished (didn't get finished in time for Christmas)

5.  Blue Mug Rug - Need to sew the binding

6.  Charity Block - pieces cut, need to assemble (challenge was due middle of Sept - still not finished)

7. Christmas Table Runner - Need to hand sew vine, attach and hand sew over 100 leaves and berries, sandwich, quilt, and bind (not sure if this one will be finished in first quarter and is my challenge project)

8.  Black and White Race Quilt - still cutting strips

9.  HST Swap - Still exchanging HST at guild meeting (on one hand I consider this a UFO as I've started it in October and always forget till the am of the meetings that I need to make 36 HST, on the other hand, I consider this a WIP as I can't finish the project until the swap is finished.  Most likely won't be finished in the first quarter)

10.  Tops'N'Tails swap - fabric cut, still exchanging, need to pick zinger color, and start assembling strips (again, not sure will be finished in first quarter)  BTW - this makes 2 quilt tops

11. Circle Dance Quilt - Blocks finished, need to be arranged, assembled, and so on.  I took a class and have had the blocks finished for 1 1/2 years.  Arranging blocks is holding me up.

12.  Mystery Quilt - Needs to be quilted and binding.  The class was finished June 2010.  I think its been sandwiched since May 2011.  Not sure how I'm gonna to quilt and its not for anyone specific, so its been no rush.  Would really like to finish it this year.

13. Christmas Blocks - Made this for a swap that I wasn't able to join, so now I have 12 blocks.  Didn't know what to do with them.  Some gals from my Binding Bunny Group gave me some great ideas last week.  So now I have a plan for them.  I also need to do these quickly in case I need to buy more fabric.

14.  Agatha Christie Mystery Quilt - 3/4 cut.  The Mystery Quilt started in August.  I have started the pre-Step 1 out of 14.  A long way to go.

15.  December Block Lottery for Guild - this was supposed to be finished for the December Guild Meeting but was behind because of Christmas projects.  Need to have this finished for January Meeting.

16.  November Block Lottery - Sorry I don't have a picture of this one.  I just remembered I need to do November's too.  I will have to go through my mess to find it.  It too will need to be finished for January Guild Meeting.  Because I was behind on two months, I didn't take the January block , even though I loved the pattern and fabric.

17.  Postage Stamp Quilt - Not sure if this is considered an UFO too.  Joined a swap and haven't opened the packages to assemble.  I have just assembled my fabrics.  I want this to be a true postage stamp quilt - meaning there are no 2 fabrics that are the same.  So I'm not sure if I have enough stamps.

18.  Reverse Applique Wall Hanging - Took a class at my guild and haven't touched it since the class.  I'm not in love with the fabrics, so this is gonna be a hard one for me to finish.  Maybe I should work on this one soon.

19.  Patchability Hanging - Needs hanging sleeve and has needed sleeve for over a year.  You'd think that this would be easy, but have never made a sleeve before.  Learned how to add a sleeve after I finished the binding. Of Course.  LOL

So here is my list.  WOW!  I didn't think there were that many.  And I know, I still have some more hidden in my stash.  This FAL is great.  Its making me more conscience of my stash.

Happy Quilting!

Vicky