Re: Annual Quilting Week: What are you working on?

Finished (as far as I could go) two projects for the store.

Now on to personal projects. I'm hand appliquing a wall hanging for our new bedroom. It's a four patch with stylized flowers done (mostly) in Eleanor Burns fabrics in yellow and blue. The hand applique is good for my soul.

And the never ending work in the basement. I bought (more) shelving and (more) plastic bins. I'm about to tackle the fabric already sorted by color and in boxes. I want to separate larger pieces from truly scraps and box them separately. While doing this, I want to make up several 'kits' of fabric, ready to start new projects.

With 8 inches of new snow and two football games on the telly and a pot roast ready for the crock pot, I'd say that I'm pretty much settled in for the day, wouldn't you?

joan :>

Good plan, Sally! Maybe you need 2 quilts for each season, one on the hall side and one on the kitchen side! Hope your cold disappears soon! Roberta in D

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I am working on the binding to a silent auction quilt. I am the general chairperson for a large luncheon raising funds for the Prevention of Child Abuse. The quilt is all in blue and white with blue Ribbons paperpieced. It is a Carol Doak pattern. Will be photoed and posted this week!!!

Debbi in SO CA

Sally Sw> I have cut out the fabric and paper for my paper pieced Starry, Starry

There isn't really any easy way of fixing a rail on the kitchen side as there is a roller blind on the main front window that would get in the way (the whole window was originally a bay one). The side window isn't in an alcove at all, so I think I will have to do a pieced backing, but in lighter colours - perhaps a 'Sunny, Sunny Day'!? to be seen through the window.

When the Studio is finished would you please help me 'place' my fabrics? It'll save me from having to bend, left, etc.and you'd get all the fondling your heart desires. since you'd be fresh from doing yours you could just whip mine right out. Thanks . Butterfly (Butterfly For President--where it's raining once again)

I know what I'm thinking, I just don't know how to describe it. Can you make a 'reversible' type of quilt with only ONE layer of patchwork +---maybe French seams so it looks finished from both sides? No batting or backing required...am I thinking a type of stained glass design with black on each seam? Let the light play thru it? I just remember Miz Sairey showing us the

Butterfly (Butterfly For President)

Report Day One :-)

-finished one block for my european block swap quilt

-finished top 'birds in the air' ( there was just one border left )

-pieced test block for German lighthouse block swap

it's fun :-) Heidi from Germany

The quilt teacher @ my quilting class, gives small quilts to hospitals & I'm working on some of these for the babies. I can handle those smaller quilts

Nana

Well, I have blocks for a baby quilt spread out on the living room floor. Actually pulled them out to work on over a week ago, but haven't got far. I t would only take an afternoon to finish it, but I never have a full afternoon. They are actually flannel block that were given to me by a neighbor that moved away. A project she just never got around to finishing. Bright flannel prints (from Walmart) stitched together with batting an black flannel by an X through the middle. When I decided I needed to pull something out that I could work on a few minutes at a time, this project was on top of the pile, and I thought it would be good to work on something fast. However, with all the excitement of QI health problems and buying an acreage, I am now behind on so many other things, the quilt is back on hold. Maybe today I will be able to catch up on housework, laundry, books (GST report and year end). DH has plans that should keep him out of my hair for most of the day. I gotta get off here if I want to sew.

Have a happy Sunday quilting!

Marilyn in Alberta, Canada

Will remember this idea - I think it would need thinking about from the beginning - would also need fabric which had the dye going both sides - perhaps batiks and quite a large design like a stained glass window has, and perhaps block biding on both sides to cover the seams/look like lead.

The Starry Night one will be of 6" swapped blocks - so lots of tiny pieces, so I think it will have to be of normal construction.

Thanks for the suggestion though - it has been filed in my 'Ideas' folder.

I just finished getting 293 copies of my guild's newsletter ready for mailing; that's quilty isn't it? I'm also preparing the batting for a couple of baby quilts that I want to get quilted this week. They are for friends that just had babies, so want to get them done and given away. And I'm eating pink "breast cancer" M&M's :)

Julia > I have cut out the fabric and paper for my paper pieced Starry, Starry

I am in need of table toppers for my end tables and my dining table. So I rooted thru my stash and found a few matching things, and of course, had to buy a few others. VBG. They will be simply made in small 3" squares and put on the diagonal in a square so that it mimics the Around the World" design but I' m calling mine, "Across the Country" since the colors don't go around the center square. Happily quilting again, and loving it. Also got the top put together for my daughter-in-law in Calif. and ready to take to my neighbor's mother who has a mid-arm quilting machine. I didn't want to take the chance on it at this time. Anyhow, happy quilting everyone.

Marlys in Indiana

Happily hand piecing my black, white and red tumbling block baby quilt! I hung the batting on the wall and have started placing blocks on it to get an overall feel for it as well as show my progress as I go. It's looking great so far! I have 18 blocks done and on the wall so far!

Have also been gathering ideas for handquilting a WUH - or deciding whether I should just MQ it and say that's good enough.

Had a little S.E.X. at Joann's last weekend. A new cutting mat was definitely in order! Also picked up one of those chalk mechanical pencils and a six pack of Sulky thread to try. Never worked with rayon thread before, as I tend to use cotton thread only. It was so cheap I just had to try it though! Now I just have to figure out what I am going to try it on!

Dannielle

Sally Sw> I have cut out the fabric and paper for my paper pieced Starry, Starry

I was quilting my UFO from 1994, but my machine exploded. Ok, not literally but it made a bad clunking sound and then I got an error message that the manual translated as "take it to your dealer".

sigh

marcella teaching hand quilting tomorrow

I just finished 64 half log cabin blocks, and have started assembling the quilt top. I've been teaching the two bag method of making them to my group here in Florida. (Light strips in one bag and dark in another). Some of them are trying to make coordinating blocks, but reaching into the bag for the next strip stops that (usually!) This is the first time I have taught a method without a planned project, so a few people are confused. I wanted them to think about using all their leftovers before they get buried in them (like me!) VBG

Almost finished quilting a baby-size scrap quilt (Jessamy's design from the Lena magazine, slightly adapted), have 2 more scrap quilts cut and waiting. Roberta in D

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ohhh...... this I wanna see!!!!

Well, I'm working on more Blankets of Hope for SOldiers Angels as well as getting motivated on 2 stained glass banner projects (Hope and Faith). I have the "h" and "o" all finished and waiting for batting and backing....but I won't do that until the rest is ready. However, I don't think that will happen soon as we have a lovely layer of ice, about 1/4" thick all over everything, DH won't let me go out in it, and I am nearly out of black fusible bias tape. At least I can get all the little pieces fused to the foundation, right??

Um...other than that, just catching up on household stuff and reading the vacuum thread wiht interest as we will probably have to get a new one soon...along with a new washing machine .

Larisa