Time to check in!

Love that wall hanging, Kate! I can't wait to see it in your colors.

I have a red/white/black quilt on the machine to be quilted and I need to start creating a wall hanging for my DSIL to give to her brother for Christmas and a quilt in my DGD's school colors for Christmas. As soon as I can (hopefully this afternoon) I'll be working on those two (the red/white/black isn't high on my priority list - the other two are more important). I haven't done much at all for the past week - some virus-y thing invaded my system and took hold, but I'm feeling much better today, so I'm looking forward to working on them.

I need to stitch a quilt in quiet gentle pastels, because? Just finished is a Red Dog crib quilt and also a zoo animals quilt sashed in tomato red; on the design wall is an aquarium of rowdy fish sashed in lime and then bubbles of bright blue. What Are Little Girls Made Of? from the Emma Louise and Ethan Michael collection will probably come next. Those prints are just as soft as a rose petal and I'm tired of having to apply sunscreen to quilt. Polly

"Louise in Iowa" > Love that wall hanging, Kate! I can't wait to see it in your colors.

I finished a baby quilt for the ex's daughter- she gave him a baby grandson on Sept. 4. Pic of the folded quilt and my coiled fabric bowls are posted in another thread. I LOVE making those bowls and am having fun thinking up variations to make each one individual.

On the quilting front, my son just moved into an apartment with the ho-hum off white walls and deep beige carpet... and his new sofa is mud brown. He's always wanted a salt water/reef fish tank, so I am making a colorful wallhanging for him that will appear like you are looking at a salt water tank. I hope it turns out as cool as the picture in my mind.... VBG

And, of course, I always have the required vast number of UFOs begging to be finished.

Someday.

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

Hmmm, maybe you need to work a deal with Polly - sounds like her "aquarium of rowdy fish sashed in lime and then bubbles of bright blue" might give you some ideas for your son's wallhanging!

Makes my head spin to think about it:

1) The Quilt Show BOM by Sue Garman - Nov. and Dec. yet to do 2) Machine quilt my Carol Doak scenic BOM from her Yahoo group (it's in progress 3) Machine quilt last year's Carol Doak BOM - it isn't even layered yet 4) Finish machine quilting a sewing themed wall-hanging 5) Finish machine quilting a July 4th mystery quilt 6) Layer and machine quilt a do-it-yourself round robin quilt

They aren't all on my sewing table or in my lap, but they're on a table right next to the sewing machine!

I should quit mak>What project is on your sewing table... in your machine or in your lap >right now.

I just finished a twin-size Tree Everlasting quilt top, plus backing. It just took four days and is very pretty, so I'm feeling clever! I just finished cutting the patchwork for a matching pillow. I'll buy the batting and start machine-quilting on Monday. (I have new presser feet!)

The infamous satin-and-taffeta quilt top remains folded and waiting for my confidence to quilt it. I will get around to cutting the backing soon.

I have pulled out some floral and solid calicos for ironing and starching, and will start cutting it for a full-size quilt in a Churn Dash pattern. I'm debating whether to sash it.

I have stopped working on the sampler I started a while back. Too many gumption traps.

I have calculated my fabric needs for a king-size Welsh quilt with a Brecon Star medallion. I was trying to buy the fabric on-line from JoAnn today, but the website glitches nearly drove me to tears, so I've put it aside for now. Maybe I'll shop for fabric on Monday, if Hobby Lobby has a good sale and/or coupon. I just can't face any more websites right now.

I have started calculating the fabric needs for a full-size St. Louis block quilt. I am really intrigued by how this block looks when pieced. And it's all easy strip-set piecing (famous last words).

Too many projects? I think not. I keep thinking about what an RCTQ participant said a while back about having various projects going all the time, each at different stages, so when I'm feeling down I can pick up whichever one I feel like focussing on to forget my woes.

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I'm in the midst of a little session of hospital and hospice quilts. I'll be seeing the co-ordinator on Thursday, so I have had to speed up production (the meet-up wasn't planned! I've done on, and am hoping for four. They are unpieced - just panels or lovely fabric. . In message , Kate in MI writes

Literally in the machine - one of the Carol Doak's BOM scenic squares being quilted. I have the 12 done but instead of putting them in a quilt I'm doing 4 calendar wall hangings to cover an interior window (Narrow

17" wide x 36 long between the hall and the kitchen). For the autumn one I've done a bright maple leaf design panel and put a plain dark green backing on.

Then I'm going to put the October, November, December blocks on the plain side a la Jean Wells

'Portaits in a garden' but mine will be portrait orientation instead of landscape. By chance when I was browsing the past progs. on the Quilt Show Site I revisited her section in the first series, and the idea just hit me. Her plain background is heavily quilted with grasses and flowers. I would like this finished by the end of Oct. so I can get the Jan. Feb. March one started, which is going to include a small panel I bought ages ago of a wintery scene for the kitchen side. The Spring panel will be appliqued flowers, and the summer one a seaside theme. Also waiting to be quilted is a Christmas table runner, a Christmas Tree quilt I originally did from scraps meaning it to be a backing, but then decided I liked it too much to be a backing, a small Christmas panel, 2 strip sampler lap quilts and my starry night. I am hand quilting the European Swap from a couple of years ago, so that will take ages.

What else? An applique panel for the guest room to go with the almost completed but stuck sampler quilt, a cut out applique silly cats in hats wall hanging, a cut out 4 cats sitting on steps. Oh yes, my Bird of Paradise quilt I am hand piecing. All the blocks are done, and I'm just putting them together. I'm not rishing it as I enjoy doing it.

I've just finished a winter bag and a baby quilt for a friend's first grandchild. Baby due at Christmas, but the quilt is safely parcelled up ready.

So I'd better go and do a bit more to that little block thats sitting in the machine waiting embellishment and wondering where I've gone! I'm having fun with it.

Sally at the Seaside~~~~~~~~~~~~~uk

Kate > What project is on your sewing table... in your machine or in your lap > right now.

I'm feeling very productive at the moment. Finally got all the pinwheel blocks finished that surround the larger paper pieced blocks of the Christmas Pickle class I took earlier this year. Got them all sewn onto the larger blocks so I'm at a point I can put it away for a bit while I get moving on other things with actual deadlines. Since I now have room on the cutting table I was able to cut, piece, iron and pin the binding on the king sized quilt to be delivered in April. I'll be able to sew that onto the quilt either tomorrow or Mon. I'm also hand-quilting a queen sized quilt also for delivery in April. I am through the middle from one end to the other on that one. Not bad considering I started that mid-Sept. Bought the fabric for my niece's commissisoned quilt the other day. Will start washing/ironing that beginning of the week and will start slicing and dicing that shortly thereafter. No specific deadline on that one but hopefully before the weather gets warm again! Also have my LQS BOM going. And another quilt, don't even know the size, that a friend decided she hated and has given me to finish quilting. I will probably then end up alternating between the Christmas pickle and the donated quilt once the king and queens due in April are done.

Kim in NJ

This is a wonderful thread :-)

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Nothing right now tho I should work on Christmas gifts. I think I will print foundations to make 2 blocks to go with some swap blocks I received recently.

Is the 4th of July one early or late? LOL Sounds like you have been busy. Taria "Carole-Retired and Loving It" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

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I found a beautiful new baby quilt at a thrift store with 9 large embroidered blocks, each with an animal on it. The embroidery is splendid, the sashing and quilting awful. It was 5 or 6 dollars and I thought, I'll buy it and take it apart, salvage the animal blocks and re-make them into a new quilt. So, Iast time I was in the sewing room I started to take it apart. Then a virus of some sort hit and I've been down for the last several days. How frustrating, to want to sew, and not feel good enough to do it!

I had finished up a cute little baby quilt for my hairdresser with lots of little zoo animals on it in a nine patch pattern. I took it to her the beginning of the week before I got sick, and she was so thrilled with it. I don't know who got more satifaction from it, her or me. I kind of think me. Donna

Listening to your list makes me feel "normal" Kate. :-) Lucky DH. The St. Mark's Wall-hanging is fabulous! Can't wait to see your black, white, and green version.

At the sewing machine, I'm stitching blocks together for a quilt for a friend. Actually, I'm making two quilts--one for the friend and one for her DH. Her DH's top is pieced except for the outer border. I kind of regard these two quilts as one project since they will be given to them at the same time.

As for handwork, I'm cutting and piecing as I go another scrappy sunburst pattern (at least that's what I call the block--same block as in my Lady Liberty quilt). And since I'm going through the scraps for the sunburst quilt, I'm also cutting for a scrappy Drunkard's, but I'm not piecing it yet.

Yesterday morning, I spray basted my scrappy star, and as soon as it's cool enough that I can hold it on my lap, I will start hand-quilting it (which means I'll have to put the above handwork project(s) away)

In my closet, I have two finished tops (Sister's Choice and black, white, and red) that need to be sandwiched and quilted, and another top that I'm still piecing. Interrupted myself on this one when I decided to make the pair of quilts for my friend and her DH.

Now I'm off to see how crazy..uh.., I mean productive everyone else is. :-)

Best regards, Michelle in Nevada

Carole D. - Retired and loving it in the foothills of NW Georgia

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Sent off the baby quilt for my niece's soon-to-be little one [a girl they say, better be based on the colors of this one just sent!], the top for the baby quilt for my cop friend and his wife is ready to be sandwiched and tied [flannel backing washed and cut, batting cut and read], fabrics picked out for the third baby quilt.

Going to start a mini quilt project soon, that will hang on one of the table top display stands. Too many ideas running inside my head to pick one first.

G> What project is on your sewing table... =A0in your machine or in your lap > right now.

Oh, that's going to be so pretty!

What a fun thread! I've been short of time lately, but I did finish a little crazy block started in a class on how to do silk ribbon embroidery by machine. I'm in the middle of machine quilting a mini TATW, and I still haven't finished two projects from last summer's quilt camp. One is going to be hand quilted, but I'm debating designs to surround the appliqué, and the other is a landscape that needs to be embellished -- my downfall. I just can't get excited about beading and so on. :(

I need to make a block for the outgoing chair of our quilting group, and I also need to get something made for the outgoing president of the guild. I'll be taking another class in January (Melinda Bula), for which I should get a top done so I can do the thread painting I'll be learning.

My tai chi instructor is out of town, so I'm teaching several of her classes last week and early this week before leaving for Houston on Wednesday. Hmmm ... perhaps I should squeeze packing into the schedule somewhere? ;)

What does the Christmas Pickle quilt look like? Is it the Pickle Dish pattern? Or is it a 'realistic looking pickle'?

Thanks Butterfly (needing to acquire a Pickle for a gift--and NOT a jar of edible pickles either)

I'm feeling very productive at the moment. Finally got all the pinwheel blocks finished that surround the larger paper pieced blocks of the Christmas Pickle class I took earlier this year. Got them all sewn onto the larger blocks so I'm at a point I can put it away for a bit while I get moving on other things with actual deadlines. Since I now have room on the cutting table I was able to cut, piece, iron and pin the binding on the king sized quilt to be delivered in April. I'll be able to sew that onto the quilt either tomorrow or Mon. I'm also hand-quilting a queen sized quilt also for delivery in April. I am through the middle from one end to the other on that one. Not bad considering I started that mid-Sept. Bought the fabric for my niece's commissisoned quilt the other day. Will start washing/ironing that beginning of the week and will start slicing and dicing that shortly thereafter. No specific deadline on that one but hopefully before the weather gets warm again! Also have my LQS BOM going. And another quilt, don't even know the size, that a friend decided she hated and has given me to finish quilting. I will probably then end up alternating between the Christmas pickle and the donated quilt once the king and queens due in April are done.

Kim in NJ