Prepping pillow cases

Working with folks in MAPS to create cases for Old Colony Y. Working on my samples

I feel complete!

All projects for the guild are done!  One child size quilts (binding hand sewn) and 15 pillow cases in total.  Feels good

Alterations!

Had a good challenge altering a bridesmaid dress. Got to use for the first time the rolled hem foot!  A little nervous about it but all came out ok

Block of the month - 9 patch

Winner!  Yes I won block of the month plus the fat quarter drawing!!  I also got picked for the strip club but had them pull someone else. It was quite a lucky night!!!

Simple way to do a 9 patch block using 2 squares

Now to figure out what to make with them - maybe a springtime table runner?

Charity Baby Quilt - cowabunga!

Quilt top finally completed in the charity baby quilt!  Fell in love with the cow print but had a hard time using precut strips. Had to improvise.  Next how to quilt and bind!

Paper Pumpkin - Layers of Gratitude

Beautiful card kit for February. Nice to have it come automatically each month

Paper Pumpkin - Simply Snowflake

Craft of the day - this beautiful card and tag set. I just love snowflakes 

I love these kits because it comes with everything. Look at what it made

It even has some extra supplies - thinking of a scrapbook page for it

Unsewing....

Block of the month is getting the best of me. Have now had to unsew 3 times. It definitely is a learning experience having to undo and redo. 

Block of the month - Christmas Ornament

Completed block - came out better than I thought it would

Block of the Month - Flying Geese

The Evening Tides Quilt Guild is doing a block of the month challenge.  Each month a new block will be provided with materials and instructions for the guild members to create the block.  Then the blocks are raffled off to the guild members who participated to get all of the blocks to make something.

Septembers block of the month is flying geese here's an example of the block that I created along with the instructions.

The no waste method was confusing at first but then easy to do.   Try it out and let me know what you think!

New addition to my collection

One of the members of Shining Tides had a Singer Featherweight she was using for a demo. What a fantastic machine - very straight forward, well made and portable. This weekend at the Tri-Town flea market in Marshfield, I found one!!  Here is the new addition to my family - now the challenge is figuring out the bobbin (been spoiled with my drop in bobbin)

Shining Tides

I joined Shining Tides Quilt Guild.  Want to get some motivation and inspiration around my quilting. Very excited to be part of a quilt community 

First meeting I won the March Strip Club! Aquamarine and beige are the color pallets with the 'Key to my Heart' pattern. Made 1 block already

Now there is a Quilt Show in June that the Guild is sponsoring. Recommended that each person submits 2 quilts!!  My first time ever to have my quilts in a show!  Talk about motivation to get my UFOs done!

So I submitted 'Vermont Windows'

And 'Colonial Square'

I have to now finish them (get backing, quilt, and bind). WOW I am gonna be busy!!!

Pillows complete

Completed project!

Trying something different

Decided to try something different. Found this inspiration at an antique shop

These pillows were cool so off to Savers for a mans sweater!  Merino extra fine wool.  Found 2 candidates

Got one done

Hard to square up but sewing went good- ball point needle 100/16, zigzag stitch, 3.0 stitch width.

Presser foot

Continuing to make the tree quilt but having again to deal with stretching fabric. Gives me a chance to fiddle with the presser foot settings to see if that helps

Holiday Lap Quilt

On to a new project!  I purchased this kit over 3 years ago in St Johnsbury. 

Not going scrappy - here are the fabrics I am going to use 

Green for tree

The moose fabric just caught my eye

Reds for the border

Flannel will be so soft and warm

Will make a good size lap quilt

T-shirt Quilt Complete

It is finally completed. Some machine quilting, some tying. No batting. Ahhhhh feels good to complete it!

A number of great lessons from this project. Not sure if I will do another anytime soon - need to recover from this one

Lesson learned....

As I got past the challenges with stitching the quilt, I realized a big mistake - place batting in wrong place so when I went to turn quilt right side out, batting was on the outside!

I think this was a blessing because the dorm is so hot that batting is not needed. A pain because I cut off all the batting, which left a white border.  Now the challenge is to trim without cutting the quilt

Tshirt Quilt almost done

Been a while since I posted. Walked away from project for a while but I am back on it. Decided to tie it off to finish and 1/2 way done. Will have for Nick this weekend and will post picture 

Next small project is a mug rug - joined Crafsty.com and saw these cute items to make - looks simple and give me a chance to practice quilting techniques.

Stretch my patience

My quilt lay there, on top if the sewing machine where I left it. Has to walk away (actually told to walk away). The stretch of the fabric making it hard to sew.  So it shall sit for a while then I will try again