WIP Wednesday

Well at least I've done enough quilting this week to share my progress on WIP Wednesday. Maybe I am getting back in the quilting groove.

I now have all nine blocks for my Layers quilt basted, ready to quilt (QAYG).

I also got half of Grandma's quilt quilted.

It may be slow progress, but it IS progress. And after all, it IS summer.

Here are this week's stats:
In-process: (4)
Express Your Love
Layers quilt
Grandma's Quilt
Charming Squares Quilt
 
New projects: (0)

Finished (0)


I'm linking up with  Freshly Pieced for WIP Wednesday!

 

Color Me Quilty!

Pat

Layering My Layers Quilt

I've had a serious quilter's block this summer, but I think I'm finally ready to quilt my Layers quilt. So yesterday I started measuring and marking my blocks, so they will line up and then basting them. This will be done as a QAYG (quilt-as-you-go) quilt.

 As you can see my blocks weren't quite centered, but I think they will all line up in the end after they are trimmed. It looks like they will measure 20" x 20" when they are done.  I will have quite wide sashing in between all the blocks.

 I was able to get five of the nine blocks marked and basted. Hopefully tonight I can get a few more done. It's due the end of August. YIKES!  I need to get cracking!

Color Me Quilty!

Pat

Plugging Along on Grandma's Quilt

I seem to be a bit lazy about quilting this summer. It's hard when you live on a lake and you only get about 3 months of summer, people gravitate to your house leaving little time to quilt. And of course I do work full time. Okay, enough whining, on to quilting.

I have been quilting on my Grandma's quilt, but it's a bit repetitive and difficult to show on line.

 I've got it about half quilted. The rows of flowers take about 45 minutes or better to quilt and I'm also quilting the cross lines on the squares.

The back, showing the squares.

I'm linking up today with Leah Day for FMQ Friday, can't wait to see what everyone's been up to this week.

Color Me Quilty!

Pat

WIP Wednesday

I'm not quite sure why some quilters are so afraid to FMQ. Just quilt on printed fabrics, you'll never see your mistakes. You'll never see your quilting for that matter!  I just started FMQ my Grandma's quilt. I had thought how cool it would be to quilt this flower design from Lori @ the Inbox Jaunt on the rows, but it's really hard to see it.

The design is not just a swirl, it's actually a flower. I know it's hard to see in the pictures, it's hard to see in person.

You can see it a little better from the back.

Well, I guess that's why I love solids! But I do love Grandma's quilt.

I did finish up my Charming Squares quilt top late last week.

Now this will be a fun quilt to quilt.

Here are this week's stats:
In-process: (4)
Express Your Love
Layers quilt
Grandma's Quilt
Charming Squares Quilt
 
New projects: (0)

Finished (0)


I'm linking up with  Freshly Pieced for WIP Wednesday!

 

Color Me Quilty!

Pat

Charming Squares Quilt Top

Yippee! I finished my Charming Squares quilt top.  I had such a nice day yesterday, O'Susannah's Quilt Shop to pick up some more grey, lunch at the Stonecat Cafe with my husband and finished a quilt top. Today it's back to work, staycation over - UGH!

Now I just need to figure out what I want for the back and how I want to quilt it.

Happy Thursday!

Color Me Quilty!

Pat

WIP Wednesday

Sometimes I just feel like working on a project just for fun and this week I decided to go with the flow. I started a new quilt, just because!  I wanted to work on something easy.

Charming Squares quilt

I had some 6"x6" squares of Wrenly and added some solids squares with a slate grey 6" sashing. Unfortunately, I ran out of the slate, so I'll have to run to the quilt store to pick up a few more yards. Gee, don't you just hate having to go back to a quilt shop (said no quilter EVER)!

I also finished up this cute little pillow this week, made from an orphan block.

Front

Back

Here are this week's stats:
In-process: (3)
Express Your Love
Layers quilt
Grandma's Quilt
 

New projects: (1)
Charming Squares Quilt

Finished (1)
Pillow

I'm linking up with  Freshly Pieced for WIP Wednesday!

 

Color Me Quilty!

Pat

HELLO!!!! I'm BACK!

I have been struggling with trying to keep up everything going on in my life at the moment and I'm afraid blogging has taken a bit of a backseat. I have gotten a little sewing done, yesterday I finished this little pillow.

 I created this from a block that I made over a year ago. I realized that I had a pillow form almost the exact size. So I quilted up the front, pieced together a back and VOILA' !  I added a little detail in the corners, kind of a mod design (at least in my mind).

Anyway, hopefully I'll get a chance to blog a little more regularly for now on.

Color Me Quilty!

Pat