My Big Fat Winter Stitching List: The Moment of Truth!

Last October I decided to link up with FairyFace Design Winter Stitching List. Sew the big question is...How did I do??? Did I even dent my Big, Fat, Overly Ambitious List????

WINTER SEWING LIST

1. Hip to be square (FMQ Sampler), FINISHED!!!!

2. Cubic rhythm, FINISHED!!!!

3. Mermaid pillows - FINISHED plus two more!

4. Purple heart wall hanging,  - On hold until June!

5. Table runner, FINISHED!

6. Christmas stockings - FINISHED - 17 Stockings!!!!

7. Two iPad covers -FINISHED

8. Two doggie mats - FINISHED

9. New wave quilt - NOT STARTED

10. Expanding possibilities, Back is pieced, quilt is basted

Front

Back

11. Potholders (several) - FINISHED - 4 sets of potholders, 2 oven mitts, 6 embroidered hand towels

12. FMQ Friday's at Fluffy Sheep Quilting - I participated in FMQ Fridays until the end in December! Since then, I am participating in Leah Day's QAL Wednesdays, Quokka Quilts QAYGFMQQAL, and SewCalGal's Free Motion Quilt Challenge.

January's Sew Cal Gal Challenge

February's Sew Cal Gal Challenge

March's Sew Cal Gal Challenge

Leah Day's QAL Wednesday homework

Leah Day's QAL Wednesday wholecloth project homework

Leah Day's QAL Wednesday final stippling project homework

Quokka Quilts - QAYGFMQQAL

13. WIP Wednesday's at Freshly Pieced - I have participated each week Lee has had it open.

14. Try New Things (TNT) Thursday's at Happy Quilting - I have only missed 3 weeks.

  Here are a couple of projects from TNT!

Gothic pin cushion made from 4 charm squares

Gothic Windows - made from 3 jelly roll strips

15. FLMQG solids challenge crib quilt - 2 out of 9 blocks completed

16. Friend's baby quilt - FINISHED
 

17. Purple Ohio star quilts - Although I switched to a different set of orphaned blocks, I created my Storybook quilt which is almost complete. Just need to finish quilting the borders, trim and bind!

Phew, I did more than I thought! I would say that I put a big dent in my Big Fat Winter Stitching List!!!

Also linking up with Fabric Tuesday at Quilt Story! 


Color Me Quilty!

Pat

WIP Wednesday # 7: Motoring Along

If I were ever in a race, I would be the tortoise, not the hare. I did get a few finishes and work on a few more, but I'm moving slowly.

My step-daughter has two little terrier/chihuahua crosses and she does a lot of obedience training classes with them. She wanted some training mats for them, so I have the first one ready for binding.

I had fun FMQing a few flowers.

All ready for binding

 I also started and finished 2 sets of wonky potholders.

 I finished the last 2 Christmas stocking (for my husband and me). Shown here hanging on the mantel with our Corgi's stocking (which was completed before ours). I gave away 14 stockings to family members on Thanksgiving. I made 17 Christmas stockings this month! Phew, glad that's done!

I finished up this table runner, just in time to use it for Thanksgiving.







Sew all in all, a fairly productive week. Now that I have my good machine back from being repaired, I can finish up some quilting.

So the stats for the week:

In-process: (5)
Hip to be Square FMQ sampler (still at 14 out of 30 blocks quilted)
Cubic Rhythm ( still 1/4 quilted)
Purple heart wall hanging (nope)
Expanding Possibilities quilt (nope)
Turtle pillow - (need to quilt and assemble).

New projects in the cue to start: (3)
FLMQG solids challenge crib quilt (Not started)
New Wave quilt (not started)
Friend's baby quilt - fabric picked out!

Projects completed this week: (9)
2 sets of wonky potholders started and completed.
Table runner
Last 2 Christmas stocking completed
Free-Motion practice samples - Superstar- linked up at Fluffy Sheep Quilting this was the last week :(  Machine quilting class at Quilters Corner.

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

Color Me Quilty!


Pat

Making Christmas Progress: Hung by the Chimney with Care!

Oh my, Christmas is coming at high speed, less than 4 weeks. While I still have a lot of stitching to do between now and then, I am making progress on my Christmas sewing list.

Stockings for my husband, myself and of course Humphrey Bogart (our Corgi).

Modern, wonky potholders!

Technically this was for Thanksgiving, but it's still festive!

 The best news is that I may be getting my big sewing machine back from being fixed (fingers and toes crossed)! This will let me free motion quilt a lot of the projects on the list!

Making Christmas List:
1. Quilt and bind my Cubic Rhythm quilt - (4 1/2 more blocks, plus borders) - No Progress this week!
2. Mermaid pillows
3. Purple Heart Wall-hanging - no progress

4. At least 4 Christmas stockings - All 17 stockings completed. All given out at Thanksgiving!

5. 2 iPad covers - 3 Spines embroidered - I work at a Chiropractic College and these are for co-workers - no progress this week

6. At least 6 potholders - 4 completed!

7. 2 doggie mats - embroidered - no progress this week

8. 2 pillows for friends embroidered - 1 pillow top and back ready to quilt. 

9. Several last minutes ideas that I haven't thought of yet! - Table runner for Thanksgiving!

I'll be linking up with Janine over at Rainbow Hare Quilts for Making Christmas List and Megan at Canoe Ridge for Sew Modern Monday!

 

Color Me Quilty!

Pat

Thanksgiving Yummies!

I have so much to be thankful for, wonderful family and friends, a warm home and really good food! The Christmas stockings I made for everyone were a big hit, especially with my grandsons.

My Taddy Bear getting a good look at his stocking!

I live in a part of the country were the food quality is outstanding. Fresh, free-range turkey, organically grown potatoes, and among other things homemade cranberry chutney. I have to share my cranberry chutney creation, because I just fell in love with this and can seem to get enough!

Cranberry Chutney
1 bag fresh cranberries
1 handful of dried, sweetened cranberries
1 orange (zest and flesh diced)
1 apple peeled and diced
1/2 large sweet onion diced
1 cup orange juice
1 1/4 cup sugar
Butter (enough for saute the onions)
Salt and pepper

In a sauce pan, add everything (except for the onions, butter, salt and pepper), place over medium/high heat (you may need to reduce heat to a simmer).

At the same time, in a saute pan, add onions and butter, salt and pepper to taste. Saute until soft and translucent. Add to cranberries.

Continue to cook cranberry mixture until thickened (about 45 minutes total). Serve warm or cold.

Even my husband, who doesn't like cranberries relish, liked this. Delicious on leftover corn muffins. Yummy.

Enough of this cooking, I'm off to quilt!


Color Me Quilty!

Pat

WIP Wednesday # 6: Marching on to Christmas

I feel like Christmas is marching toward me at high speed. I'm not sure I will get everything done I want to, but I am making progress. I decided that I really want to use this table runner tomorrow, so last night I found some nice purple in my stash and made the binding and got it sewed on the top. My goal today is to sew it down (I'm going to attempt to sew it by machine).

I'm really pleased with how well the binding matches!

This week, I also finished 15 Christmas Stockings...Yippee only 2 more to go!

I also worked on this pillow.

Sew all in all, a fairly productive week. I do have plans to sew this weekend, so hopefully I will have lots of stuff to cross off the list next week.

So the stats for the week:

In-process: (9)
Hip to be Square FMQ sampler (still at 14 out of 30 blocks quilted)
Cubic Rhythm ( still 1/4 quilted)
Table runner (Binding made and sewn on!)
Purple heart wall hanging (nope)
Expanding Possibilities quilt (nope)
Free-Motion practice samples (H20- linked up at Fluffy Sheep Quilting)
2 more Christmas Stockings  need to finish.
Turtle pillow - Top done

New projects in the cue to start: (3)
FLMQG solids challenge crib quilt (Not started)
New Wave quilt (not started)
Friend's baby quilt - fabric picked out!

Projects completed this week: (15)
15 Christmas stocking completed

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

 

In the U.S., Thanksgiving is tomorrow, and I just wanted to take a minute to tell you all how thankful I am to have found such a warm and accepting community of quilters and bloggers. You all really make my day, everyday.


Color Me Quilty!

Pat