Fresh Sewing Day December

Wow, last month of the year (and last month forever, if you believe the crazy Mayan Calendar interpretation). I wish my November work was a little more impressive, if that's the case, but at least I finished a quilt this month!

1. Flag/Buffalo Bills pillow
2. Storybook #2 quilt
3. Embroidered Towels (with cool spines)
4. Expanding Possibilities quilt - Yippee, it's done!
5. FMQ in pods for my Pods Pillow

I'm linking up today with Lily's Quilts for Fresh Sewing Day December!

Color Me Quilty!

Pat

P.S. For those of you in the Ithaca area, we have our second Ithaca Modern Quilt Guild meeting tomorrow at Quilters Corner from 1:00-3:00 p.m.

Traveling Miles On a Quilt!

The on-going saga of FMQing my Expanding Possibilities quilt. Are you getting tired of seeing the same quilt, week after week??  I'm getting tired of stitching the same quilt week after week. I'm on my third spool of Isacord thread, they're a thousand meters each. That's 2.5 kilometers or about 1.5 miles of thread! The quilt is only about 52"x 72", that's a lot of thread! But the good news is that I now can see the end, although it's been a great quilt to practice on for my Leah Day homework.

Large scale Matrix

I practiced some swirls in a row as part of my November SoCalGal FMQ Challenge and some fun bouncy paisley, just 'cause!

Maybe next week I'll have this quilt completed and you can start looking at a whole new quilt!

I did actually start and finish a little project this week, a pillow for my grandson's birthday.

Flag front

Buffalo Bills fleece back.

I gave this to him on Sunday and he carried it around everywhere! I feel great that he liked it. It sure made this gramma feel good!

My stats for the week:
In-process: (4)
Purple heart wall hanging  (quilting and binding)
Expanding Possibilities quilt (Continuing to quilt)
Elephant quilt
Storybook quilt # 2 - All embroidery is done, plain blocks are cut and white border. Backs are cut.

New projects: (1)
Flag pillow

Finished (1)
Flag pillow
 
I'm linking up with  Freshly Pieced for WIP Wednesday and The Free Motion Quilting Project for QAL Wednesday

Color Me Quilty!

Pat

A Birthday Pillow

My grandson's birthday is this week, he's turning six. Gosh, how time flies. But one thing has remained constant throughout his young life, he LOVES American flags! He has loved them since he teeny tiny. If you recall, I made him a flag quilt, that he loved, but was unfortunately ruined. I don't have time to make him a whole new quilt right now, so I thought the next best thing was a pillow.

I quilted it with just some simple curvy lines

The Buffalo Bills are his favorite team so I used some Bills fleece on the back

I've never used fleece before, but I really would love to use it on some quilt backs in the future. I did struggle with it a bit, it wanted to shift and stretch. The biggest problem was the button holes. The kept getting all wadded up in the feed dogs. So I added a bit of tear away stabilized, worked beautifully.

 Now I'm all set to host his birthday breakfast tomorrow morning. Mmmm, waffles with fruit and of course lots of bacon!

Color Me Quilty!

Pat

P.S. Thank you to everyone who supported me at the Bloggers Quilt Festival. I didn't win, but I sure did have a good time!