Design Wall Monday, April 8, 2013

My design wall has a strip on it. It's for my Starlit Evening quilt and it's for the final border. It's going to take a while to get enough for the border. It goes on three sides for the queen size.

One of the reasons I haven't finished the stripe is because I am quilting the quilt for my nephew who was married over the summer.

I actually had two nephews that were married over the summer about a year apart...both belonging to my sister, Robin.

I'm using my old faithful "Svanes Swirl" pattern, lol.

Make sure and stop by to see what everyone else is up to.

Hope you're having a quilty day!

Progress on Starlit Evening

I have had several people ask how this quilt goes together.

It goes together in rows.

I especially love where the blocks come together and make a hexie with three different fabrics.

And here's a picture with the quilt on my new design wall that I hope to show you in a future post. It was easy to construct and VERY inexpensive. Also, it's very portable.

Now, I just need to get the borders on. There's a couple of white borders and a pieced border utilizing the fabrics from the quilt. LOVE it!

Hope you have a quilty day!

Kiddos In the Morning

I thought I would give you an idea of what it's like at my house in the morning.

Here are my four kiddos waking up.

Olivia goes to public school, so she's headed out on the bus, but the other kids are homeschooled and so they get to wake up a little slower.

Mariah wrapped in her quilt I made her.

Sophi coming up the steps

Heading out for the bus

My son waking up

How do your kiddos wake up?

Design Wall Monday, April 1, 2013

Happy April Fools Day!!!

On my design wall this morning is my Starlit Evening quilt. I'm about half finished piecing the middle!

I'll still have the borders to finish when I'm done here.

Make sure that you check out what everyone else is up to at Judy's.

Have a quilty day!

Get It Done - April 2013

I didn't make goals for March, but I want to make some goals for April.

My four goals for this month are:

1. Labels on all finished donation quilts and GET THEM DONATED!
2. Bind Pink Lemonade Quilt
3. Binding on Todd's Quilt
4. Baste and quilt Brock's Quilt

That should keep me busy!

A Good Start on Starlit Evening

I have a good start on my Starlit Evening quilt. I think it will be the quilt that my hubby and I FINALLY share, lol. We both sleep under our own bedding right now. He has a down comforter, and I sleep under my old faithful first quilt (well, the one that I count as my first quilt).

Here it is laid out on the floor. Please excuse the icky carpet and all the stuff on the floor, lol.

I just have a few more blocks to go and then I'll rearrange them all so the red is distributed around evenly.

I REALLY like the way it's turning out.

What I'm Working On

I haven't blogged in SO long and I've been busy, busy, busy!

I went to two weekend quilting getaways since January.

The first one was in beautiful Medora, and the second one, a few weeks ago, was in Minot.

I took classes from a wonderful local teacher and also a national teacher, Pat Speth of Nickel Quilts fame. She does ALL her quilts from 5" squares. It's amazing what she can do with a 5" square!!

Here's the quilt I started at her class and then finished to the floppy stage.

This is a quilt called Labor Day Stars and it was pretty fun!

And here's a picture of the quilt that I'm working on now from Heather Anka's book, Living Large 2. There are some wonderful quilts in there, and this is the one I'm working on now.

I hope to finish the half-sections today and maybe start putting it together this evening at Stitchin' Sisters.

Can't wait!

Studio Confessions

My studio is a mess! I'm a really messy person by nature, so it's not surprising.

I would like to show you what a mess my studio is and I hope it will motivate me to get it organized.

Should I make this a regular post?

How can you even concentrate????

I need to dedicate one day a week to organizing my studio. Don't you think?

Anyone have any suggestions?

A Finish and a Floppy

I had a finish yesterday! WooHoo!


This quilt is one I'm doing for my Quilted Table Yahoo Group. If you would like to join a group that has a monthly challenge, you're welcome. We do lots of table toppers, banners, place-mats, etc.

Obviously, this is a Valentine table topper, but I'm going to give it to my MIL. Her birthday is Valentine's Day and also, she and my FIL are allowing the Stitchin' Sisters to use the hunting lodge for our retreat this week end.

Oh my gosh, I'm SOOOOOO excited! I hope that I get a lot accomplished!

This morning, I also put together this floppy. As you can see, London felt the need to "inspect" my work.

She then felt the need to "inspect" it more closely and vigorously.

I also did a test block for that triangle quilt that I'm wanting to start.

So pretty!

How are you all doing in the New Year? I'm feeling really productive so far!

Design Wall Monday, January 14, 2013

On my design wall this morning is a block that I made out of smaller Butterfly Blocks I'm making for a swap.

I think the block turned out cute. This block will be added to a WHOLE LOT of other 1930s orphan blocks to make an orphan block quilt for donation. Can't wait to get working on that one!

I also cut out some triangles last night from some hand-dyed fabrics that I've had FOREVER. It feels so good to use up pretty fabric that you've had for a long time in your stash.

The triangles are for this quilt that I saw in a magazine.

I can't wait to get it done. Maybe I'll work on it at retreat this weekend.

Make sure that you check out what everyone else is up to at Judy's and Have a Quilty Day!