Sliding my...

OMG to be my Feb-Mar OMG!  Fingers crossed with that timeline too!

Okay, since I did so well with a few of my goals in the past 3 months I listed four projects that I wnt to be done with this month.  I just realized last night (I know, slow learner here!) that I won't be able to get them done as I'm heading to Florida for two plus weeks to visit with my Mom and sister who lives an hour or so away her.  Am bringing some of my Buttermilk Basin Homestead Hearth blocks to work on while I'm with her. 

The only project that proceeded along was quilting with my domestic on the community quilt for one of my guilds.  I "pulled the trigger" and finally decided how to quilt it and I'm loving it so far. 







TTFN, Off to pack my bags. 

See you next month. 

Jane

April and Q-2 2015 Goals

Slated for my April finish with A Lovely Year of Finishes will be the Tweet Camping Quilt.  It will be in May's quilt show and I need to get this one quilted to be totally finished.  

The white sections are quilted with circles.  Initially thought of naming this stacked and packed since that's the first order of business when going camping.  Those pebbles reminded me of Styrofoam peanuts.

The blue outside border is quilted with a meandered square and rectangle shapes.  

Only the Brown strips and bird fabric and those tippy inside boxes left to quilt.

Looking for ideas on how best to quilt this fabric.....Any ideas would really be appreciated! 

HELP!!!!

First up though is to finish the March's 40 Diamond quilt.
Today I will conquer 7 more colored sections.         Promise.


As for the Q2 challenge my selections are:

Tweet camping Quilt, pictured above

Mater Strip Quilt Top finished (hopefully quilted too!)

Top made of the BQ Woodland Fairies

Finish Lizzie Kate Winter Alphabet, this month!

60 degree bird table runner

Irish Patch-a-bilities wall hanging

Wool Heart candle mat

Summertime table runner for sofa table
Cut out Fox Quilt

Magic Eyes Bag

Fourth of July Pillow

A Patriotic Wall hanging

Echinacea Loop de Loop quilt pattern

Can I get a Whoot Hoot?   Am linking this up with Sarah at Confessions of a Fabric Addict.

I finished the Skinny Strips Quilt on Wednesday.  It's a free pattern available at All People Quilt and was easy to do.  It started as a community service day project at the guild in Glens Falls.  Instead of following the pattern next time with so much waste, I'd sew 2  WOF strips Colored band and background together end to end.  Then cut the background fabric at different locations to offset the colored bands throughout the quilt top all the while keeping the steady 79 - 80" long 2 jelly roll strip units to have a wider quilt.  Each unit finishes at 2" so you can multiply that number to gauge how long you want the quilt.  ie:  36 strips would be 72",   40 strips would be 80", etc....  This looks great with the sampling of different background fabrics both white and cream.

Found a nice print in my stash to use for the binding.

Quilted it with a LOOP de Loop Enchinacea design (my own concept) which improved immensely with practice on my domestic sewing machine.  It was quilted in vertical bands since the quilt layout was horizontal stripes , I thought it complemented the design better.  That design also allowed the quilting to nest somewhat together.   Used a Valdani Dusty Pinks & Blues for both the top and bottom threads.  It's a nice long Staple cotton that's a 35 wt and 3 ply thread which is a hand dyed Variegated.

Found these Quilter tips handy to use with out my hands getting too hot, I'll definitely be using these again. The larger Supreme Slider was also perfect and a huge help.  : )

It's a good size, 62" x 72",  a pretty nice size for a nap quilt.  

Another community Service quilt is totally done and will be turned in on Saturday.  Whoot hoot!

Though it's too late to add my linky with Shanna at Fiber of All Sorts,   I 'll be getting to my February goal of more quilting on the 40 diamonds quilt.  I have another idea spurning.  lol....    I hope I can get that second quilt done for a second finish towards the Q1 with AYLoF hosted by Adrianne, the wonderful quilter and conspirator extraordinaire.  Her blog is  On the Windy Side for the Q1 challenge and come April you can link up for the second quarter.

It's so cold here today -16 F  that with the wind chill they're saying it's like -30 F !
Lol,  Even the penguins would be dancing if they lived around here that is  to stay warm.  LOL
Copied the image from Sarah's blog when I saw it.  It's too cute!

Stay warm,
Jane

Design idea fermenting

I started my sea themed quilting idea for my current focus quilt. Am timidly starting with a couple of shells and some seaweed. They are not bad, but they are not great either. I will persue it as I see it in my head. This is a HUGE, GINORMOUS step for me.

Having fun with it anyway.

Jane

What am I thinking?!!!!!!

Of doing this in my borders......








I must be NUTS!

Jane