EASY STREET - PART 5

I love the look of these sections.  They are so pretty with the turquoise and purple combination!  Merry Christmas everyone!

EASY STREET PART 4 - FLYING GEESE SQUARE UNITS

64 FLYING GEESE UNITS COMPLETE!   I have to figure out why my pics are a little yellow, oh well.  Lot's of work and errands this week so I'm glad to be done by Monday.

I just got my new Sew EZI Table on Saturday and it is good as the reviews that I have read on the internet.  It is holding my quite large Viking Diamond Deluxe and is as steady as can be.  The insert is high quality and fits like a glove.  It looked good studying the pics on the site, but it is even better when you actually see it up close.  Living in So Cal, it literally came in 2 days!!! Thank you Barbara at SewEZI!

The other table is my IKEA galant 48 X 24 table, which is the nicest smoothest sturdiest table and an IKEA drawer set.  So reasonable and so nice. You might recognize the chair from Arrow Cabinets. It is really comfy.

I love that I can move these pieces around if I change rooms or need to rearrange for whatever reason.

Hope all you quilter sewers have a happy week.  It is just me, or is everyone humming the Drifters' version of "White Christmas" from Home alone that plays at least twice a day on the radio." bump bump bump bi bump bi bump"....It always puts me in a good mood through out the day!

Insanity Quilt update

I realized I need to update my progress.  I haven' t gotten very far but I have completed some more!

Having switched my hexie cutting method from Inklingo to My Accuquilt Studio Hexie die cutter,  I don't have the wonderful lines of the Inklingo, but with a Frixion pen and cardstock type cut out (from printing one on Inklingo), I have an exact finished 1/2 inch hexie size to easily guide my running stitches.

Even though I have questioned myself about switching to the english paper piecing way, it is still two steps while it is just one with the regular running stitch method. With the pieces being so small it is quite doable.  And, I love they way the press out in clockwise and counter clockwise seams. No one will ever see them, but they make the block lay beautifully.

So if you still love EPP, the inklingo works great for printing the hexies on cardstock you have laying around from some unused cards and are easily cut with a rotary cutter.

I might try EPP on a bit bigger hexie project sometime.


Total                          Completed
1422                                324
448                                     0
1068                                   0
2012                                   0
5389                                   0
10339                              324



Diamonds
158                                   36
Flowers
64                                       0

EASY STREET Part 3

Finished my shaded four patch.  These turn out so interestingly, I love them.  It really helped using Bonnie's tip of using the solid turquoise piece as the guide for sizing and placement of the wing piece.  Also, a good SCANT quarter inch really was necessary to achieve the 3 1/2 inch cut square.  Hope everyone is having a good week.  Finishing these started mine off right. Now, on to regular chores and work!

Easy Street part 2 - FLYING GEESE

Finished my 128 flying geese just in time to post this week. I went with Bonnie's easy angle and companion angle method and it worked great for me.  I love everyone's posts of their progress and am enjoying the mystery a lot!!  Take care everyone.

"Easy Street" Part 1 - Four Patch Blocks

Part 1 of "Easy Street" completed!  And these are the fabrics I selected to make the quilt which were all out of my stash. Gosh it feels great to actually use them.

Halloween embroidered dish towels

Embroidery Library design

Embroidery Library design

Embroidery Library design

LynniePinnie design

I finally got some time to do some machine embroidery and stitched out some halloween designs on some plain towels.  They all stitched our great. After three Embroidery Library  designs which stitch out so nicely but are quite dense, I went looking for another and happened on  LynniePinnie  and found this cute pumpkin applique design which stitched beautifully and was a lot softer. I love it.  I really am enjoying sewing and embroidering with my Viking Sewing machine!

Finished Quilt - Grandma's Garden with 30's prints

Just finished this modern type pinwheel quilt called "Grandma's Garden" by Gingham Girls  making a small dent in my 30's repro stash.  The pinwheels were made using a portion of the dear jane triangle ruler. I love already having the correct ruler! I manually stippled the quilt which is always nice for  a background. It came out nice and soft after a rinse and dry. The tons of 5" squares made a sort of two sided quilt.

Quilt size approx 55" X 73"

Love these pandas!

The modified nine patch block was fun and easy

Black is a moda's essential dot

I used small yellow yo yos instead of buttons

 30's scotties are another favorite

I love the bright red binding

I used my accuquilt to cut about 250 squares for the backing

 

STASH REPORT - WEEK 24, 2012

Finished my Scrappy Bargello from Bonnie's January scrap class.  I am going to bind it today with a black fabric. It finished at 88" X 96".  All my old scraps.

Added 2 yards of black Moda essential dots for my next quilt project, which will have 30's repros (from stash), white (from stash) and the cute essential dots. I love these and my LQS keeps most of the colors!

Used this Week: 16 yards
Used year to Date: 98.75 yards
Added this Week: 2 yards
Added Year to Date:   45 yards
Net Used for 2012: (53.75) yards
Net Stash increase for 2012:  -

STASH REPORT WEEK 20 - 2012

This is actually a 6 week update.  One large quilt 21 yards and one more toothbrush rug 11 yards.


Used this Week: 32 yards
Used year to Date: 82.75 yards
Added this Week: 10 yards
Added Year to Date:   43 yards
Net Used for 2012: (49.75) yards
Net Stash increase for 2012:  -

Son Brandon's Surfer quilt Finally finished!

Toothbrush Rug - I 'm hooked on making these

About 22" by 45"

In my shower area so comfy on the feet

I LOVE THIS CABINET

Is it just me, but doesn't every girl want this pistachio green cabinet? You can fit even a large machine with a custom insert. It matches my wallet and lots of other things I have.......I started looking around me and didn't realize how much I like this color

Florie Cabinet by Arrow Cabinets

My Wallet

Stash Report - Week 13

Used this Week: 0 yards
Used year to Date: 50.75 yards
Added this Week:  3 yards
Added Year to Date:   33 yards
Net Used for 2012: (17.75) yards
Net Stash increase for 2012:  -

Monday March 26, 2012


12 FQ's of the new Aunt Grace 30's. Cute animals I couldn't resist.

Stash Report - Week 12

Used this Week: 13 yards
Used year to Date: 50.75 yards
Added this Week:  2 yards
Added Year to Date:   30 yards
Net Used for 2012: (20.75) yards
Net Stash increase for 2012:  -

It is so fun to still be in the "net used" column. I can hardly believe it.
Another Aunt Philly rag rug help me bust my stash this time. I used a lot of my large cuts of batiks in blues, purples, greens, and combos of those. It took about 4 days of off and on and looping and 13 yards. The rug measures 26" X 44"

Stash Report - Week 10

Used this Week: 16 yards
Used year to Date: 37.75 yards
Added this Week:0.0 yards
Added Year to Date: 28.0 yards
Net Used for 2012: (9.75) yards
Net Stash increase for 2012:  -


Here's my projects that helped move my stash:

Two Piece quilt: Front and Back. Love the tie dye look for fun. My son's girlfriend loved the colors and soft minkee and so she got to keep it !

Turquoise Minkee Back: So Soft!  "Mexican Carpet" Quilt design from Urban Elementz - Dawna Sanders

Added Ric Rac around the rim, and some batik for the binding

Rag Rug using Aunt Philly's toothbrush tool and 13 yards of scraps. I love making these. I have done two so far. this measures 24"  by 48"

Happy Quilting Everyone! That's all for this week.

Stash Report - Week 8

Used this Week: 15 yards
Used year to Date: 21.75 yards
Added this Week: 6.0 yards
Added Year to Date: 28.0 yards
Net Used for 2012:
Net Stash increase for 2012:  6.25 yards


Orca Bay 75 X 86 Finished, Quilted and Bound! and on my Bed cuz it's still chilly here.

Bought finishing Kit which is about 6 yards from  Grand Country Quilters, San Marcos, CA  for a new once a month applique class I am starting doing Prairie Flowers Encore by Jo Morton. Couldn't resist the pretty flowers and light blue and brown accents.

Scrappy Bargello Quilt Top Finished!

This is the Scrappy Bargello Quilt top I started at Bonnie Hunter's workshop.  I thought it would be a good stash buster, but the results exceeded my expectations by a long shot.  I couldn't believe how great the fabrics blended, despite my doubts! I used only leftovers from 10 years of quilting, with Bonnie's tips of putting together fabrics that have a gradation of hue difference or somewhat contrasting to very contrasting.

This is another favorite special quilt.

Love the Braided border!

Such a pretty mosaic

Penguins, florals and surf waves

Even a Corgi in honor of our old dogs Erin and Moses!