FNSI and Saturday's progress

Yesterday I attended the Sewing and Craft Show and took two classes...  they were both informative but I'd wished there was some hands on classes that I was interested in taking, ok the only hands on course I wanted to take was at the same time as the longarm quilting workshop.....  I picked up a few things and a FQ pack of fabrics (sorry no pics of those as they are for a gift....).  After dinner last night we went to the fabric store for brown cotton, and the hardware store for shelf brackets...  I also prewashed the fabric last night.

Then I sat down and tried to design my two quilt designs with EQ7. I'm still strugglin with it!   I don't know why I find it so unintuitive!   I watched some EQ7 videos on YouTube that kind of explained what I'd been trying to do... now I need to try them!

Today we finally moved my big sewing desk, put the new top onto it and then my daughter and I did some sewing....  ok she sewed, I manned the rotary cutter....  this will be a baby quilt for my cousin who is due in the next few weeks...

FNSI Results

I finished quilting a quilt on the longarm. But the project is underwraps... so its a surprise....

Saturday I went to the guild sew-in and I completed the binding on two quilts and nearly completed the top-secret quilt... Must finish it by Friday, and then show it at the guild meeting... then it will be mailed to the recipient....

Friday Night and National Quilting Day Sew In

Sorry this post will be short on works... Must go catch the ferry home...

Sew Happy Geek QAL - Top Finished

Sew Happy Geek QAL

My Daughter finished up 4 more blocks
of her Disappearing 9 Patch

Pattern Testing - Completed 1 dress/1 top

As finished during FNSI

UFO #5 Top 2
Completely finished this morning

Donation Quilt started
8 Blocks of 16

Friday Night Sew In (Part 2)

These mice were made at Sparks (Girl Guides) for our Valentines Party! The Pathfinders hosted a party for both the Sparks units in our district, so we made mice Valentines for all the units.

Solstice Stars Quilt Along - All blocks Completed!

I chose these fabrics from my stash to make a baby gift for my sons teacher... Because the Solstice Stars Series only had 5 blocks, and I needed 8... I added a few others.

HST Block (from January)	Sew Happy Geek Block #9
Solstice Stars #5	Blazing Star
All 8 Completed Blocks

And the Completed Quilt Top!

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Friday Night Sew In (Part 1)

  These blocks were made for two mom’s that are currently going through really tough times.  So a group of us are making these two HUGS quilts…

Last night I went to Vancouver Modern Quilt Guild… and won a door prize!
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Friday Night Sew In

Yesterday I was barely at home... I went to visit my grandmother in the hospital.  Once I got home I had about an hour before needing to pick up the kids... so I did some quilting on the longarm.  I am now working on the Mariner's Compass block on my quilt.  I also got some fabric pressed.

After school my kids had some piping and dancing activities as it is nearly Robbie Burns Day...  First my son played and older daughter danced at a nearby seniors home.  My sons band then had a dinner and silent auction fundraiser, which both girls danced and my son played all after dinner.  It was a late night. 

I had a panel baby quilt, in a basket as part of the silent auction.  It didn't raise as much money as I'd hoped it would.

Once I got the kids home, in bed and kilts hung up, it was 11pm.  That was when I headed downstairs to get some sewing done.


One quick project I had was adding tags to my daughters undershirt and shorts used with her dancing costume.  I did this so they would be sorted correctly in the laundry, and not accidentally put in her dresser.

Just Takes 2
Here are the first 2 blocks.  11 blocks have been released so far...  I really debated completing this sew along, but thought it would be a good skill building quilt.

Stars on the Mountain
The middle of each mountain.  16/16 completed.

FNSI - My completions

Winter Quilt & Pillows

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Garment Sewing
She wore through the other swim top in matching fabric. So I made a new one to match the bottoms. Her other two swimsuits are paper thin... so she really needed new ones... she has swim lessons starting again in January so I think I'll make her a second suit, too.

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Baby Quilt - for a Silent Auction
I completed the quilting on the longarm yesterday during the school day, and trimmed the edges last night.  The quilt needs binding, but I don't have anything appropriate - the blues & yellow I have is too wrong, the red & green I don't have enough fabric.  So I will head to the fabric store tomorrow.  (sorry no picture at the moment - its in the wash to remove the chalk)

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What is on the longarm?
My sons Mariner's Quilt... Its mostly pinned onto the longarm.  But not quite - still need to add more pins to the bottom edge.  Then tomorrow night I hope to have time to start quilting it again.  I started on my domestic machine some time ago, but think the longarm is the way to go on this HUGE twin sized quilt.  (I think it'll easily fit a double bed!)


Linking up with

FNSI - My daughters sewing

FNSI started with my daughter sewing a bag for a friends birthday present. She is getting much better with sewing, she still doesn't like cutting things with the rotary cutter, and would rather I pinned everything. She also is scared of sewing over zippers.

Another wonderful Christmas Concert

We are blessed by the wonderful teachers at our school. Our Music teacher and librarian is wonderful! And runs two productions each year - a Christmas Concert and a Spring Performance. This years Christmas Concert was The Polar Express.  


My sons class sang in the first part, and he was chosen as Child #3.  All 3 of my kids performed in the second part, both girls were elves and sang with their classes and my son was onstage as Child #3.  In the last part, the choir sang (she generally gets 90% participation in the optional program for Grade 3-5 students!) and my older two children sang in the Choir.  I am hopeful that she won't retire until after my youngest is finished in Grade 5....

This is the gift we made for her...

What is on my machine?  Nothing... I finished the quilt for the silent auction - so it needs binding.  I'm debating what to put on my machine next.  Probably my sons mariner's quilt.

Tonight is FNSI... What am I doing?  Binding 2 quilts, making 2 pillows and then adding another quilt to the frame....

Friday Night Sewing... and more on Saturday too....

Last night I got a quilt top ready... The winter quilt I started this summer is now ready to quilt.  And I plan to put it on the longarm machine next!  One more practice run tonight, then onto a real quilt!

 Today I headed out to the fabric store and I picked up some backing fabric.  Since the fabric I had at home wasn't long enough...   I miscalculated how much I needed (ok I forgot to double the amount) and so then after getting home I realized that I really should have bought more... so I pieced in a small strip!

When adding the borders to the pillow tops, I did mitred borders for the first time.  Fairly simple, but time consuming, when needing to match stripes!

Quilt Top Ready

Quilt Backing

Pillow Tops

FNSI - Around in circles!

Wow!  Don't get out your ruler... don't look at the back... but the quilting has started.  Round and round in circles...

I ended up re-pin basting them... I really wish for these that they were spray basted.  By sewing around and around, the fabric did move some and I wonder if glue might have been a better solution than pins! There are a few puckers on the back... but I'm not taking them out!  This quilt is about learning new techniques - so now I know what doesn't work!

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