February Goals

UFO List 1: All People Quilt UFO Challenge #8 - Project "S" from 2012! Sew Happy Geek QAL GOAL: Quilt and square it up. Find the Binding.




UFO List 2: Judy at Patchwork Times UFO Challenge #9 - Maple Leaf Quilt. GOAL: Figure out if its worth making the paper pieced centre, or scrapping it!



One Montly Goal:
My February goal is to work piece the Maple Leaf - or throw it out!



Keeping up with the Mystery Quilt at Peace, Love, Quilts!

WIP Wednesday... (and Show&Tell Friday)

Craftsy Block of the Month

Projects That I've made progress on...

Sew Happy Geek QAL

• Sew Happy Quilt QAL at Sew Happy Geek
  First 8 Blocks Completed (up to date)
• So Scrappy Colour Challenge at Super Scrappy 
  Red and Green Done
• Just Takes 2 QAL at  Just Takes 2
  Blocks 1-4, 12 Completed
• Solstice Star QAL at Fresh Lemon Quilts
  3 Blocks COmpleted
• Hello Sun BOM by April Mae Designs
  2 Blocks started, both needing Embroidery.
• Craftsy's BOM at Craftsy.com
  January and February Blocks Completed
• Baby Quilt (UFO #5) 
  Made 16 6" squares, think I might set them like the tutorial for Floating Blocks on Oh Fransson, but need to choose a background colour... thinking of either yellow or green... but would need to buy fabric for that....  don't think I have anything that would work in the house for either, unless I stole from another project and that wouldn't be helpful!

UFO #5 Progress

Projects Waiting

• Stars on the Mountain Quilt
• Quilt for my step-father
• Quilt for my husband

ETA: My quilt has been chosen as a finalist in the Quilting is Murder UFO Challenge.... Please head on over to vote! Recently Finished...

I have only finished one project this past week.  It's the St Patrick's Day UFO from last year.  It is all quilted, and bound. It was featured over on Quilt Aditct's Anonymous Block a Day. It was also my One-Thing,One-Week goal!

On the Longarm

A new quilt... not quite loaded completely. It's a preprinted flannelette panel that was very inexpensive.

Unfortunately I missed linking up at Freshly Pieced.... Head over to look at some great projects.

Stash Report #6 (5 Feb 2012)

So Scrappy - February is Green!

Sew Happy Geek QAL Block 7

Just Takes 2 Block 12

Report #6-2012 (5 Feb 2012)

Used this Week:         2.0 m
      Year to Date:                8.3 m
      Added this Week:          0 m
          Year to Date:           24.6 m
      Net Used for 2012:        - 16.3 m

      Projects Completed this week:    0           (Includes UFOs)
          Year to Date:                8
      UFOs Completed this week:        0
          Year to Date:                3
     Mending&Alterations Completed:    0
     Year to Date:                     2

Oh do I need another quilt along? Probably not, but I might join in this one too... But must get caught up on my Just Takes 2 blocks first.... Oh and I need to choose some fabric...

Birthday Crafts

Birthday Crafts... Yesterday I had 4 girls over for my older daughter's birthday. She wanted to do some crafts. So the first craft we did was make Sock Bunnies. It was a great success and lots of fun... most of the girls had very little experience with a needle and thread. We used cross-stitch needles with blunt tips, so there were few poked fingers. We used thisSock Bunny tutorial . The second craft we did was clipboards with paper Mod Podged onto them. It went much faster than the sock bunnies, but was very sticky!

Solstice Star Blocks

Just Takes  2 Block & Sew Happy Geek Quilt Along Block

Finishing Blocks (Stash Report #3/2012)

Stars on the Mountain Quilt
These are the centre of the blocks for my quilts...

















Sew, Happy Geek QAL
Pinwheel and Friendship Star

Projects Completed This Week

• Highland Dance Vest
• Highland Dance Blouse 
• Hemmed one pair of my sons pants

 What am I working on?

• Sew Happy Geek QAL - two blocks done
  
• Stars on the Mountain - New Years Day Mystery Quilt Class from Longarmclassroom.com - fabric arrived, cut out, centre blocks completed

Projects to work on in the next week (no current progress)?

• Longarm -Nautical Quilt is still on the machine
• Quilt for my stepfather
• Baby Quilt (UFO #5)
• Hem 2 pair of pants

Stash Report #3-2012 (15 Jan 2012)

      Used this Week:        2.8 m
          Year to Date:            5.2 m
      Added this Week:       6.4 m
          Year to Date:           18.6 m
      Net Used for 2012:        - 13.4 m

      Projects Completed this week:    2           (Includes UFOs)
          Year to Date:                5
      UFOs Completed this week:        0
          Year to Date:                2 

      Mending&Alterations Completed:   1

          Year to Date:                1

Sewing with my 6yo

Sewing with my 6yo...
My 6yo has difficulties keeping her pencil crayons, felts, etc organized at school... We are halfway through the year and she`s needing replacements as some of hers are broken, tiny, or missing... so today we made a special pencil case for her new pencil crayons... It has individual pockets on one side and a zippered pocket on the other.  She did some of the stitching but got easily bored...




A Mixed Sampler Quilt Along

I decided I would join... the first two blocks were straight forward. And I finished them in the first week! Now can I keep up?



























Highland Dance Sewing
I`d forgotten to pick up canvas to use as lining for the vest... so today I zipped to the store to get some.  And even better I only came home with the 0.6m of canvas that I needed.  The pattern is prepped, tried on, and the canvas is waiting to be dried on its second time through prewash...  

What`s on the longarm?  The nautical quilt is still there... not much further... back to dark blue and doing the ropes... then I get to advance to the next section!  Halfway once I get those ropes done!  Then to figure out what I`m quilting on the Mariner`s Compass... probably just echo quilting....