February UFO Progress

UFO List 2 #9 Maple Leaf Block: As I'd feared, my block was missing the centre "triangle" pattern piece. The cat had pulled it out from the stack and attacked it.....

Current Status:  I have cut out the binding, and 2 more borders.  I need to pickup some solid white fabric for a narrow border, but have the rest ready to go.  

Goal:  My goal was to figure out whether this was worth saving.  I saved it, and finished the centre block.  Hope to get it to lap size, and quilt it for my dad.   Think I'll need to find some red, black and white backing....

Finished Paper Piece  (without the Centre Block)

Created the Centre block!

Adding Borders

Now 30" square.... 

I am still planning on getting to the longarm. It has the UFO List 1 #6 on it! So it is ready to quilt!

2017 Project List

OK so the last list of projects I can find is from January 2015? Here is the archaic list! But what was started and not finished from 2014, 2015, and 2016! This is scary!  This list is a living document.... I'm going to be adding to it as I find projects....

#	Year	Project	Status	UFO List
d	2016	Sesame Street Donation Quilt Christa Quilts - Simple Strips QAL	Top
e	2016	Canada 150 Quilt	Design	UFO List 2 Quilt 12
f	2016	Quilt for my brother	Design	UFO List 2 Quilt 10
g	2016	Bonnie Hunter ~En Provence~ Myster Quilt	Piecing Blocks	UFO List 1 Quilt 2
h	2016	Peace Love Quilts Mystery Quilt	Piecing Blocks	UFO List 1 Quilt 3
i-1	2016	Honour Quilts Detachment	blocks arrived/sashing cut out	UFO List 2 Quilt 4
i-2	2016	Honour Quilts Husband	blocks arrived/sashing cut out	UFO List 2 Quilt 5
i-3	2016	Honour Quilts Son 1	blocks arrived/sashing cut out	UFO List 2 Quilt 6
i-4	2016	Honour Quilts Son 2	blocks arrived/sashing cut out	UFO List 2 Quilt 7
j	2016	5 Row by Row 2016 Rows	peiced/fused	UFO List 2 Quilt 8
k	2016	Green Donation Quilt	Needs Binding	UFO List 1 Quilt 6
l	2016	BMQG Block Lotto Heart Quilt	Assembling Top	UFO List 1 Quilt 7
m	2016	Gyleen's Symmetry Square Mystery Quilt Christmas Fabrics	On Longarm	UFO List 1 Quilt 1
n	2014	Disappearing 9 PinWheel Christmas Batiks	Top Done	UFO List 1 Quilt 4
o	?	Raindrops	top finished	UFO List 1 Quilt 5
p	2013	Maple Leaf Quilt	Piecing	UFO List 2 Quilt 9
q	2013	Star Surround batik Happy Quilting	Piecing	Bonus
r	2012	Stars on the Mountain	Ready for Quilting	UFO List 2 Quilt 1
s	2012	Sew Happy Geek QAL	Quilting	UFO List 1 Quilt 8
t	2012	Wonky Log Cabin Blocks (Colour Challenge BOM)	Partially Complete	UFO List 1 Quilt 9
u	2012	April Mae Designs - Sun BOM	Partially Complete	UFO List 1 Quilt 10
v	2012	Craftsy BOM	Partially Complete	UFO List 1 Quilt 12
w	2012	Quilt for my husband	Cut Out	UFO List 2 Quilt 11
x	2012	New York Beauties Quilt	7 Blocks Completed	UFO List 1 Quilt 11
y	2011	Dresden 4 Panel Quilt from QAL	Quilting started, Assemble (Quilt as you Go)	UFO List 2 Quilt 2
z	2011	Dresden Table Topper	Borders and Quilting	UFO List 2 Quilt 3

UFO List 1: All People Quilt UFO Challenge  This month is quilt #6 - on my paper list, it is Green Donation Quilt.  This one needs binding and a label.

UFO List 2: Judy at Patchwork Times is hosting her UFO Challenge.  This month is quilt #3, is my Octagonal Dresden Quilt.  It needs borders, quilting, binding and a label, my goal is to get it ready for the longarm.

My January goal is to bind & label the green donation quilt and prepare the Octagonal Dresden for the longarm. Might turn it into a square if I have enough matching fabrics left.

2017 Highlights

Wow!  2017!

Tackling UFOs again..... Off to write up my UFO list!

2016 Review:
2016 didn't seem productive, but it probably was!  I didn't blog.  I didn't finish many UFOs.....

Although I did complete some major projects including a kilt, finishing the Row by Row 2016 quilt, and finishing the Facets Quilt Along quilt by Christa Watson.

Tartan Day!
Reverse Raspberry McKellar

Handstitched pleats

Pleats and buckles

The inside!  Nice 3" hem.

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Quilts:

2106 Row by Row
Home Sweet Home

Facets QAL

More Christmas Crafting

This year we made a few crafts for gifts....  I can't take credit for these as I had some great help..  The drill press make these reindeer fairly fast, except all the whittling my husband did!!!!  BTW thanks to my step-father for cleaning the garage, it was much easier to make a mess with this project)
Reindeer

Penguins

And finishing up a UFO... my step-father's birthday present (from his birthday last January 2012)

2012 Project Updates

2012 Goal Review

My goals for 2012 were listed at the end of 2011.  So how did I do? First I joined my local Quilt Guild.... and then I entered one item in a Quilt Challenge at a local Quilt Store, and I entered 2 items in my Guild's Quilt Show.

• Sew something every week
  I started off well, but travel, and getting back into routine got in the way... Overall I did lots of quilting, not so much garment sewing
• Purchase with a plan
  Yes!  Most fabric was purchased with a plan.  I lost track of stash in/out but did use lots of stash fabrics
• Learn to Longarm
  Yes! Getting better at this
• Work on UFOs
  Got 8 UFOs (5 Quilting, 3 Dancing) Completed!
• Enjoy!
  I did enjoy my sewing this year and at Christmas I only did 2 projects and I enjoyed both of them!

Current Status

I am not at home, but this is what I think the current status of all my projects from this year are....   Have a number in various stages of quilting....  Only one new project waiting on longarm...  

Project	Name	Stall Point	Status
1	Stars on the Mountain Quilt	Piecing	Still need to finish Mountain Blocks
3	Animals - UFO #5	DONE	1 UFO into 2 Quilts!
4	Sew Happy Geek QAL	Longarm
5	Wonky Log Cabin Blocks (Colour Challenge BOM)	Piecing	January and February Completed
10	Just Takes 2	Piecing	Done some blocks, but not enjoying... might just turn into either a lap quilt, or pillow...  Or let it sit for a while...
13	April Mae Designs - Sun BOM	Embroidery	January and February Completed March's has been Started
16	Craftsy BOM	Piecing	January and February Completed
28	BMQG - Preemie Donation Quilt	DONE	2 Airplane Quilts Donated
31	Quilt for my Husband	Piecing	Most of the Fabric is Cut Out
32	Sewing Machine Cover	DONE
33	Quilt for my Step-Father	DONE
34	New York Beauties Quilt	Piecing	7 blocks finished
35	Gecko Quilt	DONE	Entered in Contest and Quilt Show
36	Strip Quilt	DONE	Donated
37	Hugs Quilt	DONE	Mailed and Delivered!
38	Techie Quilt	DONE

St Patrick's Day Quilt (Another UFO Finished)

Nearly a year ago I started this quilt for St Patrick's Day.  There was little hope I'd get it done for St Patrick's Day as I started it March 16th!  A week or so later I had it basted and ready to go... and even started quilting it!  And then it sat...

So after taking my sons quilt off the longarm, I decided this one wouldn't be too difficult to finish up...  So onto the longarm it went, and then sat for a few days - the machine needed cleaning.  Now its not too difficult to clean the machine... takes me about 20min... so yesterday I finally cleaned the machine and started quilting.

Two of the 4-Leaf Clover blocks were quilted on my domestic machine, two on the longarm.  All the sashing has stitch-in-the-ditch done on my domestic machine as is the leprechaun block.  The Irish Chain blocks and outer border was completed on the longarm.

Can you tell which of these two blocks were done on the longarm?

Leprechaun Artwork Copyright Sweet Stamping Treats Designs, digitized by me (Leah @ L3 Designs).  I designed the quilt around the pot of gold fabric and the leprechaun.  The Hearts were cut out using my Accuquilt Go.


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

Way too long to post (Stash Report #4-2012 & #5-2012)

Update for the Past Two Weeks

Completed

• Nautical Quilt 

What am I working on?

• Just Take 2
• Sew Happy Geek QAL 
• Stars on the Mountain - 28 9 patch blocks completed, Mountain Blocks started

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

• Baby Quilt (UFO #5)
• Hem 2 pair of pants

Projects upcoming

• Installing Red Snappers on my Longarm
• Quilt for my stepfather

Stash Report #4-2012 (22Jan 2012)

Used this Week:        1.1m
      Year to Date:               6.3 m
      Added this Week:       4.5 m
          Year to Date:           23.1 m
      Net Used for 2012:        - 16.8 m

      Projects Completed this week:    2           (Includes UFOs)
          Year to Date:                7
      UFOs Completed this week:        0
          Year to Date:                2
     Mending&Alterations Completed:   1
     Year to Date:                     2

Report #5-2012 (29Jan 2012)

Used this Week:         0 m
     Year to Date:                6.3 m
      Added this Week:        1.5 m
          Year to Date:           24.6 m
      Net Used for 2012:        - 18.3 m

      Projects Completed this week:    1           (Includes UFOs)
          Year to Date:                8
      UFOs Completed this week:        1
          Year to Date:                3
     Mending&Alterations Completed:   0
     Year to Date:                     2

Quilts - one for each kid....

A year ago, I finished all the quilt tops for each of my kids.  Here is a post from Nov 2010 of their status...  Unfortuantely I was unable to complete their quilts by their birthdays...  Or truthfully in a reasonable time afterwards. This first quilt was a reasonably large 69 x 91".


Quilt for my youngest was finished Dec 1, 2010... Quilt for my older daughter was finished in February  I tucked it away thinking I would be finished her brother's quilt soon, but it wasn't put on her bed for the first time until yesterday as her brother's quilt is now done! This one was huge at 81x101"

Mariner's Quilt!

Finished and on the bed

My son's quilt...this took me forever to quilt... I started quilting it on my mom's Janome 6500.  Which is a great machine, but really doesn't have the throat space to do what I wanted on the quilt.  The quilt is heavy and every time I'd start quilting it, my back would cease up, or my arms would ache.  So it sat as a todo project heavy on my mind and heart. I was having a problem with its size at 79"x103".

Then I purchased a longarm machine.  And I loaded the quilt top on late December saying it was 50% completed... but it really wasn't.  I basically had some stitch in the ditch stitching done and was probably 10% done compared to what I eventually did.... I spent a lot of time quilting this, practising new techniques... some with rulers, some freehand. There were only a couple of locations at the back that were a little off on the tension.



Blocks in this quilt:
- 24 Flying Geese
- 8 blocks Made from HST&QST
- 16 Stars
- 4 Moose Quilts Block 5 moosequilts.blogspot.com/
- 4 Anchor Blocks - Self drafted
- 4 Sailboat Blocks - can't remember the pattern I used for inspiration
- 2 Lighthouse Blocks (inspired by By the Sea, but I didn't paper piece)
- 1 Mariner's Compass (Paper Pieced), my husband kindly drafted my pattern

Highland Dance Outfit Complete

My daughters had a dance competition this morning.  Unfortunately my older daughter had to make the difficult decision that she hadn't recovered enough from the pneumonia to dance.  But she did go to the competition and warm up but was just not able.  She looked great in her new Kilt, Vest and Hose(socks).  I made both the vest and kilt.  My younger daughter got a new blouse for today.

The vest is based on the Unique Highland dance pattern, and Ottobre Design 01/08 #36.  The blouse is based on Ottobre Design 2/04 #23.

Two more items are now complete off my 1st Quarter project list... Next back to longarming to finish my sons quilt. One week until his birthday. The quilt top was his birthday present last year, and I NEED to have it on his bed this year...


 

KILT Making: First UFO Finish for 2012!

UFO Completed! First UFO done...First Kilt done...

This kilt was completely hand crafted by me and 95% of the stitching was all handstitched!

This kilt was started Sept 2009 in a class that lasted 9 weeks. The course was great... and I made the kilt "large" so it would fit my daughter this year. She is now in need of a new kilt, and other than I needed to take it in a little (move the buckles from their intended location) the fit is pretty good... I'm linking this up as December's UFO Completion, because I didn't have a quilt numbered 12...

The course was great - 4 students... we had 9 weekly classes of 3 hours each week!  We were exhausted when we left each week with our homework.  Most weeks it was 6-12 hours of homework!  WOW!   And the final 4 hours of homework was just completed today.  I figure this kilt took between 50-60 hours plus class time.

After sewing this I understand WHY a KILT costs over $500!  First the 100% wool tartan... and then the 30-60 hours to handstitch!  Will I make another is the question?  I know it'll be faster....  I won't be making these to sell but may make them for family (really close family, like ONLY my kids)

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Note: The black basting thread are still in for one final press. I'm going to take it to the Dry Cleaners to have this done. I'm hoping I can get it done while I wait...

Next Project: Highland Dance Vest to match
Glad I didn't start this before the kilt was finished. I probably would have made the vest too skinny. This kilt adds 1-2" to her waist and hip measurements due to the layers of fabric... Now off to search for the pattern.

Deadline: 14 January at 8AM for the next Competition

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Stash Report #1 (1 Jan 2012)

      Used this Week:       0 m
          Year to Date:     0 m
      Added this Week:      0 m
          Year to Date:     0 m
      Net Used for 2012:    0 m

      Projects Completed:    1
          Year to Date:      1
      UFOs Completed:        1
          Year to Date:      1

2011 In Review & 2012 Goals

2011 Sewing Resolutions

From my blog last December....

My goals for the upcoming year are very similar to the past few years

• Make meaningful fabric purchases
  for the most part I've purchased with a plan, sewn from stash... but haven't made the projects from all the fabric I purchased
• Finish UFOs
  Got 4 Quilting UFOs finished, 1 is partially completed
  unfortunately I also created some new ones....
  
• Start Gift Sewing Early
  I didn't sew much for Christmas and was pretty good most of the year on this one

2011 Stash Report
I lost track mid year... I think I ended up about equal, as I needed to buy some larger pieces for the longarm...  But I have plans for them and they aren't just going into stash!


2011 UFO Completions

Hand Print Quilt	Small Bags Started at a Quilt Class
Teacher Gift Quilt	Pink & Purple Stars & Hearts

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UFO Partial Completion
Its on the longarm!

My first completed project on the longarm

One of my UFOs is nearly 50% quilted... and one new project from the year is my pinwheel quilt - the first project I completed on the longarm....

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And the best sewing of the year was completed by my "helpers"

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2012 Goals
My goals for 2012

• Sew something every week
• Purchase with a plan
• Learn to Longarm
• Work on UFOs
• Enjoy!