Quillow

I played a little catch up this past weekend.

I was asked to make this quillow a while back and kept getting side tracked.

My husband drove me all over town Friday looking for the chevron fabric.

I thought it was a popular design but I couldn't find any.

Finally after all the looking we found it at Hobby Lobby right around the corner. 

Bev's Quilt

My mother and sister Beverly (Quilters Corner) came for a visit over the weekend.

 I told Bev to bring a quilt to practice on before she gets her machine quilter.

Well Here it is.

I helped her put it in the frame and showed her a few things about my machine and left her at it.

She did such an awesome job on her 1st quilt. 

She's going to be a great machine quilter.

Wish I could keep her here - I have a ton of quilts that need to be quilted.

She sent me a few when I got my machine so I could have something to practice on -

maybe I can return the favor.

We put it in the frame Thursday night and took it out yesterday.

Of course we did a bunch of other things while they were here.

She helped me put one in yesterday and they left today.

A RE-DO

I worked on these Stack-n-Whacks over the weekend and decided I wasn't that crazy about them.

I wasn't sure if it was the colors or the fact that they were only 6 repeats.

I've never done 6 before, I have always done 8 repeats.

Anyway I took them apart last night and re-did them making them into stars.

I like these much better.

Hard to imagine they are the same just different shapes. 

I have the best of both worlds.

Stars and Stack-n-Whacks --- both my favorites.

Stack-n-Whack

I had such a productive weekend. I like it when I can get something done - although my house didn't get cleaned - I'll work on that this week after work.

Anyway I started with this piece of fabric and got it tacked for a stack-n-whack.

 I only had 6 repeats so it didn't take that long. 

I cut off one strip and made these samples to see if they would work for something I have in mind.

I'm not sure if they are what I'm wanting for this project but they will work nicely on another. 

So I had this other piece that I had started tacking a while back and I decided to finished it to see what it would look like. It took a little longer to tack - it was 8 repeats. I did manage to get 4 more of my Christmas blocks done while I was tacking (multi-tasking). 

I cut a strip off and made these with the second piece.

 I really like these only they are bigger than I wanted. 

I also like the shape better. Only thing is these will have to be appliqued but that's not a big deal. 

I do like Stack-n-Whacks.