Rolling Waves

 

I am so thrilled  with myself - I cut out and pieced this in 5 days. Not bad considering my limited time.

I now have it in the frame waiting on my mind to click and let me know how to quilt it.

I did the border last night and was thinking about an edge to edge pattern. That would surely be the easiest option but I would love to do something to make it pop.

 

I would love to get it completed this week.

I guess I better get busy after work today.

 

I got the pattern from McCalls Quilting  More Fast, Easy bed Quilt Patterns ebook. It's called Rolling Waves and was designed by Jane Koelker.

 

 

Collecting Hexies

I ended up catching a cold last week and wasn't able to get much work done.

But I did manage to get my hexes sorted. I have twice this many in white.

I've been working on them off and on for awhile.

I still can't make up my mind how I want to put them together yet. I will need to decide something soon so I can re-use the templates.

 

 

 

Elaine's Quilt

It's been awhile.

I've actually been very busy but not with anything I can show here.

I have cut out about 5 quilts and have a few more that I would like to get to.

 

I have a good friend (who is 84) that put this quilt together and I finally got it quilted.

 

 She has never used a rotary cutter before so I cut the strips then cut the strips into pieces so she just dealt with piecing.

So when I was trimming the quilt for the binding I almost took off my finger - I think it went to the bone. My daughter used 2 butterflies so I wouldn't have to get stitches.

 

 

 

 

 

Log Cabin Complete

I took the log cabin out of the frame last night. That was such a good feeling. I definately didn't like this one. The pictures sure make it look alot better than it really is.

Might as well show the bad as well as the good.

Stuck on the Log Cabin

Thought I'd put a picture on here of the quilt I've had in the frame forever. I'm having such a hard time quilting it because I just plain hate it. So I've been doing alot of piddly things just so I wouldn't have to deal with it. There isn't anything wrong with it - it's just not what I want to be doing right now.

Leitfaden

I was surfing this morning and I came across this cute little sewing machine - Leitfaden. I don't know about anyone else but this is the 1st I've seen of this. I don't think I would want to have this as my only machine - maybe just for special projects. But I wouldn't mind adding it to my toys. It has special ink to dye the thread to match the fabric. Sometimes that is my biggest problem. I've looked around and can't find where it's sold or for how much. I would love to know how much it costs.

Cut Glass - In progress

I've been having such trouble with my computer lately that I haven't been able to post anything. I just figured out how to get it to take some writing. On top of that I've had someone hacking my emails - and that has really driven me nuts. I ended up changing my password 4 times. I put this picture on here yesterday to show what I've been up to lately. I got this kit from Connecting Threads. I really liked it and thought it would be fun. I think I'll order a little more fabric and make it a little bigger. If I put the borders on right now it will be 84" square and I'd like it bigger.

Chain of Events

I had another quilt kit that was collecting dust called Chain of Events.

I started this after work last week and finished it up on Saturday.

And as usual I added to the pattern and made it bigger.

I also had a piece of fabric that I used for the first border that I will be able to use for backing.

Even though I've been putting off quilting lately I did manage to get one row done.

Now that I've started maybe I will quit putting it off and get it finished.

Another UFO

I managed to get another UFO done this past weekend,

This was a kit I ordered a while back. It looked fairly easy and I figured I could get it done quickly.

I did make a few changes and it still turned out pretty good.

I've been doing anything I can to keep from quilting a quilt I put in the frame a month ago.

I did start quilting it but my heart isn't in it. 

Design Floor

I do most of my designing on the floor.

I keep thinking about making a design wall but I always end up back on the floor.

Anyway I decided to put together my blocks from Block Swap Adventure.

These blocks have been sitting around for awhile now and I decided to at least put them together - Quilting will come later. I also had a few blocks left from a round robin my family did a few years ago that I never used. I made a couple of extra block and I had enough for a quilt.

The 1st step was placing them and figuring out what to do with them.

I had some left over strips from another quilt that I used in the sashing. 

Used alot of Kona white.

I added the last blue border and called it done. 

It's such a good feeling to get a quilt put together especially a UFO.