A UFO kind of week!

Sometimes I just have to say WOW! Did I do good!

I am on a mission to work on my UFO's...one big one at a time and smaller ones mixed in.

 

 

I laid out my flying geese and sashings...it is going to be huge!! 104" x 104".

 

 

(Do you like all the foot scrunches?) It is all ready to piece the rows together now. I'm needing one full day in my sewing room though so when I get started I won't have to stop.

 

Next on the UFO list...

 

Two small lap quilts got machine quilted and bound.

 

I have not a clue what I am doing with this one. It was made from scraps from a quilt kit.

It will probably become a gift eventually.

 

 

This one is going to become a car quilt...

 

 

And I finished a bit of knitting too! I am glad I got these done BEFORE winter was over!

 

 

 

So...WOW! Now to go clean up a bit!

 

Happy Stitching!

 

 

 

 

Leaving it to the Last Minute...

I am not usually a person to leave things to the last  minute but spring is in the air and March flew by so quickly. As I looked at the calendar this morning I realized  it was the last day to get my FMQ challenge done and posted. I had lots of inspiration this month. I was flipping through some old Fons and Porter magazines and noticed that there are lots of ideas for free motion quilting and a section devoted to it! What a great resource...

This month was all about playing with the thread and the design and learning from that play. I used Mettler Quilting thread for this sample but I tried 3 different bobbin threads. What a great way to learn to play with your tension. Every bobbin thread needed some adjustment.

I really just let myself go. I  loved the spirals that I did. They were easy and so much fun. I think they will become a regular design for me. Thanks Ann Fahl for the great tutorial and inspiration.

I also discovered that I really like flowers. I tried lots of different ones and I think I will have to play a bit with a sketch pad. And of course you can't have a flower without a leaf or two, so I had better practice with those too.

Here is another section of the quilting I had fun with- just simple stars and loops.

I often do quilting that isn't really tight together so I played a bit with that as well. I found the smaller designs I will need to practice a bit because I needed to change my speed of the machine a bit to get slightly smaller stitches. 

This is such a great challenge!

Happy Stitching!

A Little of This...a Little of That...

It's been a while! Now that my quilt is in the quilting frame most of my free time has been devoted to big stitching it! So far, I'm loving it!

I'm using 1/4" masking tape and quilting just beside it on each side. It is coming along slowly, but it is a satisfying process. The downside is that I don't have much else to show!

This weekend I did go to my local quilting retreat. Remember those hand dyed fabrics from long ago? Well I used them all up this weekend sewing log cabin blocks.

There are 2 of each color combination. I had 30 colors in all. My mission for the weekend was to piece all 30 blocks and I did! Yeah!

It will take me some time to figure out the best way to lay them out, but that is the fun part!

I wasn't very smart this weekend though because I forgot all about my camera until I was home and there was lots of show and tell! Next time...

Thanks ladies for the fun and productive weekend.

Some of you may have noticed I didn't get around to doing the Free Motion Quilting Challenge this month. I'm afraid that for part of the month my sewing machine was behind boxes of my belongings while we put new flooring down in my bedroom.

It is so much nicer than the carpet that used to be there and so much easier to keep clean. My bedroom is just through a doorway from my sewing room and I had a lot of threads tracked in. Now a quick Swiffer and it's all clean! Well worth missing a Free Motion Quilting Challenge. I`ll make it up though!

Happy Stitching!

It was just what I was wanting...

For some time now I have been wanting to get better at free motion quilting so when I saw this challenge I thought that 2012 will be the year for that- no more putting it to the bottom of the pile!

I just joined the Free-Motion Quilt Challenge at SewCalGal .

It's going to be fun!

Happy Stitching!