And any other craftiness I can come up with!
Well, a finish times 4! I finished Dream, Hope, Believe and Imagine last night. Boy were those beads a pain! They do look awesome though! Somehow I managed to have a least 1 bead on each piece in the wrong spot, but I don’t think it’s very noticable. Just need to find 4 matching frames and decide where to put them. Now I can concentrate on the hexi quilt, only 2 rows left to complete then I can work on the border!
Well I got my blocks done today, they are all packaged up and will be picked up by the mail carrier tomorrow. I love being able to print shipping labels online and have them pick it up, I don’t have to go to the post office anymore! All of mine were done with some form of green outside of the center square. At least I have 50 blocks done and it will be shipped way before the deadline! I did get some more white on white fabric today at Joann’s and I already have them all cut up and in the 2.5″ square bin just waiting to make some more hexis. Planning on work on the beading the rest of the night, I’m hoping I can get the first one done tonight – it is a possibility!
Well, I actually got the next row attached on the Hexagon quilt last night! I have 2 rows left to do and I already have the flowers ready, just need white hexis! I mentioned here that I wasn’t sure if I should do a scrappy border or solid colors. I’ve decided that I’m going to do scrappy. Especially now that I have all my 2.5″ strips cut up into squares! I love my Accuquilt Go! I mentioned in February that I got the 2.5″ squares die that has 9 squares on it. It was so easy to line up the strips and just keep running it through the machine. I even found a stack of fabric I didn’t realize was there and cut it with the chisel die. Not that I have a plan for a project, the strips were just the right size! Alex and I are going to Joann’s today after his Dr’s appt, I need a different container for these beads, a different pen/marker for the Dear Jane Siggie blocks, and maybe some more fabric, we’ll see what I find.
Head over to see what everyone else is up to over at Judy’s.
I know, I haven’t been around lately. I’ve been busy! We now have an 18 month old, and man is he active. He never stops! I mentioned last time that I joined a SAL on Facebook. I have all 4 words done, just have to do all the beading which is totally new for me. I think I need to get a beading needle, I found some that might work, I just need to try them. If not I’ll go to Joann’s after Alex’s 18 month Dr appt and get some. I don’t have pictures yet, I hope to have some this week as I finish the beading.
I now have all of my Dear Jane Siggie Swap blocks done, I just need to stamp and sign them all. Had to make 50 blocks!! When I get a chance I’ll have to start designing the layout, I should have them all back sometime in the beginning of May because they are due to the coordinator by May 1st.
While I was finishing up my siggie swap blocks today I was looking at the pile of 2.5″ squares on my sewing table. I have a basket of colors and was going to buy another basket for the white/lights. I also have a basket for 1.5″ strips and 2.5″ strips. I decided today that since I never use the 2.5″ strips and might not ever, I’d rather use my 2.5″ square die for my Go and cut them all into squares. Since I’m working on the Hexagon quilt using the 2.5″ squares, this will give me some more variety. I actually threw some strips away, I don’t know where they came from and the fabric was just so thin I didn’t like how it felt. I got everything ironed and waiting on the cutting table, hopefully I can get it all cut up in the next day or so.
I’m working on adding the next row to the hexagon quilt, hoping to have that done tonight so I can get a picture. I have the next row of flowers done, just need to get some white squares prepped, I’ll have lots of papers for them once I get the row added.
See you soon!
I haven’t been able to post lately, because I haven’t had anything to write about! I finally got the next row on my hexagon quilt, I’m up to 5 rows and have 3 left to do. I finally got some more Thimble-It stick on thimbles, so I can start working on that again.
I joined a group on Facebook that is doing a SAL (stitch a long). The chart is Joan Elliott’s Dream – 1 of a set of 4. I’ve been keeping up quite well and decided that since I could get the book at the library I’d do all 4 of them. I’m using a 28 ct Jobelan called Summer Sky. I’ve got Hope caught up to match Dream and I’ve started Believe. I can’t believe how fast these are working up, even on 28 ct fabric! I’ve always worked on regular aida and using anything else has been harder since I’m doing 2 over 2. I really do like how they are turning out though!
I got my package from Nicole at Just Keep Stitching today. The lavender smells wonderful, but it’s so strong I had to put it in another ziploc bag and get it out of my office. I’m thinking of planting in my flower beds, anyone know if it will spread?? She also sent along a pack of flower seeds, can’t wait to get those in the flower beds too! Thanks Nicole!
I decided that I was going to join the Dear Jane Siggie Swap this year. I’ve been working on putting together the blocks today, I have 16 ready to be signed and another 20 ready to be put together. We haven’t gotten the final count yet, I’m hoping it’s not much more than 36! 🙂 I’ll post a picture when I get them done. I’m looking forward to putting the quilt together once we get all the blocks, haven’t decided how I want to do it yet though. The block is really easy, it’s just a 3.5″ square for the center in a light fabric so you can write on it and 4 triangles around that. I had a huge stack of 4.5″ squares I cut from scraps with my Go, so I just had to cut them in half. I just had to buy some light fabric for the centers, and I picked up Kona White the other day. One of these days I’m thinking of buying a bolt of Kona white or Moda white solid….course I need some money for that!! 🙂
Hope to post more soon!!
I can’t believe it! I won a giveaway at Just Keep Stitching today! I get a Lizzie*Kate chart and a bag of lavender, can’t wait to get the chart, it’s a tooth fairy one and I’ll need to make a tooth fairy pillow in the next couple of years.
I haven’t been doing much sewing lately. I was working so quickly and so much on the hexagon quilt that I tore my finger up pretty good. I’ve been letting it heal and working on cross stitch instead. I joined a SAL (stitch a long) on Facebook and we are working on Joan Elliott’s Dream pattern. It’s one of a series of 4, and I’ve decided I might as well do all of them and hang them together. Just waiting to get the book from the library. Since I finished the first part of the SAL rather quickly I decided to pick up a UFO that has been sitting here for awhile. It’s a kit that I bought on ebay years ago. I finished 1 of the 3 parts last year and just put the whole thing away. In about a week I’ve almost got the 2nd one completed.
I think I’ll be able to start working on the hexagon quilt again soon, I bought some new thimble pads last week, I’m hoping they will help and my finger won’t get all chewed up again.
I’ll be back soon!
I’ve been working hard the last week on my hexagon quilt. Every night after Alex goes to bed I can sit and watch basketball and/or shows with my husband and work on it. I have a very small section left and I will be halfway done. I stopped last week at my favorite quilt shop Anna’s Sewing Center and picked up 5 1/4 yards of white on white. The white sections were starting to look the same, I needed some more variety. Hoping to get the last section put together tonight while we watch tv and either get it added on tonight or tomorrow while Alex plays. Then I need to start working on more flowers! The picture is a little blurry, I took it with my iphone and was trying to keep the dog and Alex off of it. It is so large I can’t get the picture on my sewing table anymore, it has to go on the floor.
Head over to Patchwork Times to see what everyone else is up to.
I thought since I finally started working on stuff that I’d participate in Judy’s Design Wall Monday over at PatchworkTimes. I think I said the other day I was going to redesign my hexagon quilt, now it’s 50 x 50 and boy do I need a lot of flowers! I am going to need 56 flowers, currently I’m up to 24 – 20 of them are currently sewn together. I’m shocked at how much work I’ve gotten done in just under 3 weeks of hand work. I’m finding that I have a lot more time than I thought when I can work on hand projects, mostly when Alex is playing and doesn’t need me. I used to just sit and read, sewing is better! 🙂
Here’s an export from EQ of what the quilt is going to look like, the browns are actually scrappy, but all will have the red centers. I’m also thinking that the red border will actually be scrappy reds, I just haven’t decided if I want to stick with 1 color for the blue border (scrappy blues) or do totally scrappy like I did with the flowers. Anyone have an opinion? I don’t think I’m going to do the binding following all those points, I’m pretty sure I’m going to cut them off even and square it up.
I spent all of Saturday afternoon up working on getting mom’s quilt tacked so I can get it off the frame and give it to her to quilt. Then I need to get going on quilting the one for my sister, I guess she’s redo-ing her bedroom and this quilt plays into that. Hope it’s big enough for her bed!!!
I really have been flying on this hexagon quilt. I’d say I’m just about halfway done and I’ve only been working on it for 2.5 weeks! I was surfing today while I was stitching some pieces together and found an interesting website with the History of Hexagons. I also saw a picture that gave me a great idea for the border, and no, I’m not telling until I have it designed out in EQ and know for sure that’s what I’m doing. I still haven’t decided how big I want to go with this, but I do know I want to try hand quilting it. I was thinking about making a small flower – maybe with 2 rings around the center hexi – and hand quilting that first before I start on the whole quilt. I still want to take a class on hand quilting, but I don’t know if and when that will happen. I forgot to post the picture the other day of the pile of 2.5″ squares I cut with my Accuquilt Go, so I’ve posted that below along with the current status of the top – I can’t wait to get more done!
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about blogging and something bothers me. You don’t know if anyone is actually reading it or if you are really just talking to yourself! I know my hubby reads this, because it’s in his RSS feeds and he mentions it all the time, “I see you blogged today”. But I don’t know if anyone else is reading this or not. I don’t seem to get any comments, which makes me think either I’m not interesting, or no one is reading. Oh well, it is what it is I guess.
