Catching Up on a Few Things

A couple more flowers I have sent to DD#1.

Next on my list of It's A Mini Quilt Along #3 Flying Around In Circles. I used Kona Black and vintage sheets. I love the way it turned out! It looks better in person!

 I used those two Moda Candy charm packs to work on my Schnibbles Morsel pattern. You end up making some very fun pincushions. I made 5. I am not sure why but I kept sewing until I ran out. I went to town yesterday and bought a huge bag of crushed walnut shells in the lizard section of a pet store. I will be filling then and finishing them up soon.

 This picture shows what I have left of those two packs. I am sure I will make something out of them as well. HA HA I am not wasting that fabric.

TTFN

Maniac Monday

As I was going through my past blog posts it occurred to me that my post are VERY long. Yuck!! I know for me if I have 45 blogs to read then when I come across one with a lot of words I sometimes just skip over them. So in the interest of saving you time I have move my MONDO HUGE UFO list to it's own page. I will make changes there every week and show pictures here. 

Back in 2011 on Let's Bee Together I sent out a bunch of fabric for these blocks to be made for me. I used 30's fabrics and Kona White. I received back all but one block. I got the box out (while I had 30's on the brain) and took stock of what I needed. I had to make the block that I was missing but using what little fabric I had left. I did not have enough so I made a block with some solid that matched. 

I made two blocks.

 And  two pink blocks.

Here they are all together.

Now how do I set them. I have 16 blocks total. I decided I did not want to make too many more blocks so I decided on making the blocks on point so then I would only need two more blocks. This is what I am thinking:

I bought a brown set of 30's fabric and will be working on the last two blocks and sewing it all together into a top this week.

Here is the fabric I will be using for the set in triangle for the top. I love this buttery yellow, it matches the teddy bear in the brown fabric. The orange fabric is a bonus piece. I did not want it but the lady cut it and I was not paying attention to stop her. Oh well. Then some other fabrics that found their way home with me. 

Next I found and dragged this bad boy out, It was from way back in May of 2011. I had finished it but then could not figure out what was wrong with it. I did not want to take the time to figure it out. Well I did the the other day. The bottom row needed to be moved to become the top row. 

That was a lot of unpicking. Now it is all resewn back to the way it is supposed to look. Now I can move that down my list. 

TTFN

A Long Miscellaneous Post

Do you remember how I was saying that my machine was acting funny and I could not figure it out. Well I do believe I found the problem. Look at these two pictures of the placement of my needle. See how close it it to the back of the foot. I have had this problem for a long time. It makes my thread break and sometimes my needle breaks because it gets stuck on the foot as I am sewing. Boy do things explode when that happens. 

 Well I got mad today because I broke three of the last four needles I had. I opened the side of the machine and moved things around and looked things over really good. I am not a sewing machine repair person but I can get mad enough to fix things myself once in a while. I found the screw that controls where the tip of the needle is in space and cranked the puppy down until I fixed it. Not knowing if I had just fixed it or totally messed it up I moved cautiously into sewing. She purrs like a kitten now. The needle is moved away from the back. I am so happy!! I hope you can see that the needle is now a safe distance from the back of the foot.

These next four pictures are half finished Schnibbles patterns I found. I have one top finished but I messed it up so I need to go in and fix it. But it is in the bottom of a tote and I did not feel like digging it out today. Maybe Monday.There are four more Schnibble projects I did not even start.

This is a picture of a group of blocks for my area Shop Hop 2013. I have seven blocks I think. It will be a fall quilt top when finished. I will need to find a few blocks to round out to 12 then get it all worked together. 

Clear back at the beginning of May Green Fairy Quilts had a giveaway. I WON!! I won a fat quarter bundle of Posh Pumpkins by Sandy Gervais for Moda! I love it. Fall, orange, Halloween, pumpkins!! I tell you it was a match made in the pumpkin patch!!

Last year over at Making Ends Meet April had a Quilt Along that I was invited to join, Hello Sun. I love it. I have had these blocks done for a while but never took pictures of them. So in no specific order the last four blocks.

When I was done with all the blocks I took the rest of the yellow strips I had and made them into cute 3 1/2 inch squares. The idea was to use them in making the Hello Sun quilt. But now that I am doing Hello Moon, also at Making Ends Meet, I think I am going to wait. I might want to put all 24 blocks into the same quilt.

Here are the first four blocks of Hello Moon in no particular order. I have not done any of the stitching yet. 

I had some gift money that I used to buy me some goodies. I can't wait to play with them.

happy-go-lucky by Bonnie and Camille for Moda

 and Mod-Century by Jenn Sky for Moda. 

One last thing. I have been working on this little beauty for about a month now. I got the pattern from a friend and promptly went and bought fabric for it. Now that I have my sewing room I can see the kitchen table. Here are a few pictures of it's progress. I have the binding sewn on and I hope to finish it tonight or in the morning. I did not put any batting in it because I want it to be as flat as it can be.

 Sorry for the long post. Have a wonderful Sunday!!

TTFN

My Le Petite Parade

Starting back in September of last year Sinta at PINK PINCUSHION and Sherri at A Quilting Life started up Le Petite: a year of small projects. We have a fun year of making great projects. I did not get all of mine finished but I wanted to show what I did complete so welcome to my parade.  

October~Ironing Board Cover

October Paganini

November~Butterchurn

December~Prairie Point Christmas

January~Mon Ami

I have some of it done, but I did not finish it.

February~Sweet Spot

March~Endless Summer

April~Brocante

May~Candy Bar Pinwheel

It was not until I put the boarders on that I noticed I messed up the middle. When I am ready to finish it I will take it apart and fix it.

June~Ric Rac or Recess

I picked Ric Rac and have it mostly done but I have not finished it.

July~George

I have not even picked fabric for this one. LOL!

August~Honeycomb

September~Free Choice

Four Corners



I have had a lot of fun making these. I can't wait until January when they start up the next year if projects.