Quilting, Cross Stitch & Travel Adventures
April is winding up and so I thought I would give an update on my one monthly goal which was the Baby Rag Quilt. FINISHED!!! I am so excited to finish. I had hoped to do some different techniques on the squares, just ran out of time.
Continue reading “Quilt Diary: April One Monthly Goal Finish”
This has been a crazy April so far. Big quilting plans with a lot of interruptions. Spent Friday – Wednesday packing my kitchen and garage in preparation for the restoration back in Nov when a leaking pipe flooded my house. After arriving in Indiana this afternoon, I got a call that the HVAC guy discovered another leak. So all work has halted until it can be fixed by the plumber. He can’t come until Tuesday!!! All of my appliances are gone out of the kitchen in preparation for the cabinet guy to come and scoop out all the old cabinets to make way for the new. Master bath getting a facelift also this week and next week. Chaos reigns!
Well it is time to set some new goals to aim high. Of course, I will try and be more realistic, but I am an eternal optimist. In my opinion, this is a good trait overall. Just sometimes I disappoint myself and have to do a selfcheck. Enough philsophy. More quilting! I am linking up with Capitola Quilter and the 2018 FinishALong. Just click on the button below to go to her website!
Hello Everyone!It is hard to believe it has already been three months. I have to laugh as the eternal optomist, I really thought I could make a bigger dent in my wish list. Looking back, I realize the list itself was not a problem, just what I thought I would be able to do with each project. I am a multiple project person. I love working on multiple things at once. It is …. more exciting and fun! Continue reading “Quilt Diary: 2018 FAL First Quarter Ended”
It is that time to set my April one monthly goal with Elm Street Quilts. It is to cut, piece, and quilt a baby rag quilt for my co-worker who will be going out on maternity leave 6 weeks early. No time to mess around she is leaving before the end of April. Luckily, I have been playing around with it since January so have already decided on the pattern (for the front) and bought the fabric. I still have to figure out the back before cutting it. this will be the hard part.
Woohoo!
My goal for March was to finish quilting Caitlin’s pixel portrait.
Finished quilting my pixel portrait from 2011 PIQF! Can’t believe I finished the quilting just in a nick of time. Now just need to finish the blog, get it posted and linked up and we will finally have success. I seemed to always be challenged with the linkup so we shall see. Linking up with Elm Street March One Monthly Goal.
Hello Everyone:
It’s been a very busy month. It has been fun participating in the Insgtagram Photo Challenge for #igquiltfest hosted by @amyscreativeside. It is quickly coming to an end with only two days left. I have loved looking at everyone’s projects, tips, fabric, etc. Continue reading “Quilt Diary: March Progress”
Hello Fellow Adventurers:
Last week while doing the #igquiltfest photo challenge, an interesting prompt came up that I realized I had no such thing – Solids only quilt. I have never done a quilt out of all solids. Obviously I use solids a lot just like most quilters. I have done solid read fabric quilts such as batiks, tone on tone, or blenders. When I decided to do this 365 Block Challenge in all solids, it really simplified everything! It will be so easy to add fabrics as needed. No matching required. I chose blue-green as my main color. The challenge is dark dark to very light. I decided to use black as my dark dark. I am happy with that choice. It looks great. You also have a background very light (white for me) and light (silver/gray) for me. I am so happy with these choices. I think the quilt will look so cool!
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The weekend went semi how I hoped. I did get a lot of hockey in. Way more than I anticipated which cut into my quilt time. But I was able to update my Quilt-A-Long and Sew-A-Long list and feel like I know what I need to do and even get semi caught up. Continue reading “Quilt Diary: March 12 Update on quarter goals”
Hello everyone!
I was reviewing the goals I set for this quarter to set my March #onemonthlygoal. I had decided on quilting the pixel picture of my daughter Caitlin, which you already know. Continue reading “Quilt Diary: March & Quarter 1 Goals”
