Quilt Diary: Home for the Weekend

This is my first weekend home for a few weeks.  Looking at my November and December schedules, it looks like I will be home more than not for once.  This fall has been crazy busy with hockey tournaments.  We will be heading out again this weekend for a weekend of hockey in Long Beach!  Let’s get started on what I have been working on this weekend. Continue reading “Quilt Diary: Home for the Weekend”

Quilt Diary: October One Monthly Goal

I missed my September One Monthly Goal, so I am resetting that same goal for October.  I will finish 4 Halloween placemats.  I was defeated by my sewing machine last month.  Of course if I had not waited til the last week to press forward, it would have been a non issue.  I just need to finish free motion quilting and binding these cute placemats. I am linking up with Patty at Elm Street Quilts.  Quilting these 4 placemats are this week’s #onethingwithAmy goal as well.

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Front of Halloween Placemats

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Quilt Diary: Schoolhouse Mug Rug Finish

Coming to you from Starbucks Reserve in Cupertino at 6am.  Yes – hockey.  It’s been a busy week.  I would love to say all the busy was quilting but my day job and my night job keep getting in the way.  LOL! Continue reading “Quilt Diary: Schoolhouse Mug Rug Finish”

Quilt Diary: SAL Update

Coming to you from Denver today.  On the road for hockey with my grandson Shaun.  We are in day 2 of this tournament.  We have played so very physical teams and hard teams.  We managed to squeak out a win 3 out of 3 games.  Playoffs start this afternoon so I thought I would squeeze in a quick post between games since I didn’t post anything on Wednesday.  And that would be because Sunday the washer died and I ended up running around all over town to get a new washer and dryer by Wednesday so we could finish washing clothes for hockey.  Very little sewing really happened at the sewing machine. Continue reading “Quilt Diary: SAL Update”

Quilt Diary: A Year In Words-Autumn Finish for Quarter 3 FAL 2019

Woohoo!  Finally wrapped up this project that has been in my sewing room for over a year.  It felt good to hang it on the wall yesterday.  I absolutely love the hanger I purchased from Ackfeld Manufacturing a month ago.  I did not realized that the leaves were colored until I took it out of the package.  So nice!  My larger series, I usually buy one hanger for the series.  I haven’t decided if I will continue using this hanger for the whole series.  I originally bought the WELCOME hanger for this series but decided it was too many words.  We shall see.  For now, I am very pleased at the end result!  Here are a few more photos of the final process this week.

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Quilt Diary: Mama Gypsy Update

Hi Everyone!  I finally finished all the blocks for the Mama Gypsy Quilt QAL that ended August 31st.  I liked this pattern and it is a great way to show off some special focus fabric.  This pattern was tooted a fat quarter friendly pattern, but I would have to disagree with that.  Yes you can use fat quarters, but do not expect to use just fat quarters and the background fabric for this entire quilt.  With the challenges of fabric placement that I faced in this pattern, I would be inclined to use fat quarters for all the large area blocks with some fat quarters from a fat quarter set, but the accents and diamonds that are formed, that is questionable.  I did not have enough diversity in one fat quarter bundle to do this nor could one fat quarter cut all four triangles.  Now pulling from your stash, that is a real possibility to use all fat quarters.  I ended up using my half-yard bundle to get a satisfactory layout.  I am very happy with my layout. Continue reading “Quilt Diary: Mama Gypsy Update”

Quilt Diary: Sept 2019 One Monthly Goal

September is here and it is time to linkup with Elm Street Quilts for the One Monthly Goal. I have been thinking about this for the last few days wondering what I should commit to. Thinking about what is close to being done and I just need a little push. I narrowed down to four possibilities: Schoolhouse mug rugs, Blooming Pansies, Autumn wall hanging, or pulling out my Halloween/October placemats. The verdict is: Halloween/October placemats! It is time to pull them out of the closet and finish them up. So I am committing to making four October placemats with my purple, black, and orange kitty fabric.  See above for sample. Continue reading “Quilt Diary: Sept 2019 One Monthly Goal”

Quilt Diary: Bunny Wooly Mug Rugs finish!

I have my first February finish!  I finished up my bunny wooly mug rugs.  We are all set for Easter.  I am linking this up with the first Quarter of the 2019 Finishalong. My original list of goals can be found HERE.

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Quilt Diary: Christmas Table Glitz done!

Tutorial on making place mats

It was exciting to finish up my Christmas place mats, napkins, and table runner this past weekend.  I am trying to use up all my left over Christmas fabric so I have started some hot pads with mini dresdens on (#tinydresdenparty2019)  They were fun to do but more challenging then the typical dresden being about half the size.  I have included a link to Quilty Obsessions website where the directions and template for the mini dresden can be found.  Enjoy.

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