Hello motivated do'ers and welcome to our weekly
Tuesday To Do party hosted by Quilt Schmilt
along with Sew & Tell by Melva Loves Scraps!
Gosh the Tuesdays just keep rollin' by! With time
flying like that, I think I'll just to get right to it!
* * Week 11 Priority! * *
Start on West Point quilt #5
Lots of progress!
I'm needing a larger version of a previously-made
WP quilt (pictured above). I keep fabrics in these colors
on hand but bigger quilts = bigger amounts of fabric.
After runs to two LQS's, I'm now set with enough fabric to
make at least one and perhaps a few more.
Oh, okay, I may have brought home a few other fabrics
as well, but don't get me off-topic!
I'm focused and currently working on making two of them.
2) Design and start challenge quilt for local charity
Still looking through ideas but I picked up some
coordinating fabrics while at the LQS's.
3) Start charity quilts for church sewing group.
Done.
(53x53)
Being fairly short on time, I really need all of these charity
quilts to be pretty simple so for this first one I chose
Jenny Doan's (MSQC) Charm Quilt On-Point tutorial.
It's an interesting (and quick!) construction but it left
a couple sets of same-fabric squares right next to
each other. I think with most charm packs, though,
there is more variety so that's less likely to happen.
These donated charm packs contained only 21
squares each. I believe someone said they
thought they were from Big Lots? They all required
straightening and/or trimming to size but for non-LQS
fabric, I thought the quality was decent enough
and prints were cute.
Most of this is from donated fabric but I added the
border and backing fabrics along with the batting
that I pieced together from a few large scraps.
If I hadn't first worked on something else and gotten an
earlier start on this, I could have actually made it entirely
in one day. I finished the quilting by late afternoon but
had to put off the binding for the next day.
Still, not too bad at all!
One charity quilt down, several more to go..
4) Quilt MIL's second quilt
Done.
This one turned out really well
(I still need to get both quilts back to my MIL though!)
And for those other two side gigs:
No progress.
2) Second of "two baby quilts from one layer cake"
No progress.
Other things:
Tilled 2 beds in the garden and planted the early crops.
Cleaned asparagus patch and discovered spears shooting
up already! Our fence is ready to be picked up already so
I've started tearing down the old wooden one.
I continue to deal with tech issues but I learned that
this latest was just a faulty pedal on my new Pfaff.
I just love the machine and it continues to save me
so much time in various ways (outside of two extra
trips to the store for diagnosing!) so I'm relieved that
it was such a simple fix. However, I'm starting to feel
like simple days of sewing and quilting must only
exist in some sort of fantasy world.
The week ahead should shed a little light on that.
As of right now, most of my week is open for sewing
and quilting with a little garden work and golf thrown in
to get me out of the house so I made an aggressive list:
1) Finish WP quilt #'s 5 and 6
2) Settle on charity challenge quilt design
3) Catch up on Edyta's QAL
4) Piece 2nd layer-cake quilt (chain)
And if the weather just happens to cooperate:
5) Get pics of 3 finished quilts and list
That's a hefty list so I'd better get right on it.
See you all right back here next week.
Happy quilting!
See you all right back here next week.
Happy quilting!
Comments
One of these days it will be spring here and I can think about planting and growing things. Minimal, for sure. But there will be color on the porch and maybe tomatoes and herbs on the deck.
WP is a pretty quilt,the squares on point is a cute quilt for donation and will warm and give confort for someone in need.
Best wishes for a nice week.