Sunday Sewing

I was determined I was going to sew today and worked my schedule around it. I woke up early and got to it.

These are this months "Sylvia's Bridal Sampler" blocks I was scheduled to do. The upper left one was done by hand during the week. Y-seams galore. UGH! These were NOT fun this month. I am so glad they are done.
This is the last "Farmer's Wife" block I had to do this month.
I am still working on the Applique on the center medallion for "Vintage Valentine". There are a bazillion pieces but I think I am down to the last twenty or so.

I started cutting the fabrics for "Cracked Pots" today. I started with the 15 light fat quarters. I don't know how I did it but I am so short of fabric. I must have read the directions wrong. I am short 34 - 1 1/2 x 21" strips. HUH??? I went step by step. These weren't the easiest cutting instructions I have ever had. I still don't know what I did wrong but I will have to go back in my CW crate and pull out a few more fat quarters to make up for it. I still have to cut out the red's and the blue's. I do not look forward to it but will be glad when it is over. It's a good thing I have plenty of CW fabrics and more on the way.

Have a great week! I hope all of you have time to sew and plenty of fabric.

Civil War Blocks

I hid away in my sewing cave as much as I could this weekend. I had so much to do that I would get out of bed at 5am to make sure I could get it all done and have time to play. We even lost an hour this weekend. Why do they take our weekend time away??? Why can't they change the time on a Monday at 2pm?

I was able to knock out 4 Farmer's Wife blocks this morning. I did these before 8am.
I started these "Civil War Chronicles" blocks last weekend. On Friday night I worked on them a few hours and yesterday morning I finished them up. I spent as much time reverse sewing as I did sewing. I could not get them to 16 1/2". I got them as close as possible and called them done. No way was I going to even try to redo them.
Once they were finished I was able to add the first three months together.
That's all I have this weekend. Next weekends sewing time looks bleak. I may have to work 11 days in a row due to a convention next weekend. :(

I hope everyone has a great week with plenty of play time. I am off to prep some hand work to keep my busy the next 11 days.

Weekly check in

Hi Friends! I was finally reacquainted with my Bernina this morning. I was able to get March's "Civil War Tribute" blocks done. There are 2@ 18.5" and 2@12.5". These went together pretty easy and no triangle tips were harmed in the process. What a miracle!!

I also made 64 HST's for this months "Civil War Chronicles" BOM but I forgot to take a picture of them. This month I used Triangulations and it was so much easier.

I finished my "Kitchen Fairy" BOM this week too.
I also finished 20 more Klosjes this week. That brings my total to 75. I will decide what to do when I reach 200. Either I make something with the 200 or I make more.
I also gathered all the fabrics for the "Cracked Pots" quilt. Ranette posted her fabrics here.

That's it for this week. My goal this week is to stitch the rest of the "Vintage Valentine" medallion. I am about 1/2 way there!! I also hope to get started on my Stitch-a-long blocks.

Have a great week!!!

A Finish!

I sent my "Berry Picking Party" off to be quilted by C.J. I mailed it on a Monday and ten days later it was back in my arms. She did a fabulous job quilting this! I just LOVE it. The pantograph she recommended is just perfect and so are the stitches. All that needs to be done is a label and it will be ready for its new home.

No sewing took place at my house this weekend. :( I did get some fabrics together for a quilt I will be doing with Ranette and Joy. I am going to do mine in red, blue Civil War's and light shirtings. Here is a picture of the quilt.............

I did everything on my February To-Do list. I started working on my "Vintage Valentine" UFO. I prepped 104 applique pieces and will start the stitching process tonight.

Here is my March To-Do list:

1) 1- "Kitchen Fairy" block

2) 5- "Sylvia's Bridal Sampler" blocks

3) 5- "Farmer's Wife" blocks

4) 20 - Klosjes

5) Month 3 of "Civil War Chronicles"

6) Month 3 of "Civil War Tribute"

7) Work on "Blue Ridge Beauty" leader & ender project

8) 1- "Baltimore Bunny"

9) 1- "Lovebird Lane" block

9) Cut & label "Cracked Pots"

UFO to work on: Vintage Valentine

I hope everyone has a fantastic week!

Catching up with my February list.

It looks like I have accomplished most of my February list. I still need to work on my Leaders & Enders pieces and then I can start working on an old UFO, "Vintage Valentine".

These blocks are month 2 of "Civil War Tribute" I was in HST hell!

EDIT: YIKES! The top two rows on the top two blocks are turned upside down. Thank you Monica for letting me know. I will fix that next weekend.

This is month 6 of "Baltimore Bunnies"
I also did F-9 of "Sylvia's Bridal Sampler". I then attached it to the rest of the rows I have made.
I finished another 10 Klosjes as my lunch hour project. I am up to 55. I will wait until I have 200 to see how many more I will make.
These are the 5 blocks I planned on doing this month on "Farmer's Wife"




I am also going to start attaching the rows as I go.
Last, but not least. Here is my helper, Linda. She managed to get some quilt blocks to cover her this morning and took a nap.
I hope to have a finish to show you all next week. I sent a quilt out to C.J. and all I have to do is attach the binding. I may sneak that in during the week.

I want to again wish all of you a great week. Stay safe! Stay healthy! Be Happy!

Happy Valentines Day!

I am the luckiest girl this Valentine Day. Look at the surprise I found in my mailbox this past week. Carrie made me a special card and a Valentine Lavender Sachet. It is so adorable!! She also sent me a fat quarter and some chocolate. YUM! Thank you so much Carrie! You are the best!! You can head over to Carrie's blog and enter to win one of these special gifts.
I managed to finish my "Civil War Chronicles" blocks for February. These took a LOT of time. They measure 16 1/2" each.
I finished another "Baltimore Bunny" block too.
On my lunch hour I managed to get another 10 klosjes done. These are really the perfect portable project.
On to "Sylvia's Bridal Sampler". I am supposed to get 5 done this month. I managed to get 4 done this morning and I prepped the 5th one to do by hand. I am hoping to get the hand one done this week and add it to the others to finish another row. You can see my progress by clicking on the Frog on the upper right corner of my Blog.



That's all for this week. The month is about half gone and I am about half into my to-do list. Yay!

I hope everyone had a Happy Valentines Day. Be sure to have a safe, healthy, happy, crafty week!

First Weekend in February

The weekend was a bust as far as getting my quilt on. I managed a few hours this morning to cut and put together about 64 of 128 HST's that I need for my "Civil War Tribute" BOM. I hope to get the other 64 HST's and get the four blocks together next weekend. I also have block 2 of "Civil War Tribute" cut and hope that next weekend they will take shape. I also prepped another "Baltimore Bunny" BOM to hand stitch during the week.

On my lunch hours at work I stitched all 10 of my Klosjes I prepped last weekend. I also prepped another 10 to do this week. This is the perfect portable project for work. I think that next weekend I will prep a "Dear Jane" block and see how that goes. If I get the knack of this hand stitching thing maybe my Jane will get finished.
I also finished my first "Kitchen Capers" BOM. I was going to add the other elements to it but I noticed that I didn't have enough of a variety of fabrics. I am going to wait until I receive all packs and then put the other elements of the block together.
That's all I have for the week. :( I sure hope I have more time next weekend. This work thing just isn't helping me. LOL! I really thought the city of Los Angeles should have taken a "snow day" to sympathize for all of our brothers and sisters on the east coast.

Have a happy, heathy, safe, crafty week.