Spring!

 

Spring?  I hope this is a sign that it is here for good.  My husband bought a bag of bulbs on clearance in the fall and we now have daffodils sprouting as a lovely spring surprise!

 

And to mark the end of the month, I have a UFO completed!  This HST quilt has been hanging out for sometime even after I got the top pieced and quilted I procrastinated on getting the binding on.

 

 

The backing is a super cute feather print that I bought just for this quilt shortly after I started the HST's.  The binding matches nicely, emerald green kona. 

WIP 2/20/13

 Ongoing project, in the order I get to work on them...

 

 

 I have the perfect color for the border and binding of this quilt!

It is Kona Cotton Cerise and I think it has just the right pop without overwhelming the quilt colors.

 

 

The HST quilt is quilted and I sergred around the edge in preparation for binding.  With all the bias edges on there was some jockeying around, but it is all sewn up ... debating on ash binding or maybe teal?   

 

 

The blocks for the scrappy string cousin quilt are done and ready to be sewn together.  I have a lovely backing picked out all ready!

 

My crazy plan for the year, each new project must be balanced by the completion of an existing one from the list below, so, the above are listed in that criteria, ending with a new for year project meaning I need to pick off the list something to finish up next before starting this....   

 

This is the pile I started on my my daughters college quilt.... Its the second pile since in the fall I was collecting red.while.grey with elephants, but no matter,people change thier minds, I think this time for the better, and I now have a nice red white grey pile. 

She is attending Baylor in the fall!  I was originally going to to a strip quilt, like the scrap on in the works, alternating green/yellow, but an open to recommendations and suggestions. Not too much white since it will be in a dorm room.

 

She was admitted to the honors dorms which are in the center of the campus, one of the oldest buildings.  She sleeps under 4 quilts I made here at home, so I want this one to be a quilt cheery and warm for her new space, her new adventure!

 
Olds quilt list :
 Rainbow blocks, Chubby Stars QAL, American Jane blocks, Round & Round, Pinwheel Sampler, postage stamp, Swoon, Arcadia (HST- called up, not done)

Where is my mojo?

 Interrupting my sewing always ends up in a lag, I need a jump start to get restarted...

 

I was happy wiht getting the HST done, but now its quilted and sitting just waiting to be bound.

The Scrappy Trip-along has the perfect color for a border and is sitting waiting to be completed.

All the squares for the strip step-child are done too.... I just can't get the interest together to work on any of them. 

What I do have are flags, that fray and need to be fixed.  Above is a nice example of how this nasty foil lame frays,

 

and here they look all neat after I trimmed and sewed the hems again, sometimes having to trim 3 inches because of fray....  Cotton quilt fabric does not fray, you would think that would be enough to excite me to work on my projects.

Another one bites the dust!

 

Another UFO, completed!

 

According to this post I started this a little over 2 years ago.

I have worked on it here and there but when I pulled it out last week I was surprised at how little time it took to finish it up, at least once I got the 1/2 yard of fabric ordered and received that was required.

 

 

It  was a tad windy on Sunday when I took the pictures, and boy does that fence need stain.

 

The quilt includes lots of muted, non-bright fabrics, some are bits and pieces sent as 'extras' in trades. Its a simple 5" HST with Ash Kona cotton.  Love this color... not to grey, not to khaki.

 

 

Thanks to the wind I was able to get this picture of the backside...

don't look to close as it is a mess.

 

 

 

It comes out to 85 x 66, so a nice snuggle size.  I had already bought the fabric for backing, have it pieced and ready to go... but the myth of flag fabric being delivered continues so I will be stacking this in the corner for now.

 

 

 

And here is the first set of flags in use!  I didn't have to make them... after not getting the fabric all week we called found out it had slipped in the process and was never sent so they made them up for us free of charge! 

I don't always...

 

 

I don't always pay full price for fabric

(actually hardly ever),

 

 

 

But when I do,

It better be good!

 

Why do I wait 2 years after a fabric comes out then decide I MUST have it? 

I was lucky that the only place on this continent that I found using google search that had at least two of the three colorways for this print was 30 miles from my house.  I only found 3 other places in the US that had one or the other... 

 

Friday I drove down and got them.

 

Thursday WIP

Well, its Thursday, but better late than never, especially when I am not actually working on anything now, just waiting on fabric.

Since my last WIP check in I completed the Scrappy Trip along top.
 

 

 

I purchased Crocus Kona (way more purple than picture) for the border/binding, but am not in love with it and am thinking of ordering Cerise. 

 

 

 

While waiting for fabric to come in for flag work I pulled this out.  I ran out of the Ash Kona so had to order it as none of the three fabric stores in the area that carry Kona have this color.

 

 

 

The Scrappy String quilt has been put on time out pending completion of an UFO. 

That is my crazy plan for the year, each new project must be ballanced by the completion of an existing one from the list below:

 

 

Rainbow blocks, Chubby Stars QAL, American Jane blocks, Round & Round, Pinwheel Sampler, postage stamp, Swoon, Arcadia (HST which is what got called from the list this week to work on)

 

 

Trip - done!

 

 

1744 pieces combined to make this quilt.  Most were from the scrap strip container, lots of binding ends and trimmings from backings since I allow about 4 inches extra on my backings.

 

 

Since I am pretty anti-random some rules had to be established, which you may be able to determine from just looking at it.  The first is that a dark ran through the middle, second was each block had a solid, third was each had a yellow fabric. 

 

When choosing the fabrics I eliminated brown tones.  I had satisfied my warm scrappy yearnings with Scraptastic last year.

 

I made the blocks with 7x7 rather than the standard 6x6 strips. The quilt is 6x6 blocks, 80" square.  I am pretty sure I will be adding a solid border around the edges, probably 5" which will make this perfect for my queen sized bed. The blue sky is inspiring me to maybe go with a blue :) 

 

However, border will have to wait as I got my flag order for the spring this week and once fabric arrives will be making 62 for the Winter Guard show.  

 

Sharing this weeks accomplishment with the Whoop Group!