What’s on my Design Wall March 7, 2011
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There are 4 more blocks to appliqué, quilt and then attach to the quilt center (two blocks are already quilted). Then I’ve got to figure out my inner border. I could go buy more gold Dimples so there’s no thinking involved, but what fun would that be?
The quilt is a bit stiff at the moment — at least I hope it’s just at the moment. I don’t know if it’s the batting – Soft & Black, a needled polyester batting by Warn & Natural (no longer made); the basting spray; the amount of quilting or a combination of all three.
I’m quilting a 2″ diagonal grid up to the edge of the plate. I’ve stitched in the ditch around the outer edge of the plate and center and between each blade. The sashing is edge stitched on both edges. If you click on the picture and enlarge it the quilting is visible. I’m using black thread, so any white in the grid is the result of the marking, which will wash out.
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What’s on my Design Wall February 28, 2011
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Yes, it’s my Colorworks Dresden Plate – or what I’ve got done of it. I still lack 5 blocks, but that’s OK. This quilt is so much further along than it was on February 1st.
February 1st
Follow the links over at Patchwork Times to see what other quilters have on their design walls. And check back here after Judy posts the UFO Challenge # to see if I work on this as my UFO for another month, or make it my “current” project and pull another quilt into the mix.
What’s on my Design Wall? February 21, 2011
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Or perhaps a better title is Why UFOs are Created.
Last week I ran into an issue with my Dresden Plates. No, it’s not getting them to lay flat — although that can be a challenge — but rather I sewed the petals in the wrong order and didn’t discover it until I clipped and turned the plate. Argh! There was no salvaging that plate and since I used a smaller stitch, I wasn’t looking forward to ripping out the stitches on the 2nd plate sewn wrong, but not yet clipped.
So, I cut more petals – enough for 4 plates so I didn’t have to rip out the two plates I did back when I was first working on this project. Between this and that, all I accomplished on the Dresden Plate was getting the 4 new plates sewn together and prepping the centers . So, now there are 8 days left in the month and I’m supposed to finish the Dresden Plate because it’s UFO # 10.
So did I work on it over the weekend? No, I finished up the Dragonflies during the week and decided I needed to know if I had enough black and white fabric for the quilt. I did, so I starting cutting the fabric, essentially starting a new quilt over the weekend. Although technically it’s not a new quilt since I started the dragonflies last August.
I even held back on cutting the black squares, but that didn’t stop me from putting one block together. The yellow square was easy to cut from the yellow strip I’ve been hauling around since August. The only reason I don’t have more dragonfly blocks done, is I’ve got to trim them and that was going to take some time.
So, the Dresden Plate quilt could easily get set aside for the “new” quilt. It’s more exciting. It’s new. I want it finished by early April, and there’s no way I’m going to finish the Dresden Plate by the end of February, so give up and work on the new quilt.
But, instead I’m going to buck up, put the pieces for the dragonfly quilt in a bag and set it aside to work on next month. I’ve checked my calendar and there’s nothing on the schedule after work this week, so there should be nothing to prevent me from making progress. If As I make noticeable progress on the quilt, I’ll post pictures. But until then, I may be incognito.
Meanwhile, check out the quilts being worked on by others by following the links over at Patchwork Times.
What’s on my Design Wall February 14, 2011
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For this week’s design wall, I have three of my completed Dresden Plates for this month’s UFO Challenge. This does not include the two I made previously because I want to realign them on the background and change out the centers. The color is not very accurate in the above picture, but it’s pretty close in this second picture.
Notice anything wrong?
Yep — I sewed the quarters together wrong — at least twice — and didn’t notice it until I was turning the plate. I’m going to be cutting more blades later this week as I trimmed and clipped. I guess I need to go through the rest of the plates to see if they are put together correctly and see how many more I need to make.
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What’s on My Design Wall February 7, 2011
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Today it’s really What’s on my Scanner Bed. I was afraid to try to put them on the design wall. It looks like I’ll be redoing a couple of these before I put the top together. If they were all usable I’d be a little over 1/3 of the way done. I’m going to put these back in their envelope for a couple of weeks. I need to work on something bigger.
I still haven’t found the two completed (as in quilted) blocks to my UFO#10. I have no idea where they got to, but I have found the black batting, so I think I’m just going to regroup. There’s nothing stopping me from making the plates and appliquéing them to the background. The final decision will come when I see how many plates I can get from the fabric I have — there’s no buying new – the fabric is at least 20 years old.
Follow the links over at Patchwork Times for great inspiration.
What’s on My Design Wall January 31, 2011
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This is UFO #6 off the second list. Yes, I might just finish 2 UFOs this month. The binding is on and I just need to stitch it down — then decide if I need to go back and quilt the around the outside edge (I’m thinking yes.) I even have the quilt labeled.
Follow the links over at Patchwork Times to check out other design walls.
And check back this evening to see if I finish the quilt before midnight!
What’s on my Design Wall January 24, 2011
Posted by Pam in KC in Charm Challenge, designwall, UFO Challenge 2011.comments closed
This weekend I was on call for work, so I spent some quality time with my sewing machine and completed the center of my 2008 Charm Challenge quilt which is UFO #6 for Judy’s UFO Challenge. Now I’m working on the borders.
I had 13 1/2 inches of the green fabric and 7 inches of the peach. Needless to say my options were limited. I managed to mangle the math, but I think it’s going to be OK. The inner peach border will finish at 1/2 inch, the middle green border 1 inch and the outer border 3″. The finished size of the quilt will be about 54 x 76 — a smaller than the 60 x 85 I try to aim for.
Another evening or two, and I’ll have this quilt top finished and off my UFO list and on to my “to be quilted list”. I do hope that whatever # Judy draws next month, it’s something I can finish without much thought. #2 or #7 would be good numbers for February.
Check out what others are working on by following the links over at Patchwork Times.
What’s on my Design Wall January 17, 2011
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Eight more blocks and I’ll have all 96 blocks done. Then I can start sewing them into rows and ultimately a quilt top. I’m going to have to temporarily clear the hearth off so I can get the last two rows up on the design wall. Those blocks on the right really go on the bottom of the quilt.
For a border I’ve decided on three narrow inner borders – 3/4- inch green, 1/2 – inch peach, and 3/4 inch green — this will use up the remaining peach and green fabric. The final outer border and binding will be a 4 to 5 inch wide brown print. I finally found two different brown prints from the collection on-line and ordered one of them last night. Since Shangri-La is an older collection (2008), I’m thrilled that I can find anything in stock.
Since I’m off from work, I’ll spend a good bit of time working on this, hopefully finishing it up – well as much as I can with out the border fabric — and then get started on my next project.
Follow the links over at Judy’s to see if others are making progress on their UFOs or working on something new.
What’s on my Design Wall January 10, 2011
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Today’s wall contains UFO # 6 – the 2008 Charm Challenge. I found out the name of the charm pack is Shangra-La. It is a Moda line by 3 Sisters. I spent most of Friday evening cutting the light fabrics and part of Saturday cutting the green squares for the star points. I ‘batched’ up 9 kits of 8 blocks each and it looks like I have a few more light pieces to cut and definitely more green squares to cut. At the moment the plan is to make the quilt 8 blocks by 12 blocks.
This is the first time in a long time I’ve worked on just one project at a time. I don’t have a leader/ender project going. I’m not sure if that a good thing or a bad thing.
I hope to get this top finished by next weekend. I have a couple of current projects which I need to make progress on this month.
See if others are working on their UFO challenges or something else by following the links over at Patchwork Times.
What’s on my Design Wall December 27, 2010
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This is the last Design Wall post of the year. There’s nothing on the wall, but on my cutting mat I have No Blue Geese trimmed and ready for binding. Who knows, I might just have another finish for Finn’s New Year’s Eve UFO Challenge and I’ll need to find another quilt to put on my UFO Challenge 2011 list for the challenge Judy is sponsoring.
I can live with that.
See what others are working on this last week of the year, by following the links over at Patchwork Times.
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