One More Quilt

I completed this quilt top about 5 years ago in a class on color.  The goal of this class was to step out of our usual color palette.  I think this quilt looks preppy:  pink and green.

 

This quilt is 62"x69".  It is a gift for a college friend who has been having some health issues.  The back is peacock pinwale corduroy. 

 It reminds me of my college years at William and Mary (1980-1984).  Lots of the Greek girls wore  bright florals in pink and green.  That is, when they weren't wearing plaid skits and clogs.  ( I spent hours in the chemistry lab, so my  college wardrobe was old, holey jeans, T-shirts and sneakers.)

Linking up with Sarah:  http://confessionsofafabricaddict.blogspot.com/2014/12/can-i-get-whoop-whoop-successful.html
and http://crazymomquilts.blogspot.com/2014/12/quiet-christmas-quilt-top.html

Grand Illusion, Step 4

I'm happy to report that I completed Step 4 last Friday.  It was a relatively easy step, which I appreciate this time of year!  I won't be working on Step 5 until at least Dec. 30 because of Christmas.

 

Linking up with Bonnie:  http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2014/12/mystery-monday-link-up-part-4.html

Stash Report and Snap Bags

I made a couple of  little snap bags for Christmas gift cards holders this week.

 

Then I looked through a bag of scraps a friend had given me and made a snap bag for her out of some her orphan blocks.  She will get it back for Christmas, but I need to think of something small to put into the bag too.

 

 

 

 There are many tutorials online for snap bags that use metal measuring tapes as closures. The hardest part of making these little bags is cutting the metal measuring tape.  I bought a new one to cut up, but last night my DH told me he had just thrown away an old one! The first snap bag I made didn't turn out big enough, even for a gift card!  I will probably take that one apart and salvage the fabric.

Used This Week:  0.25 yards                                                    
Used Year to Date: 75.625 yards 
Added this week:  0 yards 
Added year to date: 81.875 yards
 Net Added:  6.25  yards

To see more stash reports:  http://www.patchworktimes.com/2014/12/21/fabric-report-week-51-2014/

Wild and Goosey

I have bags of quilting crumbs, strings and trash scraps, little bits most people would throw away.  I have wanted to use some of them for a while now but hadn't found the right project.  Last week I came across Wild and Goosey on Angela's blog and fell in love with it.

http://moderndiary.blogspot.com/2014/12/christmas-past-and-presents.html

Yesterday I started making Wild and Goosey blocks.  They are paper pieced and take a while to do, but they are so cute!

 

This will have to be a long term project.  I'll need to make many of them before I have enough for a quilt!

Grand Illusion, Step 3

I haven't completed GI step 3 yet, but I have 240 partial units made. They should be finished by the time the next clue comes out on Friday.

We were out of town this weekend for a soccer tournament, so I didn't have much time to sew.  The weather was a pleasant surprise.  Saturday night's game was pretty cold, but it was almost 60 Sunday morning.  Warmer than I would have expected for a December tournament! 

Linking up with Bonnie:  http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2014/12/mystery-monday-link-up-part-3.html

Stash Report

I planned to use only my stash for Bonnie Hunter's new mystery.  You know where this is going already, right?  Well I didn't have enough orange, or rather, I had enough orange but not enough variety in orange for a scrap quilt.   So I went by an LQS and solved that problem. A couple of the pieces are from April Rosenthal's new line BEST.DAY.EVER!  I like the bright colors in this line of fabric.

 I'm thinking about maybe making a quilt for a little girl out of this line because my brother and his partner may be adopting again!  The child they adopted last year has a brother and half sister who are coming up for adoption, and the agency asked if they would be interested in the other two kids.  Nothing is set in stone yet, and we'll know more in January.  But if they do adopt, both kids will need welcome to the family quilts!

Used This Week:  0 yards                                                    
Used Year to Date: 75.375 yards 
Added this week: 1.75 yards 
Added year to date: 81.875 yards
 Net Added:  6.5 yards

We are out of town, so I have no new quilt pictures to share, but I try to post a new pictures with every post, so here's my first amaryllis to bloom.  It is super short, just about 12 inches tall.  I've never had good luck with amaryllis bulbs, so I'm happy to see it bloom.

 

To see more stash reports:  http://www.patchworktimes.com/2014/12/14/stash-report-week-50-2014/

Sewing Space

In less than two hours, I got 80% of the mess in my sewing space cleaned up.  It's not all organized, but scraps are all picked up, trash thrown away and the floor is vacuumed.

 

My sewing machine is in the corner of our bedroom, so out of respect for my husband, I try and keep things reasonably neat.  Once in a while it gets out of control, but he never complains. 

 

I'm ready to sew now!