Warm Hands

I finished the felt ornaments I've been working on this afternoon.  They were a kit that I bought several years ago, and I'm just getting around to working on them.  I was happy with the kit except that it did not include enough floss to complete the embroidery and blanket stitching.  I substituted pearl cotton when I ran out.

These will probably be a gift for my friend's adult daughters.  It feels good to already have a Christmas gift made!

Linking up:https://sewfreshquilts.blogspot.com/2019/04/lets-bee-social-265.html

Goose in the Pond Variation

I got my red and white Goose in the Pond sewn together on Saturday.  It always takes me longer to sew blocks together than I think it should.  I stop and press with each addition because I don't like to do all the pressing at the end.

 I'm very happy with the way this top turned out.  I was hoping to make something a little smaller since it will be for display, not a bed, but I would have had to make super tiny nine patches to make it smaller. Three inch nine patches was as small as I wanted to go.   This quilt is about 64"x84".

I have already talked to Denise about custom quilting it.  There is a lot of white space for feathers or another design.  She suggested a double batting.  Can't wait to have this one done and on display!

Linking up: https://sewfreshquilts.blogspot.com/2019/03/lets-bee-social-264.html

Stash Report:

Used this week:  4.25 yards (GITP variation)

Used year to date: 47.5 yards

Added this week:  5.0 ( Kona White)

Added year to date: 43.375 yards

Net Used: 4.125 yards

RSC, Green

Green is the color for this month's Rainbow Scrap Challenge.  I have a lot of green scraps!  I am still working on Melissa Correy's End of the Rainbow.  I have 1/3 of the blocks made already!

Here are the green blocks.

Here are the green and yellow together.  I couldn't resist seeing what they will look like in the finished quilt.

Linking up:  http://smallquiltsanddollquilts.blogspot.com/2019/03/design-wall-monday-march-26-2019.html

March Sewing

We took a five day  trip to Atlanta, GA to visit my brother and his three kids.  We toured CNN, the World of Coke, the aquarium, the zoo, the Atlanta History Center,  and the site of the first Chic-Fil-A, which we stumbled upon by accident.  We also went to two T-ball games,  to dinner twice, and read lots of bedtime stories.  I taught my niece to cross stitch.  We had a fun trip.  I was expecting it to be warm, but it never really got to 60, and I was glad I had packed my sweatshirts.

I had hoped to post before my trip, but I never got around to it.  I have been cross stitching and quilting.  I made a St. Patrick's Day ornament for my friend Sue, but failed to take a picture of it.  It was an Old World Santa kit by Mill Hill.  I didn't like the way they had done the beard in the kit, so I made mine out of Whisper, which is fuzzy and looks like real hair.  I was sure I had a picture of it, but it isn't on my phone or camera, so I guess not.

I have been working on one of the red and white quilts.  This one is a modified Goose in the Pond, set on point.  All the blocks are made.  I just need time to sew them together.

I have also been working on some wool applique ornaments, a kit I bought several years ago.  I want to get as many kits as I can stitched and out of my sewing room.

Wool applique is really fun to do. I can see how I could get hooked on it. It is much faster than cross stitching, and the stitching can be imprecise and still look ok.  It probably took an hour to make this ornament.  Five more to go!

Sedona, March

I finished Sedona's March row a couple of weeks ago but held off on posting until March.  March's row is the one that looks like a red, four-petalled flower on a white background.  This block was time consuming, requiring cutting, squaring up each quadrant and more sewing. All this manipulation made it easy to make mistakes. I am not exactly sure which step was my problem, but my blocks are all a little off.

 I think it will be ok once the quilt is finished and washed.

Linking up:
http://whatahootquilts.blogspot.com/2019/03/boms-away-heathers-graduation-dahlia.html

Fall Panel OBW

I  don't think I have blogged about this quilt yet.  My friends Jen and Kate got me 7 Northcott panels when a LQS was having a big sale last year.  I wish I would have taken pictures of the original panel, but I can't find one.  Here is the quilt I made from the panels:

This quilt is 56"X 53".

I usually put an original, uncut panel on the back of my OBWs, but I had to cannibalize the 7th one to get enough of the brown to finish the front.  I was able to use some wide back Northcott that I had left over from a different quilt.

Denise Zapf of Quilting Mojo did the longarming.  She chose the pattern, which is full of swirls, and looks great on the quilt.  It is very hard to photograph, though, because the beautiful brown King Tut thread disappears on both the front and the back.

Linking up:  http://smallquiltsanddollquilts.blogspot.com/2019/03/design-wall-monday-march-4-2019.html

Stash Report:

Used this week: 13.875 yards

Used year to date: 43.25 yards

Added this week:  0

Added year to date: 38.375 yards

Net Used: 4.875 yards

Summer Stars At Fawn Lake

I have been working on this quilt for so long, I can't even remember if the name of it is Summer Stars At Fawn Lake or Summer Stars On Fawn Lake or Summer Stars Over Fawn Lake.  I think I have referred to it as all three of these!  In any event, I put a border on this quilt this weekend, and now it feels done to me.  Except for the quilting, of course.

This is a big quilt.  With the borders it is 93"x 105", a little small for our king bed, a little large for our queen.  Maybe one of my sibling can use it.

Used this week: 1.5 yards ( SSAFL border)

Used year to date: 29.375 yards

Added this week:  6 yards ( backing for SSAFL, Will's quilt)

Added year to date: 38.375

Net Added:   9.0 yards