design wall

Yesterday was a really good day in the sewing room. I got all the blocks from last time's design wall into the first 2 Christmas tops, now i need to make a few more blocks to get twin size quilts out of them. Then I finished the baby quilt that I showed in the last post. I also made these 9patch's and snowballs out of some more of the Christmas fabrics. And last but not least I started the quilting on another twin size UFO. All in all I think I got more sewing done yesterday than I have since Christmas. Today the only goal is to finish the quilting on that twin, which may be more difficult than I want it to be since Tuesdays are my crazy days. On Tuesdays I leave the house at 8:30 am and don't get home till 8:30 pm. When you add to that getting kids ready for school before and ready for bed after, there just is not a lot of day left.

first finish of 2010!

This is my new niece's baby quilt. She was born in early november while my machine was down, but now the machine is home so i was able to finish this today.

stash report

I missed the stash report last week beacuse we were out of town so this is 2 weeks in one.
this week:
yards in: 2.75
yards used: 4.75
net this week: -2yds

Year to date:
yards in:2.75
yards used 45.25
Net year to date:- 42.5yds

mystery quilt tops

These are 2 of the mystery quilt tops I started New Years Eve. I started one more but its a long term mystery so pics of that will have to wait. They were both a lot of fun and went together well even on the baby machine. I am so glad my Pfaff is home and I can start quilting again instead of just pieceing. Especially since the plan is to get rid of the UFO's not start new ones!

actually ahead of schedule

I've been too busy crocheting to really quilt lately. And since my good machine has been in the shop for so long its been good to have another hobby close by and ready to go. These gals will adorn the top of the curio cabinet in the living room when their holiday comes around. I'm looking for a twig tree to set up there with them and decorate too, but so far no luck. I was going to just go find an appropriate branch outside but with the weather this winter I don't think that's going to work anytime soon either. Ms St Pats still needs her "tam o'shanter" hat attached but I'm not quite sure how I'm going to do that. Ms Valentines needs a heart or itty bitty stuffed critter to hold i think too. And I need to remember to get a couple more stands for them since I prefer to attach the stands permanently. I'm hoping to put Ms Valentine up this afternoon-I think i've still got one stand unused hanging around here somewhere!

design wall monday...already late

I took this picture last night hoping to post it for design wall Monday over at Judy L's blog. But Someone was on the computer until way late last night so this morning has to be close enough. This is the first few blocks of one of my resolution quilts. The resolution was to empty out a cubby full of Christmas fabrics, so I've cut up about 3.5 yards of Christmas and white fabrics to start this quilt. I'm starting with any Christmas fabric that is cut width of fabric(as opposed to true scraps and fq) and less than 1/2 yard.

I seem to have lots of non traditional Christmas colors in my Christmas prints. Would you split them into a separate quilt? Or just toss them all in together? By non traditional i mean hot pink, lime green, purple, yellow, and i think there is a turquoise one in there too. I've probably got enough fabric to do 4-6 twin size quilts so i sure could split them up. I could even split off the blue snowflake/snowman ones and make a January quilt. What do you think? Mix them all up or make 3 disticnt sets?

stash report week #2

I had help this week. Hubby helped me baste 3 lap/twin size quilts so my yards used are pretty impressive until you realize that I STILL dont have my good machine back from the repair place. Its been there since Thanksgiving. Its ready to come home, but its 200 miles away and with the weather we have been having so far this winter I have nto been able to manage that trip. I'm either working or its blizzarding!

With out that machine I have a hard time quilting. My back up machine is good for piecing and making clothing but i'm no good at quilting on it. I can do in the ditch quilting on little things is about it until that machine comes home.

here's the report for the week:
yards in: 0
yards used:13

net for the year:
yards in: 0
yards used: 32