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16 October 2009, 1:17 am

JudyL’s latest QFAH is called Freeze Frame.  Mine is still on the design wall, waiting for its borders.

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However, my Aunt Bert finished hers (pictured above).  She did a great job on it, and I’d like to mention that this is her first real quilt!  She made her very first quilted project the end of June during a visit to Minnesota (a pot holder).  She’s come a long way since then!  What a great job, and it will be fun to quilt it for her. 

Click here to visit JudyL’s site and see links to other Freeze Frame quilts.

–Sue

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Design Wall Monday

28 September 2009, 9:53 am

Wow, it’s Monday again???  I’m sure I’m not getting a full seven-day week any more.  Maybe my calendar is fast.  I do have projects on my design wall to share, however.  First is some painting I did with PaintStiks (these could become addicting).  I purchased the sticks and a set of leaf rubbing plates at the ND quilt show this past week.  I only bought a set of copper, silver, and gold paints.

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I was having so much fun, I decided to go back to Shelly’s placemat tutorial and see what I needed to do to make the placemats she demonstrated.  I found a sort of gradient (it’s a purple and black Paula Nadelstern)that I had been saving for “something special”, and decided to only use the silver for some dining room place mats.

 

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Oh, there’s just nothing like diving into a new art project, is there? 

I’m up to date (haven’t done today’s assignment yet) on JudyL’s QFAH, Freeze Frame.DesignWallMonday0023

Next is a deep purple border, then the white again.  The third border will be more of these small “frames” around the whole quilt.  Very fun!

Part of the fun is my Aunt Bert in Huntsville is also playing along and making this QFAH!  So fun that we can sew together.  I believe this is also her first “big” project, having made some table mats and smaller items this summer (Bert, correct me if I’m wrong…).  Here is her quilt so far, in fall colors, with Tanner standing guard:
 
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I’m also excited by JudyL’s suggestion of joining in Soctoberfest and working on knitted socks in October.  I have two pairs that are each about 3/4 done.  I also have a new skein of yarn that is particularly yummy, blues, and would look great with jeans.  My Soctober Goals:  Finish up the two pairs, knit one more add’l pair.  I’m going to try knitting one hour a day and see how much progress I make. 
 
I also HAVE to make some UFO progress this week.  I didn’t report any last week (as Kare noted, on UFO Thursday I reported that I started a NEW project.  That’s just so wrong, I know…)  So 8 more blocks on my Bayou Cane top by Thursday.  I WILL have UFO progress this Thursday (she said, hanging her head in shame).
 
Gee, I wonder where my days go?  I just can’t figure it out…
 
–Sue
 
ps:  I haven’t forgotten about the prairie dresses from 7 Brides for 7  Brothers…more to come!
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Quilt For An Hour Progress

24 September 2009, 6:30 am

So what kind of idiot am I???  Sons, put down yours hands; that was a rhetorical question. 

I’m up to my armpits in UFOs, and so of course I joined in Judy Laquidara’s Quilt For An Hour project, which started Monday.  Another new project.  And it always takes me more than an hour to do the day’s allotted tasks.  I’m not the first person done either when I take classes, so I can assume I am a slow sewer.  I like to think I’m just enjoying the journey. 

After I chose my fabrics from my stash for this quilt, I started thinking that approx. 60 x 80 is more like a big throw size than a bed size (at least at my house), and I don’t think many people’s living rooms are the colors I chose (raspberry, turquoise, gray, blue).  I know — I’ll make it BIGGER!!!  And so I did, like Judy’s larger example with 12 of the big blocks instead of six big blocks.  Now my Quilt For An Hour is more like Quilt For Four Hours. 

Also, when I decided to make it larger, I realized I wouldn’t have enough fabric for the darker background.  I hunted high and low in my stash, but I didn’t have enough of anything that would work.  So I went shopping!  In my defense, I went to Mill End and found a lovely gold that leans almost to a Creamsicle color.  Two bucks a yard (with one of those precious coupons out of the Sunday paper).  I think it actually works better than the gray-blue I originally chose.  The colors pop more against the gold.  DH and DS#1 will like it better too, because when I get the purple border on it, it will be leaning towards Vikings colors. 

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These blocks are fun and quick to make.  The cutting is a little putzy, because usually I do all my cutting in the beginning of the project.  I could see myself making this quilt again.  Different colors/fabric patterns would really change the look of it.  I have some reds/oranges/yellows that might look pretty good.  I hope Judy sets up Mr. Linky or Photo Bucket so we can see everybody’s color selections and their progress.

–Sue

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Design Wall Monday!

21 September 2009, 10:06 am

I love that Judy Laquidara asks us on Mondays, What’s on your design wall?  Sometimes it’s just the nudge I need to get something new done and up there, even if it’s only a block.  Our quilt guild is doing a BOM, and I’m actually a month/block ahead!  We started in January by doing two months, January & December, so we could hopefully have at least the top done and ready to be shown at this December’s meeting.  I just have October & November’s blocks to go.  I have a chocolate brown Fusions fabric picked out for the sashings, but I’ll see how that looks when all the blocks are done.

New this week is the Corn and Beans block at the top of the middle column.  These blocks are all done in Asian-inspired fabrics, and this quilt will be offered to my DIL Lynn, if she still likes it when it’s done.

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 Judy L’s new Quilt For An Hour (QFAH) project starts today.  I hope to get my hour in tonight after our guild’s monthly meeting.  This looks like a fun and easy quilt, and I don’t see any half-square triangles in sight!  I pulled the fabrics yesterday from my stash.  It was so much fun, and only took about ten minutes.  I also had a red and orange option I could have taken, but I was won over with this raspberry/aqua/purple/blue combination.  PLUS this is about eight yards out of stash! 

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Yes, as Kare in Ohio pointed out yesterday, My name is Sue, and I am a Judy Junkie.  There, I said it!  At least I know I’m not alone — there are a lot of us out there.  Her patterns are such great stash busters, her quilts are always fun and interesting, so it’s hard to resist jumping in and getting an extra quilt top done.  Click here to see other quilters’ design walls; click here for the first post of Judy’s Freeze Frame QFAH.

– Sue

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Stash Report

20 September 2009, 11:02 am

Nothing bought this week (I’m feeling the glow under the weight of my halo), but nothing taken out of stash either (okay, there’s a little tarnish on the halo).  I’ve been busy working on UFOs.  Having finished CrazyMomQuilts‘ 9-patch quilt-along this week — well, the top is finished / the quilting awaits — and working on Judy L’s last Quilt For an Hour (QFAH) from last fall, I’m sewing, but no stash is being busted. 

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  • Used this week:  0 yards
  • YTD:  159.25 yards used
  • Purchased this week:  0 yards
  • YTD:  164.5 yards purchased
  • YTD Net:  5.25 yards IN 

    • And like everybody else, I just don’t have enough projects to work on, so I plan to jump in on Judy L’s next QFAH (which starts tomorrow).  This will be especially fun because my Aunt Bert, who just started quilting this summer, plans to do this one as well.  Hundreds of miles apart, and we can be quilting together!  How fun is that???

    Well, time to go down into the stash and figure out what I can use to get started on Judy’s QFAH (I have a bucket of bright FQs I think I will tap into).  It really makes it a challenge, when you’re just working from stash.  Three other quilts I’ve made along with Judy, and they’ve turned out quite nicely, just using up some of that fabric that was waiting patiently on my shelves:

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    If you’re on the fence about joining in this next QFAH, hop off the fence and come on over to the fun side!  Judy’s quilts are great stash busters, and she’s so generous to offer a free pattern along with the encouragement to get it done.  I always tell myself I can find an hour a day for another project (as long as I don’t break a wrist like I did last November), and it’s fun to watch everyone’s projects develop along with your own.  C’mon along!!! 

    –Sue

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    Stash Report — Week 1

    4 January 2009, 1:25 pm

    Oh, man, this isn’t the start that I envisioned, but how was I to know Fabric Town was having a big sale???

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    So I’m starting the year in the negative, but I don’t regret it one bit.  25 FQ’s for a buck apiece (some for an Asian quilt I have in mind, some for my brown/gold/cream/red stash), three pieces of Fusions (yum) at half price, and a bit of white with pink flowers for a girly baby quilt.  So here are the hard facts:

    Fabric In YTD:   16 yards

    Fabric Out YTD: 0 yards

    2009 Goal:         75 yards OUT

    YTD Net:           -16 yards

    Well, I need to get something of my own on the Gammill so I can at least subtract a backing for next week!  I’m currently back to  piecing blocks for Judy L’s last Quilt for an Hour (started it months ago, so can’t count anything out of stash).  I love the quilt, and I’m doing it in Civil War fabrics.  Oh, and I’m doing two of them, so I am currently working on 60 blocks!  I’m not much of a resolution maker, because I would make the same ones every year so obviously they don’t “take”.  But I should probably work on moderation in 2009!  And this week I plan to get my version of Judy L’s Labor Day Challenge Quilt onto the longarm.

     
    Production Goals for Week 2:
     
    Finish piecing 2 QFAH tops
    Labor Day Challenge Quilt quilted 
    Continue knitting my second pair of socks
    Sue
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    Quiltathon Weekend / QFAH

    18 October 2008, 6:56 pm

    I’ve been working on Judy Laquidara’s Quilt for an Hour quilt, Shine on Bayou Cane.  I thought this would be a great gift, but the greedy part of me wants to keep everything for myself.  Solution?  Make two.  Well, I will get two done, but I’m not saying when.  (By the way, the block is straight.  It’s my photography that’s crooked.  Really.)

    I’m not done making my quarter-square blocks, but I got tired of just looking at “components” and wanted to see some finished product.  So I put one block together.  I like it!!!  My star fabrics are primarily from a 32-fabric pack of fat eighths, so it will be plenty scrappy.  In Judy’s instructions, she has you making two blocks alike, 15 times, for a total of 30 blocks.  Stay with me — that’s all the harder the math is going to get.  So I am making 30 different blocks, two each.  Divided into two quilts.  This way, each quilt will have 30 different stars in it.  Sounds good on paper.

    I have too many other irons in the fire right now, so this project is going to get set aside for a few days, but I’m hoping to finish up pretty quickly.  Thank you, Judy, for another rewarding project. 

    Sue

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    Works in Progress

    7 October 2008, 10:41 am

    Actually, my whole life is a work in progress, but here are some quilty things that are getting my attention lately.  Judy Laquidara’s latest Quilt for an Hour (QFAH) is a star quilt with an interestingly shaded background called Shine on Bayou Cane.  It will really make the stars *pop*.  The idea is that you get her instructions for each day, it should only take about an hour (unless you’re slow like me), and then you post your progress, hopefully each day so you stay caught up!  So for Monday and Tuesday of this week, here are my 120 half-square triangle-blocks, composed of my two background fabrics.  I also included in the photo 32 fat eighths in Civil War reproduction prints that I had squirreled away for a rainy day (and it IS raining today).  If need be, I will break into my fat quarter collection of Civil War fabrics.  And my colors photographed pretty accurately, for a change.

    Another fun project is Judy Laquidara’s Star BOM.  We are up to Block #5!  Here is block 5, along with a photo of blocks 1-5.  These will finish at 12″ each, so they are good-sized blocks.  The Star BOM is another example of Judy taking familiar blocks and shaking things up by making the background, the borders, and the settings more interesting.  She also seems to favor nearly solid fabrics.  I’ve always been drawn to prints with maybe a couple of nearly solids, so this has been a new direction for me, and I’m enjoying it!

     

    Here are a couple of table runners that are awaiting binding.  The one on the left is an Anka’s Treasures pinwheel pattern included in the pattern Little Charmers III, designed to use charm packs.  (Eileen, I think you were looking for the name of that pattern?)  And the one on the right is from a Terry Atkinson book, Lessons from Mama.  (Although I’ve never met Terry, I know she’s a local pattern designer.  Her patterns are always easy to follow.)  For a fall theme, I used an Indian corn fabric for the center of the stripe, which you can see better if you click on the photo for an enlarged view (you might even be able to click twice to enlarge it twice).

                      

    While I had a neutral backing fabric on the longarm, I floated the two table runners plus this sweet Mary Engelbreit panel.  (Mary also needs a hanging sleeve and binding.)  Panels are such a great “cheat”.  I have a place by the front door for panels of this size, and I would like to be able to change them out at least once a month, so I have a few to go.  It’s fun to look for them for different seasons/holidays/moods.

    So that’s it for now! 

    Sue

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    Quilt for an Hour — Quilted

    31 May 2008, 12:18 pm

    How fun to have my Quilt for an Hour project quilted!  I did an overall freehand feather.  This is going to go on our sofa in the family room, and will look so pretty there.  It’s just waiting to be bound, and that will happen next Wednesday at our Daystitcher’s group.  We have a group of women who all like to quilt, and we bring some kind of hand work to work on most every Wednesday.  Our local library allows us to reserve a conference room, so no one has to play hostess.  It’s a great time to finish bindings!  (Note:  The colors are really an old gold and soft yellow.  The photo below on Day 7 is much more accurate.)

    I think it’s wonderful that Judy Laquidara made this quilt pattern available to us, and it was a lot of fun to do it in daily increments of about an hour.  I also found out that I like to take my time and enjoy the process, and I don’t think I EVER finished a segment in an hour, but that so doesn’t matter.  I enjoyed it from beginning to end.  Thank you, Judy!

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    Hurray!!!

    29 May 2008, 12:22 pm

    I finished Day 8 on the Quilt for an Hour quilt last night, and it’s done!!!  I love it.  I will post another photo when it’s quilted, as the only difference from the photo below is the borders.  What a nice pattern.  Thank you, Judy!

    A note to local quilters:  Sandi Andersen, formerly of our area, now in Henderson, has a blog!  I have placed a link to her blog on the right-hand side of this page.  So a big “HI” to Sandi.  We’ve missed her, and it will be fun to check in with her and see what she’s up to.

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