focus projects

I've chosen my focus projects for this month.....five along with a redwork project. I'm working on a hat for Bonnie, Luke's girlfriend. She is a sweetie and a very welcome addition to our family. I have two borders to put on my Easy Street quilt. I'll be working on the center of  Hocuspocusville to get the top finished. I am going to load my Fractured quilt onto Fiona and get it quilted. We really need a new quilt for our bed. I have a tote bag for a friend that needs a lining and I'll will continue to embroider the redwork of Winter Wonderland. As I complete a project I will add another to my list. It's a good mix of projects to keep me motivated and happy.

I'm working in a series

I'm joining in with Vicki this year to work on a series. I have never done that before and am looking forward to the challenge. For my series, I am going to choose several photographs and work through some different methods of making portrait quilts. I would like to incorporate some thread painting, inks and pencils and fabric paints. I have several colors of gradients that I got from Vicki and will use those as well. My first photo is one of my niece and I will explore some different methods. I think I will use one of the gradients and try some raw edge applique for my first experiment.

happy new year

Hope the new year brings you much happiness and love.

I've thought about the projects I want to work on this year. I have lots of tops that need to be quilted and others that need to be finished. Lots of redwork, applique and knitting projects that I want to work on.

My dream big project is going to be my lily wallhanging that I started at the David Taylor workshop I took in October.

My working in a series project is going to be thread painting and mixed media embellishments that I will play with on some portrait quilts.

My word for the year is COMPLETE. I plan to complete lots of projects. Looking forward to a very productive year

it's been awhile

It's the last day of the year. I'm looking forward to the new year and have lots of sewing and quilting projects planned. I'm joining in with Vicki to keep myself motivated. She has some great ideas. I hope to blog regularly this year as I work on my projects.

finally

 

I made it for the last linking. I really enjoyed this quilt. I made it kingsize for our bed. It will be the first quilt done in the new house. Thanks for the inspiration Vicki.

All the fabrics were from my stash.

 

my little boy

Frankie let me take some photos of him today. Mostly, the cats just walk away now when they see the camera. Deb just posted a bunch of photos of her babies. I know she'll love these. Go check out her babies....last picture made me laugh out loud.

I made myself a knitting bag. My friend Erin has one and it's just perfect for holding your sock project.

Hope you enjoyed my boy. Have a wonderful evening!

ufo challenge

I finally finished a quilt from my list.....woohoo. This is a Thimbleberries quilt called Sunrise. I did a simple meander on it.

We enjoyed this view up north for a couple of days. The weather turned out to be perfect. We sat out on the deck, listened to music and read. It was a wonderfully relaxing time.

color palette challenge

For my project, I made a pillow using Carol Ann Waugh method of stitch and slash. I took a couple of her classes on craftsy.com.  I really liked them and love her methods.....wonky and free.

Here are my girls hanging out.

a finish

I finished 4 wheelchair quilts. They went to some handicapped children at a local school. It's a good feeling.

This is a very rare occurance in house of ragdoll. Maggie, after 4 years, still hates, somewhat tolerates Frankie. They were engrossed with a bird up in the gutter. She was willing to let bygones be begones and not hiss or smack him as she usually does if come within a hundred few feet of him.

I finally finished a quilt on my ufo challenge list. This is my second year working the list. I gave this one to my friend, Erin.....it was supposed to be a gift for her 50th birthday. That was 5 years ago. She didn't care....she loved it and that made me happy.

I finally realized my stumbling block with getting my quilts quilted. I told myself I did not like stippling and because I was not willing to work through that, I never finished any quilts. I am happy to say, I have gotten over that silly notion and I am quilting at my skill level and letting myself enjoy it!

I had a lot of help with the binding this morning.....she stayed the whole time, happily purring away.

design wall monday

These are the fabrics I've chosen for the color palette challenge. I'm going to make these shapes with the fabrics and applique them on to the white background. Those are my thread choices and I'm going to use the red rickrack in some way. Go check out Judy's blog to see what others are working on. Enjoy your day and thanks for stopping by.

the top is done

I'm happy to have the top done. Now on to the backing and load it on the frame. Hope you are having a wonderful day.

design wall monday

My borders are done. I'll sew them on tomorrow along with the outer border and she's done.

I thought this would make a nice little kitty quilt. Go on over to Judy's and see what everyone else is up to.

four patch borders

I'm happily working on my 4 patch blocks for the next border. As I start sewing the blocks I'm thinking 154 sets is awful lot when I only need 2 sets of 18 and 19 blocks for each border. I cut, stitched and pressed 10 extra strip sets. Didn't think about the blocks I had already completed. That's what I get for waiting so long to finish a project.

Need to think of another project that I can use these sets in. I am very glad I realized my mistake before I made all those bazillion extra blocks.

I hope you are having a wonderful day.  The sun is shining here after a week of rain and clouds. Life is good!

bloom where you're planted

This is a pattern from Judy's book. It was started a long time ago when she was doing the quilt for an hour quiltalongs. I think it's percolated long enough. I'm going to finish it and give it to my niece. The kitties sort of remind me of her.

The fabrics are by Red Rooster designed by Terri Degenkolb from Whimsical Quilts.

These are for the borders and the 4 patch blocks.

The kitties make me smile.

my helper

color palette challenge

I finally finished my quilt top for April's Color Palette Challenge. I'll be quilting it in June as I follow along with Judy's feather class. I'm looking forward to it.