Personal Quiltathon 8am July 25, 2009

So my IWBLR quilt piecing is finally at a stage where I will see some progress now. The first stages where you are prepping, cutting and making small units like QST, HST and strip piecing seems to go on forever....then all of a sudden it is done. LOL

In my last post my friend Linda asked a few questions and here is the answer.

IWBLR= I wanna be like Ronda (K. Beyer)

She is the one who made this same quilt first and after I drooled all over it, she sent me everything to make one for myself, the pattern, the fabrics (same ones she used) and even the papers to make the QST. I am so lucky! It is not a rag quilt. It is a star pieced quilt and the white is just one of the fabrics in the design. You'll see!

IWBLR Progress July 20

Ok, this is the part of a quilt piecing that it seems like you don't have much done when in fact you already have been working for several hours, pressing, cutting, piecing, trimming and pressing. Here is a small picture of progress.

Overheard 7/13/2009

I babysat just a couple hours this morning and then "gramma" came and relieved me. The 6 yr old welcomes us with hugs and then asked, "Gramma....will you take us to Chuck E. Cheese today?" Gramma says, "Oh not today sweetheart, I don't have two dimes to rub together today but I promise I'll take you before you go back to school". Ok, so she goes into the front room to watch cartoons while gramma and I talk and we hear...."Gramma? ....you can use two of my dimes if you want to!"


Out of the mouth of babes!

Still working on Thursday's list

Yes, I almost always underestimate how long these things take me. For instance, I did one step on the yellow brick road blocks wrong. 40 blocks! I sewed them, pressed them and UNSEWED all those seams which we all know take 4 times longer than sewing. I am almost done with those and will finish that quilt today I hope. I don't have any housework planned for today so I should get a lot done. We will see.

Thursday to myself

I unexpectedly have the day off from babysitting. So I plan to try to get more done today. I have some laundry in and picked up a bit but the house work is pretty much caught up. So I plan on working on 3 items today

1. Finish making blocks for the spring Yellow Brick Road quilt I started last week. This will give the girls something to do on Monday. They love to play with my fabric and design board and I will let them layout the quilt. I figure a yellow brick road...they can do a pretty good job w/o much help from me...and it will keep them occupied.
2. Quilt EZ swirls on a customer quilt today.
3. Start getting fabric cut out and quarter square triangles made for my new quilt that Ronda sent me all the fabric and pattern for. Gees, I got it a week ago and just now getting to it. I really wanted to complete a couple things first.

Christmas in July!

It is Christmas in July at my house!


Looky what I got today in the mail:

Do you recognize this fabric? You would if you know THIS lady! Ronda is so talented and super nice and when she was quilting this quilt last month and posting her progress I was blatantly drooling and commenting on how she was coming with my quilt. Ronda played right along but alas her daughter is getting the quilt. Then she turned around and sent me this! Including the pattern, the papers to make the quarter square triangles and her extra triangles. Can you believe it?

There is enough here to make a whole quilt which I will do promptly. I guess Ronda didn't know about my needing to finish 2 UFO's before starting a new project, but this breaks the rules...right? RIGHT?

Thank you so much Ronda. This touched me more than you know. I appreciate you!

Tuesday sewing and new goals

I have decided that I will complete one UFO a month and I won't start a new project until 2 UFO's are done. (each time) That way I will get my UFO's completed and still be able to start new projects if I need want to. My UFO list will get smaller then (or at least that is the plan.)
Christmas is only 6 months away and I want to make a lot of my gifts this year so I better get busy.I need to get my Christmas plan in order. I'll be back to get some sort of plan together but now....now I am going to sew at my friend's house. Toodles!

I promise pictures for the next post! Pinky swear!