Happy Friday!

Hello Folks, Happy Friday to you,

My poor little blog, sorry I've been so absent, there isn't a whole lot of quilting going on here. Although I have been doing some things with my quilting supplies.

* I got my sewing machine moved , so I know have more room. I need to get my table rearranged so that it abuts up to my machine and I can have a larger space for actually quilting my tops on.

* I have started to go thru one of my boxes of scraps and put them into some sort of order. I really need to get some clear plastic bins to put them in, but for now, they are color co-ordinated into plastic baggies. I am hoping to get around to doing the BIG bin of scraps sometime too. I've been inspired to get my scraps in order and make some more scrappy quilts.

*I've ordered some more supplies. I needed a new 6x24" ruler, so thats on the way. Along with some more thread, needles, pins and this book, finally!! I've been wanting this book for ages, and have just never ordered it. lol I can't wait for it to get here. Connecting threads is still having a nice sale! So head over and stock up  :)

* And here's some progress on my Someday quilt. I have rows 1-4, 5-8, 9-12, 14-16 sewn together. So I am almost done~ well, this picture isn't quite right if you look at the number tags. lol, but you get the idea :)

* I'm also working on an Organizing post for the Q&N blog, I hope that will be up sometime next week. But I need to finish this quilt first :)

Have a great weekend, I hope it includes some sewing time!

 

August goal....failed

Hello Folks,

Well, I didn't make it. I know, I could be sewing right now instead of blogging and maybe finish by this afternoon.... but with a teething 17month old...it's not going to happen. lol It's been a rough week. He is teething really hard, and that means a LOT of Mommy time. I am not complaining. I am trying to savor every moment of his babyhood, as I know, he will be grown up in a blink of an eye.

I have gotten all the pieces of each row sewn into their rows.

Someday pattern by Jessica Smith of thequiltandneedle.com

And I have rows 1 & 2 and 3 & 4 sewn together. There are 16 rows. So I have a ways to go yet.

Someday pattern by Jessica Smith of thequiltandneedle.com

Linking up with Shanna and Melissa, even though I didn't finish. lol Thanks again Ladies.



Thanks for stopping by.

Dorian

Mid-month check in

Howdy Folks,

It's time to check in with Shanna and Melissa, ALYOF. I've been working steadily on my quilt top. A little bit every day, I hope I can finish by the end of the month.

This quilt is 78 x89 inches. It has 224 six inch blocks in it!! That's a lot of blocks. I blogged about my goal here.

pattern by Jessica Smith, quiltandneedle.com

I am finished piecing them all together.

Now for putting the blocks together. You have to be very careful here, or your design wont turn out right.

As you can see, the pattern calls for 2 more colors than I am using. I didn't have ANYTHING in my stash to go with these black, white and reds. And as I was testing, I didn't have time to get anything to go with them either. So I just stuck with these 4 colors.

 I think it will still be pretty striking.... not that I haven't thought about adding some yellow  for some pops of color... LOL.... too late now though, I am not redoing some of these blocks.