ALOYF 2013 recap

Hello Everyone,

I want to thank Melissa and Shanna for such a fun year of goal setting!

 Here are the finishes I had for 2013. I didn't know about this fun event till March, so thats when I started. In order to qualify for the final year finishes prizes, you have to have 6 finishes and posted about them, over the year. I JUST made it!

March goal finish.





April finish.










 

June finish.






July finish.




October finish.




November finish.




And they are doing it all over again for 2014, it's a fun way to make a goal each month, and the prizes they give help to keep me on track :)

Now I need to think of a goal for January!

For the Boys!

Hello Everyone,

Welcome to those of you coming over from Samms wonderful blog hops. A big thank you to Samm and our great hostess, Amy , for another great blog hop.

I have three boys, and have had many boy fabrics come and go thru the house. Lots of vehicles and machines. As my oldest and youngest sons love them.

But my middle boy is an animal lover. And his favorite animal is a Dinosaur... of course! They were big, and powerful and LOUD and ferocious.

Carson is 9, and hasn't had a quilt made for him since he was a baby. So it was time.

When I asked him if he would like some of the great robot fabrics in his quilt, he told me no,it had to be dinosaurs, and 'real' looking ones at that. No cute, frilly ones ;) LOL

There isn't a whole lot of 'real' looking dinosaur fabric out there. But I did find a few. Mostly these 'tossed' dino's, which makes it a bit hard to come up with a pattern for them. As they are hard to fussy cut and I don't do applique very often.

I used up quite a few pages of paper, trying to find the right design to show case the tossed dino's, along with this repeating panel.

My best Friend Carol suggested that I make the blocks crooked, so it looks like they've been thrown down. Perfect! It was just the idea I needed. As I had 3 different size blocks I was working with.

I also used some of this beautiful Kona solids jelly roll, to brighten things up. Along with a Shadowland piece from Kona Bay. I thought it was perfect for dino's. And another piece of Kona solid.

Here's Pine, our barn cat, following along on my photo shoot.

The quilt is a bit bigger than Carson, so I'm sure he'll outgrow it within a few years. 

I had fun with the borders. I even mitered them.

This quilt is waiting in line.

It will be next, after I finish my First boys quilt. It's about halfway done, you can read more about it here, and here.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Don't forget to see all the other great projects on the blog hop. Here's who I am sharing my day with:

Amy's Crafty Shenanigans

Ridge Top Quilts

Creatin' in the Sticks

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Meadowbrook

Malinis Quilts

Just Let Me Quilt

                                                            Kris Loves Fabric





 Thanks for stopping by.

Dorian

Nov goal setting...ALYOF

Hello, hello,

November already! Are you getting your Christmas gifts made? Sigh~ I haven't even started.

My November goal is easy though, finish J's quilt! I hear we are in for a rough winter, and I want to get his quilt done so he can use it.

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Oct goal completed!

Hello Folks,

Can you believe it's the end of Oct already??! I can't. It's just amazing how quickly the time is going.

On my goal setting post the beginning of Oct, I said that I wanted to get at least half way thru the quilting on J's quilt.

I am almost done with the straight line quilting. I just have one hexagon row to go.

And one day when I wanted to do something other than straight line quilting, I started on the FMQing.

I'm doing these connecting boxes in the background pieces.

A star in the hexagons. I'm not sure what I am doing in the middle of the triangles just yet.

But I think I've certainly hit the halfway mark :)

 So next month I really want to get this finished up. It's starting to get quite chilly at nights.

Thanks Shanna and Melissa!

Mid month check in...ALOYF

Hello Everyone,

Such beautiful weather we are having. The sky is such a gorgeous blue. The black oaks with yellow leaves looks so lovely against it (the sky that is).

I'm moving right along on Jeds quilt. I have one hexagon row and one triangle row straight lined quilted. I'm stitching in the ditch, then ones in between.

When I have all the straight line quilting done, I'll go back and do some FMQing in the middle of the hexagons and triangles, and in the background.

Here's a peak at the back, it's looking good!

Click on the pictures and you can see the quilting lines a bit better.

Have a great day.

Linking up with Shanna and Melissa for a mid-month check in.

WIP Wednesday

Hello Everyone,

We are having such gorgeous Fall weather here. Our Black Oaks are starting to change color, well...their leaves are. lol The RedBud changes from green to brilliant oranges and reds, before the leaves fall off too. Such gorgeous colors among all the green Pines.

I started quilting J's quilt, Train stop. It's a LARGE quilt, and I dont have enough table in the back of my machine yet, but it's going ok.

I haven't decided if I am just going to do straight line quilting, to keep with the geometric design of the quilt, or if I am going to add some fmqing too. I'll get all my straight lining done, and see what I think.

(This quilt is entered into Quilting Galleries weekly contest. This week it's Modern Geometric. You can vote for your favorite on Friday.)

I also got most of my dino quilt top done for C. Here's a sneak peek...you can't see the rest till next month. I want to throw on a few solid strip borders before then too.

Have a great day!
Linking up with Lee.

October goal setting

Hello Everyone,

I missed out on Sept goal setting, I just didn't have anything that I knew I would be able to finish. I was doing a lot of practicing my free motion quilting and trying to figure out what I wanted to do for the backing to my son's quilt.

But this month, I'm ready! I have to piece the backing and sand which this top and start quilting it. I doubt I will finish quilting it, but I would like to get at least halfway done. So that's my goal, getting it halfway quilted.

Thanks again Shanna and Melissa!





 

WIP....Thursday

Hello Everyone,

I missed out on WIP Wednesday, but as I have only been posting once a week, I'm putting it up today. It's hot here, again, but it will cool off again next week. Between the heat and the baby, I just haven't been doing much sewing.

I did manage to get some of my windmills together.

It needs a good bout with the iron ;) I am not real happy with it, but I hope it will grow on me, as I add the rest of it.

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In other news. I have entered my I Spy quilt in the weekly Show and Tell over at The Quilting Gallery.

Tomorrow, July 26th, you can go over to the Quilting Gallery and vote for your favorite "quilts for little people".

If you are coming over from the Quilting Gallery, I welcome you and hope you'll enjoy looking around. You can find out more about my I spy quilt here,and here

Enjoy all the lovely eye candy!

 

WIP Wednesday

Hello Everyone,

I hope you've had a nice, quilty week. The weather has been gorgeous here, but we are about to get hot again.

I finally decided on a layout for my windmills. At least, I have a plan...

The middle will be pieced like a traditional hexagon flower.

Then I want to create a small green 'pathway' going around it, and another round of windmills.

I don't know if it's going to work, or if I am going to have to place a round of green hexagon's for the path, like a traditional hex garden. We'll see..

I'm calling it Windmill's in the  garden ;)

Linking up with Lee again this week. Thanks Lee.

Have a great day.

WIP Wednesday

Hello Everyone,

I hope your days are bright and sunny. It's been beautiful weather here. Warm with a cool breeze for the most part. Perfect!

My young man's quilt is coming along nicely.

These hexagons and triangles are HUGE. The quilt is going to finish at around 67"x84" or something like that. He's a big boy ;)

 
I just have to sew my rows together, then the top will be done.

Son is very happy with it, he says he loves the geometric designs :)

I used Julie's hex n more ruler, what a great tool!

Linking up with Lee. Thanks Lee!

Some progress

Hello Folks, how is everyone today?

We went thru a very hot weekend, and now are in the cool 70s...awww, feels good.

I've made a bit of progress on my oldest sons quilt. I will have five of these hexagons in a row. (Then maybe they won't look like eyes ;) LOL

And I will have some of these triangles too. They will have the green all around them, and some blue.

Don't you love it when the pattern you see in your head starts to emerge in your fabric :)

Linking up with the Quilt Story Gals today, thanks Gals!

Linking up with Lee today, thanks Lee!

Have a great day all.