OK … so things are NOT roaring around here … they are plodding along … slowly …
If you want to decrease your UFOs … and not make your UFO list any bigger, Join me for your PHD in 2020! Check out this blog post for details … and scroll WAY down for the linky party so that you can join in! You can join in on the PHD in 2020 until Jan. 14. Then on the 1st and 15th of each month, there will be a linky party for you to show your progress. Continue reading
I don’t make resolutions … they never work for me. However, I do make PLANS. Plans can be changed … in my mind, resolutions are sort-of set in stone and unchangeable.
My plans for 2020 include:
OK … OK … I know you’re wondering, why so many Baby Quilts? The quilt guild I belong to makes baby quilts for several different charities. I have TONS of fabric and it’s fun to make small quilts. Usually they are pretty quick to make. Occasionally, I practice a different free motion motif on them, sometimes it’s just straight stitching. Anything goes.
YES!!! I have completed my PHD in 2019!!!!
Emily, from The Darling Dogwood, also completed her PHD in 2019. YAY, Emily!!!
I haven’t heard from the others, so am not sure if anyone else has completed their PHD in 2019. Continue reading
These are the 3 baby quilts that were started this fall. They were all donated to the guild. And they were fun to do. The one in the middle and the one on the right had flannel on both sides. I learned that it is difficult to FMQ a 2-sided flannel quilt. When I tackled the pink one, I just did straight lines with my walking foot. The quilt didn’t stretch as much and it was way easier to do! The one on the left had quilting cotton on the top with flannel on the back. It was very easy to free-motion quilt the wavy lines. Continue reading
Frolic: Bonnie Hunter’s Mystery … Part 1, 2, & 3 are done …. waiting for Part 4. So far, I’m following Bonnie’s colours!
I posted about Challenge # 1 HERE.
Island Batik did not say we needed to do 2 challenges this month … this was my choice. Especially since this project is also 3D. And, since I need to make sewing machine covers, this just made sense to me!
The Boundary Bay Quilt Guild gives numerous baby quilts away to various charities in the lower mainland.
The co-ordinators of the program had a Baby Quilt Making Day. You come and make … guess what – a baby quilt! There are kits you can choose from, tons of fabric to make up a kit of your own, or you can bring fabric from home.
I choose to make a quilt from my stash … I’m on a mission to decrease my stash – one yard at a time – so it was the obvious choice.
My only regret about baby quilt making day is that it was held on Nov. 30. Which, according to my own rules for PHD in 2019, this quilt must be finished before Dec. 31 for me to recieve my own PHD in 2019!
Here’s a slide show of everyone at the Baby Quilt Making day:
Meet Randy the Rhino!!! He is one of the wonderful patterns available at Funky Friends Factory! If you sign up for the Funky Friends newsletter, you can get a free pattern for a bear! And Funky Friends provide fantastic directions as well as pictorial tutorials. Continue reading
Oh my! The retreat was a great time. They always are! So many different projects, so many ideas, so much help … so much food … and 2 people brought halloween jellies and candy corn … groan! … too much sugar … click HERE to see the slide show of other people’s projects.
Oh YEAH!! A retreat!!!
I love retreats!!!
There are a group of 18 17 of us going to Edenvale in Abbotsford. 17 because one lady is too ill to attend! 😦
What am I taking? A zillion things … WAY more than I’ll get done!
I’m working on Smith Mountain Morning from Bonnie Hunter’s book “Scraps & Shirtails II.” You’ve seen the odd picture in recent posts … It’s a UFO from 2015 that was started in a workshop with Bonnie at Camp Arnold – near Seattle. Washington. The workshop was fantastic!! The quilt will be fantastic!! (visit Bonnie’s blog Quiltville.com for lots of eye candy and free patterns.)
I think I might be going crazy! Who in their right mind starts a quilt with 3 million pieces (don’t count them, I just might be exaggerating! but not by much). And then decides that she wants to make it bigger? YUP – I was crazy when I made that decision! Continue reading
I have been sewing. Smith Mountain Morning is slow going …. tons of pieces fro each block … but I’m determined to get ‘er done!
Several projects are now in progress:
Do you remember, WAY back in August, when I was a participant in Island Batik’s “Beat the Heat” Blog hop? I featured this quilt and fabric:
Soil & Seeds
Do you like or dislike squirrels? We have black and grey squirrels in our backyard. And we enjoy watching them scurry along the fence, hopping onto the trees and burying nuts in our garden. A friend of mine said that squirrels are just rats with fuzzy tails. I disagree. They are cute and fun to watch!
Recently, (like in the past year) I’ve been noticing on quilt blogs that some projects are called “Squirrels.” I didn’t understand exactly what this meant, and I went searching. Google searching. When I researched “squirrel quilts” – that’s what I got – a bunch of links to quilts containing squirrels. Not what I was looking for.
Googled “squirrel quilts new projects” … BINGO … a definition of what I was looking for. Quilt Diva Julie had the explanation! Thank you Quilt Diva Julie! (Photo & Definition is from Quilt Diva Julie’s blog.
SEW … all this talk about squirrels … and yes, I did have a sudden distraction that pulled me away from what I was diligently working on. Our guild has a Facebook page. This Saturday, a baby quilt kit making day was happening. One lady posted the cutest quilt with a baby on it. Of course, it was scrappy and blue – that’s why I thought it was cute. I quickly figured out how it could be done … easy peasy. Then Saturday came and I wasn’t able to make it to the baby quilt kit making day. Sew, to get rid of my guilt, I decided to make the quilt. It was easy to start.
That’s as far as the squirrel has progressed. I will web this together and figure out if I need 2½” border or 3″ border to make the quilt 40″ x 40″. And, it’s using up some of my stash! And that’s always a good thing!
I realize that i missed the July update … so those that are working on their PHD in 2019 can join the linky party below and update everyone.
With being away, I did not work on any UFOs in the past month. Continue reading
Quilting Gail 