Little did I know that when I decided to make a temp quilt, it would be a year to remember!!

I don’t want any negativity against my quilt, so I will move on and say that the lowest high was 18 and the highest temp was 97.

I kept track of the high temp each day and used the color for the day to make the square for that day. This is how the quilt turned out.

There are several different ways to make temperature quilts. Do your own thing, and have fun making one.

Mine happened to be done during the year of COVID, but you can do yours anytime! I challenge you to make a temp quilt!! Let me know if you do.

Years ago I got into making mystery quilts. I was a new quilter and thought it was fun. After starting my machine quilting business and designing my own quilts, I quit making other peoples designs. A few months ago a friend of mine posted a mystery quilt and I decided to join in on the fun. It was a small quilt and I thought what the heck, I’ll do it just for the fun. Get rid of some fabric! LOL! I went with the colors that she suggested, followed the clues and this is what I got.

Well, after making that mystery, I discovered that Bonnie Hunter was starting a mystery. Guess what? Yep, I decided to join in on the fun. Bonnies mysteries are always scrappy with lots of pieces.

I’m keeping up with the clues….so far. But then I found another mystery! Oh no!!!!

I am pulling from my stash, and found these fabrics for the next mystery………

They are all batik fabrics and I think they will work. I haven’t cut anything yet……wondering if I have time to have two mystery quilts going at the same time. We will see!!!

I have passed the halfway point on my 50 states & birds blocks. Yea!!! 25 of them are done. 😀 By dedicating at least 10 minutes a day to working on them, I am making progress and feel like someday I might finish them! LOL!!!

Woohoo! I started the Minnesota block on Feb 1st and I just finished it. Yea! I’ve managed to work on it at least 10 minutes a day and it has paid off.

Minnesota is done and I’ve moved on to Mississippi.😀

I have made progress on my 10 minute a day project. It’s the State bird blocks. Back in January I was working on the Michigan block.

I have finished the Michigan block………..

and moved on to Minnesota.

I made a chart so that I can log in how many minutes each day I work on it. I dedicate 10 minutes but many days I find that I go over the 10 minute mark.

I hope I can stick to this because I really do want to finish these blocks. I like that I can have Siri start the stop watch and keep track of my time.

I hope I can finish Minnesota this month. Mississippi will follow it with the wonderful state of Missouri (where I was born) after that!

I am also staying up to date on my temperature quilt. I can’t believe January is over and we’re through the first week of February already. Time flies!!

Have a great day!

Theresa

I just finished piecing a blue table top string quilt. I had made a wall hanging size string quilt previously using this layout. This time I made it a tad bit smaller and used only blue fabrics for the strings. Here are both of them along with the beginnings of my temperature quilt.

I plan to have this available as a pattern soon. For now I just look forward to finding the time to get them quilted.

That’s it for now!

Theresa

I love John Wayne westerns, so does my husband. When I saw that a fabric company was coming out with a John Wayne fabric I thought “cool”, I need to make my husband a John Wayne quilt!

I thought that I could find the fabric at the Houston quilt show, but no such luck! Apparently EVERYONE LOVED THE FABIC!!!So there was none to be found!!

After returning home from the show, Doris found it online and ordered the kit. She gave me the website she ordered it from but I had spent my wad at Houston so was dragging my feet on ordering the kit. I wanted it but…………

Anyway, Doris secretly made her quilt and told me that she had a lot of fabric left over from the kit and that I could probably get another quilt from it! I then ordered the panel and one yard of fabric. Using the fabric I ordered and Doris’s leftover fabrics, I was able to make my husband a quilt. We both gave our husbands their John Wayne quilts for Christmas and they were blown away!! I even managed to quilt them without my husband seeing them.

Doris’s quilt, made from the kit.

My quilt, made from leftovers and an additional yard of fabric.

Both our husbands LOVED their quilts and were totally surprised on Christmas morning!! 😀

Theresa

I started these blocks back in ’99. Wow! Where have the last 21 years gone????? I’ve decided that they are going to be my 10 minute a day project. What I do for that is to pick a project and dedicate 10 minutes to it each day. This is what I had on January 1st.

After working on it 10 minutes a day for the last few days, I have made a bit of progress.

I am doing the 50 states and birds. This is the Michigan block which is number 21 (I think) of 50. I have a long way to go!!

Wish me luck on someday finishing it!! LOL!!

Theresa

I have not been a good blogger. My goal for the upcoming year is to be more social and sharing of what I’m working on.

Today I have been ironing fabrics and getting them ready to cut into strips using my Accuquilt. I use different size strip cutters and it makes it quick and easy to get lots of strips cut.

Once I cut the strips, I sort them into different lengths. I marked my cutting mat so that when I sort them I can easily put them into the correct size box.

Strips are now ready to sew. I’m not sure what I will make yet, so I will keep making string foundations. That is the fun of making string quilts. You don’t have to know what you’re going to make when you make your foundation pieces. The magic comes later after you decide what you’ll make.

TTFN,

Theresa