Category: Hobbies

Left over batik blocks

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I ended up having 12 squares leftover from the batik quilt top, so I needed to come up with a way to use them. (I didn’t want to have them laying around in a drawer or box somewhere). So I made them into HST’s. Now I have 24 squares, which is enough to do a lap quilt. I played around with arranging them on the design wall and here’s a few ideas….
I could make pinwheel blocks and add a sashing.

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Or turn them and make squares on point. Again adding a sashing.

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I could just make them triangles with a sashing.

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Or I could do this.

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Or this.

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Or this.

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Or even this way.

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Decisions decisions. I’m not sure what I will do with them yet. I’ll look at them today while I quilt and maybe decide on the layout…….

Have a good day!
Theresa

Batik rail fence

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Sashings and borders are on. Yea! It’s now ready to quilt. I have to work on a few customer quilts before I can quilt it though.

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I now have 2 of my own tops ready for an all over quilt job. I have the first of 2 black and white strip quilts assembled.
I am making progress on eliminating my stash. 🙂

Have a good day!!
Theresa

Design wall 4/21/14 batiks

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I’ve been doing my 10 minutes a day with the blue blocks that have been on my design wall and I now have 16 blocks done. Yea! I took them down so I could put these blocks up and decide what to use for the sashing fabric and also decide what width to make them. I’m using my stash and these are NOT my colors, so I don’t have much to choose from. I also don’t know what I’ll do for the border. Hmmm. Decisions, decisions…..

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That’s my wall for today. To see more walls check out http://www.patchworktimes.com

Theresa

10 minutes a day-4/10/14

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My design wall has had the same blocks on it for several weeks now. During that time I’ve completed several other quilts, but those poor scrappy little blue blocks are getting neglected. So I am hereby going to dedicate 10 minutes each day to sew on the blue blocks.
As of today I have 10 blocks sewn and I need 32.
My goal is to have the top done by July. Hmmm….better go do my 10 minutes for today…..luckily I have a few 9 patches sewn already, maybe I can finish a block in my 10 minute time frame!! 🙂

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Theresa

Stripping again

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I’m determined to lower the amount of my stash and I think I’m doing a fairly good job of it so far! Yea!
Last night I pulled out 44 black and white FQ’s and cut them into strips. They are now ready to sew together.

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I laid them out from dark to light.

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As soon as I get these sewn together I already have plans for the next quilt, using my stash!

Time to strip!! LOL!!
Theresa

Design wall Monday 3/10 blue scraps

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After our long day Saturday, and the fact that we lost an hour of sleep because of daylight savings time, I was pretty well tuckered out yesterday. I hate to let a day go by without sewing or quilting something, so I decided to sew a bit more on the scrappy blue quilt I’m working on. I’m cutting strips of blue fabric from my scraps and making them into blocks. Here’s what I finished last night and have on my design wall today.

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I have lots of pieces cut into sections.

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And several more strips cut.

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This will be another one of those projects that will take me awhile to complete. I guess a little bit here and a little bit there will eventually get me to the completed quilt top! LOL!

To see more design walls check out http://www.patchworktimes.com

Have a good day!
Theresa

2014 Mystery quilt “lock in”

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What a fun day we all had yesterday! It was our annual mystery quilt day. We had over 50 ladies sewing, eating and visiting!
Here’s a few of them.

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We named this years pattern Double D’Lite. Here’s mine.

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Here’s Sharon’s.

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Those making the throw size quilt got a lot done on theirs.

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Some of the ladies with a block. It’s fun to see all the different colors they choose.

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There’s a sneak peek at some of what happened yesterday. I’m already looking forward to next years!! 🙂

Have a great day!
Theresa

Design wall Monday 3/2/14 circles

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Since I didn’t have to drive the school bus today because of the frigid cold temps, I decided to start my Monday off by getting the rest of the rows sewn together on this quilt. All that’s left to do is add a border. I’m  going to add a solid black border and call it done. Probably won’t get to that this week because of the Lock in being next Saturday. I have my quilt quilted and binding attached, just need to get it sewn down and it will be ready to go! I still have lots to do before Sat.

Anyway, for the last time, here’s the circle quilt on my wall. It looks different with the black sashing strips.

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To see what others are working on, check out http://www.patchworktimes.com

Now I better make good use of my day off,  and get to quilting.

TTFN!!

Theresa

My colorful wall

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I’m a bit behind this week on design wall Monday, I did get quite a few of the blocks finished last week. I only have 10 more to go, then it’s time for sashings. Once I started working on these, I just kept going. It sure makes my design wall colorful! I’m getting anxious to get the whole top done! We’ll see how long it takes on that………….

I ordered some fabric last week, for the back of my lock in mystery quilt. It should arrive tomorrow. That should give me time to quilt it before the lock in. I also have my sisters lock in quilt from last year to quilt before then too. I hope to get it loaded today before I leave.

Sharon and I are giving our lecture/trunk show tonight in KC, so I’ve been organizing and packing up all my quilts this morning. They are now in the car and ready to go. Bad thing is they’re calling for  snow this evening, not a lot but it still makes for a mess. Come on spring!! I am sooooo ready for you to get here!!

To check out what others have on their design walls this week, go to http://www.patchworktimes.com

That’s it for now! 🙂

Theresa