Progress

Here's some of my progress from the last two weeks.


All the T-shirts have fusible webbing on them.  I was a little disappointed in the interfacing...it took forever to fuse.  It's the first time I've used interfacing, so it could be normal, but I was hoping it would go faster.  But, they're all ready and I have sashing fabric, so I'm moving forward.

The orange baby blanket that I'm trying to finish by the end of the month is about halfway quilted.    I'm using my ruler base to make several straight lines.

I started cutting squares for the 1-up quilt.  I'm trying to be extra careful with these fabrics and not let the cat sit on them...it could be harder than it sounds.

Simply Solids - June

Here's the June block - I enjoyed making it.  I was glad that I had two rulers and measured some of the cuts from both sides though, because otherwise I would have miscut several times!

I went with a rainbow theme - it was just so easy to choose with six stripes!

edit: I forgot to give the tutorial credit! :s  You can find it on the Moda Bake Shop, it's called Simply Woven.

Odds and ends

Exciting things abound!

I finished up the baby quilt top (based on Off-Track by Cluck Cluck Sew).  It's bright!

I hung up Window Boxes by the quilter.  I had put a hanging sleeve on it for a quilt show, so I figured I might as well display it for a bit.  If I ever decide to give it away I can easily take it down.  I'm not hanging on to it for a special reason; I just haven't figured out a baby to give it to.  The castle quilt is almost finished too...my son decided to play so well by himself this morning and I had about two hours to work on it.  This was a complete change since lately I've gotten about fifteen minutes at a time.

I received my ruler plate!  My dad (and a person he works with) made it for me.  Isn't it beautiful?  I'm trying to figure out how to use it in the above baby quilt, but it might need to wait a little bit longer before I give it a real test run.  The front corners might need to be rounded, but we'll see how it goes.

Linking up to Let's get Acquainted at Little and Lots.

May accomplishments, June goals

1.  Finish HST quilt, ideally before the baby arrives.  I finished it as the baby was arriving, but due to a mail error it took an extra week to actually arrive at its final destination.

2.  Finish countdown and rocket.  I finished piecing it.  I still need to quilt it, but the quilting queue got a little long.

3.  Piece the individual squares for the fractured quilt.  Done!  I even got them all together and I love it.

8. Pillow for family room.  Since I had a ton of scraps from Fractured, I started piecing them together.

12. Baby boy quilt from jelly roll.   The cat would not get out of the picture.  I was lucky to get her on the side and not smack in the middle.

13. May Simply Solids block. 

16. T-shirt quilt (September).  This is my first time using interfacing.  I got it on three shirts before needing to change to something else.

17. Quilt castle quilt.  So far I'm putting Lollipop Flowers (Leah Day) in the nine-patch blocks.

For June, my number one goal is (for the Lovely Year of Finishes):

 

1. Finish baby quilt from jelly roll.  I need to fix the 2nd and 5th rows so they are offset, put everything together (with sashing), quilt and bind.  The baby is due July 7, so maybe I can even get it out before the baby comes for once.

I'd also like to try really hard to:

2. Piece the T-shirt quilt

3. June Simply Solids block. 

And the other things that are still on the list, hanging out:

4.  Finish countdown and rocket

5.  Quilt the fractured quilt.

6. make the wall hanging for office.
7. pretend to work on scrap quilt.
8. finish green coasters.
9. Aunt's throw. 
10. Pillow for family room.
11. Jeweled floors.
12. Picture quilt (finish by Christmas).
13. Quilt castle quilt 

14. Think about another baby quilt (October)

15. One-up mushroom (October)

I'm also linking up with Fresh Sewing Day.

Countdown and winnings

The other day I received some fabric from Lea at Podunk Pretties that I won in her giveaway.  I love it...I love blue and I love daisies.  I have a baby quilt in mind for it, but could end up changing my mind.  We'll see what happens.

I also finished the countdown top.  The numbers were a pattern by Meadow Mist Designs.  I think it might look better with a little more space between the numbers, but it is already pretty long.  So all things considered, I'm pretty happy with it.

Linking up with Sunday Stash.

More wavy lines

My mother-in-law asked me to quilt this quilt, and semi-quickly.  (At least, semi-quickly for me.)  I had just down the wavy lines on the last quilt and loved them.  So I did them again.  And I still love them.

I did wavy lines on each side of each edge.  The quilt has a slight water/Hawaiian feel to it, so the waves fit really well!

The only problem I had was with the back.  It is a (very cute) plaid, but I didn't stretch it quite correctly on the frame and I think one edge will be a little distorted.  So with this quilt I learned that it's really important to have enough extra to clamp on to, especially it there are straight lines on the back.

Simply Solids block - May

Here is my block for May...

I like it.  I had some trouble with the final seams though...I'm not sure what happened.  I thought everything was lined up and I sewed on the line, and then if I had cut the block on the 1/4" markings it would have been too small.  Luckily I had learned my lesson from last time and didn't trim the outside edges.  Unluckily there was still only place where I was about 1/4" under.  Since it was just a 1/4" and not more I added another little piece.  Maybe I should make sure the leader doesn't just want me to replace the whole piece...I just get so nervous taking apart paper pieced blocks.