September recap

1. Wedding quilt. Well, this was last month's goal.  I wasn't too far off, but I also wasn't very close.  I just finished the quilting (four days into October) and I have to tie off a gazillion thread ends and bind.  This will be October's goal too.  At the rate I've been going, it is a possible goal but not a for-sure goal.

2. Baby quilt (boy). I received all the blocks from Stash Bee and put them together.  This is going on the quilter next as it's for a baby who is a few months old now.  Now that I'm seeing it in a picture, I really, really like it.
 

3. Aunt's quilt. I got all the colored HSTs together.  It was close a few times as the cat seemed a bit mad at me and messed up my pieces.  The first time she didn't mess them up too much and the second time most of them were at least put into blocks.  I quickly numbered them after the second time.  The third time three numbers fell out, but it was still pretty easy to put them all in the right spot.  Now they're all in a stack waiting for their corner triangles.  Look at how well my points match up!  There's only a few that aren't "perfect" and I'm rather excited about that.

Other items still waiting around...or newly added. 
4. bee hive scrap something.  
5. scrap quilt #2.  
6. Scrap quilt.   
7. Simply solids bee quilt.     
8. Rainbow log cabin.  
9. Orphan rocket block.  
10. Jeweled floors.    
11. Lost piece (almost whole cloth quilt).    
12. Winter quilt.    
13. fabric from Christmas.    
14. A pillow with green/purple fabric.
15. Sunset wall hanging.  
16. Quilt nautical quilt.  
17. Baby quilt (girl) 
18. Quilt HI quilt

Finished - stack 'n whack

I've wanted to make a stack 'n whack quilt for a while.  (In case you don't know what that is, it is where you put several layers of fabric on top of itself, all lined up so the design is in the same place on each layer.  You then cut out your pieces and put every stack together, creating a sort of kaleidoscope affect.)  I was a bit unsure of the layout that I wanted as I wasn't thrilled with many that I saw.  Then I saw one that had many background triangles in it and decided I liked it...it gave the eye a place to rest.

Here is the fabric I started with:

I cut it up and realized that I didn't quite have enough stars for a full layout and decided to add extra background.  I love how it turned out!

My initial thought had been to slice up the circles into pie shapes, but then I realized that would be rather boring.  So I added some of the white background into the mix and got some fun designs.

The flowers are quilted in white thread using a flowerish pattern.  The background is quilted with leaves (from Angela Walters).  I think of it as ground cover.  It is quilted with a thread that is fairly ugly on the spool - brown and green variegated.  But it was perfect for this.

The back is a minky.  The colors don't really match, but the theme does.  The original fabric was full of butterflies and dragonflies and flower-type things.

As with all my blankets, I bound it in sateen.  I thought it was a bit more coral in the store, but when I got home it seemed pink.  Ah well, it still matched well.

The baby should be here any day now, so I'll get it send off soon!

Linking up with TGIFF and Finish it up Friday.  Finishing this was also my November ALYoF (#54).  I love finishing a little early and feeling like I can work on anything or everything for a few days.

November rollover

1. Baby girl top - I would like to finish this for the November ALYoF (#54).  I thought the baby was due early December, but is actually due late November, so I don't have quite as much time as I thought.  I have the white "flowers" all quilted and am probably going to put some leaves in the background.

2. Sunset wall hanging.  I quilted a few more circles.

3. Space robot quilt.  The top is almost together...just two or three more seams.  I've started taking some of the paper out.  It will be a long process, but I was thinking I might start Gilmore Girls.

4. The bee hive quilt.  I made a sample block for my month, November.  Now I'm just waiting for them to come in!  The block is spinwheel.

5. Baby quilt.   It is Matrix by Anne of Springleaf Studios.  I feel like I should have put a little more planning into the colors, but still like it.

  

Other items on which I didn't make progress last month...

6. Scrap quilt. 

7. Rainbow log cabin.  

8. Simply solids bee quilt. 

9. scrap quilt #2. 
10. map wall hanging.  

11.  Pluses quilt. 
12. Orphan rocket block 
13. Quilt nautical quilt   
14. Quilt Christmas quilt  
15. Jeweled floors. 
16. Lost piece (almost whole cloth quilt). 
17. Winter quilt. 
18. A door stop. 

October rollover

1. Quilt swimsuit quilt - for my October ALYoF (#35), I'd like to finish quilting the swimsuit quilt.  I'm doing waves on the white part.  I'm about half way done with the quilting, but there are a lot of stops and starts (should have thought of that earlier) and so a lot of threads need to be buried too. 

2. Baby girl top - The top of my stack 'n whack is done.  I really like it.

3. Sunset wall hanging.  I finished quilting the actual sun in shiny thread and am now doing semi-cirles around it.  I didn't end up working on it as much this summer as I was expecting, but I hope to continue to slowly work away at it.

4. Space robot quilt.  I almost have all the blocks pieced!  I'm about half way done with my last five.

5. Scrap quilt.  I finished this at the end of last month,  but as I was taking a quick picture something just didn't seem right about it.  Maybe it was all the negative space just being intimidating.  So I put it on the bed to check the dimensions.  Over all it's pretty good, but I think I'll add some from the bottom to the top.  I had forgotten that pillows often cover up the top bit and don't want them to cover the stripes.  So I guess nothing has actually been done, but there is a plan.

  

Other items on which I didn't make progress last month...

6. Rainbow log cabin.  

7. Simply solids bee quilt. 

8. scrap quilt #2. 
9. map wall hanging.  

10.  Pluses quilt. 
11. Orphan rocket block 
12. Quilt nautical quilt   
13. Quilt Christmas quilt  
14. Jeweled floors. 
15. Lost piece (almost whole cloth quilt). 
16. Winter quilt. 
17. Baby quilt. 
18. A door stop. 
19. The bee hive quilt - make sample blocks for November

September rollover

1. Baby girl top - for my September ALYoF (#39), I would like to finish the top for this quilt.  I got the fabric a while ago.  It will be my first time using a triangle ruler.  The baby isn't due until December, so I don't feel as though I need to finish this all up...and sometimes it's fun to flit around on different projects.

2. QST.  I have pictures and just need to get them on the blog.  I'm a bit behind.

3. Rainbow log cabin.  The rainbow logs are finished and I'm starting to put it together.  The carpet cleaner came so I had to put everything away and it hasn't come back out yet.

4. Scrap quilt.  I finished the top and have an idea for quilting.  But it might be rather intensive, so I'm not quite ready to start it.

5. Simply solids bee quilt.  My mother-in-law found more matching fabric!  As you probably don't remember, last month I was trying to figure out what to do because I didn't have enough background fabric and didn't know what it was.  Now I have a lot!

Other items on which I didn't make progress this month...

6. Sunset wall hanging.

7. scrap quilt #2.  There are still a lot of scraps in my color rolls.
8. map wall hanging.  
9. Space robot quilt.

10.  Pluses quilt. 
11. Orphan rocket block 
12. Quilt nautical quilt   
13. Quilt Christmas quilt  
14. Quilt swimsuit quilt
15. Jeweled floors. 
16. Lost piece (almost whole cloth quilt). 
17. Winter quilt. 
18. Baby quilt. 
19. A door stop.