A New Quilting Buddy

Wednesday and Thursday evenings my sister-in-law (well, actually my ex-SIL) came over to work on a baby quilt for her very first grandchild, a little girl expected to make her appearance later this month. Another friend helped her get started, but she was on vacation, so she came to see if I could help. What fun we had and I'm sure we did lots more yakking than sewing, but she got all her nine-patches put together. She will come over to do the quilting when she is ready.

Carolina Crossroads Blocks

Step 6 of the Quiltville mystery quilt had us make blocks out of lots, but not all, of the little nine patches we made. They are turning out very pretty.

Quilters Cache

One of my ongoing quilt projects is to test block patterns for Quilters Cache before they are online. I have been testing patterns for Marcia, along with about 10 others, since 2002. This table runner started as a test block called Belted Star in March 2006. I liked it so much that I made 2 more, added setting triangles and made a table runner. Then I put it aside and started working on something else. When I was taking pictures of my UFOs, I knew that this one would be a quick finish. I'll work on the binding tonight and then it will really be finished. I quilted it using the Chantilly Lace Block patterns from the back of my machine, like a pantograph. PermaCore Camel thread for this one also, which is becoming my most favorite color of thread.

More photos are in my webshots album.

Carolina Crossroads & Stashbusting

I am all caught up in the mystery quilt
There are 100 of these nine-patch blocks in Step 2, which equals 900 1-1/2 inch squares, bringing the total number of pieces to 1200.
There are 80 of these nine-patch blocks in Step 3, which equals 720 1-1/2 inch squares, bringing the total number of pieces to 1920.
There are 40 of these nine-patch triangle blocks in Step 4, which equals 120 1-1/2 inch squares and 120 triangles, bringing the total number of pieces to 2140.
There are 100 of these quarter-square traingle blocks in Step 5, which equals 400 triangles, bringing the total number of pieces to 2540.

Since I straightened up my sewing room this weekend, all the parts of the mystery quilt are neatly placed in this basket.


Stashbusting Report
According to my calculation so far this quilt has used more than 5 yards of fabric: 2-2/3 blue, 1-3/4 white, and 1-1/8 red

Longarm Quilting
Finished quilting the Ribbon Candy for a friend using the Jingle Bell Dance Panto and PermaCore Olive thread. Turned out real nice, but you have to really look to see the quilting design on the front and the back makes my eyes all wonky if I look at it too long.

Carolina Crossroads

YEA, last night I finished Step One of Carolina Crossroads. This one is going to use up lots of red, white and blue scraps.


I also spent some time quilting with Mabel. I'll have picts of that tomorrow.

1st UFO Finish of 2008

I finished the binding and the label on this one last night. It isn't even listed in the sidebar, but I did start it in 2007, so it's a UFO. I really like how this turned out. I hope Lamar is equally happy with it and I hope it adorns a wall in his new home for a long time

Stashbusting Sudoku Quilt

We had the wonderful job of watching DGS Andrew on New Year's Eve. He had his bath, his bottle and was in bed by 8:30, so I had some quilting time.

I knew I shouldn't, but this little New Years Eve project caught my eye and I could use 9 fat quarters that I already had. I really love to do these puzzles and so thought that I needed to make one of these. It went together really easy, with some organization. So, looks like I will need to add one more "ready to be quilted" to my list.



First quilt on the frame in 2008

Yesterday my friend Adrienne came over to use Mabel. She got this Saturday Sampler quilted and motivated me to get mine done also. It's on my list to be quilted, so that is what I will quilt next. Ironic as it may sound, the number that I drew yesterday for our guild UFO Club was 2, and that is the number of my Saturday Sampler on that list.