Weekend sewing

I feel SO productive!!  This weekend I finished a quilt (finished the top, the quilting and I put the binding on). Although I realized later I forgot to put a label on it. I plan on adding one this week. I cannot wait to share this quilt! But it's a gift, so nothing yet :(

I also made 16 bowtie blocks (love them as a leader/ender!) 

I think I might start sewing them into twosies & foursies soon. 

I also spent some time on Celtic solstice. 

I like this picture better than the cropped one 

I feel like you can see the pattern more when you step away. I'm not done with all the pieces, but I really wanted to start putting some blocks together. I'm in love!

We also stopped at Jo-Ann's (we only needed 1 thing) but saw calicoes were 50% off. 

I bought these for a fall table runner. 

And a valentines day one (I know I'm late for this year ;) )

All in all it was a great week end (and not just because of the sewing!!!)

 I am linking up with FNSI since I did quite a bit on Friday night :)

Fabric scrap swap

I participated in a fabric scrap swap.  It was on Flickr.  I enjoy the swaps, but flickr annoys me.  Mainly because I cannot access it easily on my phone

  Here is the cute little bag it was in! (I already have a (non quilting) use for this bag!)

 

And here is the lovely fabric! I cannot wait to cut into it! It's going to look great with all my scrappy stuff I have!

Look at these pattern weights she sent me!! Aren't they gorgeously purple!

Here is the fabric I sent to my partner

Friday night sewing

I got SO much done tonight! Wish I could share more pictures.

I finished a quilt top. And started quilting it. I hope to finish it soon (maybe this weekend?)

I've been working on Celtic solstice. I have pieces that I'm starting to put together blocks but there's not enough for me to take pictures. 

Tomorrow I'm working on finishing the quilt and possibly working on a table runner. 

Hopefully more pictures to come! 

Sewing weekend with my bestie

Rainbow Scrap challenge - Pink

 

February's color was pink.  Which was actually not that tough for me! I seem to have a lot of pink (not quite as much as I do blue though!) 

Celtic solstice clue #3

Half square triangles! I love these!  This has taken me so long to photograph because I have been working on sewing them, but haven't cut them apart and pressed them.

I'm going to wait until I've finished all of them to put the pinwheels together. Just to make sure I have enough variety!

 

I'm about half way done sewing these!! I love them!! they're so fun! and they look so great with everything else!

Work in Progress Wednesday

I have been able to work on a lot of things lately. . .just little bits and pieces!

Bow tie blocks. . .I can't remember how many of these I have.  I recently went through and put them in a box because I didn't have room for each step and the finished ones!

Celtic solstice! still chipping away at that! Not all the way done, but I do have a partial block layout I can do!!

I am linking up with WIP Wednesday

I am also linking up with Quilt fabric Tuesday

Block Swap

 

Here is a cute kitty I received!!

Teresa asked for a cactus pot block

Block swap

This is the block I sent to Dawnelle

This is the block from her, I actually got two!!! twin kitties!

As always, it's never too late to join!

February Goals check in

1. Post in my blog 7 times a month.  I posted 10 times in January!! Woohoo!! and I know I will have plenty of time to sew, and blog in the month of February!

2. I haven't had time for this, and this one sure does intimidate me, cause I am not sure I can drop the feed dogs on my machine! (Singer 99K)

3. I have my UFOs around, so that I will get them finished.  It's just finding the time!!

Did you make any goals for the year? how are they coming? (and when did February get here!)

Kate Spain swap

Michelle at Quilts from my crayon box hosted a Kate Spain Charm swap.  Now I have never been one to really follow fabric lines.  I started sewing with fabric from Jo-Ann's, and had never heard of lines of fabric, I just found stuff I liked.  I am still just finding fabrics I like, even if they aren't the same line.

I thought this would be a way for me to kind of see what some lines look like.  Wowsers did I fall in love with some fabrics!! I wish I could have bought more of some of them.  But I am enjoying playing with them.

What I am starting with are these little 9 patches.  I thought it would be a good way to kind of show case the fabrics.  I am using Kona Bone with them, I thought it would be a good neutral and NOT white!!

I only have about 20 9 patches done.  This will kind of be a leader/ender project as I work on other things.

Coldpocolypse 2014

WOW!!!! We are going to have another 2 days of no school this week!!

I am going to spend these two days sewing.  I have a project I really really want to get finished that I cannot share pictures of just yet. 

I spent some time cleaning up my sewing room first. These drawers ended up being a catch all for everything! So I've cleaned them out and each drawer has one project in it now. :)

More later I'm going to sew. 

Rainbow Scrap Challenge

I kind of did this last year, but I am going to be a lot better about participating this year!! I decided I would do a churn dash pattern, it's something I have wanted to do for a while, so this is a good way for me to make a quilt I've wanted to do and use up those scraps!

January's color is blue.  I think I am going to make 3 blocks each month.

Here are my three blocks. I found some neutrals I've had (I don't think I had enough of one neutral to do a whole quilt top) that little mermaid print I've had forever. I needed to cut it up and use it. 

Celtic solstice clue #4

Four patches.

Pretty simple!  I love having a scrap system, I was able to go to my strip bin and just pull out fabrics for this!!

I only have about 40 of these finished, I have some twosies that need to be sewn into the full 4 patches.

You can click the "celtic solstice" tag and see all my other posts :)

I am linking up to Bonnie's linkup here

Celtic solstice clue #2

Chevrons!!

I have almost 100 done!!! They were tedious but are SO cute!

I have started on parts of the other clues, but I like to have a majority of this done before I move on to the next one.

Block Swap

Here is a recent block I have received from my partner!

Sewpocolypse 2014 day 3

I had a great time sewing the past three days. 

For a project I'm working on (that I can't share just yet) I had to trim some HST (half square triangles). I have about 1/3 of the top put together, but I ran out of red!! I will get more when it's thawed out a little. 

Mini nine patches!! Whoa buddy were those a lot of work!!

And I've been working on bits and pieces of the Celtic solstice mystery. 

I would sew a bunch then take a break and press a bunch :)

It's been awesome!!!

*EDITED TO ADD*

I just found out that I get another day!!!  Woohoo!!!!

Huskers

Huskers Quilt finish #3 of the year.

 I loved being able to use the massive design wall!!

It's kind of hard to see here, but this is a (Nebraska) huskers quilt. I made it for a good friends husband.   I was so excited about this.  I found the white, the check and the huskers all in the remnants bin at Jo-Ann's.  The White is Kona snow white.

Here is a closer up picture of it.  I used a solid red binding and Huskers fleece on the back.  To quilt it I did a straight stitch through the white squares (on the diagonal) then crossed about half of them.  It turned out real nice, and was quite appreciated.

Recap 2013 & goals for 2014

About a year ago I set up 3 goals for myself.

1. Post 100 times.  I posted 102! Just barely made it in!  The first trimester at school was a killer, I barely had any free time to myself!

2. Finish 7 quilts.  I did not get that done :( I finished 4 (full) quilts by the end of the year.  I have 3 tops that are done and one that is almost finished.  It is definitely because of not being able to use the long arm.  I LOVE long arming.  And quilting on a sewing machine is just not the same for me.

3. Try three different/new to me patterns.  I made rootbeer & bubble gum which had a modified Ohio star and a string quilt.  So only two new ones.

I am not sure what my goals for 2014 should be.  I would definitely like to be more present in the blogosphere.  I do know part of my struggle with this is time, it's not always the easiest when I am only on a PC for school.

1. Post in my blog 7 times a month.

2. Finish 2 quilts on my home machine that isn't just straight stitching.

3. Finish 5 UFOs.

We will see how things end up going!

Sewing…

Sewing up a storm. While there's a storm outside!! 

And of course I can't sew without my helper girl :)

I plan on writing a real post tonight as a review of 2013 and what I got done. But for now I sew :)