Pillowcases for Conker

My local quilt guild, NSQG, collects pillowcases for Conker to be given to cancer patients. 

I watch the remnants bins at fabric stores to buy fun pieces of fabric especially for kids.  

Last Saturday I started working on some pillowcases and tonight I finished up the fabric that I had in the queue.   Got a total of 10 pillowcases done!!!  

Now just to wash, press and package in time to take to the NSQG meeting later this month.

Polka Dots, Patterns and Pinwheels - Done!!!

I finished assembling the quilt top called Polka Dots, Patterns and Pinwheels today.  Then I also put together a pieced backing and created the binding material.

This is the finished top - I am happy with how it came out.  I was able to correct all of the bad piecing that I had done when I started this a year or so ago. 

I think that I will try to machine quilt it - not on the Longarm - but need to change around my sewing room to setup my mom's sewing machine to do the quilting.  

Have a couple of other projects that I want to complete first.

Getting it Done - July Status and August List

Getting it Done - July Status

Things I really want to get done:

Complete binding and label for Anita's Arrowhead quilt - done 7/5/14

Make shower gifts - done 7/4/14

Clue #7 for Tell it to the Stars - done 7/6/14

Austen Family Album quilt - Blocks 14,15,16, and 17 done

Make Shower Favors - done 7/5/14 with Bonnie and Stefanie

Things I might get done:

21st Century Bulls Eye - complete 20 remaining blocks - done 7/18/14

Work on Baby Girl Quilt for Kei - top done 7/8/14

Five more blocks for Re-Piecing the Past quilt top - all blocks done 7/19/14

Quilt and bind Hearts Afire quilt top - quilted 7/25/14, binding on 7/26/14

Getting it Done - August List

Things I really want to get done:

Clue #8 for Tell it to the Stars

Austen Family Album - make weekly blocks

Sew binding down on Hearts Afire and add label

Add label to Crisscross Applesauce

Finish Polka dots, Patterns and Pinwheels top

Assemble top for Re-piecing the Past quilt

Things I might get done:

Assemble top for 21st Century Bulls Eye quilt

Complete Baby Girl quilt for Kei

Kit up Hopscotch mat project

Kit up Little Red Schoolhouse project

Start Believe Tablerunner 

Pillowcases for Conker

Progress on Polka Dots, Prints and Pinwheels

Last week I pulled out a UFO project that had been gathering dust for over a year and figured out where I should re-start the project

I must say that my sewing skills have definitely improved since I started this project.  My half square triangles are not very well constructed or consistent.  But I have decided to keep working on it and get it finished.

I also discovered that when sewing the half square triangles into pinwheels that I switched the squares and did not sew them all together correctly.  This caused me to have to pull apart about 7 of the pinwheel blocks and re-sew them together the correct way.

Tonight I used my design wall and laid them out into rows. 

The picture came out a little dark. I am happy with the layout and did sew together the first row.

With my inconsistent half square triangles the first row is a little wonky but I hope to fix that when sewing the rows together. 

More later as I continue to plow through this project.

Austen Family Album Quilt - Block 17 Waterwheel Done

This weeks block is called Waterwheel for Jane's Uncle James Leigh-Perrot.  James suffered from gout and visited Bath often to see if the waters could help him.  

This week I used more of my blue fabrics and actually made the whole block out of fabrics from my mother's stash!  My mom loved blue as much as I did so even though I have made several quilts from her stash fabrics I still have plenty of blue fabrics left.

Sorry that this picture is a little at an angle.  I am not totally sure about the fabric combination this week but going to leave it as is.

Be sure to go to either the Austen Family Album Quilt blog or the flicker group to see more about this project.

Polka Dots, Prints and Pinwheels - UFO

I had started this quilt at least a year ago and for some reason stopped working on it.

Yesterday I pulled it out and determined where I had stopped in the instructions.  So now I have decided to start working on it again.  

I have all of the half square triangles made - I just need to sew them into pinwheel squares and assemble them into rows.  

I did not have this in my plan for this month but am going to see how far I can get on this.

Craftsy Class - Re-Piecing the Past - Blocks Done

A year or so ago, I purchased a Craftsy class taught by Kaye England called Re-Piecing the Past Civil War Blocks.  I did not have many fabrics that could be considered Civil War so spent the past year purchasing fat quarters here and there of Civil War type fabrics.

Two months ago I started making the blocks - there are twelve in total.  This weekend I devoted all of my free time to completing the last of the blocks and did finish them tonight.  

One block I had to do twice as the first time I cut the fabric pieces two small.  Unfortunately I did not have enough of the original fabrics to use them for the second block so had to dig out some more fabrics to make the new one.

Here are the completed blocks laid out as suggested.

Two of the blocks are 14 1/2 unfinished with all the others 12 1/2 unfinished.  

The block in the upper right is the one I had to make twice.  The block in the lower left I had to alter as the center portion came out too small - so I added a border of the pink fabric to make it the correct size.

The pattern calls for four square blocks, nine patch blocks, flying geese and lines of scraps in between these blocks but I am not sure that I want to do that.  I am actually thinking about just sashing between them with one fabric and then adding a border of scraps - maybe four square blocks.  

What do you think?