Once Upon a time

I would start a project , maybe a second one but no more than that and finish them. By hand, piecing and quilting. And those who know me, know that I don't make small quilts 90% of the time 60x84" is the norm for the kids and 80" square is the minimum for a coverlet on our bed.
So today I was minding my own business - looking for some solids to cut for Amish Tumbling blocks as my piecing project for vacation.And a container fell off the shelf full of Diamond Strings Well I need at least another 10 blocks and I'm bored with strings, they make such a mess so I did a few rows including sashing- black cause it frames it so well. Now I need to make more blocks and figure what color I want the cornerstones and whether I want to dye some bright color for my inner border. Too much detail
:( So I started putting things away and found more strips for binding on my pineapple blossom and I found another 6 blocks of another project I was doing ( top secret till top is finished- maybe tomorrow :D ) But I don't want a plain backing for this one so I think I'm going to order a fatback for it but not sure of the color. And I'm toying with silk or wool for a batting. But I want them tomorrow not when I get back from vacation :(. I was informed that ALL of this mess needs to be cleaned up before we leave- fat chance - well maybe if I stop playing for awhile. But I did put all my embroidery threads away and plan on cleaning the machine tonight again and see if maybe it will play nice for a day or two.
SO maybe I should stop playing on the computer and get something done....like the binding on pineapple blossom. Graduation party is the Saturday after we get back.


So, I never got the area cleaned but I have a new flimsy :)

Ocean Waves Revisited

Last year, about this time I started another insane project for piecing. You know about a month after I started doing a king sized Cathedral Windows by hand. *Snicker-Snicker* Any how I was "supposed to be" cleaning up the fabric mess to start getting ready for the party Sunday, anyhow one of my project boxes fell while I was putting something else away and a million hsts came flying out of the open box for Ocean Waves. SO what's a gal to do but finsh making the 12" blocks for the main part of the quilt- right? So I know have 49 blocks pieced, leaving me 29 more 6" blocks to make and I can get this pretty together to quilt. I know originally I said I was going to do 8x 8 on the block layout but then I'd have to send it out to be quilted :( But if I use 6" blocks on the side and bottom it will be 90" which is a size I can quilt myself -YEAH!!!! But I am cleaning up the mess and will finish with the fabric clean up after dinner.......

16 blocks of Ocean Waves

First I'd love to thank everyone for all the kind words about my insane project. I hope I have enough parts to finish it. Believe it or not, this is ALL from stash. I almost wiped out my greens and I think I have a few more tubes of fabric sewn the wondercut way that needs to be cut, pressed and trimmed. And I'll start looking for more if I get low. I do have one hst triangle wrong is one of the blocks and I doubt I'll fix it..we shall see later on in the project.

Did you see Carole's quilt she made for her brother??? Amazing. 2,112 pieces....I wonder how many will be in my puzzle??????

In the meantime I'm still sewing rows of my Carolina Crossroads mystery

stashbusting and some pics

No fabric came into the house this week, and none were finished into tops or quilts either :( So it's a wash of a week for me. Lots and Lots of blocks made- alot of near finishes. I hope Mr Juki is done soon so I can quilt.


I did manage to finsh 4 more ocean waves blocks - yippee only 56 more to go. Lots of partials going but I needed to stop and start making the rows of Carolina Crossroads. I for the 3 middle ones sewn together and put it all away for the move today.

The cats woke me up at 4AM this morning. I was not a happy camper and I couldn't run a machine as the rest of the house was sleeping so I was sewing a few more tumbling blocks together....of course wise guy I'm married to asked it if was a Q Bert quilt?








We put a shelf up, rearranged the sewing area so I'm facing the windows. I've decided I have way too many books...lol. But I couldn't find any I wanted to part with. See Ethel on the book case. I need to order one of those cute boxes for her.
I don't know if you can see the box from the first treadle base...which was way past being able to repair for less than alot more than it was worth. I kept the machine and pitched the base- 2 refinishers said it wasn't worth fixing with all the cracks in the wood and what looks like had termites....but the box covers my embroidery machine PERFECTLY. That will be stripped and refinished in the spring VBG>






This HUGE and HEAVY box came Friday to me - wonder what's under all those styrofoam pellets??????




Isn't it great???? Mel sent it to me when I killed the Janome Gem last weekend. There are a million buttons.I joined a Viking Group and was able to get a pdf of the manuel and will print it out tomorrow and play. Thank you so much Mel!!! You Rock as DD would say

It's the weekend!

Yippee!! I get to work on stuff for ME. While looking for my AMish Tumbling blocks I came across the hand dyes for Ocean Waves and figured before it went awol again I better cut it into what I need and get to work on a couple blocks :) 4 down, 60 to go ;)






I've been using Ethel to piece the GIrl Scout blocks for the last few days. She sews like a dream. VBS and I even managed to get not one but two of the colors comepletely done for the quilts. Meaning, I only have 42 more blocks to make and I can start piecing the tops...and my goal was to have them done by the end of February! Gasp! Might I be ahead of myself for a change??? What a concept.
I'm going to work on a few more ocean waves blocks and do the quilt along blocks piece Carolina Crossroads into a top and who knows what other mischief I can get into.
Enjoy your weekend:

Still quilting :)

Well I finally got the grad quilt loaded and even managed to get a couple of the rows quilted this morning.
Between running around with dd and checking po boxes I mananged to get a couple hundred more hsts done for my summer project.....