Pat Sloan BOM 2015 VACATION TIME

March block of the month!  Whooohooo! Beware the Ides of March!  Yesterday was Pi celebration.  Early on in elementary school,  that was probably the only set of numbers relating to mathematical equations that I remembered.  It had to do with eating a generous portion of lemon meringue pie, mmmm yum❤  3.14!  So, I managed to get the March block "Vacation Time"  done today.

Floral Fantasy - PROJECT QUILTING!

Whoo hooooo!   Project Quilting Season 6 - Project 5 -  MY FAVORITE FABRIC!

Last Sunday, I had to report a failure to complete a quilt for Kim's Project Quilting Challenge over on her blog !  Can I get a whoop whoop???  Whoop, whoop, whoop!  Hooray (!) I am happy to report a finish.  If you only knew how many times I started a project over the past two years only to not finish for one reason or another.  I am so happy!

So here is a little about my project.  The challenge is to use my favorite fabric, (yikes!) cut into my favorite fabric to make a quilt/quilted item within the week.  I chose my latest favorite fabric; a lovely green and pink floral by extraordinary artist, Nel Whatmore for FreeSpirit.  It was such a lovely few fat quarters that just blew me away.

Favorite fabric!   So gorgeous!

pictured here with some of the other coordinates

  Sections for the finished quilt.

Here is the finished quilt/quilted item! ! !

Here she is sporting her genuine leather handles and a bit of quilting!  

just a little tuck changes the size of this bag!  This is the back of the bag.

a close up of  the quilting!

Making it Work! or NOT! !

It is Sunday morning and my project quilting quilt is not ready and will not make the deadline over at the project quilting blog .  Scroll down to the bottom of the blog and view all the lovely heart quilts and VOTE for your favorite! Wow!  They are beautiful!  Well, I am not feeling diminished in any way because I did not make the deadline and doing this project this past week taught me a couple things.  I do not make drawings or plans when making quilts - I should.  I now have a better idea as to how long it takes me to actually make the simplest of blocks, and I CAN make a quilt in a week!  Lol.  The most important thing is that I make a plan.  Size is a major factor in making any project in a timely fashion; I ALWAYS go overboard!

In this quilt, I made blocks that I had made before and did so free hand with no patterns.  The nested churn dash block has been very popular and this person may or may not be the author of the pattern, but here is where I first saw it last year.  The churn dash block is a favorite.  The other blocks are log cabins, and an applique center block, a strippy block.  I am not finished and hope to do so in the next week.

 Using Kona Solids, some Carol Bryer Fallert Electric Feather
My hand dyed fabrics and BATIKS,  cut into random sized strips. No measurements. I seem to favor 1/2 inch to 3 inch strips and as I made and trued seams I ended up with 10 1/2 inch blocks!

This is what I created from the strips

       

I used 3 1/2 inch squares of solid black Kona and dot fabric to make the heart shapes.  These hearts are the center of all the blocks so they could only be so big.  There is the first heart using the checked fabric

First block, the nested churn dash with an recess applique heart center

   another  recessed heart!

A look at the blocks

Thank goodness I was able to get my sewing machine back on Wednesday!  

 After 5 blocks

















 This quilt requires something special for a center  block; so using a piece of double folded freezer paper, I drew a heart design and cut. I would love to say that it took only one time to achieve a cute little 4 heart design...but you know how it is!~

I was not finished with paper!  This quilt MUST have some paper piecing in it!  

HEART 

Quilting is still in progress!  

It's Thursday!

Yikes! Stuff (!) Life (!) Keeps happening.  Is something trying its best to pull me off my course!  Lol, 😂 ! The voice of TV's  famous Tim Gunn of "Project Runway" reverberates in my head! "MAKE IT WORK, MAKE IT WORK!!!! Like I said before, I really am not quick at execution of my designs or someone's pattern. Oh my, it's  Thursday!

But hey! Looks who's back!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊

New Project on the horizon!

My copy of THE 1718 COVERLET  author Susan Briscoe arrived today.  It is the oldest dated British Patchwork  Coverlet and is made of mostly silks. I absolutely love silks and think silks, especially old silk ties might be a good idea.  Maybe the new silk/cotton fabrics would be easier to work with and last longer. I have made several garments, quilts, and purses of silks and all of those fabrics required extra fortification, ie interfacing, ironed onto the back of the silks prior to cutting. So I have an idea that this will be a time consuming project that may last a couple years.  There are 69 different block patterns and 182 blocks in the revised version.  Lol, I am looking forward to sharing the process!

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY♡♡♡

Whooohooo! It's good to  finish one of my latest projects!  I am very happy to present this little cutie on this special day. Hearts are just my favorite!  

About this project : Fabrics - Cherie by Marsha D'yans for Clothworks
Denyse Schmidt Modern Solids, Free Spirit,  assorted FINCA pearle cotton threads
Picture from LITTLE QUILTS by Sarah Fielke  & Amy Lobsiger.  Pattern "My Heart" by Sarah (used with permission ). Thank you!

Hand quilting by moi!
Have a happy day♡♡♡

What's on my table?

So way behind in the 29 face challenge!  Here's what I drew today.
On the sewing front; a special project in progress!

And (!) whoop, whoop! New Kaffe fabric!!