Life is good!

Recent Completions!! Chevron News (for Patrick)   WIPs: Blossoms (ender and leader set-up) Aviatrix (I've at least made the templates, so I'm counting that as a start!) Stars KerBloom Farmer's Wife Needs Binding   Swoon Stardust Vertical Drop Park Bench Christmas Runners 1-5  At the quilter: Christmas Runner 6 (I'm quilting)     Top Completed, waiting for quilting: Mosaic Breezeway Landscape Secret Garden Planning: Snowbird BOM Gravity Abacus Hidden Stars (baby quilt) The Lorax (baby quilt) Sticks and Stones (fall dinner 2016) Kelley's Quilt (commission for sister) Moda Building Blocks?? Secret Project  Triple Barn Star (w/ Morris layer cake) UFO's: Craftsy QAYG quilt (three of twelve completed) Vintage Modern Scrappy Fabulous Flowers - stalled until I figure out how to fix it...

My IG feed was deluged this week with #getyourquiltywishesgranted posts, where people asked for and granted various wishes.  I admit I don't have too many wishes (I have a pretty decent fabric budget), but I definitely wanted to grant some wishes.  I got a little overwhelmed looking through for individual wishes to grant, so I just posted things I thought people might like, and asked for takers. All of my scraps from Canyon Jewels - a decent amount of them, some oddly shaped.  I am terrible at using scraps, and would love to see someone get some use out of them. Two Moda scrap bags - see above comment on scraps.  These have been in my stash for several years, and I just can't see them getting used any time soon.  Or ever.  And my scrap bin.  I have a 20 gallon tote that is completely crammed with scraps.  Some sewing scraps, some random stuff, a lot of quilting scraps.  I filled up one large priority box, and four envelope...

Okay, it's long past time for an update to the WIP list.  I feel like I have been accomplishing things lately, but it's also all over the board.  Some mending, finished a jumper for my daughter that's been cut out for months, that sort of thing.  More cross-stitching, some swap work.  So here goes: Recent Completions!! Jingle All the Way Swap table runner Wall hanging Descending   WIPs: Blossoms (ender and leader set-up) Aviatrix (I've at least made the templates, so I'm counting that as a start!) Stars KerBloom Secret Garden Farmer's Wife Needs Binding   Swoon Stardust Vertical Drop Park Bench   At the quilter: Chevron News     Top Completed, waiting for quilting: Mosaic Breezeway Landscape Planning: Snowbird BOM Gravity Abacus Hidden Stars (baby quilt) The Lorax (baby quilt) Sticks and Stones (fall dinner 2016) Kelley's Quilt (commission for sister) Moda Building Blocks?? S...

Back at the Bakeshop again this week! This was a fun project to put together, and although I had extreme trepidations about the color combination, I love how it turned out.  I think there are lots of fun options for this design - I would love to see it with the Zen Chic modern backgrounds, or in all solids.  One of my favorite things about quilting is how one design can look so totally different, depending on fabric choices and placements. I've been making progress on other things as well, although I've obviously stunk about getting any progress posted here.  I finished a top for my stepson, and it's off at the quilters. It uses the aforementioned Zen Chic modern backgrounds, both ink and paper.  It's Chevron News.  I usually try to stay away from using the exact fabrics called for in a pattern, but I just loved how this one looked, so I went with it.  I did add borders to take it up to queen size; I can't wait to see how this one turns out. ...

I have not been in my sewing room nearly enough lately!  Partly it's just taking a short break.  I don't normally watch much television, but every once in a while I'll start watching some old show on Netflix, and then I just have to binge watch it until I get it out of my system.  I think I'm almost there with my current binge (Chuck - such a cute show, it does make me laugh!) so hopefully I'll get back to the sewing soon. I'm also doing some round robin cross stitches.  This month I'm finishing up one robin and starting a new one, so I have two to do, and I already know one will be late.  But c'est la vie, they will both get done.  A new project popped onto my planning list.  My step-son asked me to make a quilt for him, and I can't tell you how much that means, so I am looking for something special.  I think I've found the perfect pattern, and am focusing in the fabrics.  I will definitely break my no-new-fabric pledge, on which I'd act...

I'm back at the Bakeshop!  I love Kate Spain, so this was a pleasure to work on, and a fun pattern to put together.  I don't usually do applique, but this is pretty straightforward, and because of the large size of blocks goes together very quickly. I ended up making it a queen-sized quilt.  That hadn't been my original plan, but my daughter loved it, and I decided to make it large enough to put on her bed.  She currently has a quilt, but it's a twin sized quilt on a queen sized bed, and it's a design for a younger girl, so I thought this was a good time to upgrade her.  The colors in Canyon are just wonderful - bright and saturated and lovely.  I adore the greys thrown in there, too.   I used the white background fabrics for the outer border, and I'm pleased with how it makes it large enough for a queen bed without distracting from the center.  I had the quilter use a large all-over hexagon based quilting pattern, and I...

I'm working on getting some clothing pieces cut out - I have four cut and ready to sew.  They shouldn't take me long, if I could just find some uninterrupted time.  The kids are back to school, and I'm working on getting the bed-time routine back to a respectable time limit.  It gets a bit ridiculous, and by the time I've put them in bed and finished the dishes, it's time for bed.  And I'm trying to get exercise in daily, too, which eats up yet more time!  My quilt WIP pile is now entirely too small, as well.  I've pulled out Aviatrix to start, and am anxious to get going on that.  I'm going to try and get a bunch of cutting done this weekend, but I'm definitely going to have to come up with a better organizational system than I usually use.  We'll see what I can jigger up.  I also want to add the Moda Building Blocks quilt to my planning list, and try to do it entirely from stash.  We'll see!  Recent Completions!! Madonna and...