Monthly Archives: January 2017

2017
01/31

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Quilt finish #4 and a disaster

IMG_0063zQuilt finish #4 for this year is the shop hop blocks from 2004.   I’m so happy they are in a completed project.   This quilt is 41″ square – just perfect for a baby.  I put a polka dot backing on it (but forgot to take a photo).

IMG_0064zEvery quilter needs a disaster to keep her/him humble.   After finishing the quilt above, I thought I’d get another done in a quick minute.   Not so, the thread jumped out of from between the disks which I didn’t notice and left me this mess.   I just took it off the machine, will take all this mess out and start over another day.   I’m so glad it happened right at the beginning of the quilt as it is back breaking to take many stitches out when it is still on the machine.

And just for fun, we went to Costco to get our passport photos taken.   DH will mail them off tomorrow.   Who knows if we’ll need these, but if so, we will have them.

2017
01/30

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Life
quilts

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Sunny coins Quilt finish #3

IMG_0060Sunny coins is quilt finish #3 for this year.   And this one was not a ufo!   It is 50 x 68 and I really like the way it turned out.   I probably will do this again.  It went together rapidly and quilted up nicely.  This size would be good for charity quilts.

IMG_0061 I did edge to edge bubbles and am happy with the results.

2017
01/29

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Birthday party; Quilt Finish #2

IMG_0057 These are the stars who starred at the birthday party last night.   And two more photos to show we know how to celebrate as a family.

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IMG_0054with games, food and plenty of liquid.

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I went to the closet to pull out quilts for a family whose house recently burned and to my surprise, the binding on this quilt was not finished, so that was my big accomplishment for today.   The name of this quilt is “Globe Trotting” and was a block of the month quilt by Pat Sloan.   It is finish #2 for January and #3 is coming up soon.

 

2017
01/27

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Life
quilts

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Storm at sea quilt finished!

IMG_0012dStorm at sea was started about 5 or 6 years ago.  I forced myself to work on it on my spare moments this week as today is our 54th anniversary and isn’t that what marriage is all about – weathering the storms of life together.   The is totally finished – the marriage continues.

IMG_0049uwith a hanging sleeve and very difficult to see but I used permanent marker in the lower right corner to put my name and date.    I love this quilt so am so happy to see it finished.   Now I need to find the perfect place to hang it.

I’m linking up to Elm Street Quilts One monthly goal with this finish.

2017
01/26

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food
Knitting
Life
Shopping

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January sock progress

IMG_0007January sock progress is like molasses.   Very slow going.   I am now half way through the heel flap.  No the socks will not be finished in January as I originally planned.   I’ll have to see what is scheduled for February = hopefully no more illness so that I can get February’s socks done and go back and finish these.

I spent about 4 hours this morning, moving furniture and cleaning floors under machines.  Sweeping, mopping, discarding, put bolts and other fabrics away all takes time.  So we took the afternoon off and spent another 5 hours, grocery shopping, and having AT&T tell me why the phone wasn’t working.   Amazingly they couldn’t get it to misbehave and so far it is still working.  I had planned to get an ice cream cake at Dairy Queen for the party Saturday evening, but their idea of a an ice cream cake, was a layer of vanilla topped with a layer of chocolate and then frosted like a cake.   So we went to Baskin Robbins and bought pizza like pies.   They have a big chocolate cookie on the bottom and are filled with ice cream and cut into 8ths.   That should be easy to handle at the party.   (Yes, there is vegan cake and ice cream for those that choose.)

2017
01/25

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Life
quilts

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Sunny coins

IMG_0004I quilted bubbles over this Sunny Coins flimsy today.   So now another quilt is in the “needing binding” pile.  Interestingly, when you have a flimsy ready to go, often times, you really aren’t even half way there.   You need batting and some of these battings definitely need to be pre-shrunk.   Then there is choosing and sewing together the backing and the binding.   Now you get to choose the design and get everything on the machine so you can quilt.  It all takes time, so this entire day (after gym) has been spent getting this flimsy quilted.  And currently I don’t’ even have a place to put it up where you can see the entire quilt.

2017
01/24

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Life
quilts

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Storm at Sea; new phone

IMG_0001ssStorm at Sea is quilted, but when I cut the binding, I find that I am about 10-12″ short, so I will need to take the time to look in various places where it may have been placed.   This quilt was put together a few years ago.   I have always liked this pattern, so soon will have it hanging on the wall.   I was so pleased with myself that I was up and working on this in the morning.

I had hoped that I might be able to get another flimsy quilted today.   No such luck.   Since my phone was not working again, I made an appointment with Apple to have it worked on.  I was sent to Best Buy about 45 minutes away.   But they couldn’t fix it, so sent me another 5 minutes away to the Apple store in the mall.  It was 5 hours from the time I left home, until I returned with a new IPhone.  I’m hoping this time, since they gave me a new phone, my problems will be solved.  It is difficult not being able to send or receive calls.

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On the way to the appointment, I stopped at JoAnn’s and picked up 2 yards of Seahawk fabric for a project.   Then there was 7/8 of a yard remnant and I can’t just walk away when offered a good price on a piece that I  know will eventually be needed for a project.   So now I have an increase 2 7/8 yards of fabric – at least until I get a quilt fully finished and can add it to fabric used.  The only fabric I purchased in the last 2 years was Seahawk fabric.  Maybe tomorrow I can either quilt another quilt or find the rest of the fabric and finish the Storm at Sea.

2017
01/23

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Life
quilts
Sewing

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Peacock pillow cover; quilt frame repaired

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This is a peacock that I embroidered a few years ago.   I was not as happy with it as I wanted to be, so it has been languishing in a corner, waiting it’s turn.    Hatched in Africa designed it and now has us finishing up old projects, so I pulled this out of the corner and it is now a pillow cover.   I’m just waiting for JoAnn’s to have a sale on pillow forms so I can put it on the couch.

Quilt frame repair

IMG_0088I had taken apart one of the bars to insert a handle with the ratchet.   After getting it apart, I discovered they sent me the wrong package.   I received the correct one right before getting sick, so nothing happened.   The poor machine has been in disrepair for 3 weeks.   Today, I kept my promise to it and repaired it.   Now it has loaded on it “Storm at Sea” and we should get that quilted this week.  It is so amazing how when you put something on your calendar it has a much better chance of getting done.   Without that, I believe I could have procrastinated quite a bit longer.

 

2017
01/22

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quilts

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Shop Hop flimsy

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Here is the 2004 Shop Hop flimsy.   It only took me 13 years to get it done.  Because not all the blocks were designed to be exactly the same size, I had to do some fudging here and there.  But if you are racing that horse down the middle of the street, you’ll never know.  I’m very happy to get this to this point.   It measures 42″ square which is a great wheel chair or baby size.   It feels good to  have it done and as soon as I get the quilting machine back together, I can finish it.

2017
01/20

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Life
quilts

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Better storage and Sunny Chinese coins

IMG_0069sChinese Coins is one of the fastest, easiest and brightest quilts that I remember making.  It was fun watching the bright colors come together in this “rain forest”  labeled as Seattle.   Not complaining – just sometimes a bright spot is fun.   The rust color panels are a solid panel so that went rapidly.   This quilt measures 51 x 70 because I wanted to add a bit of rust color to the coin stacks.    I used Babylock’s love of Sewing with Pat Sloan’s lap quilt pattern.  Her jelly roll had much more variety than the one I had on hand which is why I add the rust.

IMG_0063SAnd these are the better storage units – already full as I just transferred the contents from the units falling apart.