Monday, November 09, 2009

New Love: chain piecing



I'm having such fun with Caroline's Objects, probably as much fun as my friend Caroline with her Objects of Desire: shoes

And I discovered a new love: chain-piecing. Fast, fun, efficient!

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Sunday, November 08, 2009

Theo's Planes - done



This came together nicely and all made from stash too.

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Thursday, November 05, 2009

UFO Challenge - The List

This is my list to be completed by December 31

Done as per last night:
  • Scrappy Quilt in a Day


  • Almost done:
  • IWC Charity Quilt

  • Theo's Planes


  • Halfway through:
  • A Night on the Tiles in Manchester


  • Not quite half way yet:
  • Caroline's Objects


  • Oh boy, nowhere near done:
  • Calendar Quilt Challenge


  • I have decided that this one is not an UFO yet, because it's just a collection of pre-cut fabric squares: Disappearing Nine-Patch

    Since this is not due until Aril 2011, I don't count it either: Bassetti for Reingard, cheeky, I know. But it's all about setting attainable goals. And that way I might actually manage ... well, Night on the Tiles may be a problem with all the quilting that will be needed.

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    Finished



    When my work day finally ended last night at 10 pm (household, kiddies, work-work, laundry, parents' meeting at church), I picked up the much neglected Quilt in a Day No. 4 and tied up the last few loose ends.

    I'm guessing it took me about 9 hours start to finish and I thoroughly enjoyed making this scrappy non-planned quilt.

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    Monday, November 02, 2009

    Stacks of Objects


    This is a stack of squares from my Objects of Desire jelly roll and charm pack. I am making very good progress on my value quilt. Pinning the whole thing to my design wall has been a great help. Now off to sew more squares into long strips ....

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    I'm in: UFO Challenge

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    Saturday, October 31, 2009

    31 Minutes



    from the above to the below



    Obsessive me realised that I couldn't let the guests of my daughter's Halloween party run around trick or treating with plastic bags. Since I couldn't find any of those plastic pumpkin contraptions I decided to whip up six bags ... in 31 minutes. And they lasted the entire evening!

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    Thursday, October 29, 2009

    Those will be small triangles


    You can tell when I am focussed on cutting and sewing that the quality of photography goes far south ... too busy to bother, really.

    Because I am currently spending my evenings sewing together jelly roll strips (on both long sides) and charm pack squares (on all sides) to cut into triangles.

    Then I will have to do some maths and finally decide on a lay-out ... all the while avoiding work on:

    - Theo's Planes
    - Scrappy Quilt in a Day
    - Charity Quilt

    who are all clamouring for attention to their binding.

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    Friday, October 23, 2009

    Changed my mind ...



    Caroline's Objects with be a Values Zig Zag Quilt ... to make use of the jelly roll.

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    Cracking on with the Tiles


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    Thursday, October 22, 2009

    Total Overload



    My sewing room is slightly chaotic at the moment as I am transitioning from one project to another.

    I should be working on Christmas things ...



    But then there is my friend's 40th and I want to do a Values Quilt.

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    Tuesday, October 20, 2009

    Quilt-a-long: Value Quilt

    Jarobichaux

    Original work by Jarobichaux

    Because I don't have much to show right now ... I'm in that dreadful phase with no terribly looming deadlines and between projects ... I am wasting my time surfing the web and came across this wonderful quilt-a-long on Metrosupial Designs aka Katie's Willy Nilly blog that also has a full tutorial as well. Posted is a photo from the Flickr Group.

    Eventually, I might do this too ... (yeah, right!)

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