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!

Theo's Planes - done

This came together nicely and all made from stash too.

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.

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.

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 ....

I'm in: UFO Challenge

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!

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.

Changed my mind ...

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

Cracking on with the Tiles

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.

Quilt-a-long: Value Quilt

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!)