I’m so glad to be done with this quilt so I don’t have to take pictures of it ever again.  Are you reading sis?  The speckled fabric worked perfect for the binding and going borderless was the right choice too.  I’ll

I’ve added some new items to the side bar.  Hope you enjoy them as much as I do!  Beth Ferrier’s free Block of the Month starts on February 14th.  You can see the pattern and the fabric requirements here.  Do I partici

I sewed the borders on this morning and called it a finished top.  I felt like I could have added more pieced blocks and turned it into a medallion quilt, but I don’t have enough Thimbleberries style fabric to do it.  I like it more t

Last year I won these blocks at one of my quilt group meetings.  You can read the original post here.  Last week I pulled out three of them with similar fabrics, made one more block (the one on the lower right), and set them together. 

The second week of getting up early to fit in more sewing/creative time did not go as smooth as the first week.  I had difficulty waking up the first half of the week, but I did better after the holiday.  I ended up adding about 3.5 extra h

Gayle left a comment on the last post asking if I counted all my fabric before starting the Stashbusting Challenge.  No, I didn’t but I have thought about it.  The truth scares me a little.  I bet I have four times as much fabric

Here’s the next UFO destined for completion.  My sister painted these blocks about 25 years ago.  She doesn’t quilt so they sat in her project bin until she showed them to me five years ago.  I told her I’d set them t

I groaned when Sharon posted this month’s Take It Further Challenge topic.  How could it be time for another challenge?  How could I get so far behind?  How long until retreat when I have a whole weekend to catch up?  The Se

I finished the fall round robin yesterday, which I renamed Ohio Autumn.  I can’t believe it took me six months to get it done.  I looked back and that’s when I started posting about this quilt.  I did make other things duri

I finished appliquéing the Dresden plate block today, in just under three weeks!!  That beats my time on the last block by over eight months.  I use this quilt as a filler project, so I can laugh all I want at how long it takes. 

I finished the quilting on the fall round robin last night.  Today I’m working on the sleeve and the binding.  I’ll wait until next week when I finish the quilt to change the totals and post a picture.  I have to figur

I spent most of the week quilting the fall round robin.  I think I’ll have it to the binding stage by next weekend.  I feel some stash busting coming on!  My numbers have hovered in the same range for months, so a finish or two w

Another Dresden plate block goes into the finished pile.  You gotta love it when a week’s worth of appliqué takes nine months to finish.  After declaring August “finish some quilts” month, I’ll take any progre

Yesterday a friend and I went to the Greater Ann Arbor Quilt Guild show at Washtenaw College.  Most years I forget the date and don’t realize I missed it until I hear other people talk about it.  I’m so thankful my friend mentio

So many projects hanging in the breeze, wishing I would finish one of them.  I’m maintaining my backlog and working two months behind on the Take It Further challenge pieces.  Every time I decide to skip a month, an idea sneaks into m

I worked on the fall quilt all through June but didn’t write about it much.  Like most of my quilts, it didn’t end up looking like the EQ version.  Here’s the original plan as drafted in EQ6.  Here’s the finishe

I did!  I put together one side of the border on the round robin.   I sewed two more strippy blocks for quilt group.   The ladies have enjoyed making these blocks so much that they don’t want to stop.  This will ma

Tonight, I sewI haven’t touched my sewing machine in two and a half weeks except to unplug it.  In that time I’ve helped my son with schoolwork, cleaned the house, worked in the yard, visited my mother and cooked for my family. 

I got my sewing act together and finished the last four flying geese blocks.  I also sewed the two strippy blocks I need for the next quilt group meeting in a couple weeks.   The next time you see those flying geese, they’ll be a

 I finished eight more flying geese blocks this week, leaving four more to go.  I’m excited to see what the quilt will look like with the next border attached.  We’ll see if this motivates me to get those las

In January I listed some new habits I wanted to adopt during 2008.  It’s time to review where I’m at so I can plan how to use all that free time I’ll have this summer.  First, I wanted to get out once a month for inspirati

First, Happy Mother’s Day!  Do something special for yourself today.  A couple weeks have passed since I posted a UFO update.  I have worked on it, more some days than others.  I finished four of the flying geese units and s

After my last UFO update, I headed straight into the sewing room and sewed the four corner blocks.  I knew they’d go together fast, and I just wanted to get them done. Next I need to make sixteen flying geese blocks.  I don&rsquo

  I finished the last six square units, for a total of twelve, on the round robin quilt.   I did not start the corner squares, but I pulled out the fabric and the paper piecing patterns.  If I get them done this week, great.  If n

This week I had goals of searching my stash for blue fabric to use in the flying geese blocks and finishing the last six square units.  I did go through my stash and found these blues that could work.I cut all the pieces for the square units, bu