Monday Morning Design Wall 7/24/11

Another great week but nothing I can show on my design wall until the reveal at my Spring Chicks quilt group meeting in August. I did manage to finish another Florabunda block so here it is! I am going to remake the large center block for this series, Miss Hannah, as I am not happy with it now that I have made 9 blocks! Oh, well, such is the burden for perfection!

Hope everyone has a great week as I will be camping next weekend I am looking forward to seeing everyone's design wall.

Monday Morning Design Wall 7/18/2011

Another productive week and I finally finished my son's Cal Quilt after working my fingers to the bone on Sunday. I enjoyed a wonderful visit from my fantastic mother-in-law, Rita, where a attempted to turn her on to quilting!! I think I may be able to get her to try it and I am going to look for a quilt class at the quilt shop near her house and maybe we can take it together. Spencer loves his Cal quilt (which makes all the hard work worth it) and he can take possession as soon as I make the label for it!!

I am almost done with another Florabunda block and just loving the applique project!! Once I am done with this one I am looking forward to starting Tweets from http://erinrussek.typepad.com/one-piece-at-a-time/

I am having a blast working on all my projects and just hope I can finish off my two projects that have a dead line!! Next week I need to hit the sewing machine hard (as usual) but I think I can get everything done if I just focus!

Monday Morning Design Wall 7/11/2011

Nothing like being deep into the summer, having a really hot weekend but still spending far too much time with a hot iron, warm sewing machine and other hot things!! I will say it is easier to leave the iron on when it cold outside but then, when it is cold, I really enjoy hand quilting. Keeps me warm! I completed another Florabunda block and just love how this one turned out. I also made great stides on my Sutter Cancer Quilt this weekend but need to step it up as it is due in the begining of August!! Yikes, where did the time go!

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Monday Morning Design Wall 7/4/2011

Have a wonderful Fourth of July today!! Happy Birthday to the US!! I had a very productive week working on my quilt projects as the majority of my family was out of town. They have returned very sunburned and eaten alive by bugs but had a wonderful time on the Outland Adventure Camp at Seabase in the Florida Keys. I was also able to ship off the youngest to spend the rest of the summer at Boy Scout Camp working as a counselor, great life for a boy. No electronics, television or video games, just work and play in the great outdoors. I am working on another applique block and got hooked on a paper piece project passed on to me by a friend. I am having a ball making my Quilt Fairy Godmothers!!

Monday Morning Design Wall 6/27/2011

Happy Birthday to my 14 year old son today, my baby is growing up. I hope he, his two older brothers and my wonderful husband, are enjoying themselves at Seabase Boy Scout Camp in the Florida Keys!! I was able to get quite a bit done today and I am hoping to have the top of the CAL quilt done by the time my CAL freshman son returns from Florida. So much work, so little time.

I also finished another Florabunda blocks and just love the way it turned out!!

Monday Morning Design Wall 6/20/2011

Well, since I have had two weeks to work on projects, I was able to get quite a bit done on several projects. I am working on the setting solution for my Applique Challenge Quilt by making far to many half square triangles than I like but the look is great. I am trying to get to the point where I can work on the applique boarder and be finished!! I am going to use the flowers from most of the blocks to do the boarder and I cannot wait to work on it.

I have also made progress on my Florabunda quilt, finishing up two blocks this week. I hope I can get more done next week but time will be tight.

Monday Morning Design Wall 6/6/2011

Ah, the anniversery of D-Day, or Operation Overlord. For me, not a bad week. I feel like I have spent the past three weeks working on my sewing machine day and night but I have accomplished quite a bit. I am almost done with Block 2 of Florabunda, have completed all my blocks on my Bali Pops Leaf Quilt and just need to put them together and am just minutes away from finishing up Spencer M's Chico State Quilt.

I have completely scrapped my Sutter Cancer Center Donation Quilt and decided that what I had made is just a mess and the more I try to fix it, the messier it gets. I need to start over, from scratch!! I found something that will be simple to pull together, I have the fabric and I hope to have the top done by next weekend.