May Goal - OMG - WOW Wednesday

I'm trying again to get an OMG Finish this Month.

May hasn't gotten off on a great Start - 

NO Stitching has been accomplished as of today.

I'm not even joining the fun with 30 minutes per Day in May crowd.

My OMG and only Goal I'm setting for MAY is:

Quilting and Binding my En Provence, Quiltville Mystery

I made the smaller version and this was taken back in February, on a rare Sunny Day.

Linking up over HERE for my OMG.

Judy L chose #11 for the UFO of the Month HERE.

It's my 30's SBS- 34 more Blocks to make

  Ha , That's just not happening.

 just 12 to make if I squish them together like this.

It's been in the works since 2009.

Needless to say My Month's Calendar is Over Booked with Other things...

And this is going on over at the Quilty Pleasures Blog

#15 Issue and I had to just go buy my Copy because I haven't had timefor the Blog Tour.

Click HERE

Can You say ... Squirrel?

Judy D has been craving these Caramel M & M's on FB.

I had to go search for some...

Found at the 7-11

That's my WOW for this Wednesday!

YEA, they aren't too bad either, betcha can't eat just one package, lol

It's Baseball  & Track Season!!!

This year I have 5 grandson's playing Baseball and one Granddaughter in Track.

  Last Saturday night we stayed in Tri-Cities to watch a game.

It was an extra treat to watch #2 Son help Coach the team.

I missed his great Pitching game the day before.

Grandpa got a little SUN!

Most of the games we've attended in Walla Walla have been Chilly!

I know I'll be missing some games while I'm traveling.

 I try to get to at least one or two when I can.

Design Wall Monday- January 19, 2015

The weather outside was rainy and cold on Saturday, no where special to be.
 I spent the day in the Basement.
I made two more 30's blocks for my Sylvia's Bridal Sampler.

Total now is 53

My 2014 Quiltville Mystery has been sitting around waiting and waiting

 for me to make a final decision for what to do with it.

Saturday was the day to GET IT Figured out.

I got the reamaining 13 blocks together in the way the pattern was designed by Bonnie Hunter.

I decided after all the quandry that I wanted to at least do 1/2 of the original quilt.

Here it Quilt #1 laid out, with and without the borders-

ready to finish sewing it all together.

It's growing on me- 

I like it much better now that I can see it together with the borders laid out.

I hope to get it done by the time Bonnie does another Monday Link-up.

With 9 of the rest of the blocks I can do this...

Which one is better?  

With or without the black center block.

 I think it needs another border,

 I can use the extra parts of the original border.

OR... add some Pink, Black or Purple to it.

Linking up HERE with Judy L at Patchworktimes

Quilt Guild Block of the Month & 2 BOW pictures

It's a New Year at Quilt Guild and we are making the final Alphabet Blocks for our Block Lotto.

Here is the "W" Block

"Wild Duck"

 HERE's the Link for the pattern, I reversed the dark and light for my block

The light green fabric is from Thread and Bolts quilt shop this time.
My story/Demo board for guild with the block parts.  

There were 15 blocks made (13 shown)

Guess who WON again??   Little ol' me

I heard some of the members after the meeting say that they really wanted to WIN this time.

I thought quickly and said, "I'm thinking of a Number between 1- 25"

Sherry M , our New Vice President picked the correct Number- 15

The number I won the blocks with and the DATE of my Birthday this week.

I could have kept them, but I already have a Red & White Quilt or 2 in my collection.

One of the previous Block of the Month quilts showed up during our Show & Share.

The story goes that Maggie (in pic) told Pat C that she liked the blocks she just won last August
- so Pat gave them to her.  This quilt will go to our Baby Quilt Charity.

I love seeing the quilt made from the winning Blocks.

We have a Quilts of Valor Sew-IN Day coming up in February.

All over there will be quilters making quilts on February 7th.

Shown are a few of the blocks we will be making that day.

Ideas presented to the group tonight were a "Round or Block Robin" and a "Scrap it Forward"
The Scrap it Forward has my attention.  You'll be hearing more about it later.

I had fun using my Set 'E' Marti Michell templates to make this block. 

I pressed the heck out of it and scorched the corner, hope it washes out.

I see I should have used 3 fabrics, oh well...

My #50 of the 140 I need to make. 

90 left to go.

The Downton Abbey quilt blocks are done and I'm ready for next week.

I chose to meet both the Lord and Lady Grantham.

 Earl's Pipe &Cora's Tiara blocks (2 of each)

Blocks from Week 1 & 2

I wonder what adventures Ebony has in store for us this week???

 She is giving us a choice of paths to take with each clue given.

Design Wall Monday- March 4th

It's March 4th as in "March Forth" as my MIL would say.  My Block of the Month is Marching on my Living room floor this week. The sashing chains 'march' up and down diagonally just like they are supposed to.  These are the blocks for the first 3 months, 2 per month.  I could put the lower corner together if I had the last of the Half solid blocks cut and sashed.

I haven't added any blocks to my 30's SBS for a long time. It was in October 2012, that I laid them all out on the living room floor to take a picture, the last count is recorded HERE.

This is the last SBS (Sylvia's Bridal Sampler) block for this round of the SBS list.  It's called New Mexico and has 72 pieces in it.  Some are so itty tiny that I had to remake them.  I mis-cut the a and b strips for the 9-patches too narrow the first time. The 9-patches are just 1-1/4"  finished! I fussy cut the center and made the tan HST's from a print that has cattle on it.  My total 30's SBS blocks= 80.

March over and see more Design Walls this Monday at Judy L's Blog HERE.

Design Wall Monday October 1, 2012

I think I need to go back to school to learn how to count.  I blogged HERE and gave the 30's SBS Block count as 92 including duplicates.  On Saturday I put them on the floor upstairs and counted and re-counted and only come up with 78- counting the duplicates.  I'm not as close to getting my 2nd SBS finished as I thought. I hope to have it done before the Loyal Union Quilt Pattern Book comes out next year around October time. 

 Here they are in the assigned Positions from the Sylvia's Bridal Sampler book- NO "G" row. The top row is at the bottom of this picture. 34 more blocks needed to fill this in.
 I squished the rows together  a bit to see how many more I'd need to fill in. I added in the duplicate blocks on the top row. I would need to make at least 12 more with this arrangement.

 More squishing and eliminating of empty rows and there are only 4 more to make.  LOL!

These are two more SBS Blocks I made while I was making the Paper-pieced Blocks for my FW. The one on the left is N-1 Courthouse Steps and the one on the right is G-4 Chimneys and Cornerstones, (my only G row Block). Guess I will make a few more from this row since I see a few that are strip cut and easier.

I found this cute Bear fabric at the Going out of Business sale at Village Quiltworks this week.   The Bear Paw Block G-3 is the SBS BOW and I decided to try and do it with the Marti Michell templates.
The size isn't quite the same as the other SBS but it is ok with me.  I didn't want to Paper-piece it on a late Saturday night. It has been fun to find 'critter' fabric to match some of the block names I've made for both my Farmer's Wife and Sylvia's Bridal Sampler. That makes 2 Blocks from the 'G' row. SBS count = 79. 21 more blocks to make 100 with my Moses Lake math.

Here is one of the SOW-ALONG blocks that Randy of Barrister's Block blog is sharing HERE. She calls it Carrie Nation.  I liked it so I thought it would be a good one to add to my SBS since I need more than I want to make without doing the hard Applique and Paper-pieced ones.

Meanwhile I have completed a couple of the dreaded paper-pieced blocks for the Farmer's wife and only have 2 more of them left to make. The Left one (#66 Periwinkle) is one I had to re-make after I looked closer at the Book for fabric placement. My opps block will go into my SBS. The right one is #18 Century of Progress. Farmer's wife total = 109

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If it's the 3rd Tuesday- it's Farmer's Wife Group!

Today I spent most of the day at Lynn's. She wasn't home on Monday when I went, so I stayed twice as long on Tuesday. I'd forgotten she was getting new shoes, (I even wrote the Appt on her Calendar for her). I went home and got my last 3 Farmer's Wife Blocks made for August.

 Not without a few re-cuts to make them correctly.  I need most of them them to put some of the rows together that  go in the Top Right Corner. See, I got some sashing sewn to a few rows?  Only one Block from month 10 left to make to fill the gap in the long row. It will be the Duck and Ducklings Block. 

I am trying to finish all the month's Blocks, and get a picture of them, before I put them in the Quilt.

I started on the September Blocks and made a  'Birds in the Air' block.   I used some of my Tula Pink fabric to fussy-cut the Birds. The birds are lavendar and blue. The dark parts are the Trees from Tulas 'The Birds and the Bees' Fabric line. I like it a lot! i know the Quilt appraisers of the future will shake their heads about all the hidden things in my Farmer's wife quilt. This Block finishes all of the 'K' Row. Total FW Blocks- 85

I made 2 more SBS (Sylvia's Bridal Sampler) Blocks too.  One is the new BOW (Block of the Week) due on Sunday.  I needed to make one for my 30s' version and tried to figure out which templates I would need to make it.  With a little help from Lynn I got it cut and then I took the time to look in the Pattern Book and could have saved a lot of wondering if it was the correct size.  Here are the two "Ocean Waves" in my 30's fabrics I made today.

AND an 'Anvil' block. The green floral fabric is called Mama's Apron Strings. I used the templates from the 'Swallows" FW block. It was a very productive day.  That brings my TOTAL SBS Blocks -74. 

 I have to decide which Quilts to put in the WW Co. Fair and WW Quilt Festival.  The one I choose to go to Portland for Trends can't be shown at the Fair or the Festival.  I have to choose carefully... I am glad I noticed that I take my Fair Quilts in this Thursday.  Next week is the FAIR!

SBS and Farmer's Wife Sewing

 I had fun cutting out blocks this week and making blocks for August Farmer's Wife and the Block of the Week for SBS.  I  Made the Block of the Week for my SBS group using the "S" Set of Marti Michell Templates. Usually this block is Paper-pieced.  I think I'll do anything to keep from doing the Paper-Piecing.

  

 Lynn W shared her 'critter fabric' for the BOW - E-5 Handy Andy She saw that  the boy in the fabrics is mowing the lawn. I had to fussy cut the girl and dog out of the fabric too.  My 30's SBS Total is growing, 71,  not quite as fast as the Farmer's Wife.  I am finding more similar Blocks to make duplicates for both quilts.  I've found 29 so far.

For example the  A-7 Cats & Mice SBS Block and #17 Cats and Mice FW Block below.  

 The same templates are used, but color placement is different.   Lynn had background fabric that had Cats on it that was from her Mother in Law that she shared for this block. We looked through her Nursery Rhyme 30's fabric to find the 3 blind mice to put in the center and the Cats for the outer squares in the left Block.  The Cats have the mice surrounded and with the background next to the square of the Mice - the Mice are "cornered".
The background squares are the Cat fabric in the FW block on the Right.

These are the other FW blocks I made this week.

 This Windmill Block is another block I made that is normally Paper-pieced.  I put the templates on the paper and figured it out.  Farmer's Wife Total is 82 of the 111 DONE.

Design Wall Monday, June 18, 2012

 TA-DA I can show this quilt now that Father's Day is over for another year.  My Friend Noel came over and spent the day Friday, (as I blogged about earlier) to finish this quilt put together by her great grandma.  She wanted to give it to her Father.  He didn't know about it as far as she knew.  Her Aunt passed the top on to her after her grandma passed away. Her sister got the backing and batting.  It was the thick fluffy kind of batting and I was worried about how the Mega Quilter would do with it. It did just fine.  Paul says that the Mega Quilter is quieter than the Bernina I had on the table before.

 We quilted a up and down grid type design on it and wrote across the bottom 'Made with "heart" by Helen Worden, Noel and Crystal 2012.'  Several of my friends from the WW 3rd Ward , Noel and my Husband spent all week with the Girls' Camp so I had time to get it bound for her.  I serged all around the edge after trimming it straight. She said 'blue' was her father's favorite color, so I used solid blue for the BINDING. 


TIP:!!!
The Binding was made and pressed in half, then put in the bag so it could feed out to be attached to the quilt by the Machine. It worked pretty good and there was plenty to go all the way around the edge of this quilt.  

The finished quilt, ready for her dad. A gift of love from his girls.

I made this "Friendship Block" for my Block of the week before I went to bed Saturday night.  I found I already had one in my 30's pile, but couldn't find it in my picture on the computer so I'll just have two in my 30s SBS.  It is made with some 'Vintage' pieces of fabric I found at the "Country Store" last week.   I hurt my wrist somehow and am limiting the handwork as much as I can to let it get better. This week is Farmer's Wife, time to cut out some more blocks.

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