Farm Girl Vintage 2- week 2

I hoped to make the blocks for the

Farm Girl Vintage 2.

It's week 2 find Lori's new Farm Girl Friday post HERE 

I got a few more Bee Background fabrics

So I can get blocks 1-4 cut out.

That's what takes the longest.

I'll be taking this project with me.

My Happy Mail arrived Thursday. 

I ordered the 2020 Quilter's Planner. 

I will watch and see how my Mission

Preparation Days work. 

This Book came this week also.

It's the last one of the Noel series. 

Gotta read it as soon as it comes. 

Between watching Hallmark &

Lifetime Channels Christmas Movies!

 Got the T-shirt!!

Farm Girl Friday- August Goals

It's Farm Girl Friday and the "Penny Pig" downloadable pattern is available at Fat Quarter shop. 

 The Link is in Lori's Blog post HERE .

I already made one of this week's Blocks- Old Glory

I will get my blocks made so I can post them.

 I wanted to make an accounting of the BLOCKS made in July.

Farm Girl Friday Blocks - 10

A-Z BOM blocks - 2

Vacation Time - 1

Row by Row - 36

Stars in a Time Warp - 4

The Painted Quilt QAL Mystery - 18 Houses

10- Blocks for a secret project

L/E Blocks - 25

TOTAL for July = 106

I don't count these to link up with the other who are counting - keeping track for my own satisfaction.

July Goals

1- Quilt 2 of my Flimsies! I quilted 4 quilts (3 were minis)

2- Make more Moth in the Window Blocks Nope

3- Put final Borders on Striped Star & WWVQG A-Z - Nope

4- Finish making the blocks for TQS A-Z - Nope, but I made a couple more...

That Row by Row quilt took over all my quilting time this month.

If I hadn't had to travel so far to get them this year I could have spent more time in the basement.

The Grandma time and 4-H quilt camp helped occupy my spare time too.

I have to spend a little time getting my Quilts registered for the Fair & the Walla Walla Valley Quilt Show.

FAIR DEADLINE is August 5th!

It's goal setting time for AUGUST now...

1- Get my FAIR Theme Quilt made with the Wonky Letters

2- Make a WWVQS Challenge Quilt- "Outside my Window"

3- Keep making my BOW, BOM and QAL blocks

4- Quilt a "Bonnie Hunter" Quilt for September Quilt festival

Oh the choices... 

Design Wall Monday -June 29-15 at Guild Retreat

I was able to attend my Quilt Guild Retreat Thursday- Saturday this past week-end.

It was close this year- just an hour 1/2 away in Boardman, Oregon.

The venue was great with lots of room and great lighting.

I drove home early Sunday morning to go to Church.

I took 7-8 projects to work on - made progress on 7.

I worked on the Double Wedding Ring Parts on Thursday

I think I have enough to put the quilt together.

 I need to lay it our to make sure and there wasn't a big enough space to do it at the Retreat.

It will show up on a future DWM,

Next I put the Setting triangles on my Guild Lotto BOM- not quite the way I the way I had it in EQ7.

No place really to take a picture of it so I had to wait until I got home to take one.

The 6-7 Design Walls were very busy at Retreat.

On Friday, I made 1 of the 2 Farm Girl Friday Blocks.
I forgot to bring all the fabric to make the Fresh Pear Block.  I needed 30's Yellow.

Feed and Seed & Wooly Lamb #2
If I make a Lamb a week I'll have enough to make a Lamb Quilt.

Fat Quarter Shop "Snapshots" BOM were under my needle on Saturday.

 

I am all caught up on the blocks I'm making for my version of the BOM.

I had to make a 2nd Birthday Cake Block in Patriotic colors for the 4th of July coming up this week.
Jessica brought her pages to make her blocks so I borrowed the directions.

 My TQS BOM from last year hasn't been touched since last October's Retreat.
The fabric and Blocks were still in my 3-drawer stacking tote I take with me.
I worked on these Saturday.
X Marks the Block, Yankee Puzzle, and Z Block

I needed a little more of the Lime Green to finish the X marks the Block.
I will finish this one and get the letters ready to Fuse on and stitch around.
Just the K, M, Q, R, S, U, & V Blocks left to make.

I took a pictures of a few the blocks I made, before I made the last stitch and packed up for the day.


I cut up the scraps from my leftovers and made two more Idaho Square Blocks.

The Yellow 30's with Kitties on it came from Cindy Carter.
I just couldn't use it for the Pear block.

I made two more Siggy Blocks for my Author's/ Quilt friend's Quilt

I counted 14 different blocks with 439 pieces made at Retreat.
That includes pieces of my Purple Butterflies that I cut and didn't finish getting sewn.
I have a few more parts to sew on, then I can finish them.

The ladies said I was crazy to sew such tiny blocks.
1- 1/2" is about as tiny as I go.
Cindy Carter was sewing with the tiny squares too.
She offers FREE Patterns on her Blog HERE
I made the Strippy Flowers Quilt for Lydia with her pattern back in 2009.
It was fun to Meet another Blogging friend in person and sew along with her.

It made me especially happy to see this quilt being worked on.

My Lotto WIN from January

I gave these 13 blocks to Sherry M.

Sherry was our Retreat planner! She did a great job.

I love how it was put on point and surrounded by the Red Snowflake fabric.

Variable Star Pattern is HERE
(a couple of other Lotto winning blocks were made into quilts, I didn't get a picture of them)

Linking up with Patchworktimes HERE

Design Wall Monday-June 15, 2015

I made my Week 7 blocks on Friday to add to my wall.
The basket was done differently with flip and sew .
I forgot to use the same background fabric so I have a few replacement blocks cut and ready to sew.

Week 7 is posted HERE

How am I doing on my Goals half way through the month?

1- Make My Blocks of the Month- Vacation Time, Snapshots & Guild Lotto

all done except Snapshots (today the June Block is released HERE)

 The FIX on my Vacation time block was an easy one.

I forgot to list the Farm Girl Vintage Blocks to keep up on. YES

2- Quilt 2 quilts on "Betsy" Nope

3- Teach finishing Quilt Class at Sew n Vac  Nope

4- work on UFO's- to be decided each week.  Not really

5- Go on Guild RETREAT! Not Yet

I did get to go to the "Love of Junk" that was held this past weekend in Walla Walla.

I went for a quick look see on Friday and didn't find too much that I had to have.

On Saturday, I got my DD#2 to go and look with me.

This Red Chair jumped off the display shelf for $10.

I have not delivered all of the Birthday gifties so I can't show them on the Blog,

Go over to Patchworktimes HERE and see what other's are working on.
And don't forget to vote on your favorite link over at Judy L's.

Design Wall Monday- May 4, 2015

Since it's a "MAY For Me" day today,
Click this picture on my Sidebar to see what others are doing in May.

 I am Showing my Farm Girl Friday blocks.

The schedule for the FarmGirlFriday SAL is HERE

I am sad that she is going in order and the Wooly Lamb is the last Block...
I might have to make a few as I go along, huh??
Then I could have a whole "Wooly Lamb" Quilt done by the end.

I made just one 6" 'Apron Strings' Block

I don't need to make another 30's fabrics- Large Quilt with all the blocks.
But I might make some of the blocks in the 12" size, just for variety.

I was gone most of Friday to our Daughters of Utah Pioneers Convention in LaGrande.

I posted about that HERE
If you want to read more about Joining the Daughters of Utah Pioneers go HERE.

Saturday was the Krazy Horse Quilt Show.
I took a bunch of pictures. When I find out who won the Peoples choice I'll post them.
Jes Berry from Walla Walla Won the People's choice.

I don't even try to compete with Original design, Hand applique and Hand quilting.


I entered my Through the Hourglass and Midnight Flight.

They were hung side by side at the show.

This year they had a Scrappy Challenge to use 50 or more fabrics in a quilt.
I didn't get registered in time or make a scrappy quilt in  the size required so it was fun to
just go look and choose a favorite.

This is the !st Place winning quilt.  It's the one I chose.
Hand appliqued and hand quilted by Rene Devin of Wallowa.
The rest of the winning quilts are found on their Facebook page HERE

These fun Ladies were sharing the Challenge for NEXT YEAR-
"Not your Grandmother's Log Cabin"

I got to watch some Demos and enjoyed Volunteering at the front near the end of the day.

I took a Lunchtime break and went to see the Art Exhibit in Downtown.
Very interesting the things that are considered "Art"
Thanks for the heads up Colleen.

One of the highlights of the day was meeting Robin Ruth and seeing her Mariner's Compass quilts made without Paper-Piecing. I had seen the ruler on Cindy J's Blog HERE.
 I was looking forward to meeting her.
 She grew up in Ritzville and brought her Mom along with her to help bind her quilts to get ready for Quilt Market in Minnesota latter this Spring.
Her mom kindly took my picture with Robin.

I came home and took a NAP then had to get some stitching in before the clock struck Midnight.
I made the "Puppy Love" Block shown at the bottom of the picture.
In memory of the Puppy named 'Curly', from my childhood.

I used my "Alphabitties" A-W to make it.  Lots of cutting of the parts .
The little ABC's and Numbers are a big help!

Had to Count my Blocks made in past the Month after reading Desert Sky Quilting HERE.
So just for her- I made 74 blocks last month.
1 Loyal Union Sampler Block
22 Downton Abbey Mystery Blocks
31 Strippy Stars Blocks
8 CW  Dresden Fans
11 Idaho Square Dance Blocks
1 Vacation time Block

I have a question...
Do you count the blocks made for a BORDER or just ones intended for a Quilt center??
If so, I can count the border blocks I made for the Symposium.

Linking up for Design Wall Monday HERE