Friday- Gotta have a Goal

I've been Posting over on Instagram with #quiltNON2017

Today it was about Goals.

I admit, I have a "TOPPER" Problem.

These 5 Quilts have been waiting too Long!

I want to have them Quilted by MAY!

 I will be starting a New Bonnie Hunter Quilt or Two at the PNW Retreat.

In other News.

Our Lacey Lacers are Busy learning New things.  

I have things ON my Lap, ON my Frame, ON my Needles and ON my Shuttle!

This one got the Binding on.

It's # 5 on the UFO List on the Sidebar. Yea- DONE!

Gotta have an "In the Beginning" Quilt in the SHOW.

This weather has kept me from updating my Membership in the Tri-city Quilter's Guild.

The check is in the Mail!!

More Pictures of my ON the Needles later.

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!

Stichin' more 6.5" blocks- SBS and FW

I cut out some more blocks to sew up this week-end.  Because I was asked how many I have total for each of the 30's Quilts I am making...  The Sylvia's Bridal Sampler has 57 finished of the 140.

 Two more Blocks for the Sylvia's Bridal Sampler -

 Ribbon Star and Jacob's Ladder

Four more April Blocks -  Wild Geese,  Mother's Dream, Seasons and Swallows.  I only have one more block to make for April, just in case I get BUSY.  LOL!
The total for the Farmer's Wife Quilt is 44 finished of the 111.
I have 3 extra of the FW Blocks made.  I haven't decided whether or not to use them.   We'll see how they look when I complete the rest and put them up on the Design Wall.   I could also use the extras in the SBS for the ones I don't want to make.  To earn another Elm Creek Pin from Jennifer Chiaverini I need to have at least 100 Blocks to put in a finished SBS Quilt.

March- Farmer's Wife Blocks Finished!

Tuesday was Farmer's Wife Group and I spent 9 hours at Thread and Bolts so I could get these 10 blocks all done. I  took pictures of everyone's Blocks who brought them so we could add them to the Thread and Bolts Blog.

 I took the time to cut out and make a Block from Month 10 that is on the SBS BOW (Block of the Week) this week!  I made one for each Quilt - FW & SBS,  notice the color placement.  That is the difference.

 The Farmer's Wife block is called Wedding Ring, Sylvia's Bridal Sampler called it Wedding Ring 1.

Below is the Quilt at Trends that got my VOTE~ I really liked seeing all the baskets and applique on this one.

It's another 'Wet Wednesday'.  I sure hope that it does the dry Farmers crops some good.   

Design Wall Monday- Rubbing shoulders with Quilt Teachers

 

I got the chance to go with my Quilt Buddy; Lynn, to Trends in Portland again this Spring.  The weather didn't get the Memo however... We saw torrential Rain, Sleet, Snow, Hail and a bit of Sun.  While there I completed 4 more of my Farmer's wife Blocks. They are on my Design Wall this week by default. 

More Pictures of our adventure can be seen at Thread and Bolts Quilting Blog. We also Finished a two year-old UFO from Trends.  You can see that at the Blog too.

 Just part of what followed me home from Trends... including freebies and a door prize Fat Quarter bundle.
The Vendors were generous with shop owners and I was lucky to be with Lynn and get in on the fun.

 A prize that was delivered while I was gone from Blue Elephant Stitches BLOG. The Fabric from BRRRR. Thank you to Jolene.  I didn't realize she was in Canada.  It was fun to come home to a Squishie!

Just a few pictures from Trends.  Nice to meet "Famous" quilters we haven't met before.

Carrie Hargraves- Guest Speaker at EE Schencks

She is the daughter of Harriet Hargraves of "Treadle Arts" quilt shop in Colorado.  Yet another reason I'm happy that my DD #2 moved there. They run a "Quilter's Academy" Boot camp there. It was fun to hear her story about growing up in a quilt shop (she didn't want to be a Quilter...) and how she came around to take over management of her mother's Quilt Shop.

Lynn, Carrie and I at Trends

Me, Pepper Cory and Lynn at Trends

Pepper was in the Presentia Threads booth showing and teaching "Sashiko".  They had Make and Take workshops at Trends on Saturday and Sunday that Lynn went to.  It sure meant a lot less time sitting around waiting for the Door Prize drawings.

 Judges' Choice and People's Choice Winning Quilt  in Portland- Spring Trends show at EE Schencks.
Usually a quilt can only win 1 prize at Trends but this one got an 'overwhelming' amount of votes! The winner gets $100 Credit at EE Schencks.

Judge's choice for "Best use of Color" at Portland- Spring Trends show at EE Schencks.

It was a fun week-end ---I'll be recuperating part of Monday but Hope you'll Click over to see more Design Walls HERE.

Working on it- Farmers Wife in the 30's...

It's Wednesday and yes I'm working on my Farmer's Wife... These Blocks are so fun to stitch up and use with the Bow Tie Leader/ Ender project.  If my hand didn't hurt - I'd have more cut out.  I'm trying to catch up to LYNN.  She is working on cutting out blocks for Month 7 already. 

26 Blocks completed + 3 extras.  It's only the 7th of March and our Farmer's Wife Group doesn't meet until the 21st.  I have 6 more cut out and 10 more to choose the fabrics for March and April.  14 days to work on them in case April gets BUSY.  It is so fun to put them up on the wall and just admire them.  This is my Temporary Wall that is the easiest to take photos on, at least when there aren't too many blocks.    While I'm at it I am noticing which blocks are similar with the blocks I need for my 30's Sylvia's Bridal Sampler and making them too.  Last night I made two Windblown Square blocks.  I can swap them if the colors are too close in the other quilt.   Similar blocks are in the Civil War and Civil War Diary Quilts books.  How many quilts do I really want to make with 6.5" Blocks?  That is the Question...   I have found 22-25 Blocks so far that are the same block formation, but called by a different name in the SBS.  Very Interesting to me.

Here are a few of them---
Blocks in Farmers Wife and SBS
Broken Dishes
Windblown Square
Weathervane
Churn Dash
Contrary Wife
Cut Glass Dish
Friendship Star
Snail's Trail
Economy
Wedding Ring

The ones called a different name but 'look' the same.
Single Wedding Star ( FW) / Rolling Stone (SBS)
Northern Lights (FW) / Sickle (SBS)
Big Dipper (FW) / Yankee Puzzle (SBS)
Checkerboard (FW) / Grandmother's Pride (SBS) [color placement]
Evening Star (FW) / Sawtooth Star (SBS)
Friendship Block (FW) / Friendship Quilt (SBS)
Homeward Bound (FW) / Puss in the Corner (SBS)
Hovering Hawks (FW) / Old Maids Puzzle (SBS) [2 corners turned]
Butterfly at the Crossroads (FW) / Sister's Choice (SBS)
Puss in the Corner (FW) / Homeward Bound
Wild Rose Square (FW) / Farmer's Daughter (SBS)
Waterwheel, Broken Sugar Bowl (FW) / Railroad, Jacob's Ladder, and Milky Way (SBS) [color placement]
Wrench (FW) / Churn Dash (SBS) [color placement]
Whirlwind (FW) / Contrary Husband (SBS) [Center square]

The Bowtie and Spool blocks 'look' the same in both quilts but are constructed differently.
Take a look and you can see the differences too.

Making more 6.5" Blocks

 

Tuesday was the Farmer's Wife Small Group Gathering at Thread and Bolts Quiltshop. We had four of us there working on the February blocks.  Since I had mine all cut out I got to sew the last 5 of my February Blocks.  We had 11 to make in this short month. (The last 3 are duplicate blocks)

Tuesday night I made 2 more of the Just Takes 2 Blocks.  I used the Marti Michell Templates rather than the PP method to make these 2 blocks. 10 of the 18 are made.

 While I had the Templates out I thought I could make a couple of the 30's SBS Blocks to go with the 2nd Sylvia's Bridal Sampler Quilt I am making.  The Sister's Choice is the BOW this week and I didn't have it made in the 30s' fabrics yet. The first block is another one I needed to make 'Duck and Ducklings'. 45 of the 140 are done as of this week.  I don't plan to make ALL of them.  I have about 22 more that are definitely on my list to be made.

I think if there is a Block that is common to the Farmer's Wife Just Takes 2 and my 30's SBS- I can just make extras for each of those quilts and get more done.
My copy of Jennifer's newest Book has arrived-  "Sonoma Rose" was released on Tuesday, Feb 21st. Keep reading the BLOG for a Giveaway -coming soon.

NewFo Link Up time

It's the last day of the Month and I've done really good with starting new projects...LOL  Today is the day to LINK up over at Cat Patches Blog.
Only one of them is on my NEWFO list in the "pages" above. That is the Farmer's Wife.  I have enjoyed reading the stories in the front of the Book. So far I have the 10 blocks made for January and 3 February Blocks cut out.  I'm ahead, but not enough to be ready for the next Small groups session out at Thread and Bolts Quilt Shop- in three more weeks. We will hopefully finish this quilt before the end of the year.

My Design Wall Monday Posts have shown most of these already, but I'll re-post the pictures here to show how far they are right now. These are the 3 projects I started because I saw them on my Blog-hopping and couldn't resist the cuteness.

 My 12 Days of Christmas that I saw over at Temecula Quilt Company Blog. I never thought 3.5" blocks could be so fun.  Notice that each block has the NUMBER of Pieces in it to go with the 12 days. I put them in order like the sample.  I added the sashing all around the small blocks.  I love the Civil War and Thimbleberries fabrics I have collected.  I still have my Civil War anniversary quilt marinating on the Design wall too. It has 20 of the 56 blocks completed. There's a Button at the Bottom of my Blog to go to the CW Blog and see all the different settings for this quilt.  I'm still dreaming of how I will finish mine.

These are the Pink Lemonade Blocks.  They don't have the 'Lemonade" added just yet.  And the Half Blocks and Quarter Blocks are waiting to be sewn. Some left those extra blocks off their quilts and I might just have to be a follower and do that too, see some of them HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE. you can clearly see I get inspired by all of the Quilty Blogs on my Sidebar. My stash of Civil War fabrics is mostly fat quarters and I don't have the color of 'double pink' I want to use yet... You can see more people who were inspired to do Lori's Quilt-a-Long when she has her LINKUP on Wednesday over at HUMBLE QUILTS. Click HERE.

My Just Takes 2 Blocks are done in my favorite Color!- Purple, and using my favorite fabric from my Hancock Fabrics days here in Walla Walla.  I may have to add in some other fabrics when the blocks have more than two tones or need more contrast. I have printed out the second set of blocks but still need to make them. Some are 6.5" and some are 12.5" blocks.  This will be a quilt that goes all year.
So it's time to get moving and stitching around here, no more napping all day and being in a FUNK!  There are too many fun quilts to make...
So click over HERE and see all the Linked up quilters this month.

Design Wall Monday- January 16, 2012

I finished 3 of the 6 Blocks for "JUST Takes 2".  Half way there for January.  5 New Blocks were posted on Sunday, HERE. The Sentimental Stitches blog will send you on to the Dear Jane Blog HERE for the patterns. With the snow falling and a NO mail day today, I have time to work on these this week. BIG Surprise that I'm using "PURPLE", right? This will be a fun quilt using the Bolt of the background WOW (White on White) and my favorite fabric line (Quilter's Shades Plus) that is discontinued now from Hancock Fabrics. More 6.5" blocks.  So much bigger than the 3.5" ones and 5" ones I made last week.
The final step of "Pink Lemonade" was posted on Sunday.  I get to choose my setting squares, while I catch up on the Half and Quarter Blocks. Thanks, Lori for a fun Civil War Mini quilt.
The Farmer's Wife Starts this week and my 10 Blocks are made for the Month. See them at the bottom of the post HERE.  It helps to know the Quilt shop Owner in charge of the class. I hope the snow doesn't stop us from meeting on Tuesday.
I only need to cut out and make my Tester blocks and the BOM blocks for Morning Glory Designs Applique quilt. Yes, I'm busy, but that is how I like it!

Check out more links over at JUDY L's Blog HERE.