Design Wall Monday - March 7, 2011

Because Guild is this week, My wall @ Lynn's had my 2 Lotto Blocks on it. Lynn's 4 are on the Right. Contrary Wife and Onery Husband blocks. AND at home while I was trying to finish the ALLIANCE projects that are shown HERE and HERE are my Brown strips that I'm playing with for the March Monchromatic Challenge. I found them in a Ziplock bag that I picked up at a Treasure sale at Guild, I think. The funny thing was after I put these on the WALL, I check the Quilty Blogs and found someone else playing with 'scraps' too. It was on Stash Manicure. I have only Monday to finish the Alliance Project and get it in the mail. No pressure, right. Checkout the other Walls Linked at Patchworktimes HERE

Design Wall Monday January 17, 2011

I have been busy trying to finish the UFO #6 between all the places I had to go last week. I only got about halfway. I am doing Free Motion on the Round Robin. It takes a lot of thought to do the Free Motion stopping and starting for each border/round and having only 5" of stitching space. This is my Progress on the Monochromatic Challenge. I'm going slow with a few distractions. Plus the fact I'm still thinking of how I want to use the Yellow strips. I took out one of the FQ's since it was too 'wild' looking. Some of these are pretty Bright. I've cut them into 2.5" strips. I have a few more thoughts and hope to have time before next Design Wall Monday to sew them together in some organized fashion. I'll have a few grandchildren to keep me busy next week so it's pedal to the metal on this project. I am not showing the Pink Quilt from last week since it is a surprise for DD #1. I have it ready for the final border, and to do that I'll have to go and visit my Quilt Buddy, Lynn. That's where the fabric is to make those borders. She brought me 1.5 yards to guild and it was enough for the 4 more blocks, setting triangles and pieced borders I did. I hope everyone is having fun doing the Blog hopping to see Design Walls. I've enjoyed reading all the comments on mine. Go Here to see more Design Walls.

Design Wall Monday 1-3-2011

Judy, by way of her DH have chosen the lucky #6 for the UFO to be worked on for the month of January. I have my WASIQ Round Robin as my #6 UFO. This quilt was started in 2008. I think it has been aged long enough for lack of a final border and quilting. I started with the center being a view of the "Foothills" that I can see when I'm driving east on Hwy 12. The pink tree is to represent the Dogwoods that bloom every Spring here in Walla Walla. I'm not a big landscape quilter so this was an attempt at using fabrics that were like a landscape.

The ladies who worked on my rows were: Holly K, Kathy H, Sue L, Cindy J, and Sarah N. I had a lot of fun working on their rows. This is the first Round Robin I ever did! We called it a "Migrating Round Robin". It came back to me in September of 2008.

My 2nd UFO for January is the Buggy Barn Stars. I started thinking about making it back in October after the Buggy Barn ladies came to our local Quilt Festival in September. I have only a few (11) blocks made, so this one will take a little more time to complete. My vision of how it will turn out is still a Work In Progress. This picture was taken at the November Retreat at Royal Ridges. We will have to see how the blocks speak to me when I put them on the wall...

I think I might have a lot of fun doing the UFO Challenge this year. And the Monochromatic Challenge...That is going to be a small quilt, just in case my month gets Busier...Possibly from an idea in this BOOK by Kathleen Tracy. With these fabrics...or maybe some 30's or Civil War fabrics that I have coming in my Birthday FQ Swap. I have at least until the 15th of the month to decide. Click on the links at Judy L's Blog to see what other quilters are doing in the first week of 2011.