On Point quilt

My ON POINT (now named 'Secret Garden' thanks to my daughter)  quilt has been sitting here for ages, just waiting for binding to call it finished...  Finally last night I put the binding on it.  I can tell you that binding is my favorite part to a quilt, those last few stitches making it complete is just the BEST feeling!  (I have 8 more here that need binding... I may feel differently by them time I get them all done)

I made this quilt a while back, and have shown it a few times here... I used scraps to fussy cut flowers and even begged and borrowed LIGHT squares from many of you, to make the setting blocks. This quilt was my jump back into applique again after many years of avoiding it... It was also my ''Take along''project that I could do from anywhere...  I need another project like this.

I thought I would only make one block, then I liked it so much, so I made another, then and another, and then, well, I just had so much fun with it.

The colors are probably not something I would have ever planned out ahead of time, but with each block, I stuck them up on the wall to see what color was sticking out or disappearing, what needed more boost, and tried to balance them all.

Sadly this is NOT a king size quilt!  So it does not fit on my bed. (what was I thinking?)

I can see myself starting another applique project like this to carry along with me.

Do you have a carry along project?

Tell me about it, I need some ideas. ;-)

two oldies nearly done!

 OLD POSTS for STARRY NIGHT HERE

Here are two Quilts that have been sitting here and sitting here...for over a year...
Now I know that many of you have quilts that have taken years to get finished,
but I decided to move a few out of here and I figure I can learn something also by seeing how others quilt quilts too.

Thanks Shannon, they Look great!


Neither are KING size... LOL! 
So neither fit my bed very well, But they will do perfectly on a queen size...
(fat lotta good that does me! what was I thinking??) 
haha!

The backings are just so yummy too. Jennifer Paganelli fabric on this one no doubt!

 OLD POSTS for my ON POINT quilt HERE

My On POINT quilt, which got me back into applique... I LOVE this quilt... 
I like what she did on the quilting too... Yummy texture

The flowers look all so nice and squishy!

It also has a VIBRANT purple and orange backing...

 

Now they will go into the BINDING pile!  How long will that take do you think???

First to pick a binding, then to think about actually doing it... LOL!

I have quite a stack that need to be done!  

Some I want to quilt myself...

Some I worry I will mess up, and some I have lost interest in...

Eventually I get around to them! or not...

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The Metro MOD meeting is today (Saturday)...

I am off to play and see some fabulous

show and tell with our lovely group!

Have a lovely day!

Rotate!

Rotate!
Backing up a bit....
I finally finished these little Paula Prass snowballs Shelly and I have been working on...
I just love all the different colors in here... I need to get the borders figured out today, get it together, Then I will send it back to Shelly and she will quilt it... She's been great about getting her blocks done! I've been jumping all over the place...

I'm trying to get some more of these nearly finished quilt tops done... I did get the borders on the On POINT quilt. I thought at first i wanted something fancier for borders... I do love big simple borders... But after I found the perfect fabric, I thought it did plenty for it... So, it is what it is... Backing is cut, so, that's one more off my list...


I can now add it to the 13 others I have sitting here ready to be quilted...
sigh... I can't keep up on the quilting... I am still plugging along on the Tile quilt... all that micro stippling gives you a stiff neck! I hope to have the quilt finished this week...

But then again, I've started another project... This one for Tonya's Liberated Amish quilt challenge...

And this quilt is overlapping my grandmother's house quilt.... time to get them off the wall!

I am dwiddling down that stack of UFO's! yippeee!



String runner complete!


Oh!
And a pinch and a punch for the First of the month and no returns!

Happy sewing!

Leftovers!

Cleaning out the stash... As I pulled out all those orphaned blocks for the kitchen sink quilt, I took out the leftover blocks from the 9 patch gather quilt we all made last year.

I think these are a few of Dee's Blocks and a few from Susan. I think they work well together!

Today, I put the last blocks together for one more quilt for Donations
to go with the Sis Boom Pow kids blankets...

Good for wee lad don't you think?
Can you tell I am married to a Scot? wee lad... ;-)

Funny how the On POINT blocks fit so well with one of my favorite fabrics....
I guess it's subconscious thing!

Also, another yardage batch of another favorite fabric is going for backing on the Kitchen sink quilt. The green and red floral building blocks by American Jane... (bright green and red...like the cross quilt...I see my themes emerging again) completely by accident of course...

I also added some appliques here and there, with a few more leftover blocks...

Now I think I am ready to get it quilted and on my bed...

Happy Sewing!

plugging along...again

I am still plugging along on the Kitchen sink quilt...
I have the left side left to piece, and then I can attach the big bottom strip.

It's literally a sweat shop in my studio today, as it's nearly 60 degrees outside and rainy,
(IN JANUARY!!)
And the building has the heat on...
So before I sweat til I disappear entirely, I gotta get out of the loft...

I feel I have posted these so many times!

But look! I finally got them all appliqued!

I may be putzy, but it was so worth it! Now I gotta figure out the borders.

Sorry folks, you may see this one again a few times more, before it's finished! sigh.

I did get the Chinese new year quilt finished also this weekend.
Slowly, I am getting UFO's finished...

what's cooking?

Homemade Chicken soup with...

Fresh soup noodles....

With roasted tomatoes.....

mmmmm, pot roast in the oven for supper...

Sewing? what sewing?

Just an itty bit of sewing....

and a whole lot of munchin'

MMMMM, MMMM GOOD!

Fresh Roasted Tomatoes

Grape tomatoes halved,
coat with olive oil
Sprinkle with brown sugar, kosher salt, and fresh grind pepper...
roast in oven at 300 for 3o-45minutes...

Enjoy.

Wrap up...and a winner!

I finally got my last three ON POINT blocks cut... Sheesh! I've been procrastinating... well, maybe I still am, I need to sew them together today... so I can Applique them...
Got get to it!
Time to Finish!!!

Got The New Year quilt Quilted yesterday.... My machine was fighting em the whole way...
4 broken needles, 100 time shredding thread.... tried every needle I had.... cleaned the machine... it was just not working with me....
But, I persevered and got the binding on, for me to do this weekend...

Then I got back to my Tile quilt, quilting.... I had ordered thread, which finally came... Now the machine seams to be working ok... go figure.... I think It just really hates red thread....

SO here are a few peaks inside the Liberated Quiltmaking II book!
I was flipping through, and was Happy to see one of Tonya's Quilts in the there!
Her great Alphabet quilt! Way to go Tonya!! I Can't wait for your book to come out!

I like how there are many quilts done by other people in this book.
Great to see other people's interpretation of Gwen's work too...

But Ultimately, Gwen's Quilts just knock your socks off. Gotta love those colors!

SO I guess you'd like to know who will be checking their mailbox for this book right,
Without further ado...

#89
Char
from Cloth Stitched WINS!
Congrats Char!
( Need your email! only have your website!

I hope you enjoy the book, and make at least one WONKY quilt!

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With color on my brain, I've been spotting fabulous things in the city the past week....

(above) "The WALL" by Frosty Meyers has been restored to it's bright fab finish
on Houston and Broadway in Soho...
Check out his webpage... fun site

I see this truck constantly in my hood, and finally had a chance to snap a pic...
Love that Graphic color!

I had to drive around the block to grab this photo... once I realized what it was...
This is a Richard Serra Sculpture being dismantled on a flat bed truck outside the The General Theological Seminary in Chelsea...
It was quite a site and I love the rusty color against the seminary

And as I sat at my desk, facing these buildings a FLASH went off in this building... I look up and at the about the 25th Floor this guy is standing looking south(and taking a photo), towards downtown Manhattan....

Note to all, even at the 25th floor,we can see you when you have no clothes on.... The sun was pouring in...clear as day...

(But Don't you love that RED!!!)

Happy Friday!

strings and things....

Stephanie at loft creations has a strings challenge... I just had too...

I so don't need another project,
I have 12 in the works. and 7 that need to be quilted...!!!

But while I wait for more thread to arrive for my tile quilt, I practiced some
shadowing machine quilting on this Valentine Strings runner...
this thing is 6' long... the picture is very deceiving!

It's PINK! well, but not without my RED!!! And it was all scraps. How great is that?
Now if I have some old leftover bindings in pinks and reds this will be done lickety split...

Hop over to Stephanie's blog and join in, at least to get rid of some of those scraps I know you have piling up!

I'd like to think I could get a few tops done this week, but it's going to be a busy one...
One small goal is to get these last three ON POINT blocks done
and then I can put that top together...

I have 5 up on my design walls right now...
Two of these are serious piecing... (the crosses and the geese)
that ain't happening this week.

The Kitchen sink quilt is plugging along...

The Orange and Pink Paula Prass blocks, I could maybe get done this week.
perhaps I'll put that on my must do list...
And I do want to get to my wonky log cabins... but not this week.
I also need to get the Chinese New year quilt quilted.... ...

OK. that's it. that's my list for this week...

On Point blocks, Chinese New year. Paula Prass blocks, play with my wonky log cabins and kitchen sink quilt, and lastly, bind the valentines runner...

Good to get focused.

And I am off....Happy sewing!

Loaded Monday

Tree up!

Let the Christmas RUSH begin!

Ready,

set,

GO!

I had left these scrappy tile blocks at my house to work on on weekends only, but they are so darn fun... I had to bring a couple in to work on this week in the city.

I had planned this quilt to be a giant 9 patch... But am thinking it might be fun to make it into a bed quilt... or perhaps I just need to make another!

Cleaning.

In my attempt to clean, I realized I need to get some of these projects finished... I like this method, because then I get excited again and I start whipping out these projects that have been lingering... I didn't want to wait til NEXT Xmas to finish my Xmas Log cabin quilt, especially when I only needed two more blocks... So I zipped them up and have all the extra bits in a box that I want to use up in the border...

So far I have this done, But I am thinking since i have MORE scraps left in the box, I may add even another row around this... It's so close to bed size, that I figure I might as well keep going...

I pieced 3 more blocks for my ON POINT quilt, and got the yellow squares sewn together for my dresdens... I figure I can take the hand sewing dresdens to my house over Xmas break to work on... That will be fun to look forward to January to finish.... three more blocks to go...

Did you see Jackie's little mini quilt using this block?

click here, it's so cute.

oh, and see Kathie's fab use of scraps...

AND, go see these little houses at twiddletails,then make your own!

I started today cleaning, and found this stack of Home decor weight Denise Schmdit fabrics, and figure I better not forget the doggies for Xmas

I had made two Amy butler poufs a while ago, For B, which she loves, but we find that the dogs keep stealing them...

So i made this one for them, and will fill it with all the foam peanuts I have saved for packing... It works great for filling bean bags... This will also save me $30 in stuffing just to fill these things!

WHY IS MY COMPUTER UNDERLINING EVERYTHING............

A lot right? I know. I have family coming Thursday and it always gets me in a good frenzy. I work well under pressure... pressure meaning,

to clean my studio and rid the POOL TABLE (aka:great work space)

of the Santa's Shipping and Packaging area...

Pheew.

Exhale.

I guess I should get a shower in today too...

Better run. (faster!)

oh! And thanks for all your nice comments yesterday!

I had meant for it to be a nice NYC post, but my haircut sort of took over!

fabrics-a-flyin'!

All my little swap squares are being put to work! I am trying to get the rest of my on point blocks set so I just have to do the appliques...

I will have 12, I think, large blocks to put together for this quilt.

It's been great fun playing with color to keep this quilt balanced. Finding tones and values that work together, yet keep it punchy so each block stands alone as well as all together...

I have so many 4" blocks now, I see a fabulous 9 patch in my future...

Nothing beats a good 9 patch.. After I made this for a grad quilt for commission last year, I started to make my own, but found it hard to make the SAME quilt twice... then I saw Janet's, and that confirmed for me, that I need one for my own...

Simple is so fantastic sometimes!

So I maybe hitting those 4" blocks sooner than I thought...

I'm at the fun part with this quilt.

playing with borders, and finish details...

but alas, this DESTROYS my studio with fabrics being tossed left and right...

But who can resist making a huge mess?

well, I can't. ;-)

I'll continue to play with this, And enjoy the process of finding it's verdict!