Last night I finally finished Whirlwind, the September installment of the Block of the Month series by Deanne Eisenman of Snuggles Quilts. With just 2 days to spare. :)
I have got to stop doing blog hops. Each time I do one I end up with a new project! For her blog hop post, Lynn Zdon Provencher, The Thimblemouse of Country Crossroads, wrote a tutorial for a very cute Cord Keeper to organize all those cords belonging to various gadgets. I just had to make one.
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With my earbuds inside:
Also, on Sunday I finally finished Cat and Mouse, the August installment of the Block of the Month series by Deanne Eisenman of Snuggles Quilts.
I finished Parts 3 & 4 of Forget Me Not, a sew-along by Pam Buda of Heartspun Quilts, a couple of days ago, but I haven't had time to blog about them until now.
I finally got some work done on Cat and Mouse, the August installment of the Block of the Month series by Deanne Eisenman of Snuggles Quilts. The piecing is a bit haphazard: we had thunderstorms last night, and since it wasn't advisable to plug in the iron I sewed all the seams I could without pressing.
I also got quite a bit of work done on Around the Town by Dawna Baker.
Finally, I bought everything I need to finish Batik Cascade except for the backing fabric, which I have on order. When that comes in, I'll get to work layering and quilting that project.
*grabs the nearest person and does the dance of joy*
And here it is: Batik Cascade (Batik Go-Round) designed by Karen Combs and hand pieced by Yours Truly!
If I'm this excited now, you can just imagine what I'll be like when I get it quilted and bound. :D
Deanne Eisenman of Snuggles Quilts has posted the August installment of her Block of the Month series, Cat and Mouse. I started cutting the pieces, but unfortunately I didn't have enough background fabric. I've got some more on order, but it doesn't come in until next Tuesday.
Anyway, here's what I did get done.
So, the plan is to start piecing my next quilt tonight. Tomorrow, the other sew-along I plan to participate in is supposed to start. Then, after I get paid next week, I need to head to the store and buy some of the supplies that I need to finish Batik Cascade and then order the rest. After that, I'll have to wash the background fabric for Cat and Mouse and get going on it. Looks to be a busy week.
It's been a hectic week, so this post is a bit late, but here's what I had done on Wednesday.
Quilting:
Deanne Eisnenman of Snuggles Quilts posted the July installment of her Block of the Month (BOTM) series, so I've been working on that. It's a Broken Dishes block, a Kansas City Star block originally published in the newspaper in the 1930s.
I'm surprised at how fast it went. I'd figured that with all those pieces it would take me much longer than it did. I'll post the finished block today or tomorrow.
Swedish Weaving:
More progress on the Feathers To and Fro afghan from Learn to Make Monk’s Cloth Afghans by Marilyn T. Magly:
I've finished Heading North, the June installment of the Block of the Month (BOTM) series by
Deanne Eisnenman of Snuggles Quilts. I hand pieced it. It would have been done much sooner, but I got sick and didn't feel like messing with the iron.
I'm almost finished with Heading North, the June installment of the Block of the Month (BOTM) series by Deanne Eisnenman of Snuggles Quilts. Just 2 more seams and I'm done.
Blackwork:
I did a little more on the Blackwork Chessboard by Anne MacGregor.
Cross Stitch:
I got bored with Brilliant Butterfly Celebration from The Gold Collection by Dimensions, so I put it away without doing any more work on it.
I started -- and finished stitching -- AmeriKat, a Mini-Kats™ design by Linda Connors of Calico Crossroads®, adapted from the artwork of Kathleen Kelly of Kats by Kelly™. I have the entire series of these: one for each month. I've already stitched February and March and will post them when I get around to finishing them.
Then I started Elements of Nature I, which is adapted from the artwork of Jennifer Pugh. (The package says that it was designed by Ms. Pugh, but she says on her blog that 2 of her "art pieces have been converted into cross stitch". There's no mention of who did the converting.)
I didn't do any work on my other projects.
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Quilting:
Deanne Eisnenman of Snuggles Quilts has published the June installment of her Block of the Month (BOTM) series, Heading North. I'm a little over halfway done with it already. However, I've come down with a cold and don't feel like getting the iron out, so it may be a while before I finish it.
Blackwork:
I did some more work on the Blackwork Chessboard by Anne MacGregor.
I've finished Weathervane Variation, the April installment of the Block of the Month (BOTM) series by Deanne Eisnenman of Snuggles Quilts. I'm all caught up now. I hand pieced the block.
I didn't get much done this week because I bought a new computer and have been busy setting it up and getting it organized. I owe myself a lot of needlework time.
I did get some more work done on Weathervane Variation, the April installment of the Block of the Month (BOTM) series by Deanne Eisnenman of Snuggles Quilts. Hopefully I'll have this one done and be caught up before she puts out the June block.
I got some more done on the Blackwork Chessboard by Anne MacGregor.
Cross Stitch:
I finished the top section of the "frame" on Brilliant Butterfly Celebration from The Gold Collection by Dimensions.
Swedish Weaving:
I did a little more work on the Feathers To and Fro afghan from Learn to Make Monk’s Cloth Afghans by Marilyn T. Magly.
Finishing:
I finished Purple Passage from Learn to Make Monk’s Cloth Afghans by Marilyn T. Magly.
I think I'm going to have to call this one a learning experience -- I'm not happy with it. I've learned that I do not like working with beads. In future, I'll stick with textiles. I may remake this into a mini quilt someday, but for now at least it's out of the box and on the wall.
My next finishing project is to make a mini quilt out of Tech Support, a design by Linda Connors of Calico Crossroads®, adapted from the artwork of Kathleen Kelly of Kats by Kelly™. So far, I've washed and ironed the fabric I plan to use.
I finished the Twisted Star block from the March installment of the Block of the Month (BOTM) series by Deanne Eisnenman of Snuggles Quilts. I hand pieced it.
I also cut some of the fabric for the April installment, Weathervane Variation. I'm using the same blue as before. The background is a different color since I ran out of the beige fabric I used in the other blocks. I'm replacing the green with turquoise, and in place of the red I'll use a purple fabric from the same line as the green that I used in the other blocks.
Blackwork:
I did a bit on the Blackwork Chessboard by Anne MacGregor today.
I've finished the Rolling Stone block that Deanne Eisnenman of Snuggles Quilts chose for the May installment of her Block of the Month (BOTM) series.
I hand pieced it and used batik scraps from my stash. I'm usually a bit more original with my color choices, but I happened to have some fabrics in the same basic color scheme that Deanne used that looked so good that I decided to go ahead and use them. I'll mix things up a bit on later blocks.
I've already started cutting fabric for the March block, Twisted Star. I had just enough of the beige background fabric left, and I'll be using the same green and blue fabrics that I used in Rolling Stone and adding in a brown.
I made good progress on Brilliant Butterfly Celebration from The Gold Collection by Dimensions. The top part of the "frame" is almost done.
Finishing:
I finished the hem on Purple Passage from Learn to Make Monk’s Cloth Afghans by Marilyn T. Magly and started on the beading.
I had originally intended to do netting around the edge, but that didn't work. So I tried fringe at the bottom and that didn't work either. I finally settled on a single row of beads around the edge, but it took me a couple of tries to figure out how to sew them on properly.
Once I'm done with these, I've got to figure out some sort of hanger.
I've decided that I don't much like beading. Darn things are slippery and don't stay where they're put.
Quilting:
I've got the first 4 rows of Batik Cascade (Batik Go-Round) by Karen Combs sewn together.
I've gotten distracted again. Deanne Eisnenman of Snuggles Quilts is doing a Block of the Month (BOTM), and it looked like fun so I decided to join in. She's on the third month already so I have a bit of catching up to do, but not too much. I'll continue to work on Batik Cascade as well.
For May, she's chosen a Rolling Stone block. Every time I see the name of this block the following song starts going through my head.
So far, I've got the first 2 rows of the block almost completely sewn together, and have started the first unit of the third row.
