On todays agenda

I was going through my photos and wrote a post up about Wally learning how to sew on my Wilson Rotary. Here is the outcome of it.

A perfect 4 patch out of jean material. I made up some more of those 4 patches, I think they will all go into a lap quilt.






As for me I worked on "Easy Street" a mystery Quilt put on by Bonnie Hunter over at Quiltville.
you can still see how everyone did by heading on over there. The final Link up for Easy Street.

What I got done yesterday and today.

 Setting Triangles I got 6 of them done, 6 more to do.

Now what do you do with these? Bonus triangles from doing the snowball house type block.. Most folks would probably just throw them away or put them into a crumbs bin.







Well I put them together since they they are already actually matched up.

They came out to just about 1.5 inches.. they are cute.. Will sew those together and put them in another quilt. If I put 2 of these together right, I get a flying geese..






What did you'all get done today?
Happy sewing and quilting.

I'm sooo proud of him!!

My b/f Wally not only got my Wilson Rotary sewing machine he learned how to sew on it. :D
Yep I'm sooooo very proud of him... You can teach an old dog new tricks.. lol

 I cut some jean material into 6.5 squares and some rectangles, basically just getting as much out of them without to much waste. And left them sitting there next to the machine till he got home from work. You can see the post here and can understand a bit more as to why I did it this way.

WIP and UFO or PIGS

Lets see if I can get things done this year, especially in the piecing department. I have about 25 bedroom sets to make for close family and very close friends. I have one completed for my sister Verna .
My work in progress this week is Bonnie Hunter's "Easy Street" quilt top.
Its suppose to be a bit scrappy, ok a lot scrappy. But I'm wanting to do some controlled piecing with it. I only have so much of the dark grey fabric, so decided to make all the setting triangles with it.

Setting Triangles.

I do have enough to finish these out. And will have a few extra.
hmmmm Maybe I have some that dark grey hiding in one of my buckets.. gonna have to look and see, if I do than I will hopefully have enough to do either the 9 ( block B) inside 15" blocks or if I get really lucky since I made one already with drk grey, I can get the other 15 block A's done.




I don't have any of Block B done, so I'm hoping to get all the setting triangles and 15 Block A's done with the drk Grey, if that is accomplished I can go ahead and do all the Block B's with a lighter grey.

Block A

One of 16, so need to do 15 more.











WIP = Works in Progress
UFO = Unfinished projects
PIGS = Projects in Grocery sacks, these are usually hiding in our closets or bins. ;-)

So lets get some sewing done.. :D

A cold windy day

It was fairly decent here all weekend long, although we did have rain and wind.

Yesterday Wally got my Wilson Rotary to working. And I worked on the tension to get it going really good. Tension is now all set on it, new needle in it, new thread in it along with getting the one bobbin I have for it filled. I set it up last night to do some sewing on it today and wouldn't you know it, Wally walked by it and just had to play with it, one more time before he headed off to bed, stepped on the foot peddle and made it go.. lol
Came in here to let me know he may have messed up the bobbin thread.. :P
So I go out there and sure enough the bobbin thread was a bit messed up,all tangled up and had a couple of knots in it. Oh well, got it untangled and snipped off the thread that was knotted up. Looked up at him, he said he was headed to bed before he got into trouble again.. smart man. ;-) although I did get a good laugh about it.

You see he has been working on it for a couple of weeks. When he hasn't been working 10-12 hrs a day.. So every time he would be anywhere close to it, he would roll the wheel around. Just to keep all the inner workings loosened up.. so he said lol
To be honest it really didn't surprise me any when he walked by it and just had to play one more time on it.. What he doesn't realize is that now, I'm going to cut some blue jeans into squares and rectangles and let him sew them together. ;-)

As for me I worked on the Easy Street mystery quilt over the weekend, and managed to put together a few of the big blocks after remaking some of the 4 patches, which have now turned into a leader/ender project.

 One of 16 - 15.5" blocks put together.

 One of 4 corner pieces put together, actually got all 4 of them put together.

One of the large triangle sections put together. Need 12








I still need to put together the other 15" block ( there will be 9 of these) that will be used to create this quilt, along with the other large triangles and the other 11 big blocks.

First post of the New Year

Happy new Year everyone.

Well last night and today I have been working on the "Easy Street" mystery quilt that was put on by Bonnie Hunter. This quilt will be put into a bedroom set for my b/f's brother and sister n law.
My bedroom sets include a quilt, a set of pillow cases and a dresser/table topper.

Here is an update of what has been done:
Week 1: 192 - 4 patches made out of grey and blck on white squares - DONE

Week 2: 64 rectangles and 128 flying geese - DONE

Week 3: 2 - 3" squares cut on diagonal creating 4 triangles and 64 shaded 4 patches - DONE

Week 4: 64 flying geese with blue wings.. Attach them to 64 triangles from week 2.  4 are done.. 60 geese are cut now need to cut the wings out and attach. Cut 145 - 3.5" green squares

Week 5: 64 house fronts- well that is what they look like to me, I will show a picture of them when they are done.. :D

Week 6: 128 dble bricks.. Cut 16- 5.5" squares Cut them into quarter square triangles

Week 7: take 64 flying geese from week 2 and pair them up with the 64 rectangles.. DONE
Start building triangles out of assorted pieces ..

Week 8: Start building blocks, set them on point and finish the quilt top into a flimsy..

Flimsy in the quilting world is a quilt top that is not quilted.. Now for some eye candy some of the blocks and pieces that were done yesterday and today..

 Week 7

 Red Geese a waiting on their blue wings.

Week 3 shaded 4 patches.









Told my b/f Wally that I need to do some more cutting and if he wanted to help out, I would let him cut out the 145 green squares.. He laughed as he walked out of the room... Guess I can take that as a no ... lol..

1 down and a few dozen to go.

Instead of working on Bonnie's mystery quilt this week, of which I now have 3 weeks of clues to work on. I worked on my sisters bedroom set, which includes 2 pillow cases, a quilt and a dresser topper. It has all been washed and I see that I need to redo the binding on the dresser topper, missed 3 spots in folding it  over.. Other than that it turned out pretty good.

I still have problems with pin tucks underneath. But I'm going to leave them. Its still a learning process for me and I know that she will love it any ways. It was quilted on my domestic machine, Janome Harmony 4052, in the ditch or as close as I could get to it.


As I was stitching all the bindings on I came to the conclusion that it is going to have the Tammy Element added to it and probably every piece I do from here on out. Its not perfect by no means but its good enough for me, for this set. Next set will hopefully be better..

I need to slow down a bit when doing the straight lines of stitching, but this will come with practice. And I plan on have a lot more practice as I will be producing lap quilts, kids quilts, and more bedroom sets for my family and a few close friends that I know will appreciate all the work that goes into producing them.

Now you can head on over to Quiltville and take a look at how everyone else is doing with the mystery.

sooooo many things to do, so little time..

So I told my b/f that I needed to get week 3 and week 4 done for the mystery quilt. He said " Don't you think you need to finish up some of these other projects?"

lol uhhh yea but I'm working on a mystery quilt also.. Needs to get done..

sooooo many things to do, so little time..