Squares or Rounds?

I had to make a trip to the comic book store for some backer boards to put all this new fabric into the existing stash.  I won't tell you how many of the hundred or so backer boards I used.......yes, I still have some left over, thank you.

So to use up some of the fabric, I hit upon a great idea.  I have some orphan blocks that needed a home.  So I put together two quilts and used up 10 orphans and another one using a kit from the fabric haul. 

Here is the flannel quilt on the frame. 


I just quilted a quick meander so I was able to finish two quilts totally (even to the binding all done).  And one that I need to put on the frame tomorrow. 



This one is a set of strings that languished in the quilt room for several years.  they are made on a base of the old curtains from my bedroom. 

I think I changed those curtains out maybe 15 years ago..... ....

The block in this one is the center.  I was part of the second or third 100 Blocks Magazine with this block.  The first round is the dark blue.  I just grabbed any fabrics and put them together, round after round.

I wonder why they call them rounds when they are obviously square............

I promise I won't ever buy fabric again.....

 Another dead person story for you.

A lady in one of the small guilds I  am in died.  Her husband does not quilt and wants to move to a smaller house.  All boys, no girl children in the family.

So he calls up the guild and says come get all this fabric!

So tonight the guild unloaded about 2/3 of what they had taken from his house.  It filled two SUV backs and back seats.   I bought home a whole front seat full of fabric.  Like I needed more.

She was an older more traditional person.  So the fabrics are not really modern or contemporary but they will be fabulous for backings.  She had groups of  blocks already together probably UFOs, did a lot of embroidery and had about 20 or so quilts already cut out.

The guild asked that we make a number of these for their charity choice of the Veteran's Home in Jackson LA.

So there all 15 of us, pawing through boxes and boxes of this lady's fabric, thinking when I die someone will be doing this with MY fabric.......and probably will find some of this fabric in there too.

So I guess I will have to do some Charity Quilts for the Vets.

And find a place for all this fabric................

I want to just stay home and be

Yesterday I spent most of the day at Valerie's putting together the last of MY Charity top quilts.  It is the very same pattern as the others but we laid out the blocks in a different order.  So we now have three in three different layouts.  I love doing that!  The blue on the left is Valerie's layout.  She stepped out of the box on that one as her second charity quilt.  My black one above it all is more modern looking.  This is one of the very few I have found that looks better in person than it does in the pictures.  The picture forces you to see the crosses, while in person you see more of a lattice work in the black part.

 

And Toastmaster meetings last night.  Then this morning doctor's appointment and on to the CAAWS building.  Martha and I spent all morning cleaning up the office.  Now that "cave" is loosely called an office.  It is used to keep Patch the Cat separated from the rest of the group because they seem to dislike each other.  Now that Frank and Greg put up the new glass doors you can see into the really really messy cluttered office. 

We spent about 3 1/2 hours working.  There was a half inch of dust and enough cat hair to fashion three additional cats.  OF course Patch is semi-long haired so he had hair everywhere!

Martha and I tossed out 2 computer CPUs, 7 keyboards, 3 telephone systems, 3 boxes of Mardi Gras beads, 14 (count them) 14 old phone books and tons of old mail from the 1990's.  The place is not totally spotless but it is actually looking good! 

Now I just want to take a good bath and be left alone in my own little corner of the world -- my quiling room!

glen

Design Wall 6-20-11

This is the only thing I have worked on in weeks.  Charity quilts.  Four so far.  We have had two Sew In Days and I have worked my fingers off doing these babies.  There will be one more Sew In next Saturday, that will make three for this Charity project.

On Friday Valerie and I cut out 7 Charity Mystery Quilt kits and 3 Jelly Roll Race kits for the Sew In on Saturday and very few people showed up.  I think there must be a problem with some of the people and personalities.  A "take my ball and go home" attitude that they think will hurt the show.  But, unfortunately for them, the show will go on.  I hate those petty problems when it is the guild who is trying to do something for Charity and its members. 

This is it.  No more for me for this show.  I need to concentrate on the things that I will be putting in the show.  And I have some obligations I need to fulfill in my Virtual Bees and Solids Challenge. 

Here is the latest one from yesterday's Sew In just off the sewing machine at lunch! 

 Here are some of the officers looking over the fabrics and antique quilts that will hang in the show.  The quilts were beautiful.  Becky's grandmother and great-aunt made most of them.  The work is incredible!

 

 I have several quilts that are currently UFOs that need to be completed for the show.  I hate to do bindings, but that is the stage of two of them.  And my AAQI quilts need to be sent off.

glen:  too much work and too little time, isn't that the story of my life!

Design Wall Monday 6-13-11

Still working on the charity quilts, Valerie is doing her first quilting stitches on both as practice.

  Together we did a Jelly Roll Race quilt that I need to put borders on and get quilted for this week's meeting as a demo piece for our upcoming Show in August.

And The baby quilt needs to be quilted.  Just finding the time is difficult.  But now the weekend is over maybe I can find time during the week to get some of these done.

Oh, and I have the strip quilt I cut up and am putting back together still in the same place as last week.

Lots of projects, not much progress! 

glen

Design Wall Monday 5-30-11

Here it is Monday, but it doesn't feel like a Monday.  That is why I totally forgot to post my Design Wall shot this morning.  So here it is LATE!

It is actually a friend's design bed.  It will be her second quilt from beginning to end.  It is a charity quilt that will hang in our annual Quilt Show in August and be donated, probably to the Giving Quilt people.  The pattern is a mystery quilt that was designed to be used only for charity.  The entire guild has sew days and there are about 5 of these in production at this moment.

the only thing I have sewn this week I can't show you.  They are the Quiltmaker's Volume 4 100 Blocks test blocks.

glen

Sew Day for Guild Charity Quilts

Today was the second sew day for the Charity Quilts at Sassi Strippers.  7 of us gathered to cut and sort last time.  This time we sewed and cut background strips.  Jessie. Linda and I ran sewing machines, Valerie V ironed, Valerie B cut, Merline laid out the pattern.

The pattern we are using is a mystery  Valerie B found that is designed to be made for Charity Quilts.  So we are in total compliance with the rules on this one!  LOL.

We want to have these finished for the Annual Quilt Show in August at the Library.  We have not decided where the quilts will be donated yet, but we have time to figure that out later!

The pattern was easy to do but it was confusing to put together.  I ripped out several after I thought I had gotten the hang of it all.  Jessie made fun of me ripping all those blocks, then she did the SAME thing!  LOL.

We will meet again to do the next stage of sewing in a few weeks.  I took home the blocks Jessie and I made so I can put them together.  And I made Valerie V take a packet of cut out pieces so she can start to work from a pattern. 

We might make it.  We just might make it if we all give that extra effort!

Thanks, Ladies!