Houses and the Evil Bead Lady

I worked on the Houses I want to present for the Louisiana Traveling Quilt.  It is coming down to the wire in getting them ready to send.  I got only one house and one tree done yesterday.  One tiny tree..........aughhhh!

As you can tell, or maybe not, I am trying for low volume.  Somewhat.  I guess that means no brights and wild colors.  We shall see.

And today I met Tracy for lunch and a trip to the Cajun Bead Store.  We had a great time with Lisette and her beads.  She admitted to stroking them when no one else was around.  I admitted to stroking my fabric and Tracy had knowing look on her face, but didn't admit to anything.

I decided I needed to do an undersea quilt so I  can add all the seaweed dangles on the edges.  And use the beautiful seaglass colors.

Then the Evil Lisette showed me a beaded rose and I just knew I needed to make a rosebush quilt with beaded roses all over it.  THEN..... she showed me some Southwest Kokopelli relics and I just knew I had to make one of those too!






Now I am going to have to restrict mmyself from the bead shop as well as the fabric shop and start counting my bead stash.

A Finish to Report and the Week Ahead on the Design Wall Monday

KerBloom! is now finished.   I spent the last 2 hours and 40 minutes sewing the binding on.  I watched the Amazing Race and the Good Wife.  I love the Good Wife.  And nearly 3/4 the way through the Mentalist.

My standard Sunday Night Fare.

The great thing about finishing KerBloomm! is that I get to claim the quilt and the backing on both my next week's Stash Report AND my OPAM for April.  Which means I am at 14 completions for the year, and I am right on track for One Project A Month for the first quarter of 2014.  Yes!

My week's work will be to complete the quilting on the Star quilt, which needs a really dynamite   name.  I am doing ruler work which is slowing me down.  I should have done Meandering Stars and it would be done by now.  but I wanted to practice with my channel locks on the wheels.  If I would have realiz
ed that that only works on the four small corners and that all the stars require angled lines, I could have rethought the process and made a different choice.

See where I forgot to lock the rollers?  It made the quilt skew and the sewing line was skewed as well.

The other thing I wanted to get accomplished this week is to finish up Sunshine on the Water for the Fiber Group.  And I need to put the borders on the Machine Quilt and get that ready for the frame.  I already have the backing!

That will be a nice finish to report on my Stash Report as well!

Sewing Like I Was On Retreat!

Well, not really, but more than I normally could get to sew.  My problem is not the time, but finding the time when someone else can keep a eye on McGee.  DiNozzo just lays by me or looks out the window.  McGee eats stuff.  Maybe that will be a positive point of Carrie and Andrew being here.

I decided to get the Chicken Dance as far along as I could.  I will have to deal with the outside borders are sort of wavy.  I need to address that before I go futher on the chickens.  But, I got the center done.  All the chickens, the green behind the chickens, the apples, the vines and the orange behind the vines are done.

After I took the Chickens off, I put one of the baby quilts on and decided to do a close hand drawn straight lines.  Very modern for a very modern quilt. And Carrie actually likes it!

I really like those lines.  The back is a neutral Ecology Cloth which requires a nice hand on the machine stitching!


Nothing finished but the baby quilt is close!

I also put together the Aquatic Challenge for the Fiber group.  Then I found out we were cancelling the meeting in favor of the Slidell GSQA Show.  My Matisse Lady is hanging in that show!