Design Wall 6-24-13

Design Wall is odd.  I am working on the mystery quilt this week, and still quilting on my Box of

I did trim it, just didn't
take a picture of it trimmed

tops in the Quilt Your Quilts in June Challenge.  I have quilted 5 so far for a total of about 14,832 square inches:  Kangaroo,  Baby Squares, Dinos, two Halloween Table Runners, Buggy Barn Dogs.  The Kangaroo put me
over with 8010 sq inches.

I am sure PattyA will be hitting the bricks hard after her tooth is fixed.  I hate tooth pain, and dentists, but the pain more so I go to the dentist!

We had the first snake of the summer yesterday.  I guess the lateness of the heat deterred them from hatching earlier.  Carrie and Andrew were here around lunch, we took them out to Walk On's for a nice salad.  Andrew was working on my computer and replacing the modem.  Now maybe it won't lose the internet at midnight each night anymore.

McGee is the hero for finding it for us.  Not that I wanted a snake but I am so glad Andrew was here.  Frank gets scared and inadvertently lets then go and we have to deal with them again.

Here is the proximity of the Wandering Jew to the Patio.  Right along the walkway.  This is a photo from like April, now the plants are grown up a lot more and there was a nice hiding space.

It was McGee's excellent nose that found what Andrew said was the 4 foot water snake.  I think it was more like a 6 foot python.......

I made Theresa a covered journal book with some bike fabric.  She is an avid biker and rides in these long long long marathons and trains 20-30 miles EACH DAY!

I do the spin class for 45 minutes and think I am hot stuff!

Quilt finishes so far in June

My challenge to myself that anyone can join in on is the  Quilt Your Quilt Tops Challenge and should help you get those finished quilt tops out of the box, off the floor and onto the finished pile.  If I can get just one box out of the way, it will make me VERY happy!  I gave up going to the Saturday Sew In so I could get the BBB quilt done.  And I will have you know, I actually put two labels on as well; the Dogs and the Corn Flower Blue quilts.  And we know how much I hate labels!

This is my progress so far:

Corn Flower Blue

Black Bold Baby

Dogs, but I can't show the front
you have to take my word for it.

The Black Bold Baby Quilt is 35 x 40 approx and is leftover patches of Kaffe Fasset set inside of 3D Flying Geese.  I did an overall meander but left the Geese open.  I may go back and do an outline stitch around the 3D geese but I kinda liked them open

amber just needs a binding

The Dogs I can't show you, but they will be a baby quilt for one of Carrie's friends who is having a boy.  She was bemoaning the fact that all the friends are having boys, and wondered what was up with that.  She wants some girls!

Tilt your head to see my Cows!
Needs a binding now, black I think.

And Amber's BQ quilt is completed but needs the binding.  I need to find where I put it.

Tonight I will put another quilt on the frame, The Cows.  I still have a bit more to take out of Dan's but that will be the quilt after the one tonight. **(I have completed the quilting in The Cows.  I did random free motion circles, pretty cool!)  The story behind The Cows is about 5 years ago, I bid $3 on a bag of cow scraps because no one was bidding on them and I was all about giving the quilt some money.  I won them with no opposition and they laughed at me for spending $3 on cows.  I have another Cow II quilt with circles set into the blocks.  That will be quilted before the end of the month too.....hopefully!

So I have 5 so far completed, or needing binding, which is mostly completed.

This is exciting!

How are YOU doing finishing up some of those quilt tops?

glen

June Quilt Your Quilt Challenge Finish #1

June 1st and the 1st Finish!  Fitting.

This is the Blue Corn Flower Quilt from way way way back.  I haven't seen this one since, oh, maybe 7 or 8 years?  But it is now listed in the finished column.

You know that when you need a blue and your stash covers three rooms, you never have the right blue and you still need to purchase fabric.  Yep, I had to purchase 1/2 yard for this one.  But it is the absolute total perfect piece ever put on a quilt!  It just sets the center off and makes the quilt sing!

glen

June's Quilt Your Quilt Tops Challenge

Patty the Quilt Lady  has thrown herself into this challenge!  I can always dangle a prize and a challenge and get some friends to tag along!  Check out her list of quilts to finish.

I like the way she has them laid out, she knows just what she has to do and can choose which one she wants to work on next.  I find, sometimes, that I want to work on this but have no interest at the present time for that.  So I like seeing them all laid out.

When Frank gets home tonight I think I will make him help me photograph them in their current state and compile a list as well.  I am always shocked at how many I have, I keep finding them in places around the house.  For example, I cleaned out the hall closet about 4 years ago, and when I looked in there for some pillow cases yesterday, I found at least two tops in there......that is all I am admitting to, anyway.

Whole Wheat Honey
Sandwich Bread

Let me go punch down my rising dough......be right back.  Looks fabulous. I am making Chicken Salad Sandwiches tonight for some people and I thought I would bake the bread as well.  I love the chicken salad with grapes and pecans, or walnuts I guess, and mayonnaise.  The bread will be the over the top thing.

Hey, join in and win and I may bake you a bread!  LOL, that ought to be incentive for you!

Back to the quilts.  I have pictures of most of them, but not all of them in a laid out manner so as to be conducive to seeing them.  And I have so many of them I have tossed in the box over the years, I really need to move them out.

I have several promised out, and several that will be Christmas presents, and of course I want them all.  I have one for Frank that may need ripping out what is currently there and redoing to make it better looking.  I tried a Quilt As You Go Technique that I didn't like.  It was too difficult and weird.   I have found a better one now.  So I guess I need to get started on ripping that out if I am going to get it back together in  June.

See, this little challenge has already garnered me one push for the Transportation Quilt and one that is one the frame right now, the Blue Corn Flower.  I have not started it yet, it is just hanging in there waiting for June 1 !!!  LOL.

Come on, you KNOW you have quilts that need to be quilted in your closet, too!

glen