Finishes for OMG at Elm Street Quilts

 I am linking with Elm Street Quilts for her One Monthly Goal Completion tally.  The Come To Jesus in the quilting world.  I think it really helped me, because i would have continued to put off binding that Santa quilt, like I have for the last 11 years.

You know, the other day I found out that Patty of Elm Street Quilts does not live on Elm Street.  Hmmmmm.

Also I realized that if you are going to be a quilter of any note you need to be named either Patty or Julie.  Isn't that weird?  There sure are a lot of Pattys and Julies out there in the quilting world.  But just how many quilters do you know named glenda?  Or glen?

Not many, which is one reason I have always hated my name.  I should have stuck with the nickname my brother gave me, Sissy.  But I don't really see myself as a Sissy.  Or the one my father always called me, gaggie.  No, not like gagging, but more like gog.  Or grog.  You know, I do miss hearing that.  Only two people ever called me gaggie, and I miss both of them.  Diane lives a couple of cities over in Covington.  And I don't get to see her often, but when I do, she always calls me gaggie!

But I digress.....Finishes.........

I projected four goals.......and I finished all of them.

1.  Bind Santa - Done     

2.  Quilt at least one quilt - done (and I quilted two actually for extra brownie points!  I should win something just for that).  Next month my goals should be to bind these guys.

I did quilt the Improv Strpes but I must have put that photo somewhere really safe  because I cannot find it in my quilt photo anywhere.  So you need to just take my word on this one.

Or go  here and check out for yourself.  







I do have the Triangle Quilt to show, front and back.  Make it larger by clicking on them.

3.   Quilt for the Naval Cadet Ball is finished and delivered for the Big Raffle!







 4.  Do some embroidery on the One Road Thru Town for the CFAL Journeys Show in 2018.  I still can't believe I am so far ahead of having a piece ready!  Usually I am sitting in the venue while everyone is hanging stuff and working feverishly to get the piece finished!

Like I said, I should win.........because I went above and beyond and quilted that extra quilt in there.....Patty, you listening?

I Am A Celebrity!

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Linda over at kokaquilts featured me on her  Sew Stitch Snap Share Post. It makes me feel somewhat like a celebrity!  Go over there and see me!

I need to share a post with my week’s work.  I was busy with Foxes most of the week.  The Fox Blox were done for the monthly Rainbow Scrap Challenge.  That is until the flood destroyed our home, my sewing rooms and both our vehicles.  I lost so much, all our furniture, so many books and photos.  The whole last year of my life.  But we have rebuilt and bought more stuff.  And the box of Fox Blox somehow survived.


It is now a quilt top, with its original backing fabric sitting in my To Be Quilted pile.






I also had a chance to do some needlework on my One Road Through Town piece this week.  You can see my post about what I wanted to convey HERE.

It was an honor to be asked to be featured in this great venue.  I love it!

Have a Happy Thanksgiving.  We are eating at the Grand Buffet in the Renaissance Hotel here in town and doing the family thing on Saturday.

One Road Through Town

(I am linking up to Freemotion on the River, check out what others are working on too.)

My One Road piece is coming along.  I just need  to do a few more squares and I am going to call it done.  If you remember this is going to be one of my entries into the  CFAL Show this spring.  I forget where it will be. The theme for the year is Journeys and for the first  quarter the sub theme is Entry Ways.




And the challenge for the Fiber Group for December is Doorways.  So I need to pull together a piece for that as well.  I need to add that to my OMG goal for December!  
 
I realized the embroidery looked like it was overwhelmed by the blue jean background.  But as I went on I changed my mind; I thought it might be a good thing.

When you look at the piece, it appears complicated, so that draws the eye to the lines and colors.  But as you look at it, you realize there is so much more.  So it draws you closer as you look for the rest of the town.

You see the alligator in the swamp first.  And you see a house, a factory and a playground. 

The quiet embroidery draws you into the piece.


A sailboat on a lake.

 A playground, 












 A  factory for the moms and dads to go to work. 



I am liking it.  Even though it is not what my mind's eye envisioned in the beginning of the piece, it is OK.

I like the turn it took. 

Sometimes in art, you need to go where where the piece takes you.  Regardless of where you want to go!

OMG - One Monthly Goal

First.

I went to post the OMG Finish for October but I couldn't find where my post had gone through for the OMG Goal earlier in October.  Maybe I don't understand this this, but I am going to try again for November.  So here are my November OMG Goals.

And of course I am linking up with the One Monthly Goal site over at Elm Street Quilts.

1.  I have to bind and wash the  Freedom Quilt I am sending to my cousin.  Her son is in the Naval Academy.  The Blue Star Mom Group, I think it that is what they are, they may be just an organized group of Cadet Moms, is doing a fundraiser auction to have a holiday party for Matt's class.  They don't get holidays like other colleges do.  (Delivered to Karen 11-16-17)

I told her I would send a quilt.  Frank loves this quilt.  It is just a 9 patch that was cut up.  I forget what they are called, I keep wanting to say Deconstructed 9 Patch, but I don't think that is what it is called.

2.  One Road Through Town - I want to get some hand work done on this piece.  It is my entry into the CFAL Journey Exhibit in January 2018.  I am optimistic about it being finished, this is the earliest I have ever started a piece for a show.  Yep, that's me.


3.  Santa - come on woman, he just needs to have a binding put on!!!!!  This is my own design for a Challenge when I was in CyberSisters Guild back in like 2005.  I won second place with this jolly old elf!






4.   Get at least one more quilt from this pile quilted on the longarm!  Last month I actually increased the number on the pile by making squares I didn't use in the Fish Quilt and making a whole NEW quilt.  Oye! (quilted Triangles and Improv Stripes)

I count 8 quilts waiting to be quilted.  I think some of them might just get a simple meander
that I won't have to worry about the panto matching.




Second.

I wanted to tell you about a feature on my super duper new sewing machine I just realized I had last night.  I was working on the One Road piece and was basting it to a piece of batting.  I got the screen on the machine stuck in some mode and went to the book.  I am of the "When all else fails, read the instructions" life process.  I found it had a Basting Stitch that starts out by tacking the threads and takes long stitches.

The great part comes when you remove the basting later.   You just pull the bobbin thread and it all unravels!

Oh my!