Friday

Poncho weather is not here yet in sunny Southern California...... But I'm ready.

Hope it arrives soon!

I saw this pattern on ravelry. (Easy folded poncho by churchmouse) and thought it would be great easy project.

It was easy......just took t.i.me.

It didn't require thinking like my current project:

How do you spell "aye-Yai-Yai"????

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Thank you blogland

Antique quilter sent me some valuable information yesterday in response to my chair-phonebook-rearend problem.  ;)

Make a cushion with this......

Trash.

The little bits that get thrown out!

Believe or not, I had a pillow made already but didn't like the weight of it.

It sat neglected and forgotten.

It will be neglected no longer!

It's the perfect size!

Reason #242 why I love blogland!

Thanks friends. 

I also learned about marking quilts!

Reason #243. ;)

Deep blue sea is done

Yep.

Quilting lines are all sewn IN!

Happy dance time!!

Can you see the wonky lines here?

I rarely mark a quilt for quilting with anything other than painters tape. This time.......

I DID mark with a blue chalk roller by clover on the wide white border.  I marked only a little to keep me "sort of" on track. ;)

Guess what?  The blue didn't disappear in the laundry! I googled a bit and found out vinegar works. Haven't tried it yet. Isn't it crazy that marking lines don't come out like they should?  I once heard a quilt teacher say the safest marking tool is a #2 pencil. I should have heeded her advice!

Well I am happy with this quilt.

Love the colors my daughter and new son-in-law chose. They also chose the design.

I had to choose the quilting design!

I think it took me as long to decide that as it did to piece the whole thing!  ;)

 I'm Also happy my hours on this phone book are over! ;). There's got to be a better way of getting high enough on the chair to quilt comfortably. My arms aren't complaining this time.,.....but.....my rear end is. Hah!

Monday

I'm quilting lines through some pretty hexagons today!

Last week I was looking for motivation.

This week I found some. ;)

I moved my machine into the dining room and got to work!!

The change in scenery is good.

Plus.....

The dining room table is big enough to hold the bulk of this big queen sized quilt!

Wish me luck as I wrestle with the "deep blue sea". ;)

Fall

The leaves are turning color here....

but the weather has YET to cooperate!

 

The leaves say FALL.

The weather says SUMMER.

 



I decided to listen to the leaves

and do a little Christmas sewing.

(Christmas tree skirt)

 

There's one thing I know about myself.

I like to TWEAK patterns...

OR better yet...

use NO pattern.

But I was kind of surprised I would do it to a pattern

I DESIGNED!!!

 

LOL!

 

Instead of quilting this and adding binding

like the pattern instructs...

I made it PILLOWcase fashion.

Added some swirly lines.....for interest....

and in another TRUE to FORM move....

I used some old curtains for the back!

 

THRIFTY.

My middle name.

;)

Here it is BEFORE the swirly stitching.

Hmmm.....

I kind of like it this way too!

 

Too late.

little jobs

When there are BIG jobs waiting to be done....

I choose the LITTLE ones.

Every. Time.

;)

 

This little table mat

includes all those great flying geese

sent to me last year when I collected orphan blocks.

Someone else's Leftovers

became a LOVELY project for me!

 

This is the first of 12 table mats

I'll be making for a springtime auction.

 

I don't know though....

I just might KEEP this one!!!!



Deep Blue Sea

My quilt top is complete.

All I needed to do was to sit down and DO IT!  The thought of appliquéing the edges of all the hexagons onto the white border was bigger in my HEAd than the reality!

I was able to appliqué all around this afternoon !  

Does anyone else like to appliqué on a table? 

After sewing a basting stitch through the middle of the outside hexagons...attaching it to the border.....I needle turned the edges under.

Now I need to get some motivation from somewhere......and quilt this thing. It's HUGE!

Ooooh! I love all that color!

Hoping to quilt some hexagons in the white border.  Wish me luck! 

Anyone have some extra motivation laying around they're not using?

I'm running short.

;)

The post about how I made this quilt is HERE .