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Posts categorized: Quilting

Strip-pieced Lone Star Uncertainty

Posted in Quilting

  • Advice oh sage ones?
  • Strip-pieced Lone Star

In my post about current projects I mentioned a Strip-pieced Lone Star quilt that I’m working on as part of the bi-weekly Sew You Want to Quilt group I’m in. I finally finished one of the stars this weekend.

It seems I didn’t piece it well, because the center has a pretty noticeable bulge…

July 25th, 2011

FWQAL Week 5—Blocks #11, 103, 109

Posted in Quilting

  • Farmer’s Wife Quilt
  • Piecing

I think these are my three least favorite FWQAL blocks thus far, at least of the ones I’ve completed. Well, no, Wrench from Week 3 is my least favorite, but I’m not a huge fan of any of these. Also, I hope that our porch gets finished soon (starting week three without railings…) so that I can get some good photos of all of them together soon. This phone-camera-in-the-house thing isn’t working for me.

July 24th, 2011

My Quilting Bucket List

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Posted in Quilting

  • Vague planning

Sorry friends: I’ll admit that this post is more for me than providing interesting or valuable content for you. I just have all these ideas in my head and need to get them down in one place! Some are vague because that’s how they are in my head and others are vague because I don’t want to spoil the surprise for you or their intended recipients. I know I talked about it before, briefly, but wow! have I become even more obsessed in the past six months.

These are in no particular order, really, but a numbered list seemed Ć propos. I suppose the less vague (in my head) are at the top.

July 19th, 2011

FWQAL Week 4—Blocks #21, 71

Posted in Quilting

  • Farmer’s Wife Quilt
  • Piecing

I’m a little off schedule this week (or, last, technically speaking). We had plans Friday night, which is when I’ve been working on these, and then Saturday was a race day for Carl, so we traveled and were otherwise busy. But Sunday was a sew-together with the Utica Modern Quilt Guild, so I packed up my things and drove over. I was woefully over-packed. Going in, I had hoped to finish a few blocks for FWQAL and get work done on other projects, but only had time for 2.4 blocks.

July 18th, 2011

Quilting Projects As Yet Unfinished

Posted in Quilting

  • Birds Nest quilt
  • Farmer’s Wife Quilt
  • Q014BH
  • Q015CC
  • Strip-pieced Lone Star
  • Synchronized Squares QAL
  • The Miniatures Nine-patch
  • The Wedding quilt
  • Update
  • Vague planning

I’m working on a bucket list for quilting, more for my sanity to get it down on paper and out of my brain than for public consumption. The #1 item is to finish the myriad projects I’m already working on. Some are whiling away in boxes, some I am actively working on. It’s gotten a little out of control; I have eight!

They are:

July 12th, 2011

FWQAL Week 3—Blocks #20, 69, 111

Posted in Quilting

  • Farmer’s Wife Quilt
  • Piecing

Looking back, I should have waited on making either Wrench or Churn Dash and used a different color scheme for one, since they’re essentially the same block. But, they’re done. And a third—Practical Orchard—for good measure.

July 9th, 2011

FWQAL Week 2—Blocks #41, 48, 73

Posted in Quilting

  • Farmer’s Wife Quilt
  • Piecing

ā€œIn for a penny, in for a poundā€ seems apt for my current participation. I wasn’t going to start for a while, but then I needed a break last week, and found myself doing another set of three last night. These were all simple enough to finish without diving into the templates, so I have some notes to share on measurements.

July 2nd, 2011

FWQAL Week 1—Blocks #2, 4, 92

Posted in Quilting

  • Farmer’s Wife Quilt
  • Piecing

I’m already four weeks behind the group, and wasn’t planning on starting for another couple yet, but I needed a change from another project that is making me tear my hair out. Here is my week one. For these three blocks, I didn’t use templates. They were easy enough to figure out the size of the squares and rectangles. Plus, they can easily be simplified so that you aren’t working with as many small pieces (and are potentially able to sew them faster). I’ve added my notes about simplifying the cutting and piecing, including some of the measurements, but you’ll have to get the book for clarification on anything I left out.

June 24th, 2011

The Farmer’s Wife Quilt-Along Intro

Posted in Quilting

  • Caveat lector
  • Farmer’s Wife Quilt
  • Quilt alongs

Blogland is abuzz with talk about the latest Farmer’s Wife Sampler Quilt QAL, started by Angela of {fussy cut} and Amanda of msmcporkchopquilts. Not only is the Flickr group busy, busy, but Twitter is constantly updating with tweets tagged #FWQAL.

Essentially, everyone is trying to do two blocks a week, in any order, out of The Farmer’s Wife Sampler Quilt by Laurie Aaron Hird.

Right now, in the parlance of the group, I am merely dating the farmer.

June 22nd, 2011

The Greens, They Are Taking Over…

Posted in Quilting

  • Quilt alongs
  • Synchronized Squares QAL

I’ve been assured, based on my quilty-blog browsing, that many quilters tend to gravitate toward filling their stash with a specific color (or a couple of them). Mine has been inundated with blues and greens from the start, but after my latest shopping spree, the greens have pulled ahead in the race (and other colors have gained no ground at all, it seems).

All of these…

I present (in no particular order) some prints from Prince Charming, Aviary 2, Delovely, Alhambra, Dolly Dresses 2, and Silent Cinema; Kona Solids; Moda Bella Solids; a bit of butter-colored linen and some green corduroy for good measure.

…will be going into one particular quilt, though (well, that’s the current plan, at least. Maybe not all will make it in). I have a feeling there will be lots of scraps leftover, due to the project calling for two layer cakes and the fact that I’m not using precuts.

June 21st, 2011

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