A Quilting Reader's Garden

Some of This; Some of That 5/26

It's been a busy couple of weeks. I've had little time for a lot of stuff, but the end is in sight. Plus this ongoing cool weather and cloudy skies makes me glum. Does the weather do a number on you?

First a stash report. DDIL took 1.9 yds from my stash to make a quilt for her friend. I used .25 to make favors for the ladies at retreat - bookmarks. Then I made a sample log cabin with the new trim tool I bought - actually bought two - a regular 4" log cabin ruler and a curvy log cabin one. Works great as you just estimate the width of the strip and have no exact cutting to do except for the center square. Great for scraps. Here's my first 4" from scraps as a test and new YTD total is 44.15 yards.

In the slow stitching I'm finishing that Anna's Garden block - only have the purple flower now to finish hand stitching. Then there are more hexies to work on. Glad I got two more applique started on the road to prepping at the quilt retreat. I'll show those later.

On my design wall I have the start of another baby quilt - two rows so far. Here's the cute fabric Katy made a quilt out of and introduced me to this collection. It's by Riley Blake and called "Jeep".

This week I missed a couple of days of sewing - after three days of intensive sewing my quilting mojo is exhausted. So now the stats look like this:

15 minute days/week = 5/7 days

15 minute days/May = 24/25 days

15 minute days/2019 = 132/145

Success rate = 97.78%

Did you get to hand sew today?

I'm linking to Slow Sunday Stitching , Sunday Stash, 15 Minutes to Stitch in 2019, Oh Scrap! and Design Wall Monday.

Have a blessed week.

Some of This; Some of That 5/12

Not much quilting this past week, so let's start with a few things I was able to do and liked. The river bottom one house over from us. It's flowering with wild mustard and the usual sounds we hear. Watch here.

Blooming in my kitchen garden:

While I was quilting the last charity quilt I figured out another way to use my walking foot. It doesn't have holes on the side to attach a guide for straight lines. My answer was painter's tape.

I cut a strip of tape the length of the line I wanted to quilt. I sewed from one corner to the other.

When I got to the spot where I was going to pivot, I pulled back the tape and pivoted. Pulled off the entire strip and re-positioned it on the next side and did that line. Worked great.

The only fabric I destashed was the 0.20 yd I used for the binding and the 1.02 used for the back . New YTD total is 42.00 yds.

Here is the quilted top:

All the fabrics for the top and back were from my scrap bags.

The back was a tad small, so I added the last of that flower print from the from.

Quilted and bound:

Lastly, for the 15 Minutes in 2019:

15 minute days/week = 7/7 days
15 minute days/May = 11/11 days
15 minute days/2019 = 122/131 days
Success rate = 93.13%

And for my design wall - that second medallion quilt is still the same. No progress there, and I don't think there will be any this coming week as we will have out of state company and a quilt retreat to go to. I'm linking to Oh, Scrap, Sunday Stash, 15 Minutes to Stitch 2019, and Design Wall Monday Monday Making , and Let's Make Baby Quilts How did you do - quilty wise - last week? Blessings!

My Second 2019 UFO Challenge Report

April is over and it is time for my second 2019 UFO Challenge Report. I chose to give myself 2 months intervals to get things done, and it's kind of working more or less. Here goes:

In my Create Your Own BOM, I'm one block behind but have managed to get 3 of the 4 almost done.

First one - done; Second one - 2/3rd appliqued; Third one - ready to applique.

For the UFO challenge I was suppose to make the 4 patchwork blocks for that same quilt.
Got one unit of 16 units done - had to first figure out how to make an accurate 3 1/2" square that has 11 pieces.

one on right finally correct.

When all the units are done, it will be a 9-patch 9 1/2" block. There are another 16 units of another configuration to make also. Going to do this at the quilt retreat in two weeks.

Then in between this UFO work which had me so frustrated, I worked on another oldie.

This top was started in 2016 and finished that same year. Just needed quilting. It's for a family member. The blocks were from Pat Sloan BOW Winter Solstice to make Angela's RSC challenge of the same year.

Then the charity quilts: