WIP Wednesday 9/14/11

Posting early cuz tomorrow is a busy day.  My mom is having her second cataract surgery, so won't be home much.

I'm taking part in a crumb-along at Jo's Country Junction.  I have so many scraps I need to do this.  It's a little bit more ordered than the ones I've made before, but so far I like it!  The first blocks we made are flying geese.  Here's how far I got tonight. I was suppose to make 2.  I'll work on it during the week and finish the second one and make some more flying geese units for later star blocks

Go on over to WIP Wednesday at freshly pieces (the button is on my left sidebar) and see what others are working on.  Lee usually has a ton of people showing their latest.    And Jo has a linky too - Lots of eye candy!

Mom's here - bye for now.

Fabric Tuesday 9/13/11

Here is my funky owl.  Really - I know he looks like an alien who ran into an owl and tried to imitate it to blend in, then got caught in a flashing light one night and looks dazed - but hey, I followed the pattern of this shop hop block - LOL.  Those ears were the hardest - you had to take a one inch square of fabric and fold it three times on the diagonal -phew!  The directions were clear but I sure could have used a center point or a full size block pattern to place the owl where it belonged.  Took me two 15-minute sessions to raw edge applique it.  At least it was piecing and applique!

Go on over to my left sidebar and click on Fabric Tuesdays at Quilt Story and see what more fabric stories..  Or if you want to see what others can do in just 15 minutes, visit Life in Pieces.

Design Wall Monday 9/12/11

My back basting applique block is still on my design wall - I am making some progress with it.  Have 16 leaves and 2 cherries to needle turn still.  On the cherries, I am going around the cherry with a running stitch just outside of the back basting stitch and gathering it a tad.  This makes it easier to turn the circle 3/16th inch seam under and get it more circular.  Little by little--

Go on over to Judy's Patchwork Times on my left sidebar and see what others have on their design wall.  There is always something marvelous there.

Stash Report 9/11/11

I used 1/2 yd for the binding of the Soldiers' Angel quilt and the applique block I'm working on.  And somehow I've misplaced my rotary cutter - I only have one!! - so have not been able to cut up more fabric and continue with my projects.  So I went through a drawer in the guest room and found 6 and 1/2 yards to give away to the guild for their thrifty corner.  Here are my  numbers for this month:
Used/Donated this week: 7.00 yards
Used/Donated Yr to date: 65.62 yards
Added this wk: 0.0 yards
Total Yr to date Added: -11.0 yards
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Total Yr to date Use: 54.62 yards

Not the way I want to destash but I did jump ahead.  In the coming weeks, I may have to be as realistic as today and get that stash down some more!

Go to my left sidebar and check out how others are destashing at Judy's Patchwork Times.