weekend.

Pick up sticks is done! I can scratch that off my list of things to do!
Yippee!!

And I don't have to date it, Since it has 9 (IX) for September, and 2009 (MMIX) in the bottom right. It was a fun quilt. And I love all the browns in it... Definitely has some favorite fabrics in this quilt.

I've gotten a lot done over the weekend. I have 3 here left to bind. And hope to get them done this week, although only ONE is a rush for Xmas... So i may procrastinate on the others...


I go the flowers all appliqued down on the first 4 or 9 blocks for this quilt.
They are going to be one big quilt all together... Each of these blocks are about 24" square.

I'm also working on two tshirts for my godson... He likes hand made things! ;-)
Last year he got the Oliver quilt, hmm, I think I might not have posted a completed picture of his quilt! Anyway here is some machine quilting i did on it, with the help of B last year...
I didn't think a little tyke would be so excited about a quilt for a gift, but his mother just told me he'll be sleeping with it until college... He loved it when he opened it last year, and I got to hear him on the phone happily exclaim how much he loved the camouflage on the quilt!
So this year my little buddy is getting a star wars shirt and a downhill bmx shirt... Just trying to figure out if I should paint it on or machine stitch it on...
He's a boy who knows what he likes, so I know he'll love these shirts...

I am going to be very busy this week. So I hope to plow through a few bindings, and finish up my red circle quilt top. I swear I will not start a new top this week.

I have enough to work on...
my dresdens are still begging me to finish them, but I am just not jumping up and down over them yet...
Where are you inspiration??
(can you wait til at least Thursday? I have to much to do here)

PIXIE DUST DONE!

The Pixie Dust Quilt is done!
Washed and fabulous.

It's a beauty. You all did such a beautiful job on your blocks!
Thank you Stacy at Pixie Dust Fabrics for donating the fabrics.
(Please go visit her and thank her!)
They were lovely and so fun to work with!

Now to figure out a way to sell it!

61" X 81"

Anyone interested in buying it outright, please send me an email.

Easy peasy.

In honor of a dear little friend of mine, I'd like, if we sell it,

a check made directly to the JDRF
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation

I've also sent JDRF an email to ask if they can just take the Quilt to raise money themselves,
if we are not able to get a price I feel is fair for it.

If you are someone who is able to set up a raffle, or put it in your shop window to help us.
Let me know.

I'm working on a couple things here to try to make this happen.

Front View

I'm working on a couple things here to try to make this happen.

But first! Some Better Pictures To show off it's beauty!
Back view


Have a lovely weekend Everyone.

running

Here's a baby waverunner!
This is Jo's quilt. go see the other pics at her blog, Jo's country Junction.

How are you alll doing on your waverunners?
Any questions?
What did you decided for quilting?
Eeeek!
I need to do that.... My goal is to start quilting them next week.

Pixie dust is DONE! I just need to wash it and dry then I can post some pictures...

I got a LOAD of work done yesterday. Good thing, as today B is off school for conferences, and we have a ton of stuff to do today.. Not much time to sew today...

I was going to bed last night, and An idea popped into my head, and very quickly fabric was flying... a few minutes later, well. here's a PEEK at another for the list...


I love that many of you have LONG LISTS of quilts too!
That means the creativity is flowing!!!

(and my studio looks like a tornado went through it....)

Any of you wanna come over and help me bind??
wishful thinking!

gotta run.
V

lists

I've been enjoying seeing everyone get out there UFO's trying to finish stuff up before spring...
I thought that was funny, because I don't like to think about how many I have...


I Bounce around like crazy, as inspiration hits me. I don't mind. Some I know will take me a long time to finish... like my grandmas flower garden... or the hand quilting quilts... years before I finish those...

At the moment, i am cranking out the circles and stripes quilt
the purple orange and turq with appliqued flowers quilt, and I dug out these from last year...

I had made these blocks, which consists of 4 blocks designed by my mother,
4 by me, 4 by B, and 4 by my niece... I had hit a brick wall with them, as it was to be 4 lap quilts one for each of us containing one of each of our blocks... then last night, inspiration struck.
that stripey fabric laying there will be borders... Now we will see how long it takes me to get them finished... I may change my mind and make them into one big quilt... to soon to tell!


Tonight I'll finish the binding on the Pixie dust quilt. Here is a peak... Doesn't it look good!

And, just to check in with myself.. here is my on going list of UFO's. I actually got caught up last year, doing 4 quilts in a week...
Somehow I think that ain't happening this year!

yellow Dresdens
xmas log cabin
Waverunner one
Waverunner two
Batik starry night
B's Buddha
B for alphabet project
mini Waverunner
purple and green
Family of origins lap quilt.

Quilt tops from summer that still need to be finished:

turq/red/gold quilt from the summer
Midwest sunset quilt from summer
Sunset at the lake quilt from the summer
red/turq from summer

QUILTING:
blue and brown hand quilting (from two years ago)
Red Matisse quilt, hand quilting (from a year ago)

5 that are pinned & ready to machine quilting waiting for me

6 for BINDING:
Black and gray windows.
Pixie dust
purple runner
Pick up sticks
Parsley patch
Scrappy happy

and will have shortly to be pieced:

scrap cabin from Quilting bee (can't wait to work on this!)
&
2 quilts for Sis Boom POW

oh well. We all have our systems and ways of working... I like having lots of projects at once... I'm never bored!

TUESDAY

B and I were in Chinatown the other day, and we saw this blue
peony fabric, We decided it was a must to use to do some updating in her room.
It's from a very fun store called Pearl River... You can see it online too. We love to go snoop through the store to find little treasures you won't find anywhere else.
B thought it would look nice around, and back for her B wall hanging with the Buddha on(see old post)..
I think she's right!

Inspired by Heather's runner from her new book, you can find it here.
It's my favorite runner out of her new book.
I decided to give a little machine applique a test on my newly fixed Janome.
After seeing all the blocks come in for the SIS BOOM POW machine appliqued...
I got inspired and wanted to give it a whirl.
Gotta try new things, it make smy sewing world just a little bigger!

Now I just need to quilt it, bind it, and wrap it for xmas!
one more off the list!

Yesterday I went to a (new to me ) restaurant, Momofuku, for lunch with my dear friend Calla, whose Birthday it was and the recipient of the runner from Sunday.. She liked it very much, and it got a close inspection by her mother! (Whom I adore... )Who said to me, You must have a very good machine! ;-) to cute. Another happy home for a homemade gift... yippee!

Now I gotta get to binding those last three quilts ASAP...
!!!!
HaPPY STITCHING!

Oh! And one last thing.
Some of you may remember my friends boy, Owen from old posts...
here's an update!

recently,His CT scans were clear.....
YIPPEEEEEEE!!The plan continues to be the same for his treatments.

Chemo until the end of February, and then will stay on Tarceva (oral chemo) for a while. And we will continue to pray that the cancer cells stay away.

Good way to start my day

I was having a crappy morning, not feeling great, running late etc... I hop in a cab to go the dr. And there was this guy standing there in a teletubby suit waving at me... How can you have a bad day with tinky wonky waving at you!! ( or whichever tele it was!!). Have a good day!!! V

ahhh, sunday.

A little Central park inspiration...

Nooks and crannies, skylines....

Bethesda Fountain and the murals under the stairs by the fountain...

Fun in a park in soho.. gotta love that mural... PLAY!

I dragged B along with me to my first Empire Quilt Guild meeting Sunday.
Sherry Shine was the speaker, and I was curious about her work...
Actually this photo is from show and tell, but Sherry's two quilts are in the background behind the ladies...
B actually enjoyed her self and walked away with a free fat quarter to go home and play with... Good and inspiring... all around..

I have a lunch with a good dear friend for her birthday, Monday. So I whipped this runner up
for her as a gift today... Don't you just love runners! They are so fast and fun!

we had glorious weather this weekend. a good one to stay in the city to enjoy...
and enjoy we did... Hope you all had a lovely weekend!