Green Googly

Jan 15, 2016 -- Feb 5, 2016

I started this quilt Friday Jan 15 after work and while having mom and friends over for a day of sewing.  The pattern is Googly by A Quilter's Dream.  I think I bought the pattern a few years ago and have pulled fabric to make it a couple of times but never started.  I had a package of 12 FQs that I got at Road to CA last Jan and felt it was perfect and so I began.  Not sure where my head was at but I've made mistake after mistake.  The blocks are cut and built with 3 FQs and luckily I only had one set going at a time.  The first set I made cutting errors and had to become imaginative in getting the all the parts. There is very little wiggle room and spare fabric.  I had to do major reverse sewing as I forgot to make snow balls a couple of times.

The second set was better but still made a cutting error by having the 18" and 21" sides reversed so again creativity to get all the parts.  A bit less reverse sewing but still some as I got the sides with specific widths in the wrong place.

The third set I only made a mistake of adding the side in the wrong location.  Will I ever get it right?
The fourth and final set I once again had to unsew a bit as I attached the wrong width to the wrong side.  I feel this quilt top is a bit cursed for me.

With input from Joanne and Dale I've put on a black boarder.   I will be backing in a lime green fury minkie.

April 8, 2016. Finished quilting and binding.  I wanted to use the new circle quilting templates I had purchased for this but they were too small.  So I marked 4 circles of increasing diameter.  In the corners I quilted "L's", the border was circle in a circle.  Wrapped the fuzzy backing over for the binding.

Size:  40 x 47

Snow Angels: Reverse Applique Snow Days - flannel

Feb 4, 2016

I finally finished this quilt.  I think I made the quilt top over 10 years ago but it could have been longer.  I'm pretty sure the pattern was from a Quiltmaker magazine but I could not find it on an internet search.  The snow angel is reverse applique.  I remember being annoyed that I couldn't find the light blue version of the flannel background and only the light green was available but I think it came out fine.  In the photo is looks light blue and not light green.  I quilted what I hope looks and snow drifts through out the background.  I went around each of the snow angels with 4 rows of echo stitching.  In the purple inner boarder I have quilted a large snowflake motif (using golden threads) and in the outer blue boarder I have a free motion icicles.

Sept 2016 - sold to Tom L & Beth

Size 74 x 92

Aviatrix Medallion

Dec 2015

I purchased this kit in Jan 2015 at the Road to California trip.  I didn't allow myself to start it because I wanted to get some UFOs completed.  During the work holiday shut down I wanted to start something new.  Pattern: Aviatrix Medallion by Elizabeth Hartman

Center medallion done!  It actually went together well because I used the Deluxe Corner Trimmer from Marti Michell.  Cutting the points off the 45 degree tips made putting the diamond together so much more accurate. 

Jan 1, 2016

Jan 10, 2016

Jan 18, 2016

Jan 31, 2016
Finished the quilt top!

Finished quilting Dec2016. Backing grey fuzzy blanket.

Sister's Outdoor Quilt Show 2016 entries

Feb 1, 2016:

Anne's
Time is Passing Us By: $285

Mystery Quilt Purple & Green: $285  -- SOLD

Poppies: $360 -- SOLD

Safari Fun Animals: $285

Woodland Fairies: $215

Trina's:
Mighty Jungle: $285

Marble Floor:  $145 -- SOLD

Who Me: $175 -- SOLD

Pirate's Treasure: $140 -- SOLD

Snow Angles: $285

Sea Life

Jan 26, 2016

Mom made this quilt top.  She purchased the kit at Road to CA in 2015.  I backed the quilt in light blue furry minkie. I did a stipple in the quilt center except for the panels which I outlined the animals.  In the outer border I did Leah Day's Whirlpools, on the inner border I did swirls.

Size: 46 x 57

Road to CA 2016

Mom, Karen and I had a great time and once again purchased too much.  I got two projects, Forest Friends which is normally a block of the month buy Karen and I are going to make it together. I'm doing the warm colors for both of us and she is doing the cool colors.  The plan is to have our 1/2 completed by Road to CA next year.  We purchased the back ground fabric at M&L Discount fabrics.

The 2nd project is a paper piece project by Sassafras Lane called Empire Place.  I got the color solids at Road to CA show and the black, grays and white at M&L Discount Fabrics.  I plan not to start this one until I complete Arcadia Avenue which I'm not even half way done. 

Mom got several kits. I get much of my quilt thrills through the tops she does because I get to help her start most and see them progress over time.  Some of the kits are: Matrix, flannel wolf; flannel forest animals (woman who we purchased the kit from was very pushy about buying the backing fabric from her ... almost didn't buy kit at all). A red, white and black ribbon quilt, couple of kid quilts with bugs.  

We didn't want to buy anymore stuff on Saturday (after going to M&L) so we went to the movies and saw the new Star Wars movie.  Great movie.

Pirate's Treasure

Jan 18, 2016

I made this quilt top many years ago.  I think it was a sweet treat from Pincushion Boutique.  The pattern was Mystery Sampler in the Fat Quarter Quilts by M'Liss Rae Hawley (pg 50).  I like this pattern because you design your own quilt but there is still structure.  Great for newer quilters wanting to stretch beyond the pattern.

I quilted the center with 5 large X with a meander connection between.  I then echoed around the X s and meander lines.  In the black boarder I used Leah Day's Spiral Tree and the outside boarder was quilted with a stipple.

Size: 63 x 81