Here is Some Progress

I have a little progress being made but I really haven"t had much time to spend in the Quilt Studio

This is a picture of the Quilt of Valor I have on my design wall. I have added a couple of star blocks and some of the alternate blocks for this quilt. I still need to make 9 more star blocks and about 25 alternate blocks,

These blocks are Clue #4. I have been thinking these were Clue #5 but I was getting ahead of myself. I have 3/4's of these blocks completed.

These are actually Clue #5 and I only need 25 of these and 4 other 4-patches to complete all the units for this quilt. Next will be sewing all the blocks together.


I hope to get more time in the Quilt Studio next week. I will Keep on Scrapin!

I Think I am Making Progress

I have some show and tell today.

I have loaded several things on the HQ for quilting. This first one is the LeMoyne star I finished a week or two ago. This will be a wall hanging.

I have also loaded this Dresdan plate I made a week ago. I have always wanted to make a very large one and then use it as a wall hanging too.

This is my spool quilt wall hanging that I completed a couple of weeks ago too.

This is the Quilt of Valor top that I have finished. It just needs borders and then I will quilt it.

                                     

This is my design wall and I have started another Quilt of Valor. I need to make about 20 more star blocks and then work on the alternate block.

I am making some progress on the Grand Illusion mystery quilt. I have clue #5 about 1/4 done. I need to get working more on this clue.

This is my leader ender project. I have 12 of these stars completed. There will be 42 blocks when I finish.

This is a baby quilt top that is completed. I may add borders but I have not decided yet. I have two more of these planned.

Well, this is all for now. I will keep plugging away and try to make some progress on these many projects.

1st Completed Quit for 2015

I have a completion! My first for 2015.
This is a charity quilt I been working on since 2013 so I am very happy to have it done.

This is the tumbler quilt I have been slowly working on.

I also used up some old backing on this quilt. I really struggled trying to get the backing together and thought it would be a mess to quilt. Not so, no tucks anywhere. Yeah!

Miss Aurora wanted to be my quilt model.

She says she likes this quilt.

But it is destined to be a charity quilt and will leave my home by next month along with three other quilts I have waiting to deliver.

I am going to try being a little better at posting on my progress in the Quilt Studio. I have a couple of tops that have been put together last week and this week.

I will Keep on Scrappin!

2015 Off to a Pretty Good Start

I have been missing in action on my blog. To start the new year off I got bronchitis and then after about two weeks barely keeping up with household chores I started working in the Quilt Studio.

I am very busy with quite a number of projects but none of them are to completion so I hesitate to post on my blog. But then I remembered why I blog.....to track my progress in the Quilt Studio and some months things are very slow.

So I will update now.

I have completed clue #3 for the Bonnie Hunter Grand Illusion mystery quilt.

I am ready to start piecing clue #4 together now.

This is the tumbler quilt I have had on my HQ for awhile but I have started the quilting on it.

This is my design wall. The Quilt of Valor blocks I had on it have been taken down to start piecing the top together. More on that later.

The top row are the spool blocks from Jenny Doan. I wanted to make these but not for a full size quilt. These will be a wall hanging in my Quilt Studio. This is ready to quilt.

This is my grand daughter Liliya's embroidery work.  I have framed it in orange and will quilt it soon.

This is a LeMoyne star. I wanted to try it out to see how well I did with Y-seams. This turned out OK but I do not want to make a full size quilt with this block. It will be a wall hanging in my Quilt Studio. It is from my Craftsy class with Laura Nownes.

These are two orphan blocks that I am going to quilt for my grand daughters, Aurora and Sophia, to make pillows out of them. I will be quilting these soon also.

I have over 40 blue star blocks made for my Quilts of Valor.

I am making red and white 4-patches to put with some of the blue star blocks. I will show them later on when I have some of them made.

I have almost 20 of these stars completed for the charity quilts I have planned.

And I have started a new quilt with a jelly roll I purchased a while back. I am using Jenny Doan's tutorial on Craftsy for Strip Stars. I think it is going to be a bit wild for me though.

This is what I have been doing. I will Keep on Scrappin!

There is Some Progress Being Made

I have not been very busy in the Quilt Studio thru the month of December. I feel that family stuff is more important and so all my extra time has been for them.

I do have a little progress being made in the piecing department though and thought I would share some of the progress.

I have finally completed clue #2 for the Grand Illusion mystery with Bonnie Hunter.

I have started sewing the strips together for clue #3.

I have started to put together my stars blocks.

I sewed together many, many green 9-patches last winter for this Sisters Choice quilt from Bonnie Hunter. I will be using some of these blocks for a baby quilt I have planned.

And last but not least. I have started putting together the blue stars blocks for the 3 Quilts of Valor I have planned to complete this winter. I have 15 blocks done so far. I will be making 100 blocks.

Well, this is all for now. Keep on Scrappin!

Completions for 2014

I am very excited to track my progress this past year. I was disappointed last year when I couldn't really see all my completions for the year. So I made up a tab for completions for the year of 2014 and each time I posted a blog with a completion I labeled it.
This has made a big difference for me this year. I see that I have more completions than I had thought.
I will start with January and proceed forward. I wish I knew how to make a collage of the pictures but this will have to do.

First off in January.

This quilt was all plaid and stripes or re-purposed shirts.All of the 2 1/2 inch squares are from my pre-cut drawers.

This quilt is also from pre-cut squares. They are from my 3 1/2 inch drawer and is the last quilt made from these pre-cuts. There were a total of 3 quilts and I no longer have any 3 1/2 inch squares. I found that I just was not using these so I wanted to use up the ones I had cut up already. Yeah! Old scraps are gone.

These are two embroidery completions. I haven't done any more embroideries this year.

This quilt is my Smith Mountain Morning from Bonnie Hunter. I just love this quilt.

This is my completion for March. I call it Shadow Box.

This is a quilt for an old co-worker. It was completed in April.

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This is another charity quilt where I used up a bunch of pre-sewed half square triangles and 2 1/2 inch squares all from stash by Bonnie Hunter's inspiration. This is an August completion.

My cute flock of chickens completed in September.

My Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt. Love it!

My hexie table runner that started out to be a queen size quilt. Oh well, I love it as it is.

This is my husband's memory quilt. I really like the way it turned out.

My final completion for the year of 2014. This has been a great year for both old and new projects. I think 2015 will be more of the same.

What is Going on Here?

I have a few things going on here in the Quilt Studio.

First up I have a charity quilt loaded on the HQ. This is the tumbler quilt I was working on during the deer camp in October. I had a hard time with piecing the backing but it is now ready to go. I have decided on the thread color and I will do a baptist fan on it.

This is my design wall. I have completed the 12 blocks for this Quilt of Valor. I have also cut out the yellow cornerstones and the unbleached muslin sashing so this quilt is ready to put together.

I am behind already with my Bonnie Hunter mystery clue two. I have cut out a bunch of the parts but I have not started sewing them together yet.Oh well, I will keep plodding along.

I have cut out most of the parts I need for the star Quilts of Valor. I should be able to make great progress on these blocks. I will probably sew up 100 and then finish designing each quilt so they look a little bit different. There will be 3 quilts when I get all done.

This is all for now. Stop by next week for an update and Keep on Scrappin!