Block 5 of the Wool Quilt

I just finished block #5 of the wool quilt. This is going faster than I thought. However, once I start the Fall Session at school......Well, you know!

I traced all the templates for block #6 but because I was at school all day today nothing was done on it. I think that I'm going to start doing the triangles that connect the blocks so I won't have them all left for the end. I feel that if I start putting them together then they won't end up a UFO like so many of my other projects end up being. The goal is to have this finished and quilted for my guild's quilt show in 2013. Think I'll make it?

My customer sent pictures of the Winnie the Pooh quilt that I did for her and forgot to take pictures of. It actually has the binding on it. I don't usually get to see them bound so I was quite pleased. As I said before, I love doing her quilts. She dropped a cute lap quilt off for me to do (yeah!). I'm starting to get a few steady customers.


I love Winnie the Pooh!



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Well It's Getting There

Like I said......I have a little time off of school so I'm putting it to good use. I'm still working on the wool and here's what I just finished.

The Crows are on the wire........

This is the progress so far......

Only ten more to go! I can't decide which block to start on next, any suggestions. I'm kind of leaning toward the gardening gloves.


Have a happy day and thanks for visiting!

Block #3

Just a quick post to show you block #3 in the Primitive Garden Quilt. This one finished so quickly......The rest won't be finished so fast.

Next week it's back to school with an 18 credit load so don't know how much time I'll have for quilting.

Thanks for stopping by and.........

Happy Quilting!

Coleen

As Promised

I finally finished block #2 of my Primitive Garden wool applique. As I promised, here is the picture of my second finished block......

Next it's on to the Geranium in a pot. Since that block is only 8 1/2 by 10 1/2, I hope it doesn't take as long as the last one. It was worth it, I think. My goal is to have the top finished by this time next year. Think I'll make it? Oh well, goals are good aren't they? I've never been much of a goal maker.....that's next year's New Years resolution, to make and try to keep goals. I've heard that's a good thing to do. We'll see............

I also finished the last quilt that I had on the frame. I really have to stop making every quilt into a custom job. And I wonder why it takes me so long to finish them, a simple panto would have been much faster. Would a panto have been as nice? The minute I saw the border, it turned into a custom job.

See what I mean?

Sorry about this picture, it's not so good, I hope you can see the star in the blue block.

I did have fun playing with my Circle Lord templates......I used them to do the border and the stars. There's also a design in the flag blocks done with the Circle Lord but it doesn't show up in the pictures.

Since I'm off from school for a couple of weeks I hope to have more to show you in the very near future.

For now, I hope everyone has a Happy and prosperous New Year.

Happy Quilting!

A Boring Life

After reading a lot of your blogs............

I've come to the conclusion that I must lead a really boring life. I daily read every one's blogs and for the life of me, I can't think of a single thing to say very often. The only time I seem to have anything to post is when I'm working on a project, which isn't too often lately. I went back to school which doesn't leave much time between homework and studying for tests. The teachers make sure that you never run out of tests to take but I'm really not complaining. The one regret that I've always had was not having gone to college and now I am. I consider myself to be very lucky to be going now even at my age.

I do keep checking in on all of your wonderful blogs as often as I can.

So now that I'm done whining, I'll share a couple of pics of the latest quilt that I've been working on. It's a Quilt of Valor that I'm doing for a lady who's been paying a LongArmer to quilt these for her. Some how I can't see charging someone to quilt something that she's donating to charity. I won't however presume to pass judgement on someone else. If this is her livelihood, she needs to make money and probably can't afford to quilt for free. I'm sure I couldn't afford to do too many of these myself.

I did the crosshatching with one of my new Circle Lord templates. I had a lot of fun playing with it. I'm also using my CL to put stars in all the solid blue patches.

I'm hoping to have it off the frame in a few days and I'll post a picture of the finished quilt.

Here's a picture of my current wool applique block. I'm not quite finished with it yet but I'm making progress.

That's all I have for now. Thanks so much for visiting.

Happy Quilting!

The journey to the birth of a block

I started working on the second block of my wool applique quilt. I thought I'd share some pictures of the process......

It all starts with the wool.

All the pieces are traced on to freezer paper and ironed on the wool.
So many pieces...........

Next, I stapled the pieces to the background. I learned that staples are so much earier to work with. Your thread doesn't get caught on the staples and they are very easy to remove.

A little more progress ............

We're all set to start stitching..........
I'll post more pictures when it's a finished block. Thanks for visiting.

Happy Quilting!

Something new to spend my money on

My newest love is wool applique. I swore that I wouldn't do it but then I went to a quilt show and fell in love with a pattern so here I go again.

This of course, requires wool.........

A whole suitcase full and then some.......

Then there's the thread.......

Lots and lots of threads...........

Here's the first block of many.........


It will be so worth it when it's done! My new obsession!!!

Here are some pictures of a quilt that I just finished for one of the local quilt shops.

Here's a picture of the back. I love the fabrics.

That's all I have to share for now. Thanks for looking!

Happy Quilting!