DESIGN WALL MONDAY

Nothing on my design wall, but I am prepping pieces for another quilt top made from scraps!!!!!

 Here is my completed half log cabin quilt!  There are 140 five inch blocks in this quilt, and I decided not to add borders.  The red binding was also leftover fabric, just waiting to be used.  The quilt is 50 x 70 inches finished, and will be donated to Quilts of Valour, through my guild's community quilts program in September.

Check out all the creativity shared at Judy's blog, Patchwork Times.

STASH REPORT SUNDAY

Fabric used this week  15 yards

Fabric used year to date  120.75 yards

Fabric added this week  0 yards

Fabric added year to date  63.75 yards

Net used 2015  57 yards

 Finally, after over a month, I have yardage to claim!  My half log cabin quilt is completed, all made from scraps!  I plan on donating this one to Quilts of Valour here in Canada, through my guild's community quilts program. (We have someone coordinating just these quilts).  Now on to more scraps!

 I stitched my favourite feathered hooks on all the ''dark'' sections of the quilt.

I stitched lines and swirls on all the light sections.  Now to find a place to take a picture of the finished quilt.......

Just one more picture for good measure!

Please check out all the stash progress shared at Judy's blog, Patchwork Times.

READY TO STITCH THE QUILT TOP!

I completed all 140 half log cabin blocks yesterday, so I printed out the layout from EQ, and last night I arranged all the blocks in their rows, ready to stitch!

My 1 1/2 inch strip bin looks better - I've used more than a layer of "lights", and almost a layer of "darks".  

I'm already planning my next scrappy project.  I guess I better get stitching!

We're having company tomorrow.  DH's band is getting together, and one of the members, who is from Sudbury, is staying with us.  They are playing for a collector car group on Friday evening, then are off to Syracuse NY to meet up with the final band member.  They are entertaining at 3 different nursing homes in the area before returning to Kingston, and doing the same here.  By this time next week, they'll all be on their way home again, and we'll see them when they all arrive at our southern home's location!
 

DESIGN WALL MONDAY

I was finally ready to work on something of my own, and noticed this.....  My 1 1/2 inch strip bin was overflowing!  I have the strips organized by dark and light.


I decided to make some half-log cabin blocks, although I usually use larger strips.

After a couple of days of intermittent sewing while doing other tasks, I have 40 blocks completed.  They finish at 5 inches square, so I'll need lots of them to make a quilt top - good news to help use up some strips, but probably won't use as many as I'd like!



DS2 and DDIL just bought a king-size bed, so now I'm hoping to make a quilt for them.  I suggested that she look at quilts on the internet to get an idea of what she'd like.  Now that they are in their new home, they are beginning to decorate, not just fit in whatever came along as they did in their apartment.  Hopefully she can find something that she likes so I can make some plans for this huge winter project!

I just received a video of our lovely grandson, eating his first solid food.  He was really ready for it, and tried to wrestle the bowl out of his mother's hands.  I think he would have eaten more, but they are starting with a small amount of rice cereal to see how it goes.  When I told them that the nurses fed DS2 cereal while we were in the hospital, they were shocked, as the newer idea is to wait until they are 6 months old.  He's been interested in their food for quite a while, so I'm sure he'll progress quickly. 

Check out all the creativity shared at Judy's blog, Patchwork Times.

STASH REPORT SUNDAY

Fabric used this week  0 yards

Fabric used year to date  105.75 yards

Fabric added this week  0 yards

Fabric added year to date  63.75 yards

Net used 2015  42 yards 

 

No change for me either!  I have finished quilting 4 more quilts for my guild's community quilts program, and hand stitched the binding on each as well.   Unfortunately for my stash  report, the binding was provided for the remaining quilts, so nothing used yet!

 

I decided to make some half log cabin blocks, using my 1 1/2 inch strip bin - mostly because I couldn't close the top!  They finish at 5 inches, so I'll be making them for a while!  I managed to complete 22 so far.  I'm doing laundry today, and baking bread as well.

DH is helping our friends with extending their pool surround and enlarging their patio.  The realized that they should have had it made wider when they were having it installed!  They are working with various sizes of patio stones, and to meet the curved edge of the pool, there is lots of cutting required.  They spent most morning doing the prep work, and are on their second day of installation.  They had help yesterday to move all the stones from the driveway to the back yard, and also bringing sand from the giant pile, to help level everything.  Hope they get done today.....

See everyone's progress at Judy's blog, Patchwork Times.