Been busy sewing!

I have been busy sewing! I got a lot done over the last few days.

First, I finished my cousin's quilt. I never got a picture of the full quilt, but here is picture with the binding. It's in the mail to him.

Then while I was on a roll, I made a miniature quilt for my table top quilt stand. I used my slice machine to cut the applique snow flakes. Here is my little snowman quilt.

Next on my list was to finish my Snowy Day Quilt from Ho Ho Ho Let it Snow. All I had left to do was quilt it, apply the buttons and bind it. It's now hanging up on the wall!

Somewhere in between I made about half of the blocks for the Bonnie Hunter Celtic Solstice Mystery Quilt.

To finish out this busy weekend I got the Candy Cane Christmas Quilt to almost finish top status. I just need to finish the rest of the embroidery on the top. Then I suppose I need to figure out how to quilt it.

Well, it's a new week and time to get started on some christmas gifts, part two of the mystery quilt and some more donation quilts.

Happy sewing!

Celtic Solstice link up part 1

Here is my Monday link up for part one of the Celtic Solstice Mystery Quilt.

I'm in the process of finishing another project so I haven't gotten much done yet on the mystery. But I did manage to sew 6 blocks! Here they are. I'm going through all of my fabric stash. Some of this is from the late 90's.

I had bought triangle rulers before the mystery was ever revealed. I wish they were tri recs and tri tools, but they weren't. I made a good guess and have figured it out. A quick double check using my friend's tri recs confirmed I was on the right road! Now that I've figured it out, I plan on chain piecing the rest I cut.

In the meantime, while searching my entire stash, I've found some things I've been looking for! I've also found some more fabric to use. Now if I can just remember where I saw a perfect neutral with a little golfer on it....

I hope everyone is having fun with this mystery. This is my first one, so I can't wait to see what is revealed!

This is the other project I'm trying to finish. It's a quilt for my cousin who is sick.

Here is a glimpse of my cousin's quilt. It is one of Bonnie Hunter's free quilt patterns, Scrappy Mountain Majesties. I wanted a primitive look and decided to go with meandering. I still need to trim it and bind it, but it should be done by Thursday!

Getting back to the blog...

Well, it has been awhile. I've been using fb to document my quilting activities, but I've thought it might be better to take advantage of my blog to keep track of everything here.

I've been following Bonnie Hunter's blog, Quiltville for awhile now. Recently she shared the quilt she made for her brother who was diagnosed with a brain tumor. It's called scrappy mountain majesties - it is in her free patterns. My cousin was diagnosed with prostate cancer this summer and my husband was wondering when I was going to make a quilt for him. So when Bonnie shared her story and this quilt, it was exactly what I was looking for! I wanted something primative looking and I had some homespun and I had a friend with more homespun who jumped on the band wagon with me! We had enough for two quilts! Last night I got the news he doesn't have long, so my side kick and I got sewing tonight and finished the top. Our plan is to quilt it tomorrow. Hopefully I can bind it and drive it up to him by Thursday.

On the design wall

Completed top

I also hope to get started on Bonnie's mystery quilt Celtic Solstice Mystery. I've already picked thru all my scraps to get started. Hopefully I can get a couple blocks done before the next part comes out.

My colors picked from my stash/scraps

My yellow?!?!

Okay, I know there is a blue background in this print. But from a distance it is overwhelming yellow. So, I'm going to see how this goes.... Plus I have plenty of it! ;) I do need to work on my neutrals. The ones I have might be too tan.

LSNED Update

Well I had fun getting ready for this project. I got my book all together. I learned it takes me a few days to formulate my thoughts! Now to keep it simple! That is a tough one. I did learn something. September did get busy, but there is a new month starting and another chance for fresh starts! I think I'll work on getting my thoughts and photos in the book this month. They maybe more than a sentence. But that's okay. I also love Shimelle's Camera School blog. This is perfect for me to get to know my new digital SLR!!!! I'm still excited for a fantastic fall full of fun.

September's BOM

Sherri McConnell is the first BOM designer from the blog: A Quilting Life. Click on the link below to get directions for this month's block.

A Quilting Life: Blogger's Block of the Month

I've also included pictures of the fabric they were asked to use for their design and this month's finished block. The fabric is from a Kaffe Fassett's collection.
Enjoy!

New block of the month quilt starts!

If I'm not busy enough, I thought I would attempt another project. This one is one quilt block per month. That doesn't sound to hard!?!?! We will see. I saw this on Quilt Dad's blog the other day. Canton Village Quilts is organizing it. The link is below.

Canton Village Quilt Works: Blogger's BOM Quilt Along
I'll post an update for the page with September's block shortly. Then the 25th of each month the next block will be revealed. The last month (October 2012) the setting layout will be revealed.
This might be the perfect quilt to use some of my fat quarters  on.
More later.

Look for this mariner's compass to guide you!

September 1st 2011 LSNED

Well, I've picked a photo album and decorated it. Now to come up with a thought using the writing prompt Shimelle sent... Keep it simple, keeps going through my mind...

Well one thing is for sure, this will get me blogging and scrapbooking!