Sooo.......

No new pics to speak of.
But I busted my butt this weekend.
My usual space wasn't big enough to pin baste two of my quilts.
So, I had to move all my furniture around in the living room.  (The Pirate helped.)
I pin basted until I ran out of pins.

Ready to be quilted:
Across the Sea boy quilt
Green and Blue monster (twin sized...that's big for me) for Fiance
Soda Pop quilt
Medallions quilt

I finished my baby quilt top I was pattern testing for Julie of Distant Pickles.  It is a super cool design.  Even if you aren't fantabulous at curves, this one is rad!  I'll try to post a pic tomorrow of that one, too.   I would have pin basted that one, but, alas, no more pins.

I'm trying to get the first three basted done by Wed eve.
I also am handquilting my Swoon mini.

If I can pull this off, I'll have four more down by Thursday.  We'll see.
In the meantime, I have blocks from two QALs to do.

Pics of the progress tomorrow?

I just keep on sewing!

Lots of updates.

I have the do.good.stitches Heal circle quilt done.  It will be mailed out to be delivered to hospice by Friday.  There are some amazing ladies who contributed to this quilt.
It's a really happy looking quilt.  I hope it brings some peace to a family.




I made a green skirt.  It still needs to be hemmed.  Is it wrong that the reason I made it was so I had something to decorate for this two week installment of the Handstitched class?

It's not the best made piece, but I learned a lot, and I will be making more in the future!  Plus, I'll wear it to school anyway.

I'm still sewing hexy flowers.  Almost halfway there.

The Fiance's quilt is HUGE.  Twin sized.  I will be practicing my FMQ on it (with his permission since he knows it won't be perfection).  I have to baste it.  I have to figure where I can get enough floor space to do it.

(Edit:  The damn cat ate?/shredded the batting I bought for the fiance's quilt.  I'll have to get more tomorrow.  ARgh.  Cross your fingers that she doesn't get sick.)

I ironed on a TON of petals (and had 34 left over extra...um, apparently I can't count for crap) on the Soda Pop quilt.  I'm waiting on the backing fabric.  I had to reapply many of the petals after they started peeling off after my first 2 hours round of ironing.  I have no idea why.  I've never used Pellon Wonder Under before.  I ended up having to double the time and up the heat of the iron to its hottest setting.  I will be doing orange peel quilting on this because I'm semi terrified the petals will unstick again.  I love love love this quilt.


I quilted the Stained quilt.  Not my best work, but it has a home on the couch now.  And I love that I can use it instead of it languishing folded in a chair.



Oh, the camera ate the pics of the tree quilt.  I'll try to redo those later.

I lose track of time...

and I forget to post.
I'll add pictures in another post today.
But!  I can cross two more items off my FAL list.  (Well, I kind of did already.)
I finished the Stained quilt.  My quilting isn't stellar, but it's grey, so you can't really see it.
I'm planning on snuggling the dog in it later.  He is a mega quilt snuggler.  (Almost as much as a cat.)
I had to make a dr's run yesterday because my top lip swelled on Thursday night.
Allergic reaction is most likely culprit.  But, we're not sure to what.  Possibly mold on the pint of blueberries I ate on Thursday.  It could be anything.
That's the part that is so suck-o about allergies.  It could be something I touched...or ate...or breathed.  Blarg.

Anywhoo, I've got my do.good quilt top and back assembled.  Today's agenda includes basting and quilting in some manner.  I may just go for "organic" straight lines.  I'm trying to get this one done by the end of the weekend.

Also on tap, finishing my Sew Bee Blissful blocks for July and the rogue Nubee block I haven't finished.  I'm also eagerly awaiting the arrival of some 3x6 blocks so I can work on the fiance's quilt top.  I am in need of three blocks.  I had one that turned out to not be usable from an old swap.  I'm expecting a few more but 3 folks in other swaps are AWOL, so I know 2 are coming, but I don't know about the other 3.  I may just be impatient and MAKE the last missing block.

I've only got about 2 more weeks before work kicks in....so here are my unreasonable goals:

1.  Finish the Soda Pop QAL quilt.
2.  Finish the fiance's quilt.
3.  Finish at least the quilt top for B's quilt.
4.  Handquilt the Medallion quilt.

Add to that finishing a crap load of hexie flowers.  I'm not sure I can make it.  But I sure am going to try.  Another post featuring pics will come later!

A mixed kind of day...

I've had to open a case file with the USPS to find out where the hell my package is.  I have no idea what will happen to the moolah I shelled on fabric if they can't figure it out.  Not super happy with the response given to me by the store.  It was kind of an "it happens...maybe it will come tomorrow" message.  I'm pretty sure the fault is the post office's, but still.
So much for spreading the love locally.

Anyway, bellydance was awesome tonight.  Got to see 2 more old dancer friends!
I finished the next installment of the Medallion quilt.  One more layer and then hand quilting!
I'm interested to see how the wonky as hell element plays out.  There is a seam or 2 I will stitch wizard just to make sure it doesn't fray.




I finished the Tree quilt, but I apparently forgot to take pictures.  I'll try it tomorrow.
I got 4 out of 5 Nubee blocks, a Neutral and Not bee block, and a Running with Scissors block done, as well as 2 mystery round robin installments.  (No pics of the last ones because they're a secret.)

Edit:  Tree quilt pics added

Today sucked a bit...

I am behind on my agenda because I had to deal with a freaked out dog and an electrical storm.
Not a good combo in our house as of late.

AND...I splurged and pre-ordered Tula from Whipstitch.  I was all excited because my package should have come today.
...and, it appears to have been routed to Florida.
Blarg.
And they wonder why folks don't jump at using the USPS?!
Bad bad mood.  Blarg.

A throwdown...

So, I tend to have a rather big mouth.
And, I'm new to twitter...so I tend to get a bit excited.

I'm still not entirely sure I know how this all happened.
I know I was talking to Rachael from Imaginegnats and Allegory from Sew Allegorical.  I can see myself getting into lots of fun trouble with Allegory.  Such is the danger of having coffee, apparently.

There was mention of a need to practice improv piecing.
Um, and then there was mention of a challenge (it might have been me?).
And, then, Rachael actually issued a challenge.

The terms:
An improv mini.  No bigger than 20" square.
Due by July 15th.
Winner to be determined by Rachael.

So, I bit.

I set up some rules for myself.
I could only use scraps....the bin was getting a bit out of control.
No real plan allowed.  I wanted to pick a special piece for the center, but beyond that, the scraps would tell me what to do.
I did it as a quilt as you go, no real reason other than I had never tried it before.

So, I did it.  I had a BLAST.
I used my last favorite scrap of Outfoxed.
I pieced together batting scraps for the insides.
The only thing that wasn't officially a scrap was the binding, as I really wanted it to be brown and didn't have any appropriate amounts.   It was from my stash.


I'm calling it "A Fox in the House."

(It's not really so rumpled, but I was afraid to press it to the damp bench.)

Here's the back:


Also awesome because it was created the same week I named my machine!
Thank you, big mouth, for getting me into something fun!

A happy thursday!

I had a weigh in today, down another pound!
I was, honestly, kind of hoping for more, but I'm counting it as a win because down is the direction my weight is going!

I also got on a clearing of UFO kick.  Two more down!

I did the snail bag:


and I did the hexy bag:


I'm kind of in love with both.  I can definitely see doing the tree bag for Xmas presents.


I also worked on the tree quilt (no pic) and got the mini top pieced.


Tomorrow is my errand day, so I don't know what I'll get cleared.

My goals for this weekend:
1.  Finish the tree quilt.
2.  Suck it up and trace the damn petals already.  (I've been majorly procrastinating on this one.)
If I don't get this done, I'll be behind in the QAL.  (Allegory, you have my permission to kick my butt if I don't.)
3.  Baste the Stained quilt.  It's got to be done.  I'm tired of it lurking.
4.  Figure out the layout for the fiance's quilt.
5.  Zumba at least once.
6.  Finish basting the hexies for Hexy MF.


Also, meet my new machine!  His name is Renardo, "The Fox."  I will undoubtedly end up with a bevy of nicknames for him, including Ren, Renny, Foxy, and, perhaps my favorite, Zorro.



Since I didn't pick any of the names offered me, I'll come up with some price anyway and Mr. Random will pick one of the suggesters' names.