Weekly Progress - Goodbye 2012

Ah, the end of another year. 2012...wasn't a bad year, but with my husband deployed or away in training for deployment for nine months of it, it wasn't a great one. It was more of a waiting year.

Some highlights:
15 finished quilts - four of which were commissioned

2013 will be the opposite, and I'm looking forward to everything that has managed to cram itself into the coming year. It'll be crazy!

In progress this week
I complained about my sister wanting her book back last week. My mother should play poker, because she let me rush through some blocks without letting on that my sister got me the book for Christmas. Back on the back burner!

{UFO Challenge} After Christmas was cleaned up and the guests went home, I finished up some projects just so I could claim I finished some UFOs this year. Blue Bowties is done!

Sunkissed Jewel Box is done! But as it's snowing raining, it will have to wait for better light for pictures and a post.

{Design Wall} No change. Seriously. The wreath is even still there.

{Fifteen Minute Challenge} In a quest to start cleaning instead of just organizing what I have, I sorted through the scraps leftover from my t-shirt quilts. Let's face it - I'm not going to use them.

One of our local charities takes stained/ripped clothes for rags, so they're getting two garbage bags full. I saved a small rainbow in case I need to make running shirt logo/costume.
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Fourth Quarter Finishes

Even with a final push in these last few days, the Fourth Quarter/100 Day Hustle wasn't my best showing.

Bad Romance / Striped HST Spiral / Blue Bowties / PEO Wallhanging {never took a photo} / Sunkissed Jewel Box {post coming soon}

I started with 18 tops, and finished five. And added another top. And another that just needs borders.

To be fair, I also made three commissioned t-shirt quilts, finished piecing and completed a Saturday Sampler, made a Halloween costume and some doll dresses, and gifted a couple wall hangings and pillows.


But quilting the already-finished-tops? Not so much progress.

I'm tackling Fall-gyle now, so there's a chance of one more finish for the year, but since I don't have binding plans for it, it's not very likely. Especially since I'll need to take a nap tomorrow so I can stay awake until midnight.

Linked:
Finish-Along @ Quilter in the Gap
100 Day Hustle @ Kelsey Sews

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Blue Bowties - Finished!

I decided to dedicate the last few days of 2012 to UFOs, since I neglected them in the Christmas sewing crunch time.

First up was Blue Bowties, which had binding prepped and ready to go. Easy peasy, right?
Yeah...

A while back, I had a conversation about my sucky corners with one of my LQS employees. She asked what size binding I used. I said I used to use 2.5", but now I use 2.25". She asked if all my problems date back to the size change. Uh, yes. She gave me a look like she would smack me in the back of my head if she were my mother, and I went back to 2.5" without any corner issues.

Except apparently I forgot all this and cut this binding at 2.25". I don't even know why - I had plenty of fabric.

So I had it machine sewn to the back and was sewing it to the front, made it halfway and decided I hated the corners so very much that I couldn't continue. Ripped it all off. Sewed it back on with a 1/4" seam instead of 3/8" seam.

Much better!

But then I was racing daylight for pictures, for a quilt that only needed binding and washing! Sigh.

Details
Backing: blue flannel
Binding: Promenade by Andover Fabrics
Size: 36" square
Block Pattern: Charm Square Bowties by Sew Many Ways {reversed}
Quilted - straight echo by me

Quilt will be for sale on my Facebook Page once I get it over there.

Linked:
Whoop Whoop @ Confessions of a Fabric Addict
TGIFF @ Sparrow in Flight
Finish It Up Friday @ Crazy Mom Quilts
Link A Finish Friday @ Richard and Tanya Quilts
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Weekly Progress - Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas Eve!

This week was all about finishing up the doll dresses and mailing my boxes to the East Coast, then relaxing for a moment before cleaning the house.


A pile of dresses for my nieces.


{Beacon Lights / Broken Star}

My mother was sent to my house with specific instructions to rescue my sister's block book. So, if I finish three of these every day until they leave...or slash their tires...

Made a couple of these as leaders/enders.


Design Wall only has one addition in the past two weeks.


Still slacking on the UFO challenge.

Not slacking on the 15 Minute Challenge! After everything was sewn, I tackled the sewing room in little spurts - sorting the pattern pieces back into their proper places, clearing off the cutting table, and cleaning up scraps.
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