Remember That Charm Quilt

Well it has been sitting on my frame since February.  I wrote about it here.  My original quilting idea didn't work and I have spent months doodling trying to find the right flow of a design.  Last night I looked at it and said enough already, I am tired of looking at it on the frame, hanging there waiting. 

At the bottom

So today after work I just tackled it.  I just did my old standby of loop-de-loops.  So I finished the center and the bottom boarder.  Tomorrow I will turn it and do the two side boarders and call it done. It isn't my best work and it isn't my worst.  But I can move on.  

Waiting to be turned

It is a good thing I unwound it from the frame and checked how I did the top boarder or the bottom boarder would have been different.  I forgot to take a picture of the quilting on the top border to remind me for when I got to the bottom border. 

Happy Stitching!

What??

It has been 24 days since my last post????
Where did the time go and what have I been doing?  I know I have been busy with lots of actives.  It seems I have been busy at least 3 or 4 nights a week.  Plus work, plus sewing, plus having fun with my new phone, plus trying to decide what storage stuff I want for my sewing closet, plus reading 3 books, plus a big church food storage activity, plus celebrating a birthday, plus surviving my annual review at work and all that involves, plus going back to the gym and weight watchers.  And last but not least a new laptop to replace both my dead laptop and my dying desk top. 



Sewing room closet



Let me start with the sewing room.  This is my closet, and that is my dresser in the closet.  All the drawers are full of fabric.  It has severed me well but it was only supposed to be temporary.  When my in-laws gave up their home we inherited their bedroom set which had a king size bed.  I had a new bedroom set and I didn't want to give it up but we didn't have room for the dresser, so in my sewing room closet it went.  Well now that all the kids are gone, I want to have a guest room but first I must have a place to put the fabric. 

I have looked at the Elfa system at the Container store, but they have open baskets, and I live in AZ and have an indoor cat, so dust is a problem and so are open baskets.  I found a similar idea at Ikea  that had solid drawers with lids on them but the sales man thought the fabric would get too heavy.  So I am still thinking about what to do.  I am leaning towards the Ikea product.  I know I do not want to lift one container to the get to the one under it. 



Deciding on border design



Here I have been practicing on my Plexiglas for a boarder design.  I did quilt it the way I drew it. 

Here is another picture of my little charm quilt on the frame.  I had a design all worked out for the blocks, but it didn't work.  I don't have enough space to do what I had thought up.  So now I have another design worked up but I need to do a little more practicing on my Plexiglas to make it flow.



Mistake #3



Well this is the quilt that is driving me nuts.  My first mistake was I started it at quilt camp in September.  I didn't read the instructions close enough and I cut too much and sewed up to many pieces.  Second mistake I sewed up too many of the next set up strips, luckily I caught it before I cut more.  Here on my design wall you can my third mistake.  I sewed all these sections together and had to rip them out again. 

Here is the progress I have made once I realized my mistake.  Not much but it is a start and I will have to redesign the quilt to fit my fabric as it is cut.  Goes to prove you need to read instructions, measure twice and cut once. 

I have been doing some hand sewing when I have a few minutes and want to relax and watch TV but want to do something with my hands.                                       

So as you can see I have been busy!

Quilting Update

Somehow I ran out of time to post last Sunday and the rest of the week was just as bad.  Also having a cold didn't help. Thanks Heavens my cold is getting better.  But I am wondering how I will survive work all day tomorrow after taking a nap everyday for 5 days.  Today I took sometime to update my side bar and slide show at the bottom of my page. 

Last weekend I finished my Moon Santa and he safe away until next year.  I am not posting another picture.  So far this year I finished two small quilts.

On the side bar you will find one box with the Quilts I hope to finish this year or finish the tops.  In another box I have the quilts listed I have finished this year, so far.  I am not making big plans for quilting since Genealogy is still taking up a lot of my time as well as that full time job. 

Since I was home and taking it slow I have been doing some hand work.  I finished 3 more Blue Work Dear Jane blocks, for a total of 6.  The blocks were already prepared to embroider on them.  It was nice to get some more done.  I now have to prep some more.  I have no idea how many I am going to do, I am doing them until I am sick of doing them. 

I really have been wanting to quilt something on my frame.  I don't have a quilt ready to place on the frame so I finished this little wall hanging.  I just had  this st had to add the outside polka dot fabric.  The backing is all pressed and maybe one night this week if I am not too tired I will load it on the frame.  The only thing I know I want to do is small e shape into the valleys between the prairie points.  I am trying to think of some kind of design for each block.  Stuff to think about for another day. 

Well it is that bewitching hour, time to go to bed since I work tomorrow.