Project #5 Finished at 5:00 p.m. today

So excited to have finished my Labor Day Madness quilt.  Spent many hours working towards the goal.  I'm pleased with how it turned out.  I plan to challenge myself to try new techniques in 2012 while I complete these long awaited projects.  I wonder what February's project will be?

Blog buttons and Project #5

Finally, I figured out how to create a button link to Patchwork Times.com and it actually works.  I should be working on my Project #5 for the UFO Challenge but I'm taking a little break.  The top is complete and I'm now working on the back.  Since I am trying to use up the fabric I have in stock, I chose not to purchase more fabric.  This means I must piece the back.  Since there is not one square inch of counter space in my sewing room that is clear of fabric, patterns, papers, etc., I have ventured out to the rest of the house.  Thankfully, my DH is very patient or he has just given up after all these years.

Pat Speth's instructions in her book, Nickel Quilts, worked beautifully for the 92 flying geese blocks and the borders.   

Since I work better with deadlines, I still have high hopes of completing this project by midnight on Tuesday, the 31st.

 

UFO Challenge 2012

Greetings from Tennessee

Finally, I figured out how to post a picture with the description, rather than have the pictures shown in a gadget spot and the description shown in a post.  It's exciting when I discover something new about this Blog.  My next Blog challenge will be to figure out how to get the link buttons on my Blog.  

Here it is, the 9th of January and I haven't even started my January UFO project.  I have enjoyed reading every one's Blogs and seeing what challenges they have lined up for this year.

Even though, there is just one more block to make for my Labor Day Madness Quilt, I discovered I need to make 92 flying geese for the borders.  Guess I had better get in gear, quick...

Happy New Year 2012

UFO Challenge begins....
Hooray!  Item #5  Labor Day Madness--Pat Speth came to our guild in March 2011 and taught the class called "Combination Units".  Pat Speth and Charlene Thode co-authored the book called Nickel Quilts.  For years, I avoided any pattern that had partial seams.  What a silly I was!  Once you learn the technique it is really quite simple.  The instructions are listed on page 80 of the book.  15 blocks are completed.  To make the lap size quilt, I need 16 blocks.  I also need to decide on a lay-out by either going with the design in the book or choosing from 2 possible lay-outs that I have found in recent quilt magazines.  Maybe as I am making the 16th blocks, I can decide.