Island Star Quilt

Our Tuesday Sewing Group was busy last week cutting kits with their "GO Accuquilt Die Cutter".  The group found a pattern called Island Star Quilt, which uses hexagons and Equilateral Triangles.  I used 33 hexagons to make a top 46" x 43.5".  With a little better planning, I could have had more star points matching and standing out.  As it is, I found only one hexagon with matching star points.  I'm still happy with how it turned out.

Island Star Quilt

Design Wall Monday

Our weekly Sewing Group has been die cutting numerous yards of donated fabric for our use in making quilts for those in need throughout our community.  The fabrics I chose were squares and strips.  The center squares of each block were cut 5 1/2".  The strips surrounding 2 sides of each square were cut at 2 1/2" wide.  I couldn't stand having the dogs upside down, so some of the squares with the hats had to be sideways or upside down.  The more I look at the top, the more I'm thinking it needs one more row to make the top 42" across and 52.5" down.  If I get busy, I can get the top done before tomorrow's sewing.

Dogs and Cowboy Hats  DWM 07202015

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Arrived home safely from visiting friends and family

It's wonderful to be back home in Tennessee but I do miss my beautiful home state of California.  Three weeks of gorgeous sunshine, cool in the mornings, much warmer in the afternoon and then cooler in the evenings.  California needs a gentle rain but it rarely rains in the summertime.

I took Mug Rugs to share with friends and family.  Here is a sampling of the (19) Mug Rugs that I took.

I should have made more because not everyone I saw, received one, so I have more to make and mail.
Most people enjoyed the the scrappy 4-patch Mug Rugs with a Selvage label attached.  I only made a few
with the pieced mugs.  Most were made from (4) foundation pieced blocks.

Design Wall Monday

Since I have been working towards getting my UFO's finished, I have decided to treat myself to starting a new "Modern Quilt".  Recently, I purchased a couple of yards of this colorful fabric, which reminded me of a dress that I made in high school.  The only item I might wear now with all those colors, would be a scarf.  I still need to cut a few strips of plain white and the black needs to be cut into narrow strips.

Design Wall Monday  June 1, 2015

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Design Wall Monday

Another UFO is complete except the label.  I bought the pattern, "Here Comes Santa" as a kit from the Quilt Connection in Murfreesboro over 5 yrs ago.  I added the green & gold borders, which I cut at 4" wide.  I'm really happy with how it turned out.  The long arm quilting was done by Susan Shea with gold thread.  This last week-end I added the machine embroidery with a gold fagoting stitch, which shows up beautifully against the red.  My husband brought it to my attention that Rudolph still needs a red nose, which should show up well against the white square.

Here Comes Santa

Rudolph needs a red nose!

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The pattern name is Honeycomb Waffle.

Blogs are wonderful for being able to look back several years to determine the name of the quilt, when I took the class, who taught the class, etc.  I found the info. I needed on a post in October 2012.  This quilt was UFO#6.  I finished the top in October 2012.  In 2015, I had Susan Shea, my favorite long arm quilter, quilt it for me and this morning I finished hand sewing the binding.  Now I just need to make the label.
The class for this quilt was given by Libby Smith of Nashville at our Guild in June 2008.  The info. was listed in our Guild Newsletter, Issue 137.  A Clearview 60 degree ruler was needed.
(I used Sara Nephew's Triangle Ruler dated 1986).
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Design Wall Monday

Here it is--Wednesday evening and I haven't even posted anything for Monday's Design Wall.  Probably, because the Design Wall is presently empty.  We did errands on Monday and I did binding for one of my UFO's.  It still needs to be sewn on the quilt and hand stitched down.

Yesterday, was my weekly group's sewing day.  We are getting ready for Project Linus Day on Saturday, May 16th.  One of our group's leader, RJ, sent me home with enough flannel to die cut over "75" flannel squares, each 12.5 inches.  One of the ladies on Saturday will be surging around each square.  I didn't catch what they making.  I was focusing on what I was suppose to do and the size to make them.  I lost count at about 35 squares. 

Since my Design Wall is totally empty, I thought I would just post a picture of some flowers.  This picture was taken last year when our iris were beautiful and happy.

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