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. 

Pictures of quilts

The Art Deco Lady was made for my sister-in-law.  In 2006, I asked her what theme and the colors she liked.  I had already determined that I wanted to make another stained glass quilt.  When DH saw the finished quilt, he wanted to keep it, but I said it was already promised.

The Ashley and Austin Quilt was created as their wedding quilt. The mountains in the center of the quilt turned out to be the best mountains I have been able to create so far.  I did several photo transfer on this quilt.

 

The Sam Davis Home Quilt was created to benefit the Minnie Pearl Cancer Foundation.  There was a silent auction at The Pearl Ball which was held at the Sam Davis Home on Oct. 18, 2008.  All proceeds of the auction stayed within our county to help cancer patients.

The Wedding Quilt is a photo transfer quilt created as a wedding gift for Jennifer and J.R.  Jennifer was quite surprised when her wedding quilt arrived in the mail and all the pictures on her quilt had been taken directly from her Blog. The center landscape design was based on their enjoyment of the outdoors and camping.

 

Quilt for Kristy 2009

I love making quilts for family and friends based on their colors and things they enjoy doing.

  

   

My Sister, My Friend was created based on a pre-printed saying on fabric that I purchased at a quilt store. It inspired me to look for pictures of just my sister and I.  There are also a couple of pictures with family.

Stained Glass Quilt made while I was visiting with my sister in 2009.  What fun it was to choose from her fabrics and we created this lap quilt in 10 days.  While I was flying home, my sister sewed on the binding.  I cut and pressed and she sewed.  I could not keep up with her sewing.  How could she sew so fast?  Then I found out that she worked at the Cameron Shirt Factory, the summer after she graduated from high school.  She sewed shirt collars for 3 months.

UFO Challenge 2012

List of Quilts I Plan to Finish in 2012
1.  King size sampler started in 1982-Finished Feb. 2012
2.  Hand pieced/hand quilted Sampler started in 1989-May - worked on hand quilting
3.  Cracker Box Quilt - Finished July -donated to Phoenix Quilts 8/7/2012
4.  Here Comes Santa Christmas Table Quilt - Dec 2012
5.  Labor Day Madness from Pat Speth class -Finished Jan. 2012
6.  Quilt Guild class, Cubes - Oct 
7.  Combing Through Your Scraps from Karen Combs class-August--Top donated to Phoenix Quilts 8/7/12
8.  Pinwheels Quilt from Pat Speth class - March - Needs to be quilted
9.  Mile A Minute Quilt - Finished Nov 2012
10. Neck-tie Quilt from Lolita Rawlins class -April
11. Signature Quilt based on signatures from work- Sept - Top completed except border, back & quilting needed-made great progress
12. Signature Quilt based on signatures from family reunion-June - Needs to be quilted