WIP Wednesday

I have been busy the last two night with the Sew Mama Sew Giveaway day!  I have a giveaway here so if you would like to enter head there.  If you are a new follower welcome.  It has been fun to check out new blogs and the fun comments back to see what people are doing for the summer.

I have been sewing not as much as I like since work really gets in the way sometimes.

Here is where I am at on my WIP's:

I have been working on my Moda Club block which I am doing from stash with different grays as the background.  Liking these so far.  I have 4 more to make to stay caught up. That is on the schedule for this weekend.  

I was able to get the heart together on my guild sew day last week.  Here is the quilt from Don't Call me Betsy.  I have changed the size and they are 4.5 instead of her pattern at 3.5.  Now I just need to get the negative space on there.  It is the black yarn dyed Essex.  I like this fabric.  It should be fun quilting it as well.

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My bee blocks have been coming in and I love this block and this quilt.  The corners are black on white prints with each block scrappy rainbow.  I have two more that I have not gotten and will need to make a couple and will need to finalize a layout.

Finally, I put the borders on my Easy Street Quilt.  That seemed to take forever and I am liking it much better now that the borders are on it and I have had some space from it.  I have decided that I am going to have my longarmer do the quilting since it finished about 98" square.  I am not wanting to wrestle that one through the machine.  I still need to find a back for this one.

Thanks for stopping by!  Hope you have a great week and find time to sew!  I am linking up with Freshly Pieced.

Shine Finish

I finished quilting this one up last week in plenty of time for my April goal of the Lovely Year of Finishes.

I free motioned stars over all of it using two different colors.  I used the poly thread from Superior So Fine on the light areas and then in the red/blue areas I used a red in Aurifil.  I wanted to try the So Fine thread since that is what Angela Walters uses and I just finished watching her class on Craftsy.  I liked them both.  I didn't really think one was better than the other or they looked different either.  Maybe they will when they are washed as I have not done that yet.

I did the outer border with bigger stars all the way around.

When I had it finished both the DS and DH both loved it.  They wanted to know why I don't make more in that color scheme.  While I do love the look from far away this quilt gave me a little heartburn so not my favorite but I think it did turn out great. I really liked the back.  I bought one piece of the QOV fabric and used a navy with white stars that I had in my stash since about 1994!  I had enough for the back and the binding!  That one piece added looked great!

Thanks for stopping by! Linking up with Let's Get Acquainted Meet over at Gemini Stitches.

List of Goals found here.

Linking up at She Can Quilt for the Finish Along.

April's Goal and a WIP

So first up is what I plan on finishing this month.  I know my sewing time will be a little more limited since the weather is getting warmer and there is lots of outside work and gardens to get done.  My plan is to finish my red, white and blue, Shine Quilt.  I will donate this one to QOV.

I had laid it out and cut the first set of borders over the weekend but a movie with my son somehow seemed fun so I haven't had a chance to sew them on yet but should be able to do that this week.

I have the back picked out but still contemplating the quilting.  I did sign up for a quilting class on Craftsy taught by Angela Walters.  So I think I need to watch that a bit and then try something new on it.  I know I want something in the backgrounds and then something different in the red part.  So we'll what I come up with.

I haven't worked on anything else since I finished the Scrap Vomit.  So time to get to work on a few other projects!

Linking up to Wednesday WIP and ALYOF!

New Quilt Project

I spent the weekend trying to finish up a few things before starting some new things this next weekend since I will be at a sewing retreat.  I am always excited to go on retreat but a little sad this year since my friend from Colorado can't make it this year.  This will be her first year missing in like 12 years!  I only get to see her once a year so she will be missed.

So there is a quilt project that the shop hosts and it is voluntary on whether you do that project.  I haven't done the group quilt in several years.  It looked interesting and you could do scraps so with that I thought good plan.  Here is the image of it.  I will be doing this in red, white and blue fabrics and planning on donating it to Quilts of Valor.

The big piece of beige is the background and I think I will be doing a different dark blue for the stars.

I then thought I would raid my mom's fabric as well.  Since I was looking for a few more fabrics with stars to be sure I had enough variety.  Here is a stack I took from my mom's she was happy to have me use up some of fabric but since I only took one strip from each not much is gone!

Along with doing this quilt I think I will use the Scrap Vomit as a lender and ender project and try to get the rest of those blocks done.

Now onto packing my stuff this week but tonight I have the MMQG dinner since last week it snowed and it another storm on it's way tonight into tomorrow.  As long as the roads are clear for Thursday when we leave all is good.  But I am ready for spring now!

Linking to Plum and June Let's get Acquainted.

Happy Sewing!