I love so many of Jen Kingwell's designs and when I heard there would be a SAL using her sampler pattern Long Time Gone of all machine pieced blocks, I decided I needed to play along.
The details can be found here at http://www.gnomeangel.com/week-1-long-time-gone-sew-along-bow-tie-block/ if you would like to join in the fun.
These are my blocks for this week photographed in our latest snow:
Bow Tie:
The pesky wind flipped the corner of the block on the right and the snow makes the light corners difficult to see but I am going with this photo because I am hoping this will be my last snow shot as we are getting so close to Spring!!
I used some of my all-time favorite prints (Chickopee, Loulouthi, Hope Valley,Prince Charming, Architextures, Vanilla Grunge, Mama Said Sew) for these blocks and plan to continue that trend throughout the top as I sew.
If you want to see some gorgeous blocks,look to the IG feed here:
https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/longtimegonesal/
This is my third time linking to OMG
this year, thanks for the motivation Patty! I was able to complete my January and my February goals so I am going to join in again this month.
My project this month is a continuation of a quilt project for me called Colfax County:
My next step is to make star blocks as I now have the triangle pieces finished from last month's goal. I would like to declare my goal for this month to complete 12 of the 24 needed star blocks.
Here is my first star, finished. I am loving the variety in the hues and prints of the blues:
This will be an ambitious goal for me as my son's Spring Break falls in March and the mild weather has me out and about more than usual for this time of year...and, yes, those are 1" finished hst's.
Linking up with
This is a project I am hoping to finish this year, my top
is sewn but I am spacing out my block reveal to follow along with the
sew-along. I am hoping to get my top sandwiched and quilted this
winter. I am sewing along
with the Shenandoah Valley Botanical Quilt project - the
pattern is provided by the Virginia Quilt Museum and all
pattern sales benefit the museum. Dawn, from Collector with a Needle, and Doreen, from Aunt Reen’s Place, are hosting a quiltalong for this quilt, here.
The pattern size as
provided by the museum easily makes 9 inch blocks. I am doing mine in
wool so that I can make that size (8 1/2" finished), many are enlarging
the pattern and
all the participant's resulting blocks are well worth a look...so
pretty!
This is my version of the block chosen for March, Jacob's Ladder:
My goal for this month was to finish about 700 of these units:
for this quilt:
I made it, yay!!
This is the first time I used my Juki to piece, I had only used it for straight line quilting tops before. I am a fan - it did very well and it is fast! Good thing too, because the weather has been phenomenal and I have spent way more time outside than I usually do in February.
Now I am ready to start making some star blocks!!
Linking up to:
Elm Street Quilts One Monthly Goal Finish February Linkup
I received a very nice early Valentine's gift from my husband this year...a design wall!!
It is 48" x 92" of batting covered insulation board and it is perfect!!
I had to take down a huge bookcase and shift around some other furniture to bare enough wall to make it happen and unfortunately it still looks like a tornado hit my sewing room as a result but ...soon...I will be using this, yay!
What it looked like before covering it with batting. We just wrapped it with batting and duct taped it to the back.
Installed and ready for action.
A few of my Green Tea Sweet Beans blocks up to show it works :)
This is a project I am hoping to finish this year, my top
is sewn but I am spacing out my block reveal to follow along with the
sew-along. I am hoping to get my top sandwiched and quilted this
winter. I am sewing along
with the Shenandoah Valley Botanical Quilt project - the
pattern is provided by the Virginia Quilt Museum and all
pattern sales benefit the museum. Dawn, from Collector with a Needle, and Doreen, from Aunt Reen’s Place, are hosting a quiltalong for this quilt, here.
The pattern size as
provided by the museum easily makes 9 inch blocks. I am doing mine in
wool so that I can make that size (8 1/2" finished), many are enlarging
the pattern and
all the participant's resulting blocks are well worth a look...so
pretty!
This is my version of the block chosen for February, Red Tulip:
Sorry for the washed out photo, the weather has been too icky for outside photography, grey, wet and muddy...blech!
This is my second time linking to OMG , (Elm Street Quilts One Monthly Goal February Linkup. )this year, thanks for the motivation Patty! I was able to complete my January goal so I am going to join in again this month.
My project this month is a "new" quilt project for me that I have had sitting in a "to-do pile" as fabric I pulled from my stash and the pattern for (I think) 3 years!! It is a Primitive Gatherings pattern that my friend and I found and adored the sample hanging in their booth at a quilt show. It's called Colfax County:
My friend Cheryl is also making this quilt using the same background fabric as I am but different blues...the prep has taken us each about two weeks- so much cutting- I am not sure how many hundreds of pieces I have cut to make this quilt!! We are trying to urge each other on with encouragement that we will get this finished :) The hst's are 1" finished. Yes, they are...and, yes, there are a lot of them! Glad to have those little sweeties finished!!
Lots of background pieces cut too...
My goal for this month is to sew the triangle components for this quilt, I need close to 700 of this completed unit.
Those of you who know me well are aware I rarely sew with blue so my stash dive for this quilt went quite deep...that blue star print is a Marcus Bros. from... wait for it...1987!
Linking up to Elm Street Quilts One Monthly Goal February Linkup.
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