January Results and February Plans

I was moderately successful with my January plans:

Kaleidoscope:  DONE!!!  It's 90 x 90 and I quilted it myself on my DSM, so it was not an insignificant accomplishment.

Rail fence quilt:  Didn't do this, but made a different donation quilt as a result of the DOQ workshop and also finished off a quilt someone else had begun.  So the spirit of this item was met.

Starburst:  Instead of making 16 blocks, I have all the parts made for the 25 blocks I will need for this quilt.  I wanted the mixture of scraps to be throughout each of the blocks.

15 minutes a day:  This does NOT work well for me.  I will switch to 2 hours per week so I don't have to stop just as I'm getting in the groove.

February's goals:

1.  Piece the top of my piano quilt.

2.  Sandwich and quilt 1/3 - 1/2 of the autumn 8's quilt.  Another large one to be done on the DSM, so this will take quite a bit of time.

3.  Finish a donation quilt - try again for rail fence.

4.  Make 2 teapot blocks from Angie Padilla's BOM from last year.  This will be done using machine applique - a new experience for me.

Hope to:

Get caught up on  Come on a My House.

Robin came over for our annual New Years Day sit and sew.  It started out many years ago as a day to do an online mystery quilt together.  Now we just work on our own projects.  Anyhow, I'm so happy because I have finished ALL of my pieces to make the 16 blocks for Starburst.  And its only the first day of the month.

I've switched my 15 minutes a day project to Come On-A My House. Although I have lots of 1.5" strips cut, they aren't for Carolina Crossroads.  I'll have to look carefully through Bonnie's blog and figure out which mystery I cut all these for.

A busy but productive day.

Quilting plans for January 2013

Here are my 4 quilting things I will get done during January:

1. FINALLY finish my black Kaleidoscope quilt.  It needs quilting and binding.
2. Get 16 blocks made for Starburst.
3. Finish the rail fence donation quilt.
4. Spend 15 minutes per day working on Carolina Crossroads with the Stashbuster challenge.

I would also like to get the quilting started on either my Autumn 8's quilt or the brights and blacks quilt.

And not buy any fabric.

Stash Report 1/8/2012

Nothing finished this week, but I hope to be positive (or at least less negative) by next week.  Everything I bought was on sale for $7.99 or less - including batiks!  The largest piece is a border print I've been waiting to buy and was able to get 35% off on New Year's Day.  




Used This Week:        0      
Used Year to Date:     0       
Added This Week:     10.5
Added Year to Date:  10.5 
Net Used 2012:        -10.5

Stash Report Week 1

 I'm reporting this morning, since this afternoon I will be going to the LQS and buying at least 4.5 yds at 35% off.  Have been waiting to buy this border print for months!  And something else just might catch my eye ;-)


Used This Week:     0     
Used Year to Date:     0      
Added This Week:     0
Added Year to Date:     0 
Net Used 2012:     0

2012 UFO Challenge

I'm going to try this again this year. Hopefully, I'll be more successful than last year!!  Although I did finish a couple and moved several further along. I will list the quilts for now and post pictures later.  We've recently put down laminate flooring in my sewing room (YAY!!!!!) and I don't have all these quilts available for photos.  Hopefully the first one Judy picks will be one of the ones I CAN get to!  Here goes.

1. Piano
2. Cuddle
3. sno ball
4. Billie mystery
5. blue and yellow
6. pineapple blossom
7. brights and black
8. wonky house
9. star struck
10. heart mystery
11. kaleidoscope
12. Bright 8's

Uncle Eli (Whitney)'s Quilting Party

I had the pleasure of attending the 80th Uncle Eli's Quilting Party today.  It is the oldest continuous quilting event in the US and was held at the Eli Whitney, NC Community Center.  The Center is a former school and the party started in this agricultural area when the principal of the school tried to get the parents more involved at the school.  I checked the sign in a little before noon and already almost 300 people had shown up.

While there, I learned how to hand quilt!  DH's response when I told him?  "You already know how to do that from watching that lady at quilt bee" - which meets at our house.  Anyhow, here is a pic of my first effort. I'm pretty pleased with it.

All in all, a good day.