Best laid plans

So I made 49 of these for a swap on Mailblocks. I used about 40 different fabrics and sewed my little heart out planning on making a quilt for our bed when all was said and done. I was so happy to have finished them early.

Then I was informed that what I made were not the Tennessee blocks from Quilterscache. Grrr! Back to the drawing board! I guess that's what I get for using a doodle for a pattern rather than using an actual copy.

However, a bonus will be a bed quilt and a couch quilt by the time all is said and done!

Mutterings 1/5 and 1/12

1. Mist :: morning


2. Eating :: table


3. Beacon :: light


4. Speaker :: woofer


5. Episodes :: soap opera


6. Conference :: call


7. Sneak attack :: fish


8. Medic :: army


9. Web :: spider


10. 2008 :: new

1. Dream big ::clouds


2. Competition :: beat


3. Torn :: fabric


4. Modeling :: clay


5. Coaster :: roller


6. Slut :: new york


7. Spread :: butter


8. Amanda :: cousin


9. Romance :: novel


10. Paradise :: palm trees

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New year and busting through the stash

I guess the start of a new year makes every quilter retrospective. What did I accomplish? What didn't I finish? What new things did I start? This year, my thoughts are revolving around my stash. I considered pulling everything off the shelves and out of the drawers, refolding very neatly and reorganizing according to color and the size of the piece. But then I remembered all the UFOs and swap blocks I have sitting around and I feel irresponsible fondling fabric when I could be putting my energies to better use.

So my focus for the beginning of this year is to start working my way through all the fabric I have sitting here. I seem to go through cycles when I buy fabric. I go through a stock up on the basics phase, then I go through a buy huge pieces just because they're on sale phase, then I go through a buy fat quarters phase, etc. The fabrics that seem to be assaulting my sensibilities right now are the ones I bought on sale. I never fully fell in love with them so there's no reason to have 5 yards of black red and green floral hanging around anymore.
So I have decided to start using these unloved fabrics up in one way or another. I go to retreat in May and i will be taking whats left of the unloved fabrics with me for the 'dumping ground' and whatever is left will be donated to Peggy, the Project Linus coordinator for northern Indiana. I'm sure she'll be able to put it all to good use.

This is 2006 Rowrobin from Mailblocks. I was hoping for a Delftware looking quilt of all blues and whites only. However when it was returned to me there were other colors, pink included. It sat in my drawer for over a year while I pouted about the addition of other colors despite my specific instructions. Last week I pulled it out and decided I would just embrace the pink and used one of my unloved blue and pink florals to border it (rather difficult to see the pink in the blue border fabric) and do a small inner border of a pink that I have had lying around. Now I am working on a back made of swapped blocks and other blue and pink unloved ones to finish it up.

2006 Baglady done for me by Liz at Beyondbeginners

Liz did a great job working outside of her comfort zone regarding fabrics on this one. Its been sitting here for a while. I've been trying to figure out a quilting design to do it justice. (finally decided on a geometrical stippling of straight vertical and horizontal lines, sorry don't have a close up)

To back it, I pulled out some unloved, a yellow brick looking fabric and a pale green floral. Its hard to see the whole thing, there are four yellow squares framed in the pale green.

Muttering again

1. Memorable :: event


2. Resolution :: again


3. Goal :: field


4. 2008 :: new


5. Sensational ::too good to be true


6. Popular demand :: back by


7. Old :: shoes


8. Music :: lyrics


9. Intense :: training


10. 2007 :: old

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Happy Halloween?

Well doesn't time fly? Where the heck have I been? Hope you all had a great holiday, ours was pretty quiet, which was nice because the months leading up to it were pretty hectic.

I did want to share my

2007 Purple Purples! Row Robin from Mailblocks

That's it for now, hope to see you all sooner than 2 months from now! :-)

Happy Halloween!

Forgive me.....but too funny to pass up :-) The kids will be doing the honors of passing out candy this year. What's in the witches cauldron this year? Kit Kats, Almond Joys, Lifesavers Gummies, Now and Laters, and Halloween pencils.

Unconscious mutterings 10/28

1. Inaugural :: address


2. Pledge :: of allegiance


3. String :: trimmer


4. Trot :: horse


5. Fitness :: center


6. Cinder :: black


7. Edge :: of a cliff


8. 31 :: days


9. Blue :: bayou


10. Leather :: English

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Unconscious Mutterings 10/21

1. Las Vegas :: viva


2. Linus :: project


3. Struck :: in the head


4. Movie :: ticket


5. Anxious :: moment


6. Bandit :: mask


7. Picks :: sports


8. Lasso :: loop


9. Dinner :: diner


10. Bargain :: price

Another one down for Oct!

Still no machine, so no completed sewing. But I can at least mark another thing off my October To-Do list! This is my completed signature block for the exchange at Quilting in Indiana. I've made 30 so far, if we have more signups I'll make more then!

Plans altered

Is it my quilting he loves or the remaining heat from the dryer?

So the machine is in for repair again. More bobbin/race issues. They assured me they would put a new bobbin assembly and postioner in, no matter what they will make it right. So that has altered my October plans and goals. I did manage to get the row done for Quilting in IN, however it was the one that was due 10/15 so I dashed it off to the post office right after completion without taking a pic.

I did complete the framed four patches for a swap. I rather like them, I may make more, they're not due for another week and a half.