Make-A-List Monday

The Week of July 1, 2013

(in review)

1.  Prepare backing Fabric for Building Blocks BOM.

I pieced the backing and added this quilt to my Git-R-Done list.

2.  Attend Quilts for Kids at Pennington Quilt Works.

I attended the Quilts for Kids workshop at Pennington Quilt Works.  Although I did not finish a quilt this month I plan on finishing two for the next workshop.

3.  Bind the 2012 NJ Shop Hop Quilt that I just finished quilting on Annie.

My NJ Shop Hop quilt has been bound and added to my ever growing pile of quilts that need bindings hand tacked.

4.  Quilt the Bonnie Hunter Mystery called Easy Street on Annie.  

I finished quilting this very large quilt (102" x 102".)  

5.  Purchase and prepare backing fabric for "Square Dance." 

I found a very pretty blue fabric to put on the back of this quilt.  It has now been added to the Git-R-Done list. 

6.  Work on the following BRODY Projects:

String of Pearls
Keep It Simple
Lazy Sunday
Blue Dresden Plate Quilt
Log Cabin Christmas Tree Quilt

I did a little work on each project but I did not finish any of them.

7.  Work on some blocks for the Skill Builder Block of the Month sponsored by Alyssa Lichner of Pile O' Fabric.

I finished six blocks.  I love the way they are turning out.  I still have two more blocks to finish to be all caught up with this Quilt-Along.  They are both hand pieced so it might take me awhile.

8.  Work on Lesson #1 for Aiming for Accuracy Quilt Along.  

I've printed out the first two clues for this Quilt Along.  I've cut out all the background fabric but I think I am going to wait to start this project.  I am having a hard time deciding on the colors I want to use.

9.  Have a sleep-over or two with sweet little Ryder.

My super sweet grandson is sleeping soundly upstairs in his crib as I write this post.  We spent the day going to Gymboree, swimming and playing outside. .

10.  Take our puppy, Brody, for his neutering surgery.  

Brody did so well with his surgery.  He had a little bleeding scare but everything seems to be healing well now.  

The Week Of July 8, 2013

1.  Complete the second block for the PQW Saturday Sampler.  Attend class this weekend.

2.  Quilt, bind and launder two Quilts for Kids quilts.

3.  Attach a binding to the Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt Easy Street.

4.  Prepare a quilt called Syncopated Rhythm as a BRODY Project.

5.  Work on the following BRODY Projects:

String of Pearls

Keep It Simple

Lazy Sunday

Blue Dresden Plate Quilt

Log Cabin Christmas Tree Quilt

Syncopated Rhythm

6.  Work on hand piecing the two blocks for Skill Builder Block of the Month

sponsored by Alyssa Lichner of Pile O' Fabric.

7.  Prepare my quilt class projects for my trip to Hershey, PA for 

Quilt Odyssey.

8.  Work on the 2013 NJ Shop Hop Quilt.

9.  Work on a Strip Club project from August 2011.

10.  Work on a Crazy Eight quilt.

I am 100% positive I will not finish all of these things but I will evaluate my progress next week and add the items not completed to my next list.  

Until Next Time.....Happy Stitching!!!

Sharyn

Make-A-List Monday

The Week of June 24, 2013

(in review)

1.  Finish the nine "Dancing Stars" blocks that I did not finish last week.

I finished the ten blocks that I wanted to finish.  Now I have 20 done all together.  Only 78 more to go!

2.  Work on the May and June blocks for my

 Paper Pieced Heart Sampler.

3.  Work on the following BRODY Projects:

Blue Dresden Plate Quilt

Roll Roll Cotton Boll

Lazy Sunday

String of Pearls

Square Dance

I was able to finish Roll Roll Cotton Boll

and Square Dance.

I did a little work on Lazy Sunday:

Roll Roll Cotton Boll is ready to be quilted but I still have to get backing fabric for Square Dance.

4.  Make a trip to The Village Quilter in Mt. Holly, NJ to pick up my strip club pattern and purchase backing fabric for Building Blocks BOM.

Here are the black and white strips:

And here is the quilt:

I decided to order the backing fabric from www.quiltshops.com because I found it on sale.

5.  Continue to work on hand tacking some bindings.

I have made some progress on a crumb quilt but I still haven't finished any. 

6.  Celebrate our 32nd Wedding Anniversary with my DH.  

We spent our anniversary with our DGS Ryder.  We took him to the

 Adventure Aquarium in Camden, NJ.

He loved the shark tunnel.

Gill the shark was pretty cool.

He tried to touch a baby sand shark.

He met a friend.

The sea turtles were great swimmers.

Any day spent with Granddad and Grammy is a good day.

The end of a very long but fun day.

7.  Work on some blocks for the  Skill Builder Block of the Month sponsored by Alyssa Lichner of  Pile O' Fabric.

I did not get to this project this week.

8.  Try to find a pattern for a 5 yard bundle of coordinating fabric that I have.  

I decided to do a pattern called "Keep It Simple."

9.  Work on Lesson #1 for Aiming for Accuracy Quilt Along.

I did not get to this.  

10.  Embroider Ryder's name on a beach towel he received for his birthday.

I hope he likes it.

The Week of July 1, 2013

1.  Prepare backing Fabric for Building Blocks BOM.

2.  Attend Quilts for Kids at Pennington Quilt Works.

3.  Bind the 2012 NJ Shop Hop Quilt that I just finished quilting on Annie.

4.  Quilt the Bonnie Hunter Mystery called Easy Street on Annie.  I have finally finished quilting all the quilts pieced in 2012.  Now I will start quilting 2013 quilts tops.

5.  Purchase and prepare backing fabric for "Square Dance." 

6.  Work on the following BRODY Projects:

String of Pearls
Keep It Simple
Lazy Sunday
Blue Dresden Plate Quilt
Log Cabin Christmas Tree Quilt

7.  Work on some blocks for the Skill Builder Block of the Month sponsored by Alyssa Lichner of Pile O' Fabric.

8.  Work on Lesson #1 for Aiming for Accuracy Quilt Along.  

9.  Have a sleep-over or two with sweet little Ryder.

10.  Take our puppy, Brody, for his neutering surgery.  Brody is now 14 months old, the age that our breeder, Cindy Williams of Honey Pot Hounds, recommended for this surgery.  

Poor little guy; he has no idea what is going to happen to him.

Until Next Time.....Happy Stitching!!!

Sharyn 

Make-A-List Monday

The Week of June 17, 2013

(In Review)


1.  Work on finishing the Building Blocks BOM that was sponsored by 
The Village Quilter  in Mt Holly, NJ.

This quilt consists of twelve 9" blocks and twelve 6" blocks with sashing and setting triangles set on point.

I used the Trellis Setting Pattern by Sharyn Craig.

I am hoping to find one of the fabrics I used in the quilt top for the backing.  

2.  Start cutting the background fabric for 

Aiming for Accuracy Quilt Along.

I am using a white dotted swiss fabric for the background.  I still haven't decided on the colors for this quilt but with a white background I am sure I will use bright colors.

3.  Begin working on a little quilt called "Square Dance."

This is a very simple quilt pattern so I am planning on moving this project to my BRODY project list.  I did all the cutting so now I just have to sew it all together.

4.  Work on a few paper pieced Dancing Stars blocks.

I planned on doing ten blocks but I only finished one.  
This block measures 6 1/2" unfinished.  This Quilt Along is sponsored by Amy Ellis of Amy's Creative Side.

5.  Work on the May and June blocks for my

 Paper Pieced Heart Sampler.

I did not get to this project.

6.  Work on the following BRODY Projects. 

Hopscotch in Neutrals
Blue Dresden Plate Quilt
Roll Roll Cotton Boll
Lazy Sunday
String of Pearls

The only BRODY Project I finished was Hopscotch in Neutrals.

This is an Alex Anderson quilt pattern distributed by JWD Publishing that I purchased a few years ago.  It wasn't until I finished all 100 blocks (6 1/2") that I realized there was a mistake in the pattern. 

 I figured that the publishers would want to know about the mistake so I went on the JWD website to send an email.  As I looked around the website I found the correction to the pattern.  I guess someone had already informed them of the error.  

Unfortunately I discovered the correction way too late for my quilt. I was not about to deconstruct all those blocks and redo them.   I ended up just taking my 100 mis-constructed blocks and joining them randomly to make a 60" X 60" lap quilt top.  

It looks okay mostly because it is very scrappy to begin with, but I am disappointed that it does not have the same effect as the original pattern.

I made a little progress on the other four projects.

7.  Spend 3 days with little Ryder.

8.  Attend the Byrne $5 Quilt Class.

Not only was I able to get my blocks for May and June but I also found two backing fabrics that I needed.  

9.  Continue to work on hand tacking some bindings.

I made a little progress on the binding of a table runner.

10.  Attend Strip Club at The Village Quilter in Mt. Holly, NJ.

I was unable to attend Strip Club because my DH had to use our car.  We have been able to get by with only one car for quite a long time mostly because my DH is able to ride his bike to work/school. 

 Unfortunately the time of the baseball game that he coaches was changed and so he had to take the car during Strip Club.  I was disappointed but hopefully I will be able to go next month.  

The Week of June 24, 2013

1.  Finish the nine "Dancing Stars" blocks that I did not finish last week.

2.  Work on the May and June blocks for my

 Paper Pieced Heart Sampler.

3.  Work on the following BRODY Projects:

Blue Dresden Plate Quilt
Roll Roll Cotton Boll
Lazy Sunday
String of Pearls
Square Dance

4.  Make a trip to The Village Quilter in Mt. Holly, NJ to pick up my strip club pattern and purchase backing fabric for Building Blocks BOM.

5.  Continue to work on hand tacking some bindings.

6.  Celebrate our 32nd Wedding Anniversary with my DH.  I'm not sure what we will do on this day so I will report on our day next week.  

7.  Work on some blocks for the  Skill Builder Block of the Month sponsored by Alyssa Lichner of  Pile O' Fabric.



8.  Try to find a pattern for a 5 yard bundle of coordinating fabric that I have.  

9.  Work on Lesson #1 for Aiming for Accuracy Quilt Along.



10.  Embroider Ryder's name on a beach towel he received for his birthday.

It looks like a busy week ahead.

Until Next Time.....Happy Stitching!!!

Sharyn

Show & Tell Tuesday

Show & Tell Tuesday

Today I will share two quilts that I made in the past few years.

Carolina Crush

 This is a quilt pattern offered by Bonnie Hunter in 2009 as one of her fall mysteries.  She called her quilt Carolina Christmas and it was made with red, green and neutrals.

     Bonnie designed this quilt in an attempt to use up red and green recycled fabrics, blending them with Christmas fabrics and other neutral scraps.  She used mostly scraps from her 2 1/2" strip bins.

I love the pieced border.

                                                              

It was my first attempt at making a scrappy quilt but I was not as adventurous as Bonnie.  My quilt is controlled scrappy.  

I finished my quilt in 2010.  It measures 96" X 96".

The pattern now appears in Bonnie's book:

This book is available HERE.

Autumn Chevron

The above quilt, Autumn Chevron, was also a mystery quilt.  I made this quilt in 2009 at Pennington Quilt Works.  

It is made completely with HST and two borders.  The finished quilt measures 54" X 78".  

I love to decorate with this quilt in the fall.

Until Next Time.....Happy Stitching!!!

Sharyn

Make-A-List Monday

The Week of June 10, 2013

(in review)

1.  Attend my DGS Ryder's First Birthday Party.

Dear Ryder's first birthday party was quite the celebration.

"Thanks Uncle JT and Auntie Shea for my new slide.  Wheeeeeee!"

"Hmmmmm!  If I knew cake tasted this good I would have had a birthday a long time ago."

"Happy Birthday to ME!!!!"

"Are all these people here for me??"

"Where are all the presents?"

"There they are!!!"

"Birthday Parties are fun, Mommy!"

2.  Continue to work on hand tacking bindings.

I did a little work on bindings but not much.

3.  Continue to work on the following Brody Projects.

Going Buggy
Hopscotch in Neutrals
Blue Dresden Plate Quilt
Roll Roll Cotton Boll
Lazy Sunday

I finished the Going Buggy top.  I love the way it turned out.

I found just the right backing fabric in my stash.
It has been added to my Git-R-Done list.


4.  Prepare the backing for the Heather Spence Spring Mystery Quilt to Benefit Cancer Patients.

The backing fabric I ordered finally came.  I was able to find one of the background fabrics I used in the top, at Quiltshops.com and it was on sale!    The backing has been prepared and it has been added to my Git-R-Done list.

5.  Finish hand tacking the binding of "A Pirate's Life for Me" for Ryder's first birthday.

I can't wait for Ryder to be able to play with his new quilt.


6.  Finish 2 blocks and 4 triangles for my Dear Jane quilt.

All the blocks are now done.  I still have 8 triangles and 4 corners to do.  Currently my numbers are as follows:

Blocks       169
Triangles     44
Corners         0
Pieces      4512


7.  Make some blocks for my Just Takes 2 quilt.

I was able to finish 5 blocks.

8.  Spend two days with little Ryder.  (plus his party)

We had sooooo much fun together this week.

9.  Work on finishing the Building Blocks BOM that was sponsored by The Village Quilter in Mt Holly, NJ.

No progress this week.

10.  Spend some QT with my DFIL, DH and DS for Father's Day. 

 This was a very sad Father's Day for me but spending it with the great fathers I still have in my life made it easier.

It was wonderful to spend time with such important people to me.





The Week of June 17, 2013

1.  Work on finishing the Building Blocks BOM that was sponsored by The Village Quilter in Mt Holly, NJ.

I will once again try to get to this project.

2.  Start cutting the background fabric for 

Aiming for Accuracy Quilt Along.

3.  Begin working on a little quilt called "Square Dance."

4.  Work on a few paper pieced Dancing Stars blocks.

5.  Work on the May and June blocks for my

 Paper Pieced Heart Sampler.

6.  Work on the following Brody Projects. 

Hopscotch in Neutrals

Blue Dresden Plate Quilt

Roll Roll Cotton Boll

Lazy Sunday

String of Pearls

7.  Spend 3 days with little Ryder.

8.  Attend the Byrne $5 Quilt Class.

9.  Continue to work on hand tacking some bindings.

10.  Attend Strip Club at The Village Quilter in Mt. Holly, NJ.

Until Next Time.....Happy Stitching!!!

Sharyn