Design Wall Monday–September 14, 2015

Today on my design wall is my Allatoona BOM House Quilt.  I spent some time last week and got it caught up through the 9th month.

I got all the checkerboard pieces sewn together and even have the rest of them done and just patiently waiting for the blocks to be made.  I am really liking it.  It calls for 4 borders after this.  First will be a small border of the lime green, followed by slightly larger but still very small of the white dots and then another tiny border (1/2 “ finished) before a wider finishing border.  I plan to start looking for the final border soon but have no idea what to choose.

For more design walls, go to Patchwork Times.

Melinda

June BOM–Allatoona

I was tied up all last week when the monthly BOM was scheduled so Roxanne and Pat agreed to run it for me.  Thanks!

Here are the photos of the blocks that were shared at the meeting.

It is fun to see the various sashing choices.  Some decided to make the pieced sashing and others decided to use single strips for sashing – both work well.

Melinda

BOM House Blocks

Here are the blocks that were shared yesterday during our BOM meeting at the Allatoona Quilters’ Guild.  Afterwards we went out for wonderful Mexican food – what a nice day out with friends.

What a colorful neighborhood we are making.

Melinda

New Block of the Month

Here are my Allatoona Block of the Month blocks for January and February.

The one with the little squares (36 of them finishing at 6 inches) is the February block.  As you can see, I am using Kaffe for the house blocks and then polka dots for the rest of the house.  I love the background.  I don’t even remember when I bought it but I am glad I found it while sorting through my stash.

Tomorrow is BOM day at guild so hopefully I will have a lot more photos to share.

Melinda

Design Wall Monday–January 20, 2014

Lots of stuff on my design wall today.  I pulled out another quilt that I started a couple of years ago in the Allatoona Guild and put part of it up on the design wall.  The pattern is Bonnie Hunter’s Smokey Mountain Stars but I have confused myself and am not sure how big I intended it to be.  I have one larger section almost put together and several rows here.  Then there are lots and lots of small blocks that have to be laid out.

I also finished two more blocks for the BOM quilt.  I guess I need to press them better.

These are blocks 30 and 31 of 50.

The new SBS block for the week is A2 and I had already made that one.  Here it is.

With all this sewing, I made 10 more bowtie blocks.

These are numbers 301-310.  Not sure how many I need but I guess it will be time to figure it out sometime soon.

For more design walls, go to Patchwork Times here.

Melinda

Back to 2012

In 2012 we had a wonderful BOM at Allatoona that was 50 6-inch blocks.  As I started making Sylvia’s Bridal Sampler blocks again, I remembered these polka dot blocks.  I counted and I had made 27 of the 50 blocks so I decided to keep up with the SBS blocks every week but I am taking a detour and am going to finish up this old BOM.  I am using Kona White as a background and only polka dots for the colors.  Here is the 28th block.

Melinda

BOM Day at Allatoona

We started the mystery quilt BOM at guild yesterday.  Since it is a mystery quilt, I can’t show photos of the quilts (not that there are any at this time) but I can show all the participants hard at work.  The first month is mostly cutting, cutting and more cutting so everyone was quite busy.

It was really fun to see all the different fabric that people chose to make this quilt from.

Off to teach my beginners.

Melinda

A New Block of the Month–For Kids

We are starting a new block of the month at the shop – for kids.  Here is the first block.

It will be a nine block quilt and should be a lot of fun for the kids.  I hope to get the rest of the fabric chosen for the blocks tomorrow so I can get the quilt made before the BOM actually starts.

Melinda

Design Wall Monday–April 16, 2012

I was able to get 8 more polka dot blocks done this week.  Looking at these, I think I need to use more green.  I have about 28-29 done.  The quilt calls for 50 but I think I want to make 56.  I guess I better check out the Farmer’s Wife book for six extra.  Maybe I will wait to get all 50 done first so I won’t accidently duplicate or closely match one of the current ones.

The middle block on the bottom was the biggest challenge.  The whole block is 6 inches so the small flying geese making up the center star ends up measuring 3/4 inch by 1 1/2 inch.  I am proud of myself for getting it done so well.

For more design walls go to Patchwork Times and check them all out.  I always have fun on Mondays looking at all the inspiration.

Melinda

Sewing–Finally!

I made a polka dot block today.  It was already cut out and all I had to do in make the quarter-square triangles and sew it together but this is the first sewing I have done since going on retreat so I am pleased that I got it done.

It is just a simple Ohio Star and is number 20 in the polka dot quilt.  While the pattern/BOM calls for 50 blocks, I think I am going to make 56 for the setting I have in mind. 

I hope to get more blocks cut out soon.  I really enjoy having them cut and ready to sew.  I have one more already cut and six more patterns picked out for the next set of blocks. 

I hope to feel well enough to quilt a T-Shirt quilt tomorrow.

Melinda

Design Wall Monday–April 2, 2012

There is a lot going on with my design wall this morning. First is three more blocks for the polka dot BOM.  I am really loving working on these.

At retreat, I finished Winter Wonderland.  Here it is in all its glory.

It is ready to quilt!  I started this quilt several years ago and it is finally done!!!!

Here is the other quilt top I finished at retreat.  I have fabric for borders but I think I will switch it to the back.  There isn’t enough but I think I can find something to stretch it to cover the back.  I will work on that this week.

This quilt was made with a layer cake of Half Moon Modern by Moda.  It used every inch of the layer cake and only took about 3 hours to put it together.  I based it on a technique I saw with Missouri Star Quilt Co. but I didn’t remember it right and it still turned out.  I plan on using one of my layer cakes to make it correctly next time.

For more design walls, go to Patchwork Times and check them all out.

Melinda

New Embroidery BOM

Here is a the first block of a new BOM from Tiny Stitches.

There will be a happy snowman every month.  By the way, I did not stitch this yet – it is the sample made by my friend Cindy!  Her embroidery is the best I have ever seen.

Melinda

New Block of the Month

I have joined Sue Spargo’s 2012 BOM.  My friend Jan did one a couple of years ago that I was fortunate enough to quilt and after taking a class last year from Sue, I decided to sign up.  The first block came earlier this week.

So far, I love the fabric.  I also signed up to get the thread each month.  This is going to be fun!

Melinda

Design Wall Monday–January 23, 2012

I have a design chair today.  These are the polka dots I bought this weekend.  I plan to use them (and others) for my guild BOM.  I am thinking about using Kona White for the background.

For more design walls, go to Patchwork Times.

Melinda

Stash Report – Week 4, 2012

Used this Week: 0 yards
Used year to Date: 0 yards
Added this Week: 9 yards
Added Year to Date: 9.5 yards
Net Used for 2012: -9.5

Well, when I fall, I fall big.  There is a buy one fat quarter, get one free sale at Tiny Stitches this weekend and I bought 36 fat quarters!

At guild we are doing a block of the month or more accurately blocks of the month and I decided to do mine with polka dots so I now have a big selection of polka dots to work from.  I need to search my stash to see if I have enough of a background fabric – I certainly hope so.

I can’t believe I bought that many fat quarters.  Shame on me

For more stash reports, go to Patchwork Times.

Melinda

My True Love–A Customer Quilt

Here is the customer quilt that I delivered today.  It is a pattern by Nancy Halverson and is called My True Love.

Here is a small view of the back.

This is the third one of these quilts that I have done – it was a block of the month at Tiny Stitches a year or so ago.

Melinda

Garden Club by Country Threads

We are doing a block of the month at my Tuesday guild. We actually started last month but as usual, I am behind. This is block #2 which I finished today because I am responsible for leading the class tomorrow and had to have it finished! It is called Bird Housing.

The photo on the left is from the pattern and the one on the right is mine. As you can probably tell from my other projects, I am not a county color fan so I went with brighter colors, using batiks, hand-dyes and other bright fabrics.

This block of the month is from Country Threads and is called Garden Club. The book is out of print but most of the members were able to find it used or on eBay. I was lucky enough to find a folder in the sale bin at the quilt shop that had the pattern before there was a book. So I have 12 flyer type patterns that include a printed photograph of each block and the pattern for that month.

The quilt is designed as a combination pieced and appliqued quilt. I decided that I was going to do fusible applique with a buttonhole stitch. I am using various DMC machine embroidery threads (I have every color) that contrast with the actual fabrics. I think it is going to be beautiful and fun.

I am teaching two or three of the months so I guess I better get caught up and do #1 Summer Glory so I don't get too far behind.

We had a Quilt Show meeting today and the raffle quilt was there. It is really beautiful and I can appreciate it much more now that it has a sleeve and a stand to hang from. We are going to show it to the guild members on Friday and give out raffle tickets for them to sell. I hope we can make a lot of money on it.

It should be photographed in the next couple of days and I should get a copy of the full quilt and will post it as soon as I can. I think I will also take my camera on Friday in hopes of getting better pictures on my own.