Archive for February, 2009

• K blocks finished – all from stash
• Strips & Strings Log Cabin #2 top assembled – from my strips and strings bins
• 8 Selvage postcards made
• 8 postcards for my MQ Resource exchange are all in progress now
• 18 Quilt as you Go blocks for AUS – all from stash and leftover batting
• 2 backings pieced from stash
• Started the brown/red Happy Blocks from stash
• Finished my Photoshop/Digital Scrapbooking class and learned lots!

I did purchase one set of fat quarters from Suzanne’s online shop when I signed up for Deb’s class.

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First, those log cabin blocks needed assembling. So the Sunshine and Shadows top is done and I do like how it turned out – I’ll probably love it by the time it’s quilted.

Then the Kaleidoscope blocks went up on the design wall – I’m not sure about the arrangement yet so I’m going to contemplate them for a day or two. I’m also not sure I made the best fabric selections for this quilt – I like all the fabric but I’m not getting that *circle* effect. I’ll have to plan out my next one better.

Then I decided it was playtime. It is all I can do not to cut up my entire stash using the new cutter so I’m make myself finish a top before cutting into more fabric. I had some Charm squares that Deb had given me as a gift – probably for my birthday but I can’t remember for sure and I decided they’d make a good Happy Block Quilt.

I folded a yard of fabric and in one pass – I had my red 2.5 inch strips and repeated the process for my brown ones.
I got 28 of the 48 blocks I need pieced before I had to stop – I’d been working all night and needed a break.
Since I wanted more squares for my quilt than the ones in the Charm pack – I pulled a few pinks from the stash …and look, more selvages for my collection.

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It’s a question I find very difficult to answer but I think it’s blue. I realized after I’d been quilting for a couple years that I was drawn to blue fabric … I still am and typically have more blue in my stash than any other color. I think I’ve learned that again though the classes I’ve been taking to learn Photoshop Elements. I want to color everything blue!

My class is over and I’m kind of sad. I’ve enjoyed learning and playing in my photos.

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After getting the design wall reassembled, I put the log cabin blocks up and started playing a little with layouts.

The uneven strips may not work for all layouts so we’ll see how far this Strips & Strings Log Cabin series goes. I decided to go with Sunshine and Shadows for these blocks and have about 1/2 of them assembled already. Right now, I have to take a break from the sewing machine.

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With just a few blocks a day, my stack of Quilt as you Go blocks for
AUS grows.

Just two more before stuffing the selvages back in the drawer.

I'll be up all night working and to make it fun I thought I'd share my
progress with you. First up an embroidered postcard.

To get ideas for fun selvage projects like the postcards – check out Karen’s blog. You all should take a look – there are so many really cute project ideas including the Red Zinger Quilt that I’m going to make this year only I’ll be using strings not selvages for that one.

http://selvageblog.blogspot.com/

One of the recent projects featured was a cat mat made by Gail who just sent me an Airplane Art Binder as a gift.

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Since I’m on a learning spree – I decided to sign up for a machine quilting class at MQ Resources. I was trying to catch up on messages last night when I saw that Deb was giving a class and by the time I saw the message it was already FULL. Luckily, Suzanne and Deb had already decided to do a second one that will start in April.

If you’ve ever followed links from my site to Deb’s blog you know she does beautiful custom quilting (yes, I’m just a bit jealous) and she’s been doing some classes and video demonstrations on the MQR list I belong to. If you’re interested, you can read the class description and sign up at Suzanne’s site but you should probably hurry, the first one sold out pretty quickly. You might want to take a look around Suzanne’s shop while you’re there, I had to toss a couple other items in my cart while I was there.

Maybe next time Deb could give me a heads up??

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