Design Wall Monday

Once again it's design wall Monday. I am teaching these days. I so need to work on class samples. I saw on Judy's friends blog a Lil' Twister wreath. I have a class coming up on Lil' Twister so I decided to make a wreath. It was quick and easy.

This is with the blocks and border sewn together before the cutting begins.



After cutting out the blocks I laid them out.



This is the top completed. But now looking at it, I'm wondering if I should add an outer border of the dark blue.

Design Wall Monday

This top is cute. As long as you follow the directions it is easy to do. I just make another one. When I look at this top I think it's going to make a sweet quilt some little girl would enjoy. The picture of the pattern shows the fun tabs at the edge of the border that is done after it it's quilted. The best part is I only had to buy the background and it turns out I would have had it in my stash. I even have the back in my stash. While I lost track of stashing busting, I know I am in the negative column. I plan on doing it again next year.

September Goals - update

As there are things I want and or need to do this month, I decided to make myself a list so I'd remember and make myself accountable to me. I'm not going to put the ongoing cleaning stuff, that's a given. What I am going to list are projects needing to be worked on or better yet completed.

Back for 2011 Cat Quilt
Binding for Japanese Bunny Doll
Birthday present for Cheryl
Cut out black and white fabric for log cabin quilt
Extra border and binding for Halloween pinwheel top
Little Charmer Halloween tote bag
Quilt on design Wall - Snuggle Blocks
Thread Catchers - made 2

September Goals

As there are things I want and or need to do this month, I decided to make myself a list so I'd remember and make myself accountable to me. I'm not going to put the ongoing cleaning stuff, that's a given. What I am going to list are projects needing to be worked on or better yet completed.

Back for 2011 Cat Quilt
Binding for Japanese Bunny Doll
Birthday present for Cheryl
Cut out black and white fabric for log cabin quilt
Extra border and binding for Halloween pinwheel top
Little Charmer tote bag
Quilt on design wall
Thread Catchers

Funny when I listed them I don't have as many as I thought I did. This is a good thing.

Lil' Twister

Once again I worked on something new instead of what I am suppose to do. I love projects I can start and finish within a day or two. I am going to have to make a list of what I need to do first. But in the mean time here is my latest project. I am scheduled to teach this quilt so thought best to make one myself. I was lucky to have the class sample made by someone else.

The squares all sewn together.



Squares started to be cut and put on the design wall.



All the squares sewn together with the borded on.



Top completed. I might add another border to make it bigger.

Design Wall Monday

It's that day of the week again. Time to post what's on my design wall. Last week I was putting away fabric and reorganize my "kits", I came across one I knew would be quick and simple. It's from a Quilts and More magazine and I have made it once before. As I wanted a quick project that would not become an UFO, I cut it out and sewed it up in a day and a half. I even got the back all done and it's waiting to go to the quilter. The picture only shows a portion of the quilt as I could not get the whole top. It's bigger than my design wall.



This is a store model for my local needlework store I finally finished after having it way to long.It's a cross stitch piece. I love getting things finished.

Design Wall Monday

Last week I tried to post what was on my design wall and the power went out. Someone decided to take out a power pole and poof a transformer blew. Well 13 hours later I finally had power but too late to post. The first picture is a the final layout of this years quilt I am making for Marin Cat Connection.



These cute little snowman centered blocks are blocks I made used Jodi Barrows Square in a Square ruler. I had these 50 3 inch squares cut out for ever and figured they would be a good test of the ruler. It was so much fun to use, I am going to make more. Figured this will be my I don't feel like doing anything else project.