May Finishes

I did not hit my May Goals, but I sure did get a bunch done!! Most of my May sewing Occurred at the Quilters Of SC Spring Retreat at Camp Kinard. 4 nights away with lots of Sewing!! 

Sooo excited to get away and sew!! I finished my Guilds Quilt Block for the month! 

The Harvest Road top.  Excited to really finish this one, as it will go in my spare bedroom! 

Then another leader and Ender brick block quilt. 

I sandwiched these 3 sister quilts from last months retreat.  Then I quilted and bond them this week to finish!! 

Then I finished the top for the tree block challenge!! 

June Goals—-

So I did not meet my block goals for last months Sewcialites.  That means I am further behind, so this month, that is one of my top Goals.  The last blocks come out this month, so I want to try and catch up and finish! 

My others goals are to finish the tree top to enter into this months challenge.  Work on the string blocks for next month and to finish some pillow covers for a paid job I took.  If I do all of that, then I can start on a patriotic quilt I really want to do!! 

Goals of 2021!!——

1- House quilt- lots of pieces and few rows. Finished!!

2- Small old antique embroidery quilt- only the original blob lock and fabric pulled.  Plan to box the blocks in, maybe like a log cabin. FINISHED!!!!!

3-Harvest Road Quilt- blocks cut, a few pieces sewn together Top finished, needs borders

4-Debbie row by row- omg, so much to do

5-Rooster on board- one section done.  I think this will be a retreat quilt for this year

6- Pumpkin quilt-  fabrics pulled and all in a box

7- Pineapple place mat- needs to be put together and quilted

8- Jelly roll quilt-  undid it for a race demo in class.  Sewed a few corners and now it’s sittin a box. 

9- Moma quilt- I need to make several of these, but for 2 years,  I’ve had fabric pulled for at least one and sitting in a box. 

10- Sunflower quilt- made with my friends daughters clothes for her kids finished

11- Sunflower 2- same as above finished 

12-Sunflower 3- yep, same finished

13- Bow tie quilt-  I cut a bunch of scrap squared to make this and never did it. 

14- Bea Lea Jumbled Sampler-  Accuquilt quilt fit the year

15- Sewcialites- 17 blocks out of 36 blocks done

16- Ultimate beginner Sampler- FINISHED 

17- T quilt from years ago-  at least 2 blocks done.

18- Stained glass window-  lots of blocks done years old

19- animal embroidery-  needs just a few blocks. 

20- Kaffe embroidery quilt- needs borders.  Top done,  at least 2 years old

21- Yenter embroidery-  needs a few blocks finished

22- batik embroidery-  needs a few blocks finished

23- crown of thorns.  Has a few blocks cut out. Several sewn together 

24- Tree quilt- not started  Top Finished!!! 

25- Scrap log cabin quilt- not started

26- Selvedge aqua quilt-  some selvedge blocks done

27- string block quilt-  random sized string blocks 

28- pineapple sampler quilt- 3 blocks started. 

29- batik HST quilt- lesson from class

30- persimmon dreams block of the month

31- Pat Sloan star quilt

New 2021 desires- 

1- Liberty box quilt

2- cider quilt

3- pine cone quilt

4- chicken quilt

5- bee fabric quilt 

Hanging Tomato Update

Here we are at week 5.  Look at all the little tomatoes and flowers!! I swapped all the pots around.  Things grown better on one end of my porch then the other. So I am riatating around in a row.  Last to the end.  I think the swap only slowed it a little.  Soo excited to know that I will soon be harvesting a crop!! 

Here are all my Zucchini!! Look how big they are! I soo love the weather this time of year and all the new growth. 

Yenter Explosion in All The Good

A few months ago I took part in the “All The Good”, quilt along by “Jittery Wings Quiit Company”.  I decided to go out of the box and use some of the Jason Yenter Fabric I was holding onto.  

This was my pull, a mix of yenter solids, blenders, and prints.  I used the border print on the top right for my color theme. I usually don’t go big with black in most patterns, but knew the color selection favored that. The span of his fabric probably ran thru a 10 year span. I wasn’t sure of this, but after the pieces were cut up small, it ended up amazing! No one would ever realize they were from totally different directions. 

As the sew along started, back in January 2021, I followed along with the pattern and the Sew/quilt along here 

All The Good Quilt along.  Each step gave you a week to complete.  Truly a lot to do,  but soo worth it.  And I mean it was a lot of squaring up. Lots of HST and flying geese truly seem the quick method. 

From cutting to sewing each step in the pattern, blog and videos were laid out well. 

My only issue came with laying it out.  I had the challenge of the deadline and set a day to do it.  The issue was, it took all day to lay it out. Yeah, 384 pieces later.. I didn’t have a mental plan of what I wanted at first.  Just the colors I wanted to start in the center of the diamond.  I laid the colors together.  The quilt was made with an improv plan.  The only real direction was for all the flying geese to face the same direction.  I finally had to let go of the control in the quilt and the normal.  Then wouldn’t let myself move much around.  That ended up working for me and I was halfway satisfied how it was laid out.  

Then came the time it took me to sew all those pieces together. It truly took me forever.  I took a breath and a photo when it was done.  Then I folded it and laid it to the side. 

A few weeks later, I received some bulk Jason Yenter material in the mail I bought on a sale post.  I found, yet another piece from one of his collections in the same color way. I sewed it up to make a backing and it simply worked out perfectly. 

Then I want to quilt it a little more modern.  I did a switchback kinda straight line FMQ.  I really don’t like the quilting.  Might have now done something different, but in the let it go world, I let it go.  I did not make it for show, so it is what it is. 

Then came the binding.  I couldn’t really decide.  I grabbed the leftovers and saw the border fabric I used as my color theme. So with that idea, it became the binding.  The perfect finish to one of my now favorite quilts!! 

I am soo happy with the photos BBC and the beautiful location at Luthridge!! It’s the chapel there.  God truly gave me an amazing place that matched the quilt he provided me with the gift to make!