Who's to Blame?

 I don't know if it is my laptop, Microsoft Edge or Blogger but lately I'm not seeing pictures in blog posts - other peoples and my own. Just a square outline with a little icon in the upper corner. Clicking on the icon opens a pop-up but no pictures. It's very frustrating. As I'm writing this post, my pictures are not displaying. It's very difficult for me to write something when I can't see what I'm writing about. 

I'm hoping everything is working okay for you as I actually have a few pictures to show today.

First up is my October UFO challenge project. Not a lot of progress, but some. I made most of the half square triangle units. 

They need to be squared up and sewn into blocks. Part of me is tempted to take apart the already made donated blocks and square them up. I'm going to continue working on this quilt. With the holiday's approaching I don't think I'm going to work on any other UFOs. I'll save them for next year.

Next up (I hope) is a finish. I didn't plan on finishing the Amazing quilt but after I started working on it it just zoomed by. 

I had a bit of fun quilting large pebbles in the black. Love the stripe binding.

I forgot to mention my wool class last week.  Mostly because no progress had been made.

The needle turn applique is done. None of the shapes match their original form, oh well. I've started some of the class two embroidery, although you can barely see it, there is backstitching around the bird and the flower center pod. The next class is in two weeks, so I need to get busy and finished the rest of my homework.

I finished clue four on the Project Linus mystery. Clue six was released Saturday. I need to get caught up. The "big reveal" is in three weeks. ;o)

I've decided to make a few Christmas gifts, so I may not be making much progress on any of these projects until the new year. And I won't be able to show what I'm working on as my mom reads my blog...she would peek.

Did you notice I haven't mentioned Aunt Daisy? We won't talk about the lack of progress there. (boo hoo)

How Much Sewing Have I Not Done This Week

 

Pretty slim pickings this past week. 

UFO Challenge quilt: The plan was to work on September's UFO in October because not much was done in September...so far nothing has been done in October. No pictures.

Project Linus mystery: New clue (#5) was released on Saturday. Applique and paper piecing. I've printed the patterns and pulled the fabric. No pictures.

Donation quilts: Picked up some fabrics at Quilts for Kids to coordinate with my a few of the panels I have accumulated. Most of the fabrics are going back. I went through all the panels and kinda sorta created kits for each. I have way too many panels. No pictures.

Aunt Daisy: The only sewing I did this past week was late last night. Made 20 triangle-in-a-square units. I'm now at 90 out of 192 made. No pictures.

Moxie: Loaded the Amazing quilt last Tuesday. Haven't touched it since.

Woo-hoo a picture!

Marathon Sewing

 Sometimes it looks like I've accomplished a lot when in truth it took very little time. This past week I don't feel like I got much done but I spent a LOT of time sewing.

First up, the guild community service quilt was quilted, bound, and turned in today.

I can't believe I forgot to take a picture of the finished quilt! No big loss really as it was kinda ugly. ;o)

I finished the hand sewing of the binding on Brightly.

This picture doesn't do the quilt justice, it is so bright and cheerful. I love it - it's MINE. ;o)

I spent a lot of time stitching everything down on my wool class project.

Everything but the needle turn applique. I got a quick and dirty lesson at today's guild meeting. This is a Sue Spargo type project, we had our second class today and learned five stitches. There is a LOT of homework. Luckily, I have a month to do it all.

The fourth clue for Project Linus The A-Maze-ing Tyler was released last Saturday. I spent all day, and night, trying to catch up. 

I got the first three clues finished and made a good start on the fourth clue.

Aunt Daisy status: 70 out of 192 triangle-in-a-square units are finished. At this rate it's going to take me two years to finish this quilt instead of one. I really need to up my game on this one.

Two Weeks

 Okay, I've got two weeks to cover, and I don't want to write a book so here are the highlights.

Week One

I've already mention that I went to visit Donna in Idaho. While there, we were very busy (mostly talking as we haven't seen each other in almost two years). 

We went to the Boise Basin Quilt Guild's Ruby Jubilee quilt show. It was a large show with lots and lots of very impressive quilts! Here are a few of my favorites:

Most of the quilts I liked was because of the quilting.

Some I liked because they were just too cute.

Witches with Featherweights! 

This is a free Tilda quilt pattern.

The quilting made it sing.

LOVE feathers!

Each wedge had a different quilt motif.

But the corners were what caught my eye. Enlarge the picture and check out the "ruffles" bordering the flowers.

They also had lots of vendors. Here is my show haul.

Not the bowl of clips - those are Donna's.

We also went to a couple of thrift stores. I did pretty good there.

I think it's a hand towel rack but I saw mini quilt rack.

16 fat eights and scraps for $2...score!

Donna's is very generous. She cleaned out her sewing room while I was there. Here is a very small portion of what she gave me.

She made the bags, they are amazing! She also made the following quilts:

This quilt is huge! and the fabrics are fantastic.

Can you tell she likes Judy Niemeyer? 

And Buggy Barn.

These were in her to be quilted pile.

Week Two

I've sewn the binding on Brightly and have one side hand sewn down. I'll show a picture when it's finished.

I've been stitching down the wool pieces for my guild class. Not much to show yet. I have four pieces that need to have needle turn applique...YIKES! I don't know how to do that.

Aunt Daisy status: 60 out of 192 triangle in a square are finished. This is what a single block will look like:

I'll be making 16 of these blocks.

September UFO...not much progress was made. I did decide on a pattern and cut out the extra blocks I'll need to make it. I'm going to continue working on it in October as my October UFO is already made - Amazing. Hopefully it will be quilted this month.

I quilted Stephanie's table runner.

We decided to keep the quilting simple.

And I've already loaded my next quilt...this is a guild community service quilt.

Whew! I'm tired, the last two weeks have been busy.

Haven't sewed a stitch!

 I got home from a road trip to Boise a few hours ago. I'm tired! But I had a great trip. I went to visit my friend Donna in Idaho. Lots of gabbing, sharing, visiting with her friends - we even canned some salsa - and attending the Boise guild quilt show. There was also some quilt and thrift store shopping. I'll share more later.

Donna has a huge Gammill long arm and quilted my Brightly quilt for me.

I love how it turned out. Hopefully I'll get the binding sewn on tomorrow.