Let's Book It October Winner

I had a lovely day of distraction - I got some baby cuddle time in and a wonderful visit with my daughter without all the interruptions of two little boys (they were in school).

 

Now to announce the October winner of the Quilt Barn Pin and Bear Paw Charm for October:

#3 - Barbara of Cat Patches

Thank you all for continuing to participate and hope the numbers grow.  I want to stay with the pin and charm next year, but I think I will change to a different pin.  I will show you in November's link up post at the end of the month.

Sewingly Yours,

Sharon

Tuesday Archives - Irish Chains and Fall Quilts

I love sharing when I can and, also, being inspired by other's Archive posts over at Val's Quilting Studio.  This week's themes are Irish Chains and Fall Quilts - so hunt thru your archives and link up.

This little table topper was for the Leafs Me Happy Hop back in Oct 2012 and the tutorial and original post can be found HERE.

Sewingly Yours

October Quilts

Yes, I did list my NewFO and other finishes/starts for October, but I didn't add the finished quilts.  It has been so rainy, windy and bits of snowflakes so I had to wait for a good day to photo them.

I know some of you were playing along with this one too as I saw your blocks posted on your blogs.  I sent mine off to my long armer - not only because I need to clean up that 'to be quilted' pile, but I wanted a Baptist Fan edge to edge which I couldn't achieve on my home machine.

This is a mix of Howard Marcus, Moda, RJR and Benartex fabrics and I love how they worked so well together.  I had the  Baptist Fan done with a black thread front and back and just love the look.  It finished 64" square.

My 2.5" barrel was overflowing so that meant another postage stamp quilt.  I quilted this on my home machine using the walking foot, beige thread top/bottom with a crosshatch thru the light squares.  And binding was out of that 'left-over' drawer.  This finished 60" square.

And I was determined to get my Nested Churn Dash quilt done.  I did this on my home machine with micro meander in the light strips and serpentine and straight stitch in the sashing and final border. Finished size is 68" square.

The next quilt was my SIL's latest quilt - a big girl quilt for her great neice - and it turned out a big quilt.  She fell in love with this pattern from my book 'Scrap-basket Sensations' by Kim Brackett (the one I did my chain-link batik quilt from) - yes, she takes a little longer, plus we (I did all the math work) made a few changes to make this a rectangle quilt with the pre-cuts and yardage she bought.

Don't you just love this!!  How different it looks.  This is Fleurologie by Stephanie Ryan for Moda - the bright pink is on the back.  And she had our longarmer do her signature Jeri's Flower in a light pink thread for quilting.  Finished size is 70" x 84".  With the left over fabric, she had enough to make two matching pillows to go with this for a Christmas gift.

I'm not counting how many are in that tote to be quilted, but hope to clear them out by the end of the year.  Jeri has decided it was time to relax and do some smaller projects for Christmas gifts before the next big quilt - for herself this time.  Wait until you see this fabric!

Sewingly Yours,
Sharon

November 2014 Goals

I have been happy to support Lynne each month.  I never need an excuse to start something new, but I do need to work on cleaning up those something old projects.

My Something Old will be to get my lozenges blocks into a flimsy - they have sat too long.

 

My Something New will be Jacquelynn's new QAL.  I plan to make a 4-block quilt and then use the two other blocks for pillows.

And another good excuse to start something new, although the project I chose is sadly something that has sat around for a long time, ignored.

I either won this or was gifted it in a swap - see, so long ago I can't remember.  But November and December are my months to slow down.  This will be a good project to work on for Slow Sunday Stitching and even to unwind at night.

And I better have something for this - again, something small, something me.

Another pattern that has sat too long.  This should work up entirely out of that never ending scrap basket.  Even use up some scrap batt and scrap binding - gotta love that.

I will take part in the Make it Handmade Christmas Challenge again with a few small projects, as well as the Simple Small Project - they will be nice little gifts to have on hand for those 'unexpected' holiday show-ups.

I hope to get my Charming Stars into a flimsy and still taking part in the Country Corners sew along.

And we should be wrapping up the row quilt this month.  I think I will send this to my longarmer for a quick edge to edge so I have a new Christmas quilt for the season.

Speaking of quilting, I have that large tote of 'to-be quilted' pile.  So I hope to tackle some of these either quilted by myself or to send off to a longarmer, but I'm not stressing over them as it will make for good play during those snowed in days.

A short list for me I know.  I just want to unwind going into the end of the year.  Hope to get some baby (and grandson) snuggle time before the snow falls - because I hibernate.

Sewingly Yours,

Sharon