Sew Sunshine

  Sometimes when I think too long on a problem quilt or a hard project I feel the need to just sew. I happen to have some fat quarters that I came across when straightening up around my cutting table (another diversion from hard project).  I can't remember ever making a log cabin quilt before. I starting playing with the fat quarters and on such a small scale comes these little 4.5" blocks.    I like it so far. I have 36 little blocks. I am not sure if I will keep making them or stop there. There are lots of layout possibilities. Right now I am leaning towards a star shape. I don't know...this was just a diversion. I think I am ready to get back to the other projects now so this will sit on the back burner a bit.  There is a group on FB from  SewCanShe that is making things this week with mini log cabin blocks. So fun. (it might motivate me)??? For now off to work on what I was working on before I got distracted!! :) Linking up with Lorna with Let's

  Today I have a quilt top done from my "Goodnight Irene" QAL over at Terry's Treasures HERE .  This was a pretty fast and fun put together. Few issues along the way but now going to piece a back and get this baby quilted. Today...or tomorrow...or soon!!!!   I decided to go 5 x 7 rows and then add the border. I think it will be a pretty good size. I am going to use more fat quarters for the back I think. The mix of prints and colors worked pretty well overall. Indoor pic..sorry! We have had nothing but high winds the last couple of days.  Lovely looking scorched ironing board in the corner and all for your viewing pleasure.:) I will be linking up with  Crazy Mom Quilts Finish it up Friday Now I am going to let you know that yesterday was my 100th post ! whoop whoopie!!!  AND.... Dec. 31st 2013 was my 1 year Blog-anniversary ! If I would have been on task I would have hit them both pretty close to the same time. But here I am now and ready to try my hand a

  Rachel over at  Stitched in Color   is hosting a Pink Mosaic contest. I don't usually choose pink right off but I wanted to see what I could come up with. This was really fun so I wanted to share. Check out the fabrics at SewModern and see what you can come up with.    I am calling this one "Frosty Pink" and I am already thinking of what I can make with this selection. :) p.s. I hope this looks as good to everyone out there as it does to me. My monitor is old and the colors not always so accurate.

Yes it is Wednesday already and I am making some progress on my "Goodnight Irene" quilt top. Terry at  Terry's Treasures is hosting a sew-along for this quilt.    So here are my blocks that I am working on. I am having some trouble with the seams matching but overall the blocks are not too bad.    I decided to use some red, white and blue fat quarters I had on hand (you know ...use what you have instead of buying so much..haha). I am sashing it with navy kona. The random piecing is working well. Instead of cutting all the squares I stripped groups of 4 together and then cut and arranged. The 16 patches went quilt. The x blocks not so much! I also had trouble with 1/4" seams and scant. I need to be more careful and hopefully lesson was learned. I will see how loud I scream when I am putting the rows together. :) Also linking up with Lee at  Freshly Pieced for WIP Wednesday

  So excited that Kim over at  Persimon Dreams is hosting Project Quilting again this year. It was so fun last year and I accomplished a lot.  This year I had so many ideas for this first Challenge. I wanted to do something more arty but when it came down to it I really need to make lap or baby size quilts for some of the charities I contribute to. I am sure I will do something more artsy before the challenge is over but for today I am going with a version of a scrap quilt.  The Challenge is "String Along with Me" I used the same strip quilt as you go as I did in a quilt I made last Oct following Maureen Cracknell and her Herringbone QAYG quilt tutorial.  This was is called Scrappy II  it is 43 x 45. All scrap strings, scrap batting pieces and scrap binding. It might not be very creative but my scrap box is looking so much better!  (notice the fun fabric I found for the back...lovely dotty diamonds!) Simple quilting since each strip was quilted right to

I can't really decide what I want to do for the first quarter FinishALong but I want to try. I hope that sort of counts. :) I think I have to start low and slow and give myself some momentum to finish a few things.  1.Skill builder BOM QAYG blocks:   I have 10 blocks sandwiched and quilted; 4 sandwiched and 6 yet to make. I would be happy to just get all the blocks done and the remaining quilted. But if I get them put together that would be great too.  2. Craftsy 2012 BOM blocks: I made all the blocks during 2012 but then didn't want to put them all together. So in 2013 I made 3 smaller quilts with some of the blocks and just have a few left to work into a small quilt.  3. Metro Medallion QAL   This quilt top is actually sewn together. I am just a scardy-cat over quilting it. I hope for some inspiration or.... a huge snow storm!  4.  Diamond quilt This top is also together, back pieced I just need to sit down and quilt it somehow someway. I am just suc

  I actually finished this quilt project up last night but in the dark gloom I could not take any pictures. Now it is very early Saturday and still not enough daylight to take a decent picture..hrmmph! I am posting it anyway so I can link up before noon. I will take a better picture (in later post) as it is going to be linked up to the first Project Quilting over at Persimmon Dreams this Sunday.  (more about the challenge in later post) My version was changed because of the scraps of batting sizes I had left. I just made the blocks using most of the batting pieces. It ended up making this repeating diamond shape.  It finished at about 42 X45 " Perfect for going on my charity pile.   This one makes me almost as happy as my  Scrap Happy Time back in Oct 2013 This was a tutorial for a QAYG Herringbone by Maureen Cracknell see link.  Linking up with Crazy mom quilts