Arrrrggggg I found some booty....

I was cleaning up last night. Technically I was searching for fabric to go with this quilt I finished up for my step daughter Gabby. I am looking to make a coordinating pillow case. It is hard to believe that with all the fabric I have, I don't have the right fabric. Or at least I don't have a large enough chunk of blue or red to make a pillow case. I am pretty sure I can find some in my stash but maybe I am being toooooo picky. I am getting no sympathy from my husband on my fabric stash woes. 

 So I was digging in the last couple totes of fabric and crafts that I haven't yet put away and I unearthed some buried treasure, or booty if you will. Some time ago Moda came out with charm packs that were 2.5" square, they called them candy. I got the bright idea to start a swap and call it I want candy. The idea was that you would get 5 partners and you would send each 50 2.5" squares that you had cut from your stash. In the end you would end up with 250 different fabric squares to play with and enjoy. About the same time there was a quilt floating around the interwebs called a scrap vomit quilt.

http://poppymakes.blogspot.com/2012/10/drunk-quilt-scrap-vomit-and-tova.html

Although this is not my puppy dog, it is a very cute English Springer Spaniel much like my dog Turkey. So anyway the craze for candy was in, I hosted a swap, and was cutting 2.5" squares out of all my fabrics. At some point the hype died down and I put the squares in a shoe box for a rainy day when I decided what to do with them. Yesterday I stumbled upon the box in question.

Holy scrap! That is a lot of squares! The timing couldn't be better as I am currently working on a triple Irish chain quilt, which turns out to be the basis of a scrap vomit quilt.

So I will be adding these to my quilt of scrappy goodness. But in the meantime I saw something shiny online and decided to try one or two blocks. It is a great way to use up my scraps that are less than 2.5"

Paper pieced Wild & Goosey Blocks. Just like that another WIP is born.

Linking up to Confessions of a Fabric Addict and TGIFF

Another one bites the dust!

Last week was our one year House-A-Versairy (made up words I know). Over the past year since we have moved I have been working on my craft room. Refinishing the floors, painting, buying and hating many sets of curtains, rugs and furniture have been purchased and assembled. So much time and money has been spent working on this room and alas I am not yet done. I am close! I just have fabric to put away and design wall and quilt hanger to hang. Once the finishing touches are in place I will post pictures. 

During this process I have come across a number of WIP's that were shoved away with the best of intentions of completion some day. I decided that enough is enough and have started wrapping them up for good.

This quilt is for one of my step daughters. I have had the stars done for some time but couldn't decide on the layout. The more I tried the more I hated it. I bought several different fabrics to use as solid blocks in between the stars but could never decide on one I liked. I decided to switch gears and start sewing in a direction I thought I would like. The final top is not the original vision or even the 5th vision but I think it works well and isn't too busy. I may add another strip of fabric to the top and bottom for length, as of now the quilt is 72" x 82". Once it is quilted I am going to lose some in both directions. Now to pick the backing fabric (I have several good choices) and quilt it up. I just have to keep reminding myself that its only fabric and no one is as critical as I am.

It did remind me how much I love my fancy new Janome that I got last year for Christmas. These blocks were made on my old Bernina. The stitching is not nearly as nice on the old girl and the piecing was starting to come apart at the edges. As a side note look at the shiny, beautiful refinished floors! We have 4 bedrooms down and one to go! Thanks to my husband for all his hard work on the house this last year. 

Linking it up to WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced

Fall Finish Up -WIP

My UFO list of out of control. I am trying to chop it down by the end of the year. No new projects until I have finished at least half of these.....Here is what I have.....Finished some in the process of writing this long post!

DONE!!!

Knotted Thread Hurricane Sandy Blocks: DONE!!! & Mailed
Original Post Here http://www.knotted-thread.com/2012/11/helpless.html

Blogger's Block of the Month September (3) & Margaret's Hope Chest Blocks: Fun in the Middle Blocks: DONE!!!!

http://margaretshopechest.blogspot.com/2012/09/project-hope-2012-final-project-fun-in.html

For Me

For Margaret's Hope Chest - Mailed

Blogger's Block of the Month October (3) / Churn Dash Block: DONE!!!

http://sewkindofwonderful.blogspot.com/2012/10/bloggers-bom-peach-patch-quilts.html

Scrappy Stash QAL: Ellison Lane: DONE!!!

http://ellisonlane.blogspot.com/2012/10/lets-get-started-scrappy-stash-quilt.html

WIP!!!

Holiday Lane Pillow Blog Hop - Need to hand stitch applique pieces, and sew trim and backing.

http://www.jillilystudio.com/free-stuff.htm

Marin's Quilt - Need to piece backing, quilt and bind

Ian's Quilt - Need to complete quilting and bind

Gabby's Stars - Need to complete piecing, baste, quilt and bind.

Postage Stamp Quilt -  Need to complete piecing, baste, quilt and bind.

Stars On Black Quilt

Stars on Pastel Quilt

Mamie's Quilt


Blogger's Block of the Month November (3) / Big and Little Block
http://ellisonlane.blogspot.com/2012/11/bloggers-blog-of-month-block-tutorial.html

Paru's Baby Quilt

Michelle's Quilt

Ellie's Quilt

Aaron's Flannel Quilt

Super Mario Quilt for Evan

Aaron's Quilt


Linking it up to Freshly Pieced

Gabby's Stars

My step daughter Gabby has decided that a trip to our local Ben Franklin's is a treat. So much so that she willingly cleans her room and makes her bed. I haven't had the heart to break it to her that it is also the closest quilt shop and chances are we will be going there whether she wants to or not. On one such trip there she decided that she wanted me to make her a quilt for Christmas. She decided on Red and Blue for the colors. She hates pink though so I have to make sure there are no pinkish reds. I decided to go with an 8 point star/sawtooth star block pattern with different centers. Here is what I have accomplished so far.

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I am linking up to Freshly Pieced and Quilt Story

Happy Hump Day!