About Kim

I am a SAHM that lives in Hawaii currently. I am a navy wife and have been married 16 years. I have two children and l love to quilt.

2 Purple Purses

Here are the two purple purses I made for the two girls that I carpool to school every day.  They were belated Christmas gifts since my machine was acting up when I went to make them.  I also made a matching lanyard since they have to wear one every day with their school id on it.

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Excuse the quality of the photos, I took these with my iphone when the purses were done to send to a friend via text.  I took others with the good camera before I gave them to the girls yesterday and the card protested and wouldn’t read.  It looked all scratched up so I decided to trash the disk so I wouldn’t accidentally put it in my camera again – no telling what I lost on it – but it won’t happen again!

Monday Milestones–1/16/12

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1. Bind Awesome!The binding is attached and it just needs to be sewn down. I will do this on Tuesday at the Tuesday Bee.

DONE!  I got it done at the Tuesday Bee – I was taking the last stitches as the others were putting the tables away.  I felt bad for not helping, but I really wanted to get the binding done since I had only a few inches left.

2. Purple Purses.I have two purses to make for “late Christmas Gifts” for the girls I carpool to and from school.

DONE!  I got them done on Friday.  I will post pictures this week after I give them to the girls.

3. Piece the backing for Geometric. I need to piece the backing for my #5 UFO for the challenge.

DONE! I got this done on Thursday. I used leftovers from the quilt top and some Bella Solid yardage I had. I forgot how much it takes to back a king-sized quilt!

4. Make 5 Arrowhead blocks.If I don’t do this each week, I will never get this UFO done.

DONE!  I got this done on Wednesday.  No photos because my camera battery needed charging and I didn’t charge it until Friday night.

Again, not much scheduled, but if I get more done, then I will be happy. The big things that need to get done are listed.

I want to go to water aerobics four days this week. I would go every day this week (M,T, W, T, F, S), but I have the Tuesday bee and the Sassy S&B Quilters Bee is on Saturday. I am looking forward to sewing with the gals. I don’t know what I want to work on yet for the bee. I might just take Geometric to sandwich since I will need two tables together to sandwich it.

I wasn’t able to go to aerobics but two times last week.  Monday and Thursday.  Tuesday and Saturdays were bees, Wednesday I didn’t feel very well and Friday was just too dang cold.  I woke up and it was 62 degrees.  Ok.  You might not think that is cold, but for here it is; and the pools are outdoors and run about 10 –15 degrees cooler than outside.

Geometric didn’t get sandwiched on Saturday.  I didn’t have enough safety pins to do it.  I realized this Wednesday and started quilting on my son’s quilt Coconut Shave Ice.  I got about 1/3 of the way done and it was driving me crazy; the thread kept breaking, it kept skipping stitches.  I tried everything I could think of.  I called the repairman on Saturday and he thinks my presser foot is not working well.  We will see.  I will have to wait until Wednesday to go pick another up.

Saturday I did start working on my Terrain Quilt though.  I also got one of the blocks for the 2011 Designer Mystery completed – photos to follow.

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1.  Month 7 Designer Mystery

2.  Month 8 Designer Mystery

3.  Month 3 Love Letters

4.  Month 4 Love Letters

5.  Five Arrowhead Blocks

I am not going to put completing the quilting on Coconut Shave Ice and sandwiching Geometric.  I am not convinced that the new free-motion foot will solve my problem with the quilting.  I ordered two   Twenty gross (20 x 1, 444  144) safety pins today, but I don’t know when they will come in – so that isn’t on this week’s goal.

For my goal of aerobics, I am going to shoot for three days – it has been really chilly in the mornings and class is at 9am.

I hope you have a very productive week too!

Monday Milestones–1/9/12

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I did get all my goals done. As a recap, they were

1. Finish prep-work for for my Folded Log Cabins – DONE!
2. Sandwich “Paris in the Fall” – DONE!
3. Cut out “Terrain” – DONE

What else did I get done? 

My machine was ready to be picked up on Wednesday.  It made me so happy!

I got four block of the month blocks for my guild completed.  I also completed from start to finish, my 12 Days of Christmas quilt.  The last thing I got completed was quilting the last half of my Awesome! quilt.  I had quilted half of it before my machine had to go in for service.

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I also went back to water aerobics for three days this week. I was so sore.  But it was a good sore.

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1.  Bind Awesome! The binding is attached and it just needs to be sewn down.  I will do this on Tuesday at the Tuesday Bee.

2.  Purple Purses.  I have two purses to make for “late Christmas Gifts” for the girls I carpool to and from school. 

3.  Piece the backing for Geometric.  I need to piece the backing for my #5 UFO for the challenge. 

4. Make 5 Arrowhead blocks.  If I don’t do this each week, I will never get this UFO done.

Again, not much scheduled, but if I get more done, then I will be happy.  The big things that need to get done are listed. 

I want to go to water aerobics four days this week.  I would go every day this week (M,T, W, T, F, S), but I have the Tuesday bee and the Sassy S&B Quilters Bee is on Saturday.  I am looking forward to sewing with the gals.  I don’t know what I want to work on yet for the bee.  I might just take Geometric to sandwich since I will need two tables together to sandwich it.

First Finish of 2012

I got my 12 Days of Christmas top completed and quilted over the weekend. 

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It looks a little off, but it is the angle of the photo.

I set it differently than the mystery pattern called for.  I didn’t have yardage of anything but some Moda Bella Snow that I keep in my stash.  There isn’t yardage available yet of the Prairie Paisley II yet.  The red binding is from the first line that I had a bit extra of.

The pieced border are 1/2” finished squares – to give you a scale of this quilt.  The blocks are 3” finished.

I do want to come up with a new name for it though, it seems to me that it doesn’t scream “Christmas” to me.

12 Days of Christmas

Temecula Quilt Co. had a free Block of the Day for twelve days starting on Christmas Day.  I watched as it grew interesting.  Then I decided I wanted to play along.  But one thing, my machine was not working and in the shop.  I also wanted to do it in patriotic colors.  I ordered a charm pack of Prairie Paisley II from eBay and they came in yesterday on Day 11.

Today, I got all the blocks done.  Each block is onlly 3 1/2” inches square.

Here they are in order… notice a pattern?

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Each day, the number of the day correlates to the number of patches in the block.  I also did not repeat a fabric in another block – so each fabric only appears in one block.

I am looking forward to seeing how they set these. The mystery will be revealed tomorrow (the 6th).  It only took me about two hours to make all 12 blocks.  I did re-make block 7 because at the end I noticed each of the blocks except that one had no fabric repeats, so I remade that block.