April 30th – May 9th the Hawaii Quilt Guild is having a quilt show.
The Featured Artist is Patricia Lei Murray.
Now for the shameless plug.
Every year we do an opportunity quilt. This year, we made the Sea Star quilt from Scrap Basket Surprises in lovely fresh colors. Many ladies worked hard on this quilt. Though it is not shown quilted in this photo, rest assured, it is quilted and bound already.
For your opportunity to win this quilt, please contact me for details. If you want an opportunity, I will accept checks (payable to the guild) and paypal (preferred) to enter your name in the drawing.
The size is about a queen-sized quilt.
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The idea of finishing one UFO a month was great. After all, I could manage to get one quilt quilted a month right?
WRONG.
January I had the problem of not being able to sandwich a quilt. It was a good excuse. I didn’t want to damage my new dining room table. Then my friend Joan came to my rescue and sent me a video on a new method. I will admit that I was interested, so about midway through the month, I finally got around to going to the hardware store for some boards.
I tried it and liked it. It was SO easy to sandwich a quilt. I did change the method up just a little to suit me better. I drew a line on the board at the halfway point. I then marked the center point on each end of the quilt with masking tape. I also taped down the first edge so that it was easier to roll up.
I managed to get three quilts sandwiched in two days. A record for me.
I even started to quilt one. But it wasn’t one on my UFO listing to the right. It was one from my list way back in January. Oh well. I still have March, right? It shouldn’t be hard to quilt a bunch of quilts this month, right? Considering I still have to sandwich two of them? Do you think I can do it?
How did I do with my February Goals?
| Date Done |
Project |
Task |
| 2/16/2010 |
Home For the Holidays |
Sandwich |
| |
Home For the Holidays |
Quilt |
| |
Home For the Holidays |
Bind |
| 2/17/2010 |
Friendship Braid |
Sandwich |
| |
Friendship Braid |
Quilt |
| |
Friendship Braid |
Bind |
| |
Simply Sophisticated |
2 Blocks |
| 2/6/2010 |
Neptune Quilt |
Blocks into Top |
| 2/6/2010 |
Neptune Quilt |
Inner Borders |
| 2/6/2010 |
Neptune Quilt |
Piano Key Border |
| |
Triple Scoop |
Sandwich |
| |
Triple Scoop |
Quilt |
| |
Triple Scoop |
Bind |
| 2/17/10 |
Pumped Pumpkins |
Sandwich |
My March goals are:
- Sandwich Triple Scoop
- Quilt Triple Scoop
- Bind Triple Scoop
- Quilt Friendship Braid
- Bind Friendship Braid
- Quilt Pumped Pumpkins
- Bind Pumped Pumpkins
- Quilt Home for the Holidays
- Bind Home for the Holidays
- Piece Back for Designer Mystery 2008
- Sandwich Designer Mystery 2008
- Quilt Designer Mystery 2008
- Bind Designer Mystery 2008
Nancy husband has picked #2 for the UFO challenge this month. At least it is one that I already have the backing for and don’t have to buy any. Yea!
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Yea… Another week of not doing anything but purchasing.
Week 9
Purchased:
Moda Bella Cream 3
Flannel 108" wide 3
Week Total 6
YTD Total 39.5
Used :
Week Total 0
YTD Total 28.25
The only reason I bought the Moda was I only needed $10 more for free shipping when I bought the flannel that I needed for a design wall. If I hadn’t have bought the moda bella, the shipping would have been almost $10. So it was like I got the moda bella free.
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This quilt was my first attempt at machine appliqué. It was a very simple pattern and the person who designed it alludes me at the moment. I tried to do an internet search but do you know how many quilts come up with “Just Charming” as the title? If anyone knows or remembers who did this free quilt pattern on her blog, could you please comment so I can give proper credit to the designer? Thanks!
I completed this little quilt 7/7/09.
Updated. I found out that I could scroll back to all my feeds from my old blog on Google Reader and found the post where I posted about it. Whew!
The pattern is called “Charmed” by Anka’s treasures and can be found on Heather Mulder Peterson’s blog here.
Tags: Just Charming
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Joen Wolfrom was at my guild on Monday night. Her lecture was very informative and insightful. I will admit some of it eluded me when she was talking about it, but the next morning driving around looking at the colors in nature, it was like BOOM! Where I saw the light hitting the grass and dew, and then where the shadows added black her explanations clicked. I also saw the effect on the mountains through a golf course screen and it showed me the difference when adding different amounts of grey when I saw them without, with one and two layers of screen.
I really want to get her 3-in-1 color tool.
and possibly a few of her books:
Normally I wouldn’t solicit for gifts, but I definitely wouldn’t turn any of these down! Though I am known for making jelly roll/charm square/etc. type quilts. I would really love to branch out my skills and possibly delve into some more color-study quilts.
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