projects getting finished

Well this aborted trip to Hatteras thanks to Hurricane Sandy and subsequent nor'easters has provided me time to get some projects completed and some others started.
I am still struggling with the stack and whack present blocks.  No two are the same size but I guess they could be trimmed.  Just hate to waste that pretty fabric.  I at least made the second set centered in the middle of the fat quarters.

The next project I worked on for two days was piecing a back for my general wives quilt top which is 100 by 100.  I had seven yards of a perfect fabric and leftovers from the BOM kits.  I thought I could make a 20 inch block with Log Cabin pattern using the leftovers.  Well of course my LC ruler was for 2 inch strips and I got tired and ran out of different strips so I thought and thought and came up with this design for a piece to go in between the two three yard pieces of backing.  I think it will look great.

In the back of the panel you can barely see some of the 12 paperpieced blocks for the borders of the Japanese Fan quilt I am also trying to work on.  I can only take so much of that.  It is beautiful when done but kind of boring.  Like quilt by numbers.

 I never leave C's house empty handed and after traipsing all over southern wake county I came home with fabric, wool, cookies and these.  Anyone besides C know what this is???

Finally, the guild in Goldsboro is having a silent auction at the meeting on Thursday night November 29 at 7pm at St. Stephen's Episcopal church on James street.  Entrance is in the back.  Come get some bargains.  You never know what you might find.
Thankful Quilting
sally

Presents from .........

I tried to do this stack and whack to make these blocks and I don't think I sewed a single seam correctly.  Well maybe the bottom ones.  Oh well.  And don't ask why it is not centered.  Just don't ask.  I know I cant do an exchange so I will have to keep them and make some more for a quilt.
Oh well.'
Bee tomorrow.  Don't know if anyone else will be there.  It is a busy time of year.
Thankful quilting
s

wool gatherings

I guess I just have too much time on my hands so I need something else to do.  I like the wool primitives that you can find at quilt shows and on line.  The first kit I got a year ago but somehow the pattern has divorced itself from the kit and I am waiting for a reconcilliation.  Meanwhile, (you don't see that word used much anymore.  I wonder why.  Maybe because in this time of instant gratification there is no meaning to meanwhile because people will not want to do something else or talk about something else while waiting for something to happen.) ( I got a bit off the track ....can you have two parentheses back to back in a paragraph?) I bought another kit because I had no wool and it is expensive.  This is a piece with acorns, a basket and a crow.  I liked it but don't know why.
Here it is.

I really like doing this because I can do it and watch tv.  I hope to make my stitches smaller and more uniform.  It is a challenge and somewhat like a puzzle.  Not sure why the crow is in the basket???

Will start on a snowman "winter" piece next.  I am still working on border pieces for the Japanese Fan.  I have done 11 but want to get different black for #12.  Then will work on center blocks.
Thankful Quilting
sally

UFO beginnings

Well this is how they begin.  I started the Japanese Fan Quilt with Lucille Amos at the Sew Original shop in Winston Salem last weekend and have not had time to do any more than 7 of these border pieces and one central piece of the top.  I loved her quilt with black, red and cream oriental fabrics and have used most of the same fabrics.  I am anxious to get back to it before I forget how to do this "s" curve.

This is the BOM for October for the guild charity quilts but in my fabrics as I am making one for the guild and one for my sampler quilt.  I just love these colors together. The block looks oriental and the blue is from Kasuri from moda the brick red is from little seasonal primitive gatherings and has little pumpkins on it. mmmm I do love strong contrast.

Another beginning is this lantern paper pieced block turned into an ornament for a small wall hanging that I started on Tues at Thistle Bee's new location on Center Street in Goldsboro.  It was so much fun to have so much room to spread out.  Quilting abhors a vaccuum and I covered my whole table.  I will make three more of the large blocks and three small blocks for the hanging.  Hopefully it will not remain a UFO for long.

And last but by no means least is the BOM pattern for November called "Another 9 patch star" which I just love.  It looks difficult but it is just half square triangles and squares.  It does not take as long as the drunkards path.  Again I have chosen the same brick red but another navy and a different cream.
I think someone has had a "red" influence on me??????

Well that is all for now.  Have to get something finished. 
Thankful  Quilting
Sally