Will this BOM ever end????

I have been quilting a lot but don't seem to get anything finished.  I have a challenge art quilt still to bind, a donation quilt to bind, and a donation quilt to quilt.  Have finished with the borders of the Hatteras quilt except to do 3 more 25sq patches for the corners of the borders.  It took so much time for this quilt for it to be unusable on the bed.  Too small.  Oh well it will be pretty.I did finish the habitat girls quilts and delivered them.
This is the September BOM from Thistle Bee I started in January.

And the two blocks for October.

I am ready to finish with this and get it quilted.  Have enjoyed it.

This is the Hatteras quilt.  So named because I started it 2.5 years ago at Hatteras.  I have finished the center and borders except for the corner blocks.  

This was taken at the harbor in Oriental NC.  It was a nice day to walk around the houses near the water and listen to different bands playing on some of the porches.

And finally this was my favorite quilt from the Durham Orange Show in September.  It is a wonderful quilting interpretation of Van Gogh's Starry Night.  The work  is amazing.

I am going to try to sew the blocks for Bento Boxes I have had made for 2 months.  We will see.

Cool and Crisp Quilting.

Sally

Last days of summer

I can only hope that summer's back is broken and things will be bright and coooooler.  This is one person who will not dream of the heat of summer in the dead of winter.
Moving along on projects to complete here is a picture of the quilt for Lulu the older of the two girls in the habitat house.

The next picture is of my block for the fall block exchange.  I have finished 10 and hope to finish the rest by tomorrow.

Each year the Arts Council asks us to donate two 6inch square canvases.  We can put anything on them we wish.  I am not as creative as many so I use something I have done.  Here are the ones for this year.  

Sorry I can't seem to turn them around.

Finally here are the BOM sampler blocks for August.  Never thought I would be sewing half square triangles to make a 1.5 inch block.  One thread can really make a difference.  Oh well only three more months.  Some are putting it together as they go but I will wait.

I have nearly finished the blocks for September but will wait to finish them all.  I like most of the fabrics esp the dark blues.

Have a beautiful sky blue day and 

Sunny quilting.

Sally

Rain again

I will forgo the repetitive comment about how time flies but September????  I have been trying to finish up some projects and have started some new ones.  This is not my comfort zone.  I like to try to finish what I start within a reasonable time unless it is a BOM.  The DOQ quilt show was really nice.
I can't believe all that volunteers have to do just to put it on.  It was so well done and they made it look so easy.  The vendors were so different it was nice and so many beautiful quilts to drool over.
It was the first time C and I had entered a show and it adds something when you have a dog in the fight.
I have nearly finished the two quilts for Lulu and Yaritza who are the girls moving into the Habitat house we worked on last May.  I just quilted a veteran's quilt for Undercover Quilters Bee donation and am working on my exchange fall blocks.  I have finished five of the fifteen.  I am nearly finished with the challenge quilt using the "ugly" fabric.  Have one more border on the quilt I started in Hatteras in 2013 and have 10 more courthouse square blocks for Bonnie Hunter's Smith Mountain Morning blue/brown quilt from her workshop in June.  September will be the last slow month and then Christmas will be here!!!

This is the quilt for the younger sister Yaritza.

I finally got a sewing table and moved my drop-leaf table to the front bedroom for a cutting table.  I do really love quilting on this where the quilt does not get caught on the edge of my extension table.

I think the wall behind is crying for a quilt.

Love love love it.

I need to send some pictures to the computer so will close

Cooler quilting

Sally

The sun the sun!!!

What a beautiful morning after so much dreariness and rain.  I, being selfish, would take the rainy, cloudy days over the 100+ degree days with 70% humidity any day but I realize those who look forward to warm weather and beach trips have had a difficult time this summer.  I also sympathize with merchants, owners of restaurants etc at beaches who might not have had a fiscally great summer, especially my nephew with two restaurants (Havanas) in Wilmington and Carolina Beach.  Maybe the rest of August will be good for a last hurrah.
This time inside has provided an excuse if I needed one to sew sew sew.  I have finished some projects and started new ones.  This is a quilt from the Missouri Star tutorial on disappearing hourglass block.  I like it but the measurements took getting used to.  It is a quilt for a lady at church.  I really like the way the pattern makes a secondary block and with the sashing it is a different look than without it.

This is Karen's 5th quilt.  It is for her cousin's baby.  I really like how the bordered blocks look.  The quilting was in the ditch around the blocks, a double-sided X in each block and straight lines in the borders.  A great job.  She pieced the back and used a scrappy binding from each of the border fabrics.  The sashing is a white with a light blue dot.  

In proof reading this I realized I write as I think which is to leave out the little words.  Arrrrgh.

Gorgeous Day Quilting

Sally

Love the rainy days quilting

Well what else is there to do.  I am getting so much sewing done I might just be able to finish some of my UFOs this year.  Don't know if I will get to the Japanese Fan but that is the ultimate goal for UFO completions.  Just saw the new arrangements for disappearing pinwheel on Missouri Star Quilting tutorials.  She makes it look so easy but getting a pinwheel measurement which is easily divisible by 3 and more to the point able to be cut into thirds (try cutting 12 and 7/8 inches into three equal sections and btw sewing around the outside of two 10inch squares is not a piece of layer cake either) is not easy.  Anyway for better or worse I have made two quilts with the disappearing hour glass and will make two with the new dispin arrangement.  I do like the quickness of making the blocks and the look of the quilts.  Oh well nothing comes cheaply.

It seems as if I have no control over where the pictures go.  Wanted to move them side by side.  Oh well.  I have finished the red/cream one and am ready for the label.  The navy one is a donation quilt.  It has been quilted just waiting for binding.






Below acting on its own power is the scrappy Irish chain quilt in blue civil war fabrics with a header of blue Wonky stars.  REally like to do these and hard to beat blue and creams.   Had 2inch strips left over from BH Smith Mt Morning.

I am going to try to get a picture of the Safe Child quilt.  I still have to do the binding.

For some reason this picture did not show the bright colors of the prints.  anyway the binding will be in a pretty orange grunge I got at ME's.  The grunge is not grey but fuchia.  And the quilt is upside down.
Karen finished her baby quilt and it is really cute.  I will try to show pics next post.
Cloudy/cool quilting
Sally

Picture challenge

Here goes trying to use a new way to put pictures on my blog.

I think this might work. These are the blue star blocks from Bonnie Smith Mt morning. But doing this on the phone will not be easy.

I will see what I can do on the computer.

These are bento box blocks called after the Japanese lunch boxes with many compartments.  Easy to do. Not sure if I will use all 30 or make two quilts.

 this is just one of the four July BOM kits from Thistle Bee for the Sampler quilt.

 This is a sampler of the BOM from Quilters Cache we did at guild last year.  I added three more to make 12 for this donation quilt.
Now if I can just remember how I got these I will be ok.  Guess I had better write down the steps.
Lots of quilting
Sally

success at last

I am sure that the dictionary of terms will have next to "waste of time" a picture of a computer.  I have spent an hour trying to figure out why I could pull up my blogs but not add a page and my dashboard said I was not an author of any blogs.  Seems as if I have too many email addresses.  I think I get a new one each time I change phones!!!
It has been nearly a month and it was so busy but I can't remember what I did.  No it is not age????
I have too many quilting projects going but am trying to finish them so I can get to some new ones.

It seems as if I have spent the morning trying to mess with pictures.

Did I mention I hate change.  Too many choices and places to look.  Anyway here is precious.  This maybe the only thing I put on today.  Oh well he really is.

I actually think the sun is trying to break through.  Don't mind the rain if temps stay in 80s.

Cloudy quilting.

Sally