ALL WoNkY

Focus...

Last night I took all the other stuff off my wall, and put back up my wonky log cabins...
I was ready to tackle them... Today, plans changed and I had all day to sew! Gotta love that!
So I've spent the day trying to get the top done... I got this far and have taken a break...

I still need to add the outer borders, and finish a few stars on the edges... I added a few subtle ones through out, and used up nearly all the extra little bits of fabric I have in these colors...
You can click the image to see it larger...

It's been fun to finally work this out...
(These were my blocks from the Bee Balm Quilting Bee...)(click here)
and HERE for old posts

Since it was B's idea for me to make a Valentine's Runner for our hallway, she has had full input on this process... She chose the red and purple background, she said it should be longer to go over the edge of the table (6' long), and when I shown it to her last night she said,
It needs hearts... just two.

So I appliqued two hearts in the middle, and this morning she said,
no, it needs more hearts...
So I have a little more applique to do on this before I bind it...

ha! She's become the quilt police on this project...

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I'm still waiting for more thread to finish quilting my tile quilt... it sits and waits...
Tile quilt posts here

And I have stuff ready for my last three ON POINT blocks, but I still haven't gotten around to laying them out... perhaps tonight after I finish all those HEARTS!

;-)

Happy Sewing!

STUFF

My blocks for the Bee Balm quilting bee are coming in, and so I am trying to square them out keeping them the wonky flare to them as possible. I can't wait to have this quilt done... it's been so much fun!
I sent a variety of strips of fabric and the beginning square, and asked that they use all the fabrics... So that is where the little one s came into play.
I 'll use them in the borders to go around all the big ones.... I even asked for all the little bits of unused bits as I hope to put ever last bit on the fabrics into the quilt...

Look at some of the tiny pieces I got back!
wish me luck!

Amy asked about the Tile quilt (click for more images) blocks and how I did it.
I keep a bag of tiny scraps, that are just to small or wonky to cut into squares, and I really just picked stuff out of my scraps and tiled them, or laid them out around the block,

fused them with a tiny piece of fusible web just to hold them in place,

and needle turned appliqued the pieces down. They go very quick.

I also peel the fusible web off before I finish sewing them down because I want them to be a little puffy when I am done...
You can pack them in as tight as you want as the pieces get much smaller as you sew them down.

I could have put more in the blocks I did but I was also focusing on the back ground fabrics to come through... So I left them a bit sparse....

Let me know if you start a project like this, I would like to make another after I finish this one!
Maybe will do another quilt along.. what do you think?

Great way to hit the scrap bin...

I quilted and bound this quilt yesterday.

Half way through sewing the binding it got it's first use...
I pulled it up and went to sleep for a hour and half...

It works well! ;-)

Of course B is back in school today,
And I AM DOWN FOR THE COUNT....
figures right? Mommy syndrome....

Kids get sick, mom's get sicker... ;-)

Santa, if you need a new Rudolph this year,
My nose could guide your sleigh!

Or, I could do one of those cold medicine commercials where
the nose runs away from the scratchy tissue....

sigh.


HAPPY SEWING!

V

Bee balm quilt bee

Had to pop this on the blog. my one sewing adventure for the day...
I'm in the Bee Balm Quilt bee, and this was our December block.
Looks great with the black background!
Instructions were on Bonnie's site...Quiltville

I had never paper pieced, so this was a first for me, and I'm quite happy with the results...