Some sewing Sunday 09/25/2011

First off today is the 25 of September, so that means you have only 90 days left to finish all those Christmas gifts. Are you ready yet??? 

Well here is a place that can help you get 3 things done, I hope. Make a gift on the 25th!

Also today kicks off Blogger's free BOM! That Jackie from Canton Village Quilt Works is hosting.

Friday officially brought the Autumn Equinox or first day of fall here in the US. But I think someone forgot to send Mother Nature the memo. It is still in the mid 80°'s to low 90°'s and HUMID too. I want to turn off the A/C already and open the windows.....

Ok onto my projects.....last Monday I sewed together 40 of the 100 blocks for the Turquoise and Chocolate quilt. (T/C from here on out) and sewed together HALF of the RRCB quilt too!!! Tuesday I sewed together the other half of RRCB.

I started working in a new building for work(which is really really old) 2 weeks ago, and I have been soooo tired since then. I thought it was because I was getting up an hour earlier, but everyone there tells me it is the building, great!

Today I cut and sewed the inner border onto RRCB and got two of the 4 pieced borders done. Sorry no pics today. I worked on my cathedral pillow a little more, forgot I even had that project going. All in all, I didn't do too much sewing today, was too tired to deal with it I suppose. But two more borders and RRCB will be heading out to get quilted, I am getting sooo excited!

Super sewing Sunday 09-18-11

It has been a great week in the sewing room. Got a lot done this week. Then continued on to today my big sewing day. First off. I finished sewing all the RRCB blocks together!!!!!!!!!!! Hallelujah!!!!!! I am so glad that is done.

 Here are all the blocks that need to be pieced together now. Well and some of them need to be picked apart, I got too happy sewing the strings back together.......

 All layed out on the living room floor, the only place in the house big enough to lay it out, that was empty. I need to pick those blocks apart to fill in the gaps around the edges......Oh it is getting soooo close. Already have a longarmer picked out for this one, so I need to get it finished so I can send it off. I won a 1/2 off quilting giveaway a week or so ago, and that is where this one is going.

Oh my aching back, picking all these back up about killed me.

I have MORE good news too.
Look what else I managed to get done.
All 100 blocks, DONE.

 This one took up the WHOLE floor, I had to walk all over it to lay it out. Now that it is in order, I can start sewing the sashing strips on, and sewing it all together too.

I would probably have that almost done by now, but after having to pick up not only one big quilt, but two off of the floor. It finished me off for the night. No more sewing for me. Nope. 2 Aleve, a thread ripper, and a comfy chair in front of the TV. Looks like it will be an early night to go to bed too. I don't know how you guys do the on the floor thing all the time. Oh man. It hurts.

OH YEAH. Almost forgot, I also made a table runner for a pattern designer too. Just need to quilt it up now, and get it bound. Here is a sneak peak at what it looks like too.

I am sure there is probably something else I got done too, just didn't have the camera, and can't remember what it was at this moment.

Is it really June already?

Wait, didn't May just start? Wow time is flying by waaaay to fast, wish I knew how to slow it down. It has been 12 days since my last post, really? Let me try and think, what have I been doing for the past 12 days?

I have sewn a few more blocks for the raven stars quilt I am making.

 I have been stringy along like crazy....

don't like string blocks at all! I make myself do some of those almost daily before I begin something else I might want to do, or on days when I ask myself, what am I going to work on today? and I don't quite have an answer, I string. I want them done more than anything else I have going on, because I hate doing string blocks with a passion! These are for the RRCB, when I get these done, I need 600 HST, don't remember how many of those I have done, not too many that is for sure. I have found a few ways I am going to try to do them up quickly, will see which way I like the most, and then give everyone my feedback on those different ways of doing them. Then when I get this whole quilt top finished, I might do one out of all HST!!!

Remember the bright beauties? Well this is what they look like now.

50 of those along with 49 white 5 inch squares, and a small border. Looks really cool, except it is little!!! Very disappointed in how much this technique shrinks. Plus it hurts my hand something awful to cute around the Twister template too. It is a thick template, plus there is little rubber feet to help it from sliding, and holds it above the crisscrossing seams, but it is so thick that you can't cut the left side (right-handed) pushing away, it is too thick to let the blade go up against it, you have to come from the top down, or go all the way around..........well I couldn't walk around that table, I could go on two sides, but man it tweaked my hand something awful. So since this isn't even big enough for a crib size....I am going to make 3 more of these (torture) and hook the 4 together to make a lap quilt. I already have the bright beauties cut for 2 more sets, so I need to cut 50 more of those and then 150-  5 inch white squares, good thing I bought an entire bolt of  that nice white fabric some years ago when I seen it on clearance someplace, nice and thick (not that see thru crap) and I think I only paid $1.00 a yard for it too!!!

I have 1/4 of my Christmas table runner quilted......

.it is on my PhD list, and that list needs to be cleared by the end of June!!! Whoa.......I had 6 months to do this short list, and now I only have 28 days left!!! My O' My! I will finish my 3, I will finish my 3, I will I tell ya, I will!!! I also have Turtle Bay pinned and ready to roll it out next,

Then the Black white & Red one is sitting and waiting to be pinned as well, along with the Monochromatic yellow one

even though that one wasn't on my PhD list, it isn't going to go on a list except the start to finished in 2011 list!!

Other things I have in the works....still need to make a back for the Red & White one.

.....still need to make a back for my Layer Cake Quilt Along one, I had a piece of fabric I was going to use, but now that the top is done, I don't like that piece of fabric for the back anymore..........has that ever happened to you before????

......I know there is still at least 2 BAP blocks I haven't finished, but I did buy the center fabric, and got 3 of the 6 GO! dies I need to finish the center,

so until I get the other 3 (birthday coming up in August) I am in no hurry to finish the other two blocks, what is the point if you can't finish the whole top, right???

Oh and then there is this little bucket I started cutting out 2 inch diamonds, purple and white ones for a scrappy quilt ......more to come on that one later.

 Want to take any wild guess what I might be making with all these, I am sure I will need more, lots more. These were but from one strip of each of the purple fat quarters I have, and all the white ones came from my scrap bin only!

I have another idea in my head for the other nine scrap bins for a really cool scrappy quilt I don't see many of, but I need a lot of white to go with it, and since I don't have much of that left (don't want to use that thicker stuff), I just need to buy a bolt....looking for a coupon and a good sale first though, no hurry since it isn't started.
Then I have this pile calling my name........

I had flipped it, don't know why it flipped back, sorry......but I haven't found "THE" pattern yet to use this wonderful pile of fabrics, got any suggestions, send me a pic via email, or post me a link to a picture, that is all I need to make a flimsy, a photo and I am good to go. Turquoise and chocolate!
My computer is still broke, hubby says it is in a thousand pieces out in the travel trailer........safest place to work on it, so all the pieces will still be there to put it back together. no cats, and no dogs out there :D  Just got his computer back up and running yesterday, finally, and this one I am using at this time had to be rebuilt too.  Looked at buying a new one, an IMac, but didn't want to spend the $2000-$3000 on a new computer right now, too many other things needing to be done. Garage doors, A/C fixed in my truck for starters! Breaking heat records again this year already, and I don't do heat well at all, so I am making an appointment to get the A/C in the truck fixed ASAP, and the garage door guy is looking for a place that stocks 1/2 doors ( only 4 feet wide ones)

Wow this post got long, I need to stop by more often and fill you all in, but I think without having my own computer is what is messing everything up, especially when I didn't have "A" computer at all for a little while, and this one only has one shift key that works when it wants too, drives me bonkers. Well I started this post at 3am and  it is now 5am, I am going to attempt going back to sleep now that my leg quit cramping and flexing all over the place, maybe I will be able to get some sleep before that alarm goes off in 3 hours. Wish me luck, I might need it.

Oh and I just remembered, sit n stitch is tonight too. Took about 10 minutes just now to locate my tin with my project in it..........my purple project from back in February when my husband was in the hospital.

Finally got the other notion I needed to finish that project, so I am going to shoot to finish half of what I have left tonight.