What's on your bed???

Bonnie is having a linky party HERE. She wants to know what is on your bed. Well Bonnie is on my bed, well her pattern for RRCB anyway.

I named mine Confetti Madness. Now it is time for me to go crawl into that bed, it is WAY past my bedtime.

What is on your bed today???/

Woo Hoo

Finish number 2 for the year already. It is only January right?!?

Woo Hoo Roll Roll Cotton Boll, I am on a Roll now............no pun intended. LOL  This Bonnie Hunter mystery took me a whole year to complete, Sent it off to Joanne @ Insanely Cheap Quilting to be quilted, she did a wonderful job of  Loop De Loops for me, since there is sooooo much going on in this quilt. I made miles of binding, not knowing how much I was going to need, guess I will put it aside to bind 3 or 4 more quilts with scrappy red sometime down the line.

I will probably finish putting blocks together on another WIP to finish a top, and then quilt another one, and then get started on a few new ones, while working on the old ones too. What have you finished lately? Or did you start something new??

Finally!

Earlier this week I finished Roll Roll Cotton Boll!!!! Oh you have no idea how happy that last stitch made me to get that top finally finished, There are almost 5,000 pieces in that beast. Still have a few more snippings to do, and then I will be mailing it off to the quilter.  When I finished it, I jumped out of my chair, did a little victory dance, turned off the machine and left the sewing room for the night. Went down to my office, logged in to Facebook, and "WHAT?!?!" The message that pops up that was posted 1 minute earlier was from Bonnie Hunter in Quiltville, she said she had just finished putting the last stitch into Novembers mystery quilt.

You have got to be kidding me!!! I had just finished LAST years, and it is that time again! Oh Bonnie will be the death of me yet. I do know it has string blocks in it. As much as I love the look in RRCB, I hardly doubt I will make the string blocks, I will have to do something else instead.

I didn't do any other sewing this week or even today, my usual busy sewing day. But I did cut out an entire blue and white quilt top today..........it is sitting next to the machine waiting to go. Sorry no pics today. Soon.

All my Canadian friends, you have a wonderful Happy Thanksgiving tomorrow, I will take the day off as it is Columbus day here in the states.

Not much sewing today

If you had these 36 fat quarters on the left and 24 fat eighths on the right, what would you do with them????

We were headed out of town last week, and good ol Jethro, wanted to go with me.

 all stretched out on top of our bag. Crazy cat.

Since we were out of town, I didn't get any sewing done last week. We were out of town car shopping. My 19 year old wanted a new to her car, and she had found one 6 hours away. ( They are a LOT cheaper out of this ripoff town). So off to the in laws we went. We left with intentions of getting a jeep or a Malibu, BUT she ended up getting a Lincoln MkZ, fully loaded! It is a very, very, nice looking car! It is an '08 with only 22,000 miles on it. She even had to borrow $1,700 from Grandpa to get it, because it was that much out of her range. But it is worth every penny and more! We spent 9 hours on Wednesday in 94° heat baking in the sun looking at cars! Only to go get the one she found the night before on our way down. But at least we showed her all her options. So after that ordeal, waking up this morning to it only being 62° in the house, and having to find my slippers, it was a wonderful feeling!!!!!

I did finish the borders for RRCB today. Now I need to spend the next day or so ironing them so I can stitch them all on and get this one sent off in the mail to be quilted. I am soooooooooooo glad this project is almost 100% over. It has almost 5000 pieces in it. Oh my!!!!

I bought a little fabric on line 2 weeks ago when Quilting Daze was having a stash reduction sale. I got these with snowmen on them.

In my normal bright colors.

Then I also got these, which are sooooooooooo not my style., I am way out of my box with these, but that is ok. Haven't a clue what I will use these for either.

Ok back to the original question, what pattern would you use those rainbow colors for?? I am trying to find a good pattern to use those fabrics in. Any suggestions would be great.

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.

Super sewing sunday 09-11-11

Had a wonderful week of sewing and getting things done. First off I took these two piles,

and stitched them all together to make these........

I have 2 more piles to go, then I can sew them together to make a top.

Then I did a few of these.......

Oh I am getting soooooooooooo close to being able to sew this top together. Can't wait to get this one off the table. :D

Then I pulled some blocks off the design board and started sewing the pieces together to make the blocks. I no sooner put the 2 piles on the table, and Jethro came out of no where and took his spot. These stitch up very quickly. Hoping to have the whole top done by the end of the week. I did 2 sections out of 5.

 Then I grabbed my Block A Palooza blocks and stitched them together awaiting me to finished stitching down the flower garden center so I can attach these around the flower garden part. 6 more blocks are hanging off the table that you cant see.

I also quilted half of my snowman quilt, forgot to take a photo. Trying to figure out what to quilt in the rest of the areas.  I also reswed a binding back onto a blanket ( it isn't a quilt) that came undone two years ago. So now that is off the bench.....I almost cleared the bench off. Almost. I have just been cruising right along with all my projects this week. Gotta keep it all mixed up though so I don't get bored and burnt out on one project. Since a lot of them are all at the almost done stage, I should have a very exciting week coming soon when they all hit the top is finished stage!!!

I also found me a black and decker stowaway iron at the goodwill for $2.99 yesterday. Works great too!!! Now I can throw those other two pieces of junk in the trash.

Well I had 5 more hours I could have spent sewing today, but since the humidity was coming back last night, and hubby felt like a furnance, and the dogs wanted to bark non stop all night long, I didn't get much sleep so I am going to watch TV and be ready for bed really soon. I also start working at a different building tomorrow from where I had been the past 5.5 years. I am really looking forward to it for now, I needed a change in pace. Plus I have a few really good coworkers down there too.

A day with Jack the Ripper, and a finish!

Well before I tell you how much I didn't get done today, lets see what I got done since last Sunday.
I spent a few days working on rows 2 and 3 from the Rockin Row Robin. Already have row 4 done.

  Here I have them sewn together, finally. Lots of pieces.

 My daughter wanted to know why I had one really BIG house, well that is because.......

 This is where Santa stays!!!

I have all the HST's from RRCB, sitting on top of their block, waiting to be sewn. I had other things to get done this week first. So I haven't touched them since I finished all the HST's

 Can't have a blog post without Jethro getting in there someplace. That poor cat is going to be sooo lost when my daughter moves out and takes him with her. He isn't going to know what to do without me around.

 Inside that bag he is guarding is 32 stockings, that needed hemming for the guild. The first one took me 8 minutes........Oh No. Push another button, need to find quicker fancy stitches, did these on Wednesday and they needed done so I could go to bed. Guild meeting was afterwork on Thursday. I think they are going to Covenant Hospice if I remember correctly.

Now the only thing left with a deadline is the last row on the Rockin Row Robin. I started playing with hexies today, and Jack the Ripper was in full swing...........is it a full moon or something??? Nope, I checked!! But for every 10 I put in, I would rip out 20......some seams I even ripped out 5 times before kinda getting them where I wanted them. It was one of those days, that if the deadline wasn't tomorrow, I would have left the sewing room and not went back today. But on I went with Jack right there with me, 10 in, 20 out, 10 in 20 out. Well I finally got this cool hexi block done....but see the points, they are right at the edge. Nothing I did wrong, the tutorial made them that way, next time I will add a little more to that strip so I have my 1/4 seam allowance. But for today, I will end up chopping off my points.

 I had one piece of striped fabric, managed to get this one done without too many issues.

 Here is the whole row, finally done.

 and the view from the other end.

 My whole quilt top!!! Woo Hoo, I made the deadline!! Wish me luck.

Now they only did 4 blocks wide in theirs, I did 6 so my quilt is wider than it is long...........so I am thinking up another row, or two. So it will either be square or longer than wide.

Happy Birthday to meeeeee!!!

 
Oh yeah, it is my birthday, but they aren't all that big of a deal around here most of the time. Got up and went to work as usual. Well actually didn't get to sleep till about 1am, and I was back up again at 5am.......I went and sewed till after 8am, then I got ready and went to work.  As soon as I got to work the power went out, and stayed out for more than 2 hours. We had flashlights trying to find peoples mail.  The girls I work with brought in a veggie tray, and fruit tray, chip, salsa, bean dip and a cake too.  Took me 20 minutes before I even noticed it sitting there. Opened up the veggies and fruit since it was really dark and told everyone to come try the surprise buffet, it was a surprise because when you reached out and grabbed a piece of food to eat it, you didn't know if you were eating a grape, or a grape tomato!!!!   I didn't even get to eat any cake till 4:30pm we got so busy later in the day.  When I went home for lunch dear hubby and I went to the Pizza Hut buffet for lunch since he is working swing shift still. Then when I got home from work the oldest daughters boyfriend took us all out to dinner. Went and got mexican, and have enough leftover for dear hubby and me for lunch tomorrow too!!!! All in all it has been a great day, now I am going to do more sewing. Almost done with my Rockin Row Robin top, deadline is Monday, so I am trying to get it finished today or tomorrow.

Yesterday I had a Manic Madness Monday sewing session. First off let me tell ya something else. You know those sci fi movies where machines come to life and have a mind of their own??? Well for years I have said that is how my sewing machines are.....when I am too tired to be sewing and to stubborn to go to bed, my machines will purposely do thread lockups so I quit and go to bed, only to come back the next day and do nothing but turn on the machine and push the foot peddle and it works perfectly, even though you never fixed the problem. Well Sunday was one of those nights........both machines did that too me. I guess they were tired after an 11 hour sewing marathon. But yesterday, turned it on, and pushed the peddle and it purred! Sweeettttt!!! So, I had a Manic Madness Monday sewing session!!!  

I finished ALL the rest of the HST's!! They are all sewed into 4 rows of 5, waiting to be attached to the 29 blocks, so I can assemble RRCB!! Yippeeeee, it is almost finished.  Then I finished 2 rows on the Rockin Row Robin too. Started doing hexies.......not the little itty bitty hand stitched ones, bigger 6 inch pieced ones all done by machine. I need them for my RRR, and the Hexalong too!

I would post pics of all this, but the camera is on the 3rd floor in my sewing room. So I will have to post all the pics either tomorrow, or Sunday when I do my weekly update post as usual.

Alright my daughter told me she got me some solid brown for my Garden Fence QAL, so I need to go check out my prezzy, not sure if I want it brown or white. She bought all they had, and left it on the bolt, in case it isn't right, and I want to exchange it. Cool!!! I know the other daughter bought me GO! dies, the other flowers, so I can finish my BAP quilt, that is waiting on the flower garden I am adding to it. Well off to my other world, stayed tuned for more pics!

Super Sewing Sunday 08-15-11

Wow, what a week it has been. Let me see what I have gotten done, Monday started out by pressing 100 HST's again, and getting them chain stitched into 4 rows of 5, so I have 5 more blocks waiting for them to be attached. Then I quilted The lil Lion quilt. Got the binding all done.

 And Embroidered a label, got it sewn on , then washed and dried it so I could gift it to the new mom.

She asked me how I knew.......I had to asked her know what?  She said they decorated Laith's room in the same print. NO WAY!!! I told her I had no clue, that I made that quilt just for him. What are the chances of that ever happening again????
Tuesday I had a migraine, so no sewing for me. Then on Wednesday I embroidered all 20 of my friends shirts, needed his name on them. Whew glad that is done and off the list. The machine ate the last shirt.....dang it. Good thing it was the last one and not the first one, otherwise I wouldn't have kept trying. Made these Cinnamon Crumb Cake Muffins for dessert Saturday, MMMMM they are good too.

No sewing for me on Thursday, Friday or (usually) Saturday, but this Saturday I was up at 4am, so off to my room I went. I started by picking out fabrics to join in Myra's mystery quilt along. I want to use up a few fat quarters I started using for a different QAL, but couldn't get into it. Since they are batik's I picked a rainbow of batik's out of my stash, and this is what I came up with. I think my color wheel is severely lopsided wouldn't you say???? Maybe it is because I have been using up alot of the warm colors?

 Sewed another 100 HST's together, that is 5 more blocks worth. 19 blocks worth to go.

Then I started working on 2 of my Rockin Robin Rows.The stars and the houses. Then hubby finally awoke so off we go to run errands, and work on the rental house a little bit, I so want that remodel job done. Can't wait till it cools off, it will be much easier to work on it then.
Now it is finally Sunday my super sewing day of the week. I started out by doing another 100 HST's so now there is only 280 more left to go, woo hoo past the half way point. Sew them on the respected blocks and I can start piecing the top of RRCB together, FINALLY!!!! Doesn't look like it will be put together by my Bday, but it is getting there. :D

I went back to working on my 2 rows of Rockin Row Robin, after about 6 hours, my machine started throwing tantrums. GO 3 stitches and it would thread lock underneath. For no apparent reason. Everything was the same as it was for the past 20 minutes or so. So I unthreaded it, still not working. Took out the bobbin and unthreaded it, still not working. Put on a new needle, still nothing. Took the machine apart and cleaned it out, rethreaded it, put the bobbin back in, and it STILL did it. URgghhhhh.

So I got out the ol Kenmore machine. WOW, what a difference!! There is a lot of things I actually liked better, and some I didn't. First off, see the left side of this foot, how it is going UNDER the seam allowance, that is on the good machine, drives me nuts.............

See this one, how the left side is raised up, so it NEVER grabs the seam allowance, this is the trusty Kenmore foot, LOVING IT!!!!

 I did have to rethread the Kenmore about 45 times while using it. But if I would remember to turn the fly wheel so the needle was down before hitting the foot pedal, I wouldn't have that problem. Oh yeah, I found out the reverse isn't working on the Kenmore. Also Kenmore doesn't have auto needle down no biggy today. I did manage to get a lot done on the two rows of the Rockin Row Robin though, here is the left half of the row, not all put together yet..........

 and here is the right side, I was trying to finish those two little stars, one is done, and the other one almost done, when the Kenmore decided to do the same exact thing the Big Brother is doing.........URGGHHHH!

Time to quit for me. Tomorrow, I will go up there, and both machines will probably work fine, that is usually how it rolls around here. I have less than 30 minutes to sew and these two rows are finished. One more to go. But since they are only doing 5 rows, and I added two more blocks wide, I am going to do another row of my own design so the quilt will be square at least. This way it isn't wider than it is long. Didn't think that one through when I started it. Well it is after midnight as usual so I am off to bed.

What have you been up to?? Know of any good QAL's going on right now. My table is almost cleared off, so I need to find a few more to work on. Still have lots of scraps and stash to use up before the end of the year. Resolutions.......still sticking with mine!!!

Super Sewing Sunday 08-07-11

 Well I got quite a bit done today, and even quit 4 hours earlier than normal. Was at a point of boredom, or not knowing what to do next that I wanted to do. So I know it is best to quit at that point before you lose the MOJO. First I spent a couple hours making a back for another secret project quilt I made last week. Here is a sneak peek..........................

 
Sorry that is all I can show you for now.

 Then I got these 100 HST's pressed open. Chainstitched together in rows of 5, and now there are enough to sew them onto 5 of the 29 blocks I have yet to finish so I can start piecing together RRCB. Remember I want the top done before my birthday is here, and I am running out of time. If I do this each day this week. Then next Sunday I can spend the whole day piecing it together, and just in time too! Keeping the fingers crossed. I want this one off my ironing board, and my tablessssss. Then it can sit in the pile to be quilted.

 I am thinking I might use this bunch of fabric to do my Garden Fence QAL. Will think a little more on that subject. PS See Jethro stretched out in the background.

 Here is a closer view, of him hanging over the little scrap basket he is sitting in, with his arm all stretched out, like usual.

Just as I was about to turn out the light, here comes Ely Mae to start cleaning Jethro.....silly cats.











Normally during the week, I sew Mon, Tues, & Wed evenings. But this past week, I only did some sewing on Monday. I worked on the Rockin Row Robin. Here are all my fabrics cut out, stacked assembly line style next to the machine.

 Here they are layed out on the floor.

and here from the other end. There is no background fabric on these, didn't think about that till after it was all done. Oh well that is ok. Still have 3 more rows to do. Using scraps, takes along time to cut out all the pieces you need for a row. I will work more on these 3 rows again during this week as well.










I also have 20 shirts to embroider this week. I keep putting it off, and I need to just do it and be done with it. So I can give my friend his work shirts back to him.

The Happy Quilting Stars QAL starts tomorrow. Are you going to QAL too????