To-Do Tuesday #30

 My 30th week of linking to Home Sewn By Us for To-Do Tuesday

Here is my progress from last week

To-Do Tuesday for week of August 4 through August 10:

1. Add sashing to my scrappy rectangle blocks yes
2. Finish yellow brick road quilt yes
3. Gather all my quilt books and put together in one place yes
4. FMQ practice at least 4 days yes
5. Online class lessons 4 days and complete at least one page yes

1 I got all of the vertical sashing done

2 I finished the yellow brick road quilt and did a blog post about it yesterday with LOTS of photos

3 I added another shelf unit next to the one in my sewing room for all the quilting books.  I will also have notebooks with patterns printed out and Craftsy/Bluprint class material printouts.  

I am now putting the books in A to Z order by first name of author.  AND a WORD document chart listing all of them.

4 I used my 2 rulers in FMQ practice on fabric that will be potholders.  On the straight stitching I ran out of the thread in the middle and it shows where the lines meet.  I will add lines going the other direction and hope it won't be noticed.  Trouble shooting is part of the practice....

6 I worked on my online class lessons on six different days!

To-Do Tuesday for week of August 11 through August 17:

1. Make some more scrappy around the cabin blocks
2. Add horizontal sashing to scrappy rectangle blocks
3. FMQ practice 4 days
4. Work on dolphin runner hand binding
5. Online class lessons at least 4 days

I am linking to Roseanne's 

http://homesewnbyus.com/to-do-tuesday-linky-53-weekly-progress-update/

Be sure to see what everyone else is doing and join in the fun!!

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

Yellow Brick Road finished!

 This post is full of photos...of this quilt I just finished!

The first photo is being held and the second one is laying on the concrete.

This pattern is by Terry Atkinson of Atkinson Designs

I started it Januarry 21, 2014 and have blogged about it.  I had bought a 6 fat quarter bundle several years before I started this quilt.  I blogged about it 1/25/14 and then again 2/01/14, 2/08/14 and 6/27/14.  At that time it was a quilt top and it hung on my quilt rack for years as I did other quilts.

Then this year I decided I needed to finish it.  I used Diagonal Dots for the backing.  There are photos in 2/25/20 post of the start of FMQ.  I used designs by Lori Kennedy mostly.  The designs I used are flower power, Claire's peony, Faye's flower, Easy Peasy.  I also used wiggles, loops, heart leaves and spirals and meanders.  The first border I used lazy 8 Christina Cameli.  The outer border is #4 serpentine stitch on my machine 2.5 x 2.5.

The other blog posts with photos from this year 6/30, 7/14, 7/19 and 7/21.

Here are photos I took all over the quilt...starting at the top left and down and all around.  Since these photos are on my phone and then in my computer....they do go away....but this blog is where I can come to see them if they are gone other places!!

And the last photo is with a corner turned over to see the back.

It feels good to have this done....I had thought about giving it as a gift....but it has practice FMQ...but then that is what I usually call all my FMQ as it is hard to get it to look perfect.  OH that's right....I forgot I gave up being perfect and I am now striving to be perfectly imperfect!!!

Rebecca Grace has started a linky party and this is the second week.  She has invited me to join.

http://cheekycognoscenti.blogspot.com/2020/08/lal2-one-where-thoroughly-modern-millie.html

Be sure to check out the other posts......so many very interesting blogs to check!

AND I am also linking with Free Motion Mavericks

http://lizzielenard-vintagesewing.blogspot.com/2020/08/free-motion-mavericks-week-293-another.html

Be sure to check their posts also.....it is so fun to see what everyone else is doing!

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

To-Do Tuesday #27

My 27th week of linking to Home Sewn By Us for To-Do Tuesday

Here is my progress from last week

To-Do Tuesday for the week of July 14 through July 20:

1.  Spend every day on sewing/quilting project.  I will be hand sewing the binding on the yellow brick road a little each day.  Also sewing more scrappy rectangle blocks....and probably some other quilt projects. yes
2. FMQ practice or a project 4 days this week. yes

1  I worked on hand binding usually on the patio first thing in the morning when it was cool in the 60s....also other times during the day and evening.

I finished two more blocks of scrappy rectangles and worked on blocks from some other projects.

I made another mask from a different pattern. I used the CDC tutorial posted on TQS site

2 I did FMQ using the BSR foot, the ruler foot and the walking foot.  Here is the dolphin runner where I am using the walking foot and moving the runner back and forth to create a wavy line.  I decided to go back and cross some of the lines and that is what I will add next.

To-Do Tuesday for the week of July 21 through July 27:

1. Finish quilting the dolphin runner
2. Make the last block of the scrappy rectangle quilt
3. Do online class lessons at least 4 days

I am linking to Roseanne's 

http://homesewnbyus.com/to-do-tuesday-linky-50-weekly-progress-update/

Be sure to see what everyone else is doing and join in the fun!!

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

Slow Sunday Stitching binding

I have been hand sewing the binding on this quilt sitting on the patio the past few cool mornings...... 

and today enjoying some slow stitching!

There is something so relaxing about hand sewing a binding on a quilt...

I like all parts of making a quilt.....but this is satisfying as the quilt is almost done....

But then.....it is sad sometimes because the enjoyment of making this quilt is over.....

Kind of hard to explain.............

This is my yellow brick road quilt I have blogged about the FMQ.

I am linking to Kathy's Quilts  Slow Sunday Stitching

https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/2020/07/slow-sunday-stitching_19.html

Be sure and check what everyone else is sewing today.

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

To-Do Tuesday #26

My 26th week of linking to Home Sewn By Us for To-Do Tuesday

Here is my progress from last week

To-Do Tuesday for the Week of July 7 through July 13:

1. Work on UFO quilt project yes
2. FMQ at least 4 days practice or a project yes
3. Work on an online class lesson at least 4 days this week. yes

1 I hung some batting with clips over another quilt for a design wall and put the scrappy rectangle blocks I made several years ago on it.  I put some more pieces together ready to sew more blocks.

2 I finished FMQ on the yellow brick road and put on the binding.  

Photo shows some of the quilting...the binding and hand sewing it down to the back.  

3 I worked on my online class lessons every day this past week.

To-Do Tuesday for the week of July 14 through July 20:

1.  Spend every day on sewing/quilting project.  I will be hand sewing the binding on the yellow brick road a little each day.  Also sewing more scrappy rectangle blocks....and probably some other quilt projects.
2. FMQ practice or a project 4 days this week.

I am linking to Roseanne's

http://homesewnbyus.com/to-do-tuesday-linky-49-weekly-progress-update/

Be sure to see what everyone else is doing and join in the fun!!

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

To-Do Tuesday #24

My 24th week of linking to Home Sewn By Us for To-Do Tuesday

To-Do Tuesday for the Week of June 23 through June 30:

1. Finalize the Hope quilt placement of blocks and sew them together. yes
2. Do more FMQ on yellow brick road quilt yes
3. Complete dolphin runner top and start FMQ yes

1 I changed the arrangement from my photo from last week of the Hope quilt.  I have rows sewn and just need to sew the rows together.  I will show it later.

2 I have almost all of the center quilted on the yellow brick road and did the yellow border in a lazy 8.  Three photos showing some of the FMQ flowers and squiggles and the first border in the lazy 8.

3 The dolphin runner top is done and backing chosen and just waiting for the batting that I ordered.

Something new (new to me) that I discovered this past week.............IGTV...

Since I really like the Bluprint classes by Christina Cameli,  I started following her on IG and her FB group.  She has an IGTV tab on her IG and I had never heard of it before.  Go to her IG afewscraps and it is the center image and you can see short tutorial videos she has done on FMQ.  Now....how really cool is that!!!

To-Do Tuesday for the Week of June 30 through July 6:

1. Work on UFO quilt project
2. FMQ at least 4 days practice or a project
3. Work on an online class lesson at least 4 days this week.

I am linking to Roseanne's

http://homesewnbyus.com/to-do-tuesday-linky-47-weekly-progress-update/

also linking to Free Motion Mavericks

http://lizzielenard-vintagesewing.blogspot.com/2020/07/free-motion-mavericks-week-287-still.html

Be sure to see what everyone else is doing and join in the fun!!

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

3 by 3 green mini

 This post is about some of the projects I have worked on this past month....
The first one I added the binding this past Tuesday at my quilt group....
It is 1½" strips sewn into in pairs and cut up and made into 4 patches.....

 The back is from an old Debbie Mumm fabric...

 I have blogged before about this log cabin block into a quilt...and it is now 24½".....

 I have been cutting fabrics into 2½" squares and put these together for a block...

 I got the borders on this yellow brick road quilt...info was blogged about it 2/08....

 I got into a bag of scraps I purchased long ago when I didn't have scraps and made two blocks....
Good memories of getting these scraps with my sisters in Rochester, MN and the shop was
Just A Little Something......

Using my scraps and trying out slab blocks from Sunday Morning Quilts book....
Getting a collection of different kinds of blocks....jumping from one thing to another...
Smiles and hugs....Caryl

Linking to Connie Linky Party Tuesday......finish it up Friday.....Link a Finish Friday...
Needle and Thread Thursday.