On the way to the border!

Almost there, It's all sewn and waiting on the borders!! WOOHOO!! Isn't it Lovely! I've already discussed with my quilter the designs and Im Over The Moon excited about this! It will have flowers and vines and miandering and More flowers and GORGEOUS!! Ok well Ill be off to work on these borders today and hopefully get this baby out to the quilter next week :) Wish me Luck!

Also you may be asking yourself.. "Whats taking so long?" How long does it take to sew up some seams and borders?... Well... between kids, home, husband, school and sewing... well in the middle of sewing, I was looking around at my sewing room and decided to clean it up some. Not messy but just fabrics laying around that needed to be put up.... well that turned into a complete furniture moving! That meant removing all fabric, notions and such to another room, Then moving all my bookshelves/fabric storage, sewing and storage tables around, cleaning then returning them all to there new homes :) Ill add pictures later of what it looks like complete since I was so busy doing that, then back to sewing lol... I forgot to get pictures, but I promise Ill post some later today, hopefully with some border added to the quilt! Have a dog grooming class to go sign up for today too, so Ill see you back here later today. Have a Wonderful Friday and Exceptional Weekend!

One more row then BORDERS!

Just one more row to add to this and Ill be on to the borders! WooHoo! It's coming along so well and I love the colors but I have a problem... My 5 yr old daughter LOVES pink! and the next quilt will have more red and blue than anything, so Im thinking of red sashing and and blue/black blocks and Black and Blue borders but she says she wants this one :( and I think I already have my sister excited over this one so there in lies my problem ... Should I just make my daughter the red one and let her get over it, after all she already has a Pink quilt that I made her, or ask my sister to choose between the two when finished and hope she picks the red and if not, she is th BAD GUY lol... sounds so sinister but I'm at a cross roads with this for now! Wish me luck and if you have a suggestion PLEASE post and let me know! Thanks!

Method to my Madness

There is a method to my madness ( I like to believe) and with this project it begins with me cutting up my 2 1/2" Moda jelly rolls into squares and I do this by laying them out as they are folded, cutting off the selvage and then using my shape cut plus to cut it every 2 1/2". Saves alot of time! I also use it to cut my fabric yardage into 2 1/2" strips then I go back across them and cut them at 12 1/2" for my border pieces of the blocks.

I also took a picture of my blocks on my design wall then copied those onto photo paper, cut them apart into the individual squares and then placed a dab of double sided repositionable tape on the back of each one and then grapped a piece of cardstock in a similar color as my border fabric and started arranging them on the paper to get an idea of placement. When I have them were I want them, I use it as reference as I sew them together.

First Row Achieved

Here is the first row completed. I haven't sewn on the lattice row yet, I will do those at the very end after all rows are completed. Im really liking this!

The Beginning!!!

Well here it is, the beginning of what my ladies quilt will become. I didnt get as much done today as I had hoped due to my son getting into a fight at school and being suspended for a day and all the mom stuff that comes along with all that drama. But hopefully Ill find some time this weekend to put a big dent in this project of the heart. I love how it is looking thus far and think I made a good decision to go with the lattice! Im loving it!

Just One More to Go!

Well here they are #8 and 9 of the Wonky Homes for the swap. Just one more to finish but it's for myself, so Ill finish it tomorrow. So here are my homes for swapping. I had alot of fun making them, I hope my partner's have as much fun looking at them :)

Received the rest of my fabric today to finish one of the three "ladies quilt's. So thats what Ill be focusing on the next week or so. Want to get at least my sister's two finished before Christmas. So watch for the post's on my progress with this in my next few bloggings. See ya soon!

Homes # 6 and 7

Just finished up these two wonky homes after a long day of cleaning, destashing and reorganizing and I think I should have just taken a nap. The blocks look nice but they took way too long because the white material has a right and wrong side and I am so tired I kept getting one side right and the other side would be backwards and it did show so I had to take them apart twice ( once on each block) and resew and on the last one I also had cut the material at the wrong angle and had to make the angle correct and by doing so had to add some more white background in order to have enough to make my 10 inch square when finished. So now Im saying PHEW! and going to take a nap! :)