Gray or Grey? Box Number 7

I decided to start in on another box in the closet, Box Number 7.

This box has all of the gray/grey fabric I have bought over the years.

Exciting News

EXCITING NEWS!!!!

We have a new quilt shop in our town.  We have a Hancock Fabrics, but now we have a local Quilt Shop!  Love the new store.  Here is a picture of the new owners;

Kim and Becky - Owners of "Cut Up & Quilt".

Love all the fabrics.  They offer classes, which Jean is teaching.  Quilting services and so much more.  Pretty exciting if I do say so myself.

I am still working on the closet clean out.

 I made up this charity quilt with the leftover blocks from this quilt.  I had a panel with the quilt pictures and sayings in the closet.  They worked perfect to finish this quilt so that it was a little bigger than just nine 16 patch blocks. Plus, I don't think I ever would have used the panels for a sweatshirt or tote bag, maybe at the time I bought the panel, but not now!

Going to keep plugging away at the closet.  I decided the last 4 of the pumpkin wall hangings are going to be made into pillows.  I had enough of the binding fabric left to make borders and I'm using the leaf fabric for the backing.  I'll be back when they are done!  See you!

Box Number 6

I think my closet is like a clown car, UFOs just keep coming out of it!!

 Box Number 6 held a project from the craft show days.

 The box held these little wall hangings. Two were done, one is quilted and has the binding pinned on, and 4 are tops waiting for backing, quilting and binding.  I'm going to finish these up for a church craft show.

Another project out of the closet it this Project Linus quilt.  I took the kit home some time back and it was missing enough black fabric to finish it.  I have solid black fabric in different weights from previous projects.  Found some that matched well and finished this.  Gave it to Jeanine this morning for Quilts From The Bluffs.  We meet again next Saturday.

Box Number 5

Box number 5 is labeled "Patterns".  Check it out.

Template Patterns

Directions on making a 3D bow tie block.

Patterns from a class I took with Shelly Burge.

Fun old book from my Mother.

Another declutter item.  This hasn't been worn in a very long time.  See ya sweatshirt!

Shouldn't take me long to find new homes for the things I"m keeping and then I can throw the rest out.  The sweatshirt has been in the guest bedroom closet.  It's cute, but I'll never wear it again.  Stay tune for Box 6!

Box Number 4

Are you ready to see Box Number 4?  Here it is!

The box is a little dirty from when it was stored it our old house.  But what I love it the label, "Misc".  And there was all kinds of things in that box.

Yes, that's a hockey player.

Lots of template patterns, counted cross stitch patterns and thread, ribbon, zippers.  Didn't take long to throw out a bunch of that stuff and find new homes for the leftovers.  Another box outta here!

Has It Been That Long???

Has it really been that long?  That I took out box number 3 out of the closet and showed it to you?  It has!  March 14th I pulled box number 3 out of the closet.  And I haven't worked on it.  It sat on my cutting table, taking up space.  This week I decided it was do or die time for the towels.  So I finished 2 towels.

And I have the third one almost done.  And I decided, I don't really want to do this anymore.  So I bagged up the last four, the towel, the top, the button and put them in bags.  The theme for our Quilt Retreat this Fall is UFO's.  So I'm taking them along and will finish them there.  It will be little projects and I'll donate them when I'm done. Last year this time I was busy cutting fabrics into kits to take the Retreat.  This year all I have to do is decided which UFOs I'm taking.  And how many should I take,  Because, Heaven Forbid, I run out of projects...

Add It Up and Box Number Three

Here it is, Wednesday!  Time for add it up.  Loving the progress I'm making.


Step 1  228 quarter square triangles - DONE
Step 2   72 blue string blocks - DONE
Step 3  350 half square triangles - DONE
Step 4    64 red string blocks -DONE
Step 5  700 black triangles -600 are cut out
Step 6  112  2.5 inch black squares -DONE
            112  2.5 inch light squares - DONE
              52 2.5 inch red squares - DONE
              26 light Ohio Star blocks - DONE
              26 dark Ohio Star blocks - DONE
Step 7  sew the 700 black triangles to the 350 half square triangles (2 on each side) - zero
Step 8  127 red string triangles combined with the 254 half square winged triangles - zero
            100 half square winged triangles set with 100 light triangles - zero
Step 9  The big finish  put all of the blocks together in rows and sew rows together. -zero
Step 10  Make borders using 100 blocks made in Step 8. - zero

 Now for box number 3.

These are leftover from the Craft Fair days.  I have 7 half towels and the tops are made for all of them.  The paper pattern in the upper left belonged to my mother.  I made a plastic template to use when I made them. I'm going to finish these off and keep them.  They need to be sewn together, a button hole made and a button sewn on.  May take a while, as I'm going to squeeze it in while working on Orca Bay.

Box Number Two

Box number 2 has come off the shelf to reveal it's contents.  Here it is:

The date on the back of the pattern is 1989.  The 2 yards of beige cotton and the seed packet fabric is going into the stash and the pattern will be given away.  We moved into our house in 1997, so this was almost 10 years old at the time of the move.  Time for it to move off the shelf.  How bad is that????

I also spent time cutting out triangles for the Orca Bay Mystery quilt.  It's still moving forward, I haven't stalled out yet. :-)

Multitude

I have a multitude of projects, like any good quilter has.  I was looking for something in my quilt room closet and thought differently about this:

I have all these nice little white boxes of projects on the shelf.  The problem is they have become a "decoration" in my closet. (Read I haven't touch them since I placed them there when we moved into the house 13 years ago.)  I decided that I'm going to start taking one project box at a time and decide if I'm truly going to finish it or should I just put the fabric back in the stash.  If I'm going to finish it, I need to work on it NOW.  My goal is to clean those off so I can put fabric there. I want it to look like this.

The first box held this:

 Which were made into these pins.
I took them to Quilt Day for Quilts From The Bluffs and we will use them for extra name tags.  A silver sharpie works great for writing your name.  So I got a UFO done, 1st one for the year!!  WOO WHOO!  And I decluttered another item!