Changes

I had to make a change to my UFO list for Connie's Game.  Number 8 I had listed needed to be done by May and if it doesn't come up until after that date, I would have a problem.  So I'm adding another quilt to the list.    New list is as follows:

My 2013 UFO List

1. Wool Christmas Tree skirt

2. Finish an old sweatshirt to give away.

3. Finish tote fro Quilt Retreat of 4 years ago.

4. Make a bag - "Bag Along" pattern

5. Sophie's Twister quilt

6. Christmas Table topper

7. Rick's quilt

8. Feedsack Patches

9. String blocks to finish twin quilt.

10. B & H's wedding guest book quilt

11. Easy Street mystery quilt.

12. Nickel Quilt "4 patch Plaid" only not in plaid.

I did get the borders cut out today for Sophie's Twister quilt.  See???

Tomorrow, I go back to work.  My game plan is to press the top and sew the border fabrics together.  I may even try to measure it. 

UFO For January

January's UFO is Sophie's Twister quilt.  All I have left to do is add 2 borders, quilt it, and add binding.  Not much right?

So yesterday I scheduled a time to go to "A Quilting Place" to quilt.  Today I'm cutting borders.  I know why I stalled out on this, I wanted the floral fabric for the outside border and couldn't find it.  I kept hoping that Karma would bring it my way, but alas, it didn't.  I did buy the turquoise with little brown sprigs from the Sophie line, so I'll be using that.  The inner border is the solid brown Kona.  Now to decided exactly how wide I want to borders...

Another ACK!

Another ACK!  I missed out on the start of Connie's Game at Country Treads!

So I'm posting my list and will start on Number 5.  Good luck to all who are playing the Game!

My 2013 UFO List

1. Wool Christmas Tree skirt

2. Finish an old sweatshirt to give away.

3. Finish tote fro Quilt Retreat of 4 years ago.

4. Make a bag - "Bag Along" pattern

5. Sophie's Twister quilt

6. Christmas Table topper

7. Rick's quilt

8. Flannel quilt

9. String blocks to finish twin quilt.

10. B & H's wedding guest book quilt

11. Easy Street mystery quilt.

12. Nickel Quilt "4 patch Plaid" only not in plaid.

ACK!

I finished my first A Block for Easy Street and I was going to go outside and take a picture.  "No" I thought "I'll get one B Block done and take a picture of both."  

By the time I was done with B Block, the sun was gone.  So I was setting the 2 blocks out on the cutting table and I noticed a problem.  I had 3 of the 4 stacked geese blocks going the wrong way in the A Block.  ACK!

See the 3 flying geese blocks going the wrong way???

So I'm now in the process of ripping those blocks out and turning them the correct way.  Good thing it was an outside block and not one from the middle row.  Although I would have changed that too.

Step Seven Is Done!

Step Seven of Easy Street is done.

Yesterday, Wednesday, I joined a group of ladies that sew every Tuesday at a local fabric store.  I had a wonderful time.  They do this all year round, so I'm planning on joining them this summer. (Since the store wasn't open on Tuesday, they moved sewing day to Wednesday.  Sounds hardcore, huh?)  Anyway, back to Easy Street, I finished 9 setting triangles yesterday.  I was so excited.  This morning I sat down and finished the other 3.  So nice to have that done.

I took a picture of the corner settings outside on Tuesday as it was so sunny.  Even if it was cold, I thought the sunshine gave a better view of the true colors.

Update on the organizing of the sewing room.  I found 15 UFO's while picking up and putting things back.  Kind of scary, as I have a bunch more in the sewing room closet and in my "off site" storage in the basement.

Then I discovered that Country Threads is playing a UFO game.  I'm joining in!  Sounds like the kind of commitment I need.  At the very least I'll have 12 projects done, which is not in my mind is not "least" at all. Check it out, you know you want to join in and get those UFO's done!

Easy Street

Everything has come at a rush for the final steps of  Easy Street.  You can see by the new button on my sidebar what the quilt looks like.  Or go to Bonnie's site to check out her finished quilt.

I'm going to list the steps out like I've been doing as Step 7 & 8 haven't even been noted.

Introduction:  Gather fabrics.  (done).

Step One: 194 four-patch blocks. (done)

Step Two: Cut 128 "goose" triangles (done)

                 Cut 256 triangles for the "wings" (done)

                 Make 128 Flying geese units (done)
                 Cut 64  2 x 3.5 inch rectangles ( done)

Step Three: Cut 64 two inch squares (done)

                  Cut 128 triangles for the wings (done)

                  Cut 64 larger half-square triangles (done)

                  Make 64 shaded 4 patches (done)
Step Four: Cut 64 "goose" triangles. (done)
                 Cut 128 triangles for the "wings". (done)
                Make 64 Flying geese units. (done)
                Take 64 geese units from Step 2 and sew them to the 64 units you just made. (done)
                 Cut 145 squares 3.5 inches (done)
Step Five:  Cut 64 squares 3.5 inches, but not the ones cut above. (done)
                 Cut 128 squares 2 inches (done)

                 Sew the 128 squares to the larger 3.5 inch squares at the corners. (done)

                 Cut 16 -  5.5 squares. (done)  

                 Cut the 16 squares with an "X" for 64 quarter square triangles (done)

Step Six:   Sew and cut 128 Stacked brick blocks from strips. (done)
Step Seven: Assemble 4 pieced corner triangles. (done)
                  Assemble 12 pieced setting triangles. (1)
Step Eight: Cut 16 3.5 blocks for the center of Block A. (done)
                 Assemble 16 pieced Block A. (0)
                 Assemble 9 pieced Block B. (0)
                 Lay out all the blocks and setting triangles, sew together.

I do have to share with you a picture of the 4 corner triangles I finished yesterday. 

Corner triangles.

I took the picture outside since it was so sunny. (Cold, but sunny.)  You can really see the colors in the true light of the sun.  I'm really loving this quilt.(Have I said that before?)  And it has gone together so fast!  It took me until August to finish Orca Bay.  I'm not complaining as this quilt really put us on Easy Street!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

It's time for all those resolutions!  I love this blog's resolutions.  The only one I have a "problem" with is Number 3.  I really don't want to know how many UFO's I have.  But I decided I will list all of the UFO's currently in my sewing room.  ( I have "off site" storage in the basement and there are UFO's there too.)

So I'm starting with resolution Number 1 today and I'm going to clean my sewing room.  I'll also find all those UFO's so I can start a list.   I decided I would reward myself with a day devoted to sewing on Wednesday.  I really want to finish my "Easy Street" quilt.

I hate to do this and I really am not proud of this, but my sewing room is a hot mess.  I'm going to show you some before pictures.  I have a number of projects going at one time, my string quilts, my Easy Street quilt, and more. (The reason I need to list the UFOs.)

 There is a daybed lost behind my cutting table and I have a huge pile of fabric on the table from working on "Easy Street".  A pair of pants that I need to resew the hem as it's coming out.

Project boxes and closet. The closet is in pretty good shape, surprisingly.

Wish me luck!

P.S.  I just went back and looked at my Resolutions for 2012, the only thing I think I did was my 15 minutes of sewing.  Didn't blog about it like I said I would and I definitely didn't finish a project a month or quilt one quilt a month.  Wow, I need to get it together and make this year better!