I'm Back On Easy Street

I'm back to working on my Easy Street blocks.  After I finished Sophie's Twister quilt, I decided it was time to do a little cleaning in my sewing room  Vacuumed and picked up the cutting table.

I'm back to working on my Easy Street blocks.  Working on the B Blocks, I only have 9 of those to make, so I'm hoping I can get them done quickly.

 

Tomorrow we find out which number is our next UFO on Connie's Game.  Hoping it's not a big project since February is such a short month.

January Finish For Connie's Game

I have my first finish for Connie's Game.  Sophie's Twister Quilt is done!

Sophie's Twister Quilt

A special thank you to my husband for holding the quilt for me.  I'm home on a Snow Day from work and it's a little too windy and snowy to go outside for a picture.  Considering all the ups and downs, it's done!!

Cathedral Windows

Saturday I took my class at Hancock Fabrics with Jean.  Head over to her blog and check out the others in the class.  Here is what mine looked like on Saturday just before I left.
 

On the design wall.

And here it is today, the front is finished.

I also finished making the binding for Sophie's quilt 

Learning A New Technique

I'm off to Hancock Fabrics today to learn a "new to me" technique for making Cathedral Windows. It's all  done on your machine, no hand stitching.   Jean is teaching the class and we always have lots of fun.

These are my fabrics for the "windows".  I'm using white Kona for the rest.  We're making a pillow so I hope to have it done soon....

Ups And Downs

This has been a week of quilting ups and downs.

Up- I was excited to quilt Sophie's quilt.
Down- I didn't get the borders on very well.
Up- I learned how to take a tuck in the border to take care of some of the "extra" fabric.
Down- I was a little frustrated with myself over the borders.  After all, I've been at this a while, I "shouldn't" have things like that happen. (Just goes to show you, they can.)
Up- When I was showing my husband, he reminded me that we are hardest on ourselves, his example was of the bathroom floor he put in last winter.  He can find all of his "mistakes" and I don't even see them.
Down- I had a hard time getting excited again on Wednesday.  I did my 15 minutes, but really didn't feel like doing more.
Up- Thursday I got busy and finished my "tucks" and removed the basting from Sophie's quilt.
Up- I tried a new pantograph called Daisy Duo.

Through the center there is a line of basting to hold the tuck while I quilted my design.  Then you hand stitch the  tuck and remove the basting thread.

Quilting

Up- I'm now ready to get the binding made and sewn on.
Up-  This quilt is well on it's way to being done!!

Going Well

Things are going well with the Sophie quilt.  My backing is all sewn, the zippers are on and I'm ready to head out to A Quilting Place after work tonight.  I even know how I want to quilt it.    I hope to have pictures tomorrow if all goes well.  I want to show you the cute backing I found.

On the Easy Street front, I am on my last A Block!  Whoo Hoo!  There are only 9 B Blocks to make.  It's coming together so well.  I'm excited for this project to be well on it's way to being quilted.

Speaking of being quilted....  most of my PhD projects are tops I have done that need to be quilted.  I'm still working on that list and I'll share it with you when it's done.  I've been rather surprised at how many tops I've found.  I need to get them all in one place.

Saturday, I'm taking a class to learn how to make Cathedral Window blocks without hand sewing.  I've always wanted to make a summer quilt of Cathedral Windows, but it would take forever doing it by hand, I kind of put it on the back burner.  After all, I'm currently working on some hexies that are done by hand and I really don't need another hand project.   Speaking of those, I really should get to making a couple more...

Days Of Fun

The past few days have been really fun!  Thursday I found some fabric to use for the backing of Sophie's Twister quilt.  I have an appointment to go quilt this quilt on Tuesday so I will getting the backing sewn together and the zippers pinned on.

Saturday I met with Rachel and Deb to work on a sample Quilts of Valor quilt. A local 4-H group is going to be sewing these with help for the Quilts From The Bluffs group.  What an exciting project for them.  Some have never sewn and don't own machines.  Hoping our love of quilting is transferred to this group.

Deb - busy sewing blocks together.

Rachel did most of the pressing.

Our pile of blocks.

Me - Two rows are sewn together.

All the blocks are done.