My weekly(almost) To Do Tuesday

I have been trying to do a Tuesday goals post each week, however, I missed last week due to our vacation.  The week before my only goal was to have fun, and I met that goal head on!!!  You can read about that HERE.  

Although I didn't have any quilting goals I still was able to finish a few things after getting home.  I am back into making up some panels into wall hangings to put in the shop.  I feel like I bought this one just last year but I don't know where. At any rate I think it is just a darling panel for any snow lover.  So the Joy/Peace and snowmen are the panel. 

 I added the red skinny border, then a gingham border and the flying geese pieced tree along with the final red skinny border.  The black cornerstones add a bit more whimsy with stenciled on snowflakes. 

I took my time with the custom quilting, I think it adds just a bit more to it. The quilting in the gingham fades into it and I am fine with that, let that gingham shine!

Ready to see another one?  I am just as excited about this one, loving the gray, red and green combo, and who doesn't love the popular red truck decor.

As you can see the truck/house/trees are the panel, this one was easy to square up and get right to adding the first gray/black border.  See the polka dots in this border, gotta love me some polka dots.  So I carried polka dots into the pinwheel and tree background too.  

More gray pieced trees go nicely with this panel.  So happy to have three new wall hangings added to the shop.  But wait there's more coming up on Wednesday when I will share with you my July OMG finish!  

My goal this week :

• to work with a couple more panels
• make a reverse S swirl runner
• make a round wedge topper

Thanks to Linda for hosting To Do Tuesday and to all of you that send out encouragement each week.  I am heading over there to link up.  

My yellow Calla Lily finally opened right before we left for vacation and it is still looking good although it turned more orange now.  

Christmas Pure and Simple

I'm still on a panel kick. This one had several small pictures with it.  First I trimmed up the main part of the panel into a size that worked for me. Then I trimmed up four of the small pictures that I wanted to use in this wall hanging. The flying geese were made using two of the dies from my Accuquilt 8" cube and fabrics from my stash. 

The blue border was the first thing that was added to the panel. This was made to bring it up to a size that worked with everything else, yes some math was involved, thank goodness for calculators!  All the fabrics were from my stash and I had to do a bit of digging to find the right shade of blue.  I only had a fat quarter of the perfect blue so I pieced a few strips to make it work. Since I only wanted four of the small pic's I added the red fabric for spacers. And then the flying geese were tamed into their position.

Once the green stripe border was added to pull it all together it was whisked away to my quilting machine.  Using Glide thread and Hobbs 80/20 batting I made quick progress on this wall hanging that measures just under 37 x 32".

Diagonal lines in the small pictures. And the flying geese were all stitched in one continuous line. The green stripe border said it wanted simple piano keys, so I followed the darker green stripe stitching on every fourth one. Adding a red polka dot tone on tone binding finished this one up. Then it was lined up for a photo shoot and listing on Etsy.

Linking with Finished or not Friday, Can I get a whoop whoop, Put Your Foot Down, Off the wall Friday, Peacock Party