Weekly Goals

 Goals for the week of May 3-10 were:

• Pick 2 UFO's to move forward✅

• From start to finish- 2 table runners ✅

• Continue to work on counted cross stitch Summer House ✅

• Anything else I want to✅

Yes I succeeded in moving 2 UFO's forward, in fact one of them is done.  Here is how I left it several years ago, I was not inspired to finish it and stuck it in the back of the closet and furthest down on the UFO pile.   

When I pulled it out at the beginning of last week I felt the same way about it.  Finally I decided it was the red plaid homespun that I didn't like.  So I ripped it off and studied the colors in it before going to my stash and found the perfect coral fabric for it. I  love how it came together now.  What a difference wouldn't you say?  I still need to add some buttons for the flower centers.

Onto the next goal-another UFO.  Well technically this might be a WIP since I did just finish up the hand embroidered center block recently.  But I won't argue the point of UFO vs. WIP, it moved forward and that is what is counting! It started as just the embroidered flower pot block to which I added a dark border before adding the HST's, and pinwheels and framed it all with a couple of borders.  All of the fabrics were scraps from other projects. It needs quilting yet of course. 

I finished the cross stitch on the 'Summer' house. 

Start to finish on two table runners, well I didn't exactly start either of these this week, they were WIP's from the winter, but hey they are all done now!

This one I did start and finish this week.  These are all hand dyed fabric I bought a few years ago at a quilt show, they were just strips x WOF all different sizes.  I cut all of them to the smallest strip size and cut squares and added in a white batik.  There is a little story with this one.  Recently I made a strawberry table runner and I spritzed it with to much water to remove some purple registration marks for quilting. The red border fabric bled!!  Never had that happen before, so off to the internet to look up Vicki Welsh's magic trick she uses when fabric bleeds.  Here is the link  Save My Bleeding Quilt.  I was amazed, it worked like a charm!!!  So then I got to thinking about this hand dyed fabric and I decided to soak the runner top (before quilting it) and wow it worked fabulously!  Read her tutorial, it uses hot water, Dawn dish soap and time. So worth it!!  The hand dyed's really bled but not a thing bled onto the white batik accent fabric! AMAZING!

  I guess this one could fit into the anything else category. Another green gingham one for spring, I sold the other one last year. This one is almost identical, I think one of the three fabrics was new in this one. 

So a good week over all.  And now what do I want to do this week, hmmmm let me think.  

• quilt the hand embroidered wall hanging
• quilt a Valentine table runner
• work on a watermelon table runner
• start working on a tutorial for Accuquilt
• that's enough, I want time built in to maybe play a bit with whatever I want😄

Let's hop over to Texas Quilt Gal to cheer on our fellow quilters with their To Do Tuesday goals, Wednesday Wait Loss, and Midweek Makers

Meeting another goal

I am pleased to have met my June goal for ALYOF  2015!

Last fall I won these gorgeous fat eighth hand dyed fabrics from Vicki Welsh 's blog.  I knew I wanted something to hang on my wall of sewing/knitting room.  But it took a while to decide.  While watching TV one night a couple months ago I caught of glimpse of something like this and an idea was born!  I cut 1" strips and laid them out in a pleasing order to me, added some white strips from my stash.  Then it just sat around for a while until I came up with a quilting plan and Sunday I put it

on my longarm and quilted it up, bound it yesterday and now I will go hang it on my wall :-)  It measures in around 19" square. I used Hobbs white batting which I think is 80/20 and glide thread in a very light silver which looks white on white fabric. 

Look at how cool the quilting looks when you look at an angle across the quilt. 

I am very pleased with how it came out and how it shows so nicely in the sunlight this morning to snap some pic's!  I found it interesting how the quilting on the back looks so different with just a little different angle to the camera.

Linking up with a few linky parties this week that you will find listed on my sidebar.