Productive week continues

 I am really pleased with all I got done this week. In Wednesday's post you saw a glimpse of my design wall in process projects. They are all done!  It's no secret I love working with panels. These two had bits from different panels that I added elements to to make them unique.

The quilting was fun and even tho' most of it is with a ruler it went fast. The diagonal lines on the crow and sunflower block almost make it look like rain. 

The crow and sunflower came from the same panel.

To bring them up to the size I needed for adding the rest I made six flying geese that are 2x4 finished. Then I needed that piece to be wider so I added a skinny white sashing to each side of the geese. 

The four little blocks at the top were from a totally different panel yet they go together so nicely with the crow and sunflower. I have several more of those little ones left from more panels. They will get included in other pieces eventually. 

The next wall hanging, Welcome Harvest, has parts from different panels also and they play well together too. The words are from one panel, each letter of the word is printed on an cream color fabric. The three prints in the middle are all from another panel. All I had to do was add the checkerboard on the sides of the apple barrel one and then sash and border in a grunge looking black/gray fabric. I originally thought I would add another colorful border but once the black was on it didn't need anything more.

More ruler work on this wall hanging too. It just scream for it so I listened;)

More diagonal lines

The word Harvest I did with my channel locks since it was going horizontal and that worked really slick. I had never tried that.  I first checked it out to make sure it would give me straight lines across, I had it basted on correctly:) It wouldn't take much to be off just a tad and not have straight lines within that panel and look goofy.

I finished up twin pumpkin table runners but no photos were taken at the time of writing this on Thursday night.

Hoping to see you all over at Finished or Not, TGIFF, I Quilted This, Off The Wall, Beauties Pageant

Two for To Do Tuesday

I am joining several other bloggers in setting goals and trying to meet them on Tuesday each week.  

I am pleased to say I met my goals for the week.  The first goal was to work on a couple more panels. 

The first one features a red barn with Christmas trees.  After squaring up the little panel I added the first border in a black/gray marble fabric, next came the red and white checkerboard. 

So much fun to add my own flying geese pieced tree. More black/gray marbled fabric for a finished 1" border which also goes around the green and red pinwheel additions. The striped binding sets off the final red border. 

A little close up peek at the red barn itself. 

I decided to use four red string blocks sashed with a black print to spruce up the center of the backing. 

 

The next panel I worked with is a another red truck one.  And can you spot my red truck prop!  I found it unpainted at the Dollar Tree:)  So I got right to digging out my paints, brush and made a fast job of painting it. 

I had lots of fun deciding what features I should do in this wall hanging.  I could have done more trees since there are trees in the panel itself. But I wanted it a little different.  In the end I went with quarter square triangles to make the red and green border blocks. 

Some custom quilting ensued:)

The other goals I had were to make a reversed S swirl runner and to make a round wedge topper.  I did work on two of each style.  The fabrics were pulled from the stash and all the strips sets are sewn.  And that is as far as I got.  They are all Christmas related. I thought maybe that would help keep things cool.  Nope didn't help one little bit. Last week was really nice, but as I am writing this we are heading to the 90's again.  

The first ones on the goal list for the upcoming week is to 

• finish piecing the above round wedge toppers and S swirl runners.
• Work on snowman runners
• That's all I can muster up the desire and energy for this week!

How about you will you have a long goal list or a short one?  

Linking up with To Do Tuesday at Texas Quilt Gal, and Midweek Makers  Wishing you all a wonderful week.