It’s finally done! After months of procrastinating I can finally call this a finish finish finish!!!
This quilt finished at 106” x 106” and as I’ve confessed in previous posts, I sent it to the quilter, Frances Rice Farrand, here in the San Fernando Valley.
Happy quilting
Melanie
Started December 2021
Last posted about here…
They have been trimmed and blanket stitched! I’ve decided to deviate from my original plan. Well not so much my plan but from the original instructions. I’m supposed to add little loops to the top of these ornaments so I can hang them from a Christmas tree or any place. But I don’t really decorate much for Christmas and I especially don’t always have a tree. Sometimes I do but often I don’t mainly because my family are generally not home for Christmas. We make the trek to my mom’s house and stay with her for a week.
Every time I go to Temecula for one of my retreats I have been going to a quilt shop called Sew Treasured. It used to be Primitive Gatherings and if you are familiar with Primitive Gatherings you know the aesthetics I’m referring to. A lot of wool and coziness. Anyway, lately I’ve been drawn to their wool mats that they display and I’ve decided to buy black wool and place these ornaments on top in an oval shape. I plan to play with adding stitches to connect all the ornaments in a playful and fun manner.
This has gone to the next step and I have such joy in that.
Happy crafting!
Melanie
Slow progress as it’s been lovely the last few months. On the chilly side for So Cal but great for gardening and being out of doors. Not great on quilty crafty front. As it heats up to 90’s and 100’s F I’ll be staying indoors where the AC is more.
#1 – Area one – My goal is to finish finish finish this flimsy.
I dropped this off at the quilters last Tuesday and by Sunday of the holiday weekend I received a text that this was finished. This month I have to bind, put a label, and post a picture. And then it will be finished finished finished.
#2 Plum Fusion – Finish the top!
The only thing left to do on this quilt is to sew on the final border. Then it will be done and join my Quilt queue !
#3 – The Quilty Pleasure Saturday Sampler – the June and July block
I need to take a picture of the May block and do the June and July blocks. I’m a little behind but it’s not too bad yet.
#4 – Tuella and Friends – block 1 – needs the hand embroidery before I can set it aside.
#5 – Mountain Mist – continue working on this
#6 – Ornaments – I need to trim and do the blanket stitch all around these.
#7 – Sashiko… I am keeping this on the list but this will have to wait until my ornaments are finished. There is just not enough time in the day.
#8 – Raining Cats and Dogs- this is an old hand quilting project that I set aside. I am adding this on this list to remember it and figure out how to get this done. Ideally It’s one of those projects I spend a little time on each day but I have a lot of those now and so need to think about my game plan.
Happy quilting!
Melanie
Here was the 2023 list in January and I’ve removed the items I finished in Q1 2023. As before, it’s in no order of priority but in order of when the tops were done. Ideally I’d like to get the tops quilted in the order they were finished but the bigger tops are older while the smaller tops are newer. And so I like to alternate between big and small tops.
Finished in Q2 2023:
1. Arlene Arnold’s Lucretia’s Journey – flimsy 11/29/2022
The quilt queue:
2012 SoCal Quilters Run – Area One’s mystery quilt – flimsy June 2020
Jan Krentz – Broken Diamond Star – flimsy 4/2021
Scrappy Stars Around the Corner – finished top! 8/7/2021
Kimberly Einmo’s mystery quilt from Craftsy circa 2014-
Wendy Mathson’s Storm at Sea / Snail’s Trail – flimsy 12/5/2022
Happy quilting my friends!
Melanie
In January I made my WIP list and I go off this list and my quilt queue list when making my monthly focus list. Things get added as I start new things and updated as I finish projects. Here is an updated list with my Q1 starts and finishes.
Finished this second quarter in 2023:
A Big fat zero! Don’t get me wrong, I’ve made progress on things – like my Plum Fusion Saturday Sampler from 2022. It’s really almost done. I have a final 2.5″ border to put together and maybe by the time this list posts, I will be able to update this and say it’s done. But so far, nope. I am about 2 months behind on this year’s Saturday Sampler with Quilty Pleasures. I’ve been in a little slump since I’ve been doing a lot of volunteer work with my quilt guild and my garden.
Still a WIP:
1. 45 & Life to go
2. Christmas in Paris
3. Tuella and Friends
4. Judy Neimeyer’s Double Wedding Ring – started Jan. 2020
5. Cotton and Chocolate’s 2022 Saturday Sampler Plum Fusion started in January 2022. I’m almost done. It needs to be trimmed and the final border attached.
hand projects started in 2022 –
6. Ornaments – I started this in December 2021 but I’ve been stitching diligently on this throughout 2022. I finished embroidering all the ornaments and I’ve fused the heavier heat and bond. The next step is to trim, do a blanket stitch all the way around, and attach a piece of yarn to create a loop so it can hang on something over the holidays.
7. Prairie something…. I haven’t started this really. I bought it and attended the class at Quilt Emporium and other projects jumped in line. This is not my product but a picture of the instructors and a reminder of the cuteness of it.
8. Tula Pink’s Butterfly 2.0 – I haven’t actually started or cut the fabric. But I want to very badly. I’ve had a lot of new starts the last few months so I want to get the flimsies finished before cutting into this.
9. Mountain Mist: Apple Blossom (November 2022)
I am much further along on this but I have to take a more recent picture. I haven’t yet completed this first block so not that much futher along.
2023 New Starts
1. Quilty Pleasures 2023 Saturday Sampler
Happy quilting friends
Melanie
#1 – Area one – My goal is to quilt and finish finish finish this flimsy.
I received my batting and then stared at the quilt… Then I called my long arm quilter and made arrangements to send this out to her to be quilted. I’m okay with quilting it’s the basting that I dread and can’t get myself to do.
#2 Plum Fusion – Finish the top!
This is not quite done yet. Almost. I still need to trim and attach the final border. My retreat is next weekend and I hope to get this done then.
– I was able to trim this but I haven’t yet sewed on that final border. It will have to wait until next month.
#3 – The Quilty Pleasure Saturday Sampler – the May block
I finished the May block but I apparently forgot to take a picture of it.
#4 – Tuella and Friends – block 1 – needs the hand embroidery before I can set it aside.
#5 – Mountain Mist – I worked on this a little bit. so some progress.
I did spend a couple of sessions with this project which makes me happy. Not enough to show pictures but progress is progress.
#6 – Ornaments – I finished the embroidery on all my ornaments last month and I think I forgot to update my post. I need to attach them to the final backing and then do some blanket stitching all around before this can me done.
– No post and no picture. But I have the backing attached to all the ornaments. So my next step is to trim and do the blanket stitch! woohoo
#7 – Sashiko… I am keeping this on the list but this will have to wait until my ornaments are finished. There is just not enough time in the day.
#8 – Raining Cats and Dogs- this is an old hand quilting project that I set aside. I am adding this on this list to remember it and figure out how to get this done. Ideally It’s one of those projects I spend a little time on each day but I have a lot of those now and so need to think about my game plan.
Happy quilting!
Melanie
#1 – Area one – My goal is to quilt and finish finish finish this flimsy.
So I think I procrastinated on Lucretia’s Journey because I knew this big monster was next and it’s going to be hard to do every single step. I will do what I can.
– I’m still waiting on my batting.
#2 Plum Fusion – Finish the top!
This is not quite done yet. Almost. I still need to trim and attach the final border. My retreat is next weekend and I hope to get this done then.
#3 – The Quilty Pleasure Saturday Sampler – the May block
No progress at all!
#4 – Tuella and Friends – block 1 – needs the hand embroidery before I can set it aside.
#5 – Mountain Mist – I worked on this a little bit. so some progress.
I did spend a couple of sessions with this project which makes me happy. Not enough to show pictures but progress is progress.
#6 – Ornaments – I finished the embroidery on all my ornaments last month and I think I forgot to update my post. I need to attach them to the final backing and then do some blanket stitching all around before this can me done.
– No post and no picture. But I have the backing attached to all the ornaments. So my next step is to trim and do the blanket stitch! woohoo
#7 – Sashiko… I am keeping this on the list but this will have to wait until my ornaments are finished. There is just not enough time in the day.
#8 – Raining Cats and Dogs- this is an old hand quilting project that I set aside. I am adding this on this list to remember it and figure out how to get this done. Ideally It’s one of those projects I spend a little time on each day but I have a lot of those now and so need to think about my game plan.
Happy quilting!
Melanie
I started working on this first goal for June. I have the back ready and while getting the back ready I originally set aside the last bit of my bamboo batting that was my first roll and when I put it on top of the quilt to check sizing I was only off by a bit and would need to frankenbatt it. This is a large quilt at 106”x106” and after a lot of trying to convince myself to just do it. I decided why put myself through the hassle and go buy a king size batt. So I did and now I’m waiting for it.
Happy quilting!
Melanie
Reminder- This is the 2022 Saturday Sampler from Cotton and Chocolate in Thousand Oaks, CA.
My June goal was to finish this top but it’s a big baby and every time I think I’m close – the end keeps getting further away.
Here is where I’m at now and it looks like it’s done and it’s big enough to be so. But it’s not. I still need to attach a 3.5” border to it. and then this too will be done.
Before I can attach the border I have to trim and that’s holding me back. My current space doesn’t allow me to trim those parts. Later this month I’ll be going on retreat for my guild’s annual retreat in Temecula and I plan to trim this there. I hope I will have the space to do so and to also get the borders on too. If so it will be done in June but I don’t know if I’ll have the energy to do so.
Happy quilting!
Melanie
#1 – Area one – My goal is to quilt and finish finish finish this flimsy.
So I think I procrastinated on Lucretia’s Journey because I knew this big monster was next and it’s going to be hard to do every single step. I will do what I can.
#2 Plum Fusion – Finish the top!
#3 – The Quilty Pleasure Saturday Sampler – the May block
#4 – Tuella and Friends – block 1 – needs the hand embroidery before I can set it aside.
#5 – Mountain Mist –
#6 – Ornaments – I finished the embroidery on all my ornaments last month and I think I forgot to update my post. I need to attach them to the final backing and then do some blanket stitching all around before this can me done.
#7 – Sashiko… I am keeping this on the list but this will have to wait until my ornaments are finished. There is just not enough time in the day.
#8 – Raining Cats and Dogs- this is an old hand quilting project that I set aside. I am adding this on this list to remember it and figure out how to get this done. Ideally It’s one of those projects I spend a little time on each day but I have a lot of those now and so need to think about my game plan.
Happy quilting!
Melanie