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15

Jun. ’15

Monday Madness – 06/15/2015

Design Wall Back for Scrapitude 6/15/2015

Design Wall
Back for Scrapitude
6/15/2015

The back for  Tell It To The Stars is done!  If I don’t make it to the Quilt Run this weekend, I’ll be loading this onto the quilt frame for quilting.  In the meantime, I’ve pulled fabric from the stash for Scrapitude’s backing.   The flowered print above is my focus fabric and I’ll be working the rest of the back around that color way.  I’ve created the label on the embroidery machine, so I’ll be incorporating that with the rest of the fabrics above.  The grays and dark blues from previous projects will go nice with the focus fabric.  I know there is not enough fabric for the back on my design wall but I’ll be putting together the label with other fabrics and figuring out how it will work over this week.  As difficult as creating the back for Tell It To The Stars was, I really love how it looks.  So, I’m going to figure out the back for Scrapitude as well.  I love the fact that I’ll be working completely from my stash.

Check out more finished BOMs at  and design walls at Patchworktimes.com and Cooking Up Quilts

Have a great week!

~Melanie

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14

Jun. ’15

Stash Report – Week 24, 2015

I was able to make it to my LQS yesterday and buy 2 more yards of the darker gray for the last 2 sides of the back for Tell It To The Stars.  I know 2 yards is a lot and I probably could get away with 1.5 yards but I just wanted to play it safe.  I’ve got the fabric in the wash and hopefully I’ll have time to get it dry and pressed and cut and pieced onto the back today.  It sounds like a lot when I list each step out like this but really it doesn’t take too much time.  It’s just that while waiting for the wash or the dryer to be finished – I have a tendency of getting involved in something else (work, another project, an errand) and then poof!  All those simple steps will get pushed to tomorrow or sometime next week.

Tell It To The Stars Back - so far 6/13/2015

Tell It To The Stars
Back – so far
6/13/2015

I wasn’t able to go through the stash yesterday to pick fabric for the backing of Scrapitude.  And while I was at my LQS I almost forgot my plan to pull from my stash.  I had brought the top to the shop to show and was heading over to the sale section when I remembered.  Thank goodness I remembered – I’m really hoping to use up some stash with this one.   I’ll be picking backing today.

So I only have 2 yards to add to today’s stash.  If I have time (and energy), I will work on putting the sashes and rows for Hampton Ridge.

Used this week: 0 yards

Used year to Date: -40.50 yards
Added this week: 2 yards
Added Year to Date: 58.08 yards
Net Added for 2015: 17.58 yards

see more stash reports atPatchwork Times

~Have a quilty week!

Melanie

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12

Jun. ’15

TGIF, 6/12/2015

Tell It to The Stars Backing Gray border #1 #boo

Tell It to The Stars
Backing
Gray border #1
#boo

So I made that ^^^ mistake!!!!
I pieced together the third side the wrong way on the back for Tell It To The Stars!  Time to put it down and fix it later.  I’ll be best friends with my seam ripper later and then hopefully I can get the gray border #1 done on the back.  I want to get gray border #2 finished this weekend and then I can get this on the frame for quilting.
Or… I can get the back for scrapitude and get that on the frame.  I will be going through my stash and I hope I can find yardage for the back.  I know I will not find any one piece of fabric for the entire thing but I hope I can find enough to piece together for the back of this.  It will be a scrappy back too. 🙂
Scrapitude 2015 6/8/2015

Scrapitude 2015
6/8/2015

I still haven’t gone to visit the sewing machine shop to ask some questions with the labels I made now a couple of weeks ago with my embroidery machine.  I have 1 more label to make for Month by Month so I want to finish that this weekend also.

It feels slow going.  They’re only backs and borders which I feel shouldn’t take too long but they are.  With the borders for Scrapitude I did take my time because I wanted it to come out right.  With Tell It To the Stars… well, I think life is overtaking my quilty time and I am just doing what I can when I’ve got time.  Once I get through these I can jump onto hampton ridge and get the sashes on. 🙂

Linking with –

WIPs Be Gone

Fort Worth Fabric Studio

Happy Quilting Friends!

Melanie

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08

Jun. ’15

Monday Madness – 06/08/2015

Scrapitude 2015 6/8/2015

Scrapitude 2015
6/8/2015

Scrapitude – Finished top!  I got the borders on Saturday and now I’ve got to figure out what to do on the backing. But first… Tell It To The Stars… I wasn’t able to get the back finished because I need a ton more gray fabric than I thought.  I got 2 yards and apparently I’m going to need 4 or something.  Luckily I have a darker gray fabric that I purchased originally and it was too dark so I bought a lighter gray.  I plan to piece the lighter gray all around and then piece the darker gray around that.  I’ll have to check and make sure reality matches the picture in my head but I think that’s a great way to use fabric… rather than buying more of the lighter gray.  I was only able to cut the lighter gray, pressed and got one side pieced.  I’ll be working on the rest over the course of this week.

Check out more finished BOMs at  and design walls at Patchworktimes.com and Cooking Up Quilts

Have a great week!

~Melanie

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07

Jun. ’15

Stash Report – Week 23, 2015

The top is done for Scrapitude!  I made it to my LQS on Friday and picked out the fabric for the borders.  Worked on it all day yesterday.  It took forever since I was alternating between work stuff, eating, and socializing with the family. ;0    But it is done.  Next step for scrapitude is getting the backing together.  I was supposed to get the backing when I went to the shop but I forgot.  I got 3 yards for the borders.  I know that’s a lot and I have a lot extra but here’s what I did…

Scrapitude 2015 Mitered border 6/7/2015

Scrapitude 2015
Mitered border
6/7/2015

I mitered the borders.  I think it looks wonderful.  Of course when you look carefully not all four corners connect properly but I think they’re small enough to quilt out.   I’ve only mitered once or twice before so I like how it turned out.  In addition, I didn’t cut the border strips from selvage to selvage (which would have saved on the amount of yardage I added this week).  Instead I cut parallel to the selvage edge.  It saved me on piecing time.  I bought yards of the fabrics so that way I don’t have to piece a bunch of little strips.  I bought 2 yards of the darker blue and 1 yard of the cream inner border.  So for the darker blue batik I didn’t even have to piece anything.  I just cut 4 strips for the inner border and 4 strips for the outer border.  For the cream border I only pieced 2 strips together for each of the four sides.  By doing it this way, the borders are not as stretchy as it is when I use strips from selvage to selvage.  This is the first time I’ve done it this way and so far, I like how the top feels.  The borders feel more secure and fixed and I hope when I quilt it, they don’t stretch as much and not cut away from the border when I trim after I quilt. We’ll see how it turns out.  🙂

I can’t show a picture of the full thing yet because the top no longer fits on my design wall and the children are still sleeping!  I can’t ask/trick/ bribe them into holding it up for a picture but I plan to do it later today so I can post a picture then.

Today’s plan is to work on the backing for Tell It To The Stars.

Tell It To The Stars back 6/3/2015

Tell It To The Stars
back
6/3/2015

Here’s the back to remind you what it looks like.  Thank you to everyone who commented.  I really like how it is turning out.  I have decided to go with the gray and today’s agenda is to measure, cut and sew them on.  If I have time (and energy), I will work on putting the sashes and rows for Hampton Ridge.

Used this week: 4.25 yards

Used year to Date: -40.50 yards
Added this week: 3 yards
Added Year to Date: 56.08 yards
Net Added for 2015: 15.58 yards

see more stash reports atPatchwork Times

~Have a quilty week!

Melanie

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05

Jun. ’15

TGIF, 6/5/2015

Whooo!  What a busy week.  With the girl culminating and the boy’s baseball schedule we’ve been booked every night this week.  I’m so excited to spend a weekend with my sewing machine and no other obligations.

Scrapitude – I plan to go to my LQS this afternoon to get borders.  I plan to tackle this step this week.  I may also get backing fabric since I’m there and will save me a trip.

Scrapitude 5/31/2015

Scrapitude
5/31/2015

Tell It To The Stars – I agree with everyone’s response – The gray is the best option for completing this back.  I plan to finish the backing this weekend.

Tell It To The Stars back 6/3/2015

Tell It To The Stars
back
6/3/2015

I also want to visit the sewing machine shop as I had some questions with the labels I made last week with my embroidery machine.  I have 1 more label to make for Month by Month so I want to finish that this weekend also.

The Midnight Mystery QAL ‘s fabric selection post was released yesterday and I’m hesitating on whether I want to be involved with this.  I think I’ll pass for right now.  I have some projects I want to get to and if I add this to my list, I won’t get to the projects I want to get to.  I have the instructions emailed to me each month so if I decide to play along later, I can always jump in.  For now, the final item on my list of things to work on this weekend is putting the sashing and blocks together for Hampton Ridge.

Linking with –

WIPs Be Gone

Fort Worth Fabric Studio

Happy Quilting Friends!

Melanie

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01

Jun. ’15

Monday Madness – 06/01/2015

Now that Month by Month is finished – I’m in a bit of a standstill.  I’m in various stages of finishing…

Scrapitude – I need to buy fabric for the borders and I hope I’ll have some time this week to do that.

Scrapitude 5/31/2015

Scrapitude
5/31/2015

Tell It to The Stars – I need to piece the backing and I’m having trouble with this.  I’m getting ready to throw the idea of piecing it together away and just get something for the back.

Tell It To The Stars Designing the back 3/5/15

Tell It To The Stars
Designing the back
3/5/15

Moon Glow – I need to figure out what the border(s) is/are and then sew them to the top.

Moon Glow inner top done 5/17/2015

Moon Glow
inner top done
5/17/2015

Hampton Ridge – attach the sashing and put the top together.

Hampton Ridge 5/20/2015

Hampton Ridge
5/20/2015

Here’s a list of the next set of projects on my UFO list:

Raining Cats and Dogs – my hand project

Celtic Solstice and Missing Ivy – which I haven’t touched in quite some time and I’m not sure what step I am in the project.  I’m still in the piecing stage though.

And finally, A Rainbow Garden – which was the wool BOM I was working on last year.

I did put a new mystery quilt on the docket starting this week and I’m not sure if I will still do it.  I want to get through this list of projects and start working on the next.  I’ve got a bunch of kits that I want to actually work through but in order for me to get them out of their current spaces I need to free up some of the spaces that are being taken up by the current list of projects.  I’ll just keep plugging along…

 

 

Check out more finished BOMs at  and design walls at Patchworktimes.com and Cooking Up Quilts

Have a great week!

~Melanie

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31

May. ’15

Stash Report – Week 22, 2015

I wasn’t able to post my stash report last week because I was out of town.  But anytime I go out of town – I buy fabric!  Specifically 12.33 yards of fabric!

I was able to work on Scrapitude yesterday as I planned.

Scrapitude 5/31/2015

Scrapitude
5/31/2015

But I wasn’t able to get the borders on.  I didn’t make it to the LQS in time with everything else going on so I went through my entire stash.  I did find fabric that would work for the borders but I didn’t have enough of it!  C’est la vie!  I will be going to the LQS sometime this week to get something for the borders.  I was able to work on Month by Month! The only thing I had left to do for Month by Month was “put the binding on”!  I was able to do that and the next step is to get the label.  I’ll be working on the Embroidery machine to create that today.  But I consider this a finish!

Month by Month Finished! 5/31/2015

Month by Month
Finished!
5/31/2015  (sorry the picture is out of focus – I had the boy take it while I held it up)

Used this week: 7.50 yards

Used year to Date: -36.25 yards
Added this week: 12.33 yards
Added Year to Date: 53.08 yards
Net Added for 2015: 16.83 yards

The SoCal Quilt Run is coming up in a few weeks and the kids and I have been looking forward to trekking all over Southern California and visiting the participating quilt shops.  I took a quick look at the shops and noticed that the quilt shop in Westwood that I go to for the Modern Quilt Guild is not participating.  I wonder why? Anyway, I bring the run up because expect a big jump in numbers by the end of June.  While going through the stash for the borders for Scrapitude I recognize that I do not have enough darks in the stash.  I think I’ll be looking to enhance that part of the stash.  Although – to be real – I am going to make an effort to not by a whole lot.  I enjoy the run to visit the shops but I really do not need to buy anything.  I do at some point want to only buy fabric when I need it for a project.  And I want my stash to be only scraps from past projects.  That may be in my dreams but one day it will be a goal of mine.  For this run though, if I feel the buying bug.. then I’m going to concentrate on focusing on dark valued fabrics. 🙂

see more stash reports atPatchwork Times

~Have a quilty week!

Melanie

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30

May. ’15

Weekend Lineup!

Scrapitude 5/29/2015

Scrapitude
5/29/2015

I’ll be working on this all weekend!  Once those three long seems are sewed together, I’ll be working on the borders.  I’m not sure I have enough fabric so I may end up going to the LQS to pick some up.  I’ll do that when I run out to do some errands.  But before I can play with fabric… I’ve got work to do and the boy has a baseball game at 11am and I’ve got to go shopping with the girl for graduation stuff.  I’ll be happy if I get these last 2 seems done.  These next few weeks/months are going to be really busy and I will treasure what little quilty time I have.  They are necessary to keeping me sane. 🙂

Happy quilting friends!

~Melanie

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27

May. ’15

WIP Wednesday – 5/27/2015

Scrapitude 5/27/2015

Scrapitude
5/27/2015

I’m working on finishing the top for Scrapitude.  I’ve got all the blocks pieced in rows and I’m in the middle of putting together the rows of sashing.  I’ve got 3 more of those rows to finish up and then I can piece the row of blocks with the row of sashes.  Once that is done I’ll work on getting the borders together.  I like how the quilt looks.  This started out as a mystery so you just never know with mysteries whether you’ll like how it will turn out and I’m happy that I like this one.  I wasn’t very organized when I put the blocks together.  I originally paid close attention in the block layouts and not place matching fabrics together.  However I didn’t label anything and my blocks got mixed up.  As you can see I ended up sewing matching fabrics together.  I’m not pleased about that but that’s what I get when I just want to piece things together and not take the time to label and organize everything.

 

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~Here’s to a great week!

Melanie

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