sao Quilty Happenings

drsao — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:29:55 +0000

I am celebrating right now – yeah – because I have now completed the bindings on FOUR QUILTS this past week. I just LOVE crossing things off my list – especially my UFO list.Here you go…..#1 SPLIT-NINE PATCH (my brother told me to tilt the camera to get THE WHOLE THING in – but I am not sure this worked……it makes me feel like I am on that flight simulator ride at the Aerospace Museum in San Diego!) Some of these blocks were from an online swap exchange. I really like this quilt!

Split Nine-Patch

#2 Milky Way…….from the Cutting Bee with Augusta Cole in January! I absolutely find it almost impossible to take a picture of a quilt at my house WITHOUT a cat lounging on it…….they can hear that quilt touching the floor from any place in the house! All of the fabric for this quilt came from the cutting bee – I had so much fun – I am going to do this again next year!

Milky Way

#3 Moda Piece and Plenty Mystery Quilt – 2008 – finally it is complete! Now that I have it made, I am not sure what to do with it. It isn’t exactly the kind of quilt that you would take on a picnic.

Moda Piece and Plenty 2008

#4 Maverick Ant Stars (Maverick Stars is a free Bonnie K. Hunter pattern at Quiltville.com) and I made the sashing from Leaders and Enders using 2″ wide fabrics of varing lengths – I like the look! I think it is absolutely official – I love scrappy quilts.

Maverick Ant Stars

I also made my Country Piecemaker’s Myster BOM block for August….I think we will be finding out how these pieces go together next month!

Country Piecemaker's Mystery BOM for August

And I made my Chain of Fools BOM from Quilter’s Corner for August…..I know, I know, it looks a lot like the block for July – that is BECAUSE I accidentally made the July block again! Can’t believe it but I did…..and I am going to keep it and PRETEND that it is the August block! I like it better than the August block anyway…..there……have I convinced myself.

Chain of Fools - August Wannabe

MY CARRY-ON CHALLENGE

And this is NOT a quilty happening – but I did get my luggage for my New England Tour in October - on sale at Macys! YEAH. At Target today I got lots of little travel sized toiletries. I just might be able to pull this off!

Here is my 21″ bag……..will I be able to meet my CARRY-ON CHALLENGE? I am going to try to pack for 8 days in ONE SMALL BAG! I practiced today going without any hairspray and I must admit I had a bit of a wild look! sigh. :)

sao's Carry - on Challenge

sao’s QUILTY STUFF

drsao — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:27:12 +0000

It is that time again – a personal SHOW AND TELL of sao’s quilty stuff…..

First – my Quilter’s Corner 30’s Club Blocks for June……

30's Club June 09

30's Club Piece N Plenty June Block

I really like the little filler block for the Piece N Plenty Quilt – I added the little bunny!

30's Club Filler Block

I also completed my CHAIN OF FOOLS July Block of the Month at Quilter’s Corner ….

Chain of Fools - July 2009

My PEPTO CHATTANOOGA CHOO CHOO QUILT now has borders and is with my long arm quilter Sara – complete with a little label!!!!! I really like the border fabric that Susan picked out…..hot pink! I got the pattern from Augusta Cole’s CUTTING BEE in January but the fabric was all from my stash – I have been collecting pinks for awhile……and there is barely a dent in my pink fabric.

Borders on Pepto Chattanooga Choo Choo Quilt

THE LABEL!

Creative Labeling

And Finally I did some creative work on my label – two YO YO’s and three buttons GLUED ON WITH FABRI-TAC covered the holes left by the basting stitches. Thanks to my VA SCRAPPER friends for coming up with this solution!!!

and…

I am currently working on my CELTIC KNOTWORK Block one – a picture will no doubt appear soon! If you want the pattern click on lynnes fresh hope quilting on my blog roll (she doesn’t use capital letters and so I didn’t either!)

Shirley Anne's Heart » Maverick Ant Stars

sao Quilty Happenings

sao’s QUILTY STUFF