Sunday Stash Report - Week 44

A finish!

I'm very happy that I got it done before Halloween. The Dude snuggled under it after Trick-or-Treating in the town square last night.

I also worked on a different stash yesterday.
Before:

After:

My awesome Dad built the case and my awesome son sorted the colors and loaded it up.

Used this Week: 3

Used Year to Date: 112.78

Added this Week: 0

Added Year to Date: 152.95

Net Used for 2011: (41.17) yards

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A Hex(agon) on You! - Blogger's Quilt Festival

Hey look! I finished a holiday project before the actual holiday!

I used Jaybird's hexagons, block three, and her second layout. Mine are 6" unfinished, which comes to about 30" on each side and about 50x60" across the widest points.

 But my favorite part is definitely the quilting! I did a spiderweb in glow-in-the-dark thread. I had trouble picking a backing - I tried a glow-in-the-dark fabric but didn't have enough. Then I tried minkee but the stitches disappeared in the pile, which defeated the purpose. I ended up using plain Kona black, and it stands out so well.

{Ahhh, wind outtake!}

I had help with the quilting. My black Halloween cat wouldn't get near it, of course. Those things never act like a prop when I need one.

All propped-out in my front garden. None of that was purchased for this photo shoot - I like to make my front garden into an abandoned graveyard so I don't have to weed for Halloween.

The yellow is The Name Game by Quilt Country (Moda) - leftover from the borders of the Steelers. The Halloween fabric is mostly Haunted House by Alexander Henry or Spooktacular by Sanae (Moda.) All but two of the fat quarters came from my stash.
Interesting tidbit - the batting is black. And it does make a difference with the black backing and several of the fabrics - the gold is darker than it is in the Steelers quilt.
 

{Bonus points if you can find the two other Halloween Hexagon quilts!}

{Also linked to Whoop Whoop Fridays, Stitch and Share, and Stash Project.}

Work in Progress Wednesday - Week 33

My in-laws were visiting last week, so lots of WiPs were done...just not sewing ones. The fence is fixed, the Dude's playset is moved to a corner of the yard, cold-weather flowers are planted...but only one new Swoon block was made.

One more 16" block, then I'll be working my way through the 8" blocks.

I'm almost done prepping the binding for Halloween Hexagons (and probably enough for the Steelers Quilt.) It WILL be attached before Halloween!

Hunter's Star, round two - 58/90 light blue half-blocks

Quilt-Alongs: 
Fat Quarter Stars - I'm already behind a block!

Argyle Quilt Along - still cutting strip sets

LQS Saturday Sampler

Untouched This Week:

Chunky Log Cabin

Frolicking Pinwheels

St. Paul's Cross

Awaiting Quilting:

Sunkissed Jewel Box

Steelers Quilt

Bad Romance

Layer Cake Quilt Along

Hunter's Star

New Projects: 0

Completed Projects: 0

In Progress: 14

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Sunday Stash Report - Week 42

No changes to report - I finished quilting the Halloween Hexagons, but I don't count it out until it's bound.

Here's a sneak peek, though.

Caught something in my spider web!

Used this Week: 0

Used Year to Date: 109.78

Added this Week: 0

Added Year to Date: 152.95

Net Used for 2011: (44.17) yards

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Work in Progress Wednesday - Week 31

Mostly Swoon blocks this week. I'm done with the biggest and working my way to a pattern/plan. It will be a 3x3 layout, some blocks will "float", I know I want to have a block of the 8-inchers repeating the layout of the 24-inchers, apparently I need a cat in the upper right...
I had to put it on the floor because it's bigger than my design wall. When I made that, I didn't think I'd make quilts bigger than my design wall. 

Hunter's Star, round two - 48/90 light blue half-blocks - I've got the last 3.5 strips waiting to be pressed and cut in between...

...quilting the Halloween Hexagons. The grid for the web is done; next I need to chalk-line the spirals.

Quilt-Alongs:

Fat Quarter Stars - the fussy-cutting of the center did not go well. 

Argyle Quilt Along - haven't sewn my strips together yet

LQS Saturday Sampler

Untouched This Week:

Chunky Log Cabin

Frolicking Pinwheels

St. Paul's Cross

Awaiting Quilting:

Sunkissed Jewel Box

Steelers Quilt

Bad Romance

Layer Cake Quilt Along

Hunter's Star

New Projects: 0

Completed Projects: 0

In Progress: 14

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Work in Progress Wednesday - Week 28

I do think I may be in love with this one.

I debated Swoon - it's a lovely pattern, but it's BIG, and I only have 12 fat quarters. A 2x3 layout would suck. A little bit of math, and I have Swoon A Little, Swoon A Lot. The big one is the 24" from the pattern. The little ones are 8"; I'm also going to have 12" blocks.

Hunter's Star, round two: 24/90 light blue half-blocks (did I say 12 blocks a day? I don't remember that.)

Prepping my piped binding for Mom's Tennessee Waltz. It's already back from Paula! If I get the binding on tomorrow, I will be done a week ahead of schedule. Insane.

I sewed two rows of Sunkissed Jewel Box together. It's only six rows; it really shouldn't take this long.

 And I finished Halloween Hexagons. It's basted and ready to be quilted after I get the binding on the Tennessee Waltz. Really. I'm going to finish the TW before quilting this.

Untouched This Week:

Chunky Log Cabin

Frolicking Pinwheels (actually, I cut squares for this, but didn't sew any)

Awaiting Quilting:

Steelers Quilt

Bad Romance

Layer Cake Quilt Along

Hunter's Star

In Planning:

Cars Quilt (the Dude)

New Projects: 0

Completed Projects: 0

In Progress: 12

Design Wall Monday - Week 38

I'm using the wall to try to finish the backing for Halloween Hexagons...and I don't think it's going to work.

I only had six fat quarters of the stars, and adding that pieced section will only give me another 5" strip, which won't cover the left side.

So I don't know what to do. The fat quarters are (of course) from last year. And they glow-in-the-dark - anything I piece from my stash won't.

I could scrap it and go buy some minkee or flannel, because honestly, the spiderweb I plan on quilting won't show as well on this back. Not a very effective use of stash...but then, neither is this right now.

I do think the strip is kinda cool, though.

Check out more interesting design walls at Patchwork Times!

Sunday Stash Report - Week 38

I got a massive pile of fabric this week, but I'm not counting it. My sister paid for it and it's all going back to her...as a finished quilt...eventually.

6.5 yards each of the Windham Wedgwood Delft, and 2.5 yards of Kona White, for a king size Hunter's Star. That would just make too big of a dent in my stash, so since it's not MY stash fabric, it's not counting. But it's awfully pretty to look at.

In my own fabrics, I had a mostly-stash finish this week.

I used six fat quarters from stash, bought two more, and used up the rest of the Steelers gold. I already started piecing the back, and bought glow-in-the-dark thread to quilt it.

 I also bought a half yard for Mom's Tennessee Waltz's binding. The wonderful Paula already finished quilting it, so it'll get it bound this week.

Used this Week: 2.5

Used Year to Date: 100.85

Added this Week: 1.0

Added Year to Date: 145.12

Net Used for 2011: (44.27) yards

Yay! I broke 100 yards used!

 

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Halloween Hexagons - Top Finished!

I'm a little surprised at how quickly this one went together, but I guess it's not a very complicated quilt.

I used Jaybird's hexagons, block three, and her second layout. Mine are 6" unfinished, which comes to about 30.5" on each side and about 60" across the center.

I have some glow-in-the-dark fabric that I was going to use as the separating triangles, but they were dark and blended a little too much. My quilt teacher said maybe a gold like the moons would work...and I remembered I had leftover Steelers gold...so yay, used some scraps!

I ended up taking pictures inside because the wind would not cooperate. It's very gloomy and rainy today - probably why I decided to finish this instead of Sunkissed Jewels. Since we were inside, I tried to get Wedge to pose, but trying to get a cat on a quilt is as hard as trying to get a cat off a quilt.

The glow-in-the-dark fabric will be the back, and I have glow-in-the-dark thread that I'll use to quilt a giant spiderweb on it.

There are more finishes at Confessions of a Fabric Addict!

Work in Progress Wednesday - Week 27

I started an unhealthy number of quilts this week. I was bored, I liked the block, it was a new technique, my sister's fabric for her Hunter's Star came, I have an attention problem...whatever.

Based off the Jaybird hexagons. Mine are 6" unfinished, which cuts neatly from fat quarters, and I'm doing the second layout. And I'm going to quilt it like it's a spider web. And the back is going to glow in the dark. It's going to be awesome.

{actual blocks will be half dark blue/half light blue, but I love that she chose the white stars.}

Hunter's Star, round two. This one will be king size. Which, I don't even want to think about how big that is. I'm trying to do a manageable twelve half-blocks a day.

What else is big? Swoon blocks. Except you randomly decide to make 8" blocks. Then you have to piece three times as many. I might not have thought this out completely.

In previous projects:

Sunkissed Jewel Box is still slowly getting pieced together.

Mom's Tennessee Waltz is done and at the quilter's. Need to prep binding.

Untouched This Week:

Chunky Log Cabin

Frolicking Pinwheels

Awaiting Quilting:

Steelers Quilt

Bad Romance

Layer Cake Quilt Along

Hunter's Star

In Planning:

Cars Quilt (the Dude)

New Projects: 3

Completed Projects: 0

In Progress: 12

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