Showing posts with label Sunkissed Jewel Box. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sunkissed Jewel Box. Show all posts
Friday, August 22, 2014
Some Little Finishes
I just spent a couple days in Seattle with the boys, celebrating my birthday, where I learned that the Dude is now dangerous in quilt stores. He no longer complains about being there. No, he's in the shelves, picking fabric, and confidently ordering a quarter yard and three quarter yard.
Yup, he's addicted to pillowcases. This is Robert Kaufman's The Last Frontier and Stargazers. And I don't want fabric marinating in the sewing room anymore, so I whipped them together this morning.
I also made a stack of burp clothes for my sister - Army ones for her husband...
...and UConn ones for her!
And the last of the small finishes - I pulled this out of the "quilted" pile, put an envelope style back on it, and declared it done. The quilt {Sunkissed Jewel Box} was finished in 2013 - these were the four blocks that didn't make it in. They make a great little pillow, even though I don't think I planned to save two greens and two greys.
The backing is a bit more Sunkissed by Sweetwater, and I did just so happen to cut the pieces of a churn dash before putting the rest in the green bin.
Friday, January 4, 2013
Sunkissed Jewel Box - Finished!
Another long-finished top, now a quilt!
This was based off two Moda Bake Shop tutorials - I used two charm packs and some yardage to create the Jewel Box block, and laid it out in a Barn Raising setting.
{What the heck was I thinking with this camera angle?}
I wish I had taken time to plan better - I really, really like how the squares make rings of each color, but since I didn't plan it that way, I ran out of the darker shades in each color, and didn't have enough orange/green to do a full ring.
{I should really rake the leaves...since it's January.}
I adore the backing/binding. It was an impulse - saw it in the store and guessed that it was the right colors. I love it when that works out!
Details
Fabric: Sunkissed by Sweetwater, yellow tone-on-tone
Backing/Binding: Bukhara by Dear Stella
Size: 48" square
Quilted - straight echo by me
Quilt will be for sale on my Facebook Page once I get it over there.
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Monday, December 31, 2012
Weekly Progress - Goodbye 2012
Ah, the end of another year. 2012...wasn't a bad year, but with my husband deployed or away in training for deployment for nine months of it, it wasn't a great one. It was more of a waiting year.
Some highlights:
15 finished quilts - four of which were commissioned
2013 will be the opposite, and I'm looking forward to everything that has managed to cram itself into the coming year. It'll be crazy!
In progress this week
I complained about my sister wanting her book back last week. My mother should play poker, because she let me rush through some blocks without letting on that my sister got me the book for Christmas. Back on the back burner!
{UFO Challenge} After Christmas was cleaned up and the guests went home, I finished up some projects just so I could claim I finished some UFOs this year. Blue Bowties is done!
Sunkissed Jewel Box is done! But as it's snowing raining, it will have to wait for better light for pictures and a post.
{Design Wall} No change. Seriously. The wreath is even still there.
One of our local charities takes stained/ripped clothes for rags, so they're getting two garbage bags full. I saved a small rainbow in case I need to make running shirt logo/costume.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Work in Progress Wednesday - Week 29
Finally - finally - I learned paper piecing!
I'm doing the St. Paul quilt block in batiks. It's supposed to look like stained glass windows, and I am so in love. I've read dozens of online tutorials, but it didn't make sense until I took a class and just did it. Thank goodness for excellent teachers!
I'm doing the St. Paul quilt block in batiks. It's supposed to look like stained glass windows, and I am so in love. I've read dozens of online tutorials, but it didn't make sense until I took a class and just did it. Thank goodness for excellent teachers!
Hunter's Star, round two: 32/90 light blue half-blocks
Five Swoon blocks done; working on #6, a 16" one. I saved the HSTs from the flying geese in the bigger blocks - soon I need to figure out if I can use those in the smaller blocks.
I finished piecing Sunkissed Jewel Box.
Mom's Tennessee Waltz is quilted and bound and packed for Virginia.
Quilt-Alongs:
Fat Quarter Stars - first block posted yesterday - haven't made mine yet
Argyle Quilt Along - starts 10/3 - I'm using a stash of fall fabrics to make a slightly smaller version
LQS Saturday Sampler
Quilt-Alongs:
Fat Quarter Stars - first block posted yesterday - haven't made mine yet
Argyle Quilt Along - starts 10/3 - I'm using a stash of fall fabrics to make a slightly smaller version
LQS Saturday Sampler
Untouched This Week:
Awaiting Quilting:
In Planning:
Cars Quilt (the Dude)
New Projects: 1
Completed Projects: 1
In Progress: 15
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Sunday, September 25, 2011
Sunday Stash Report - Week 39
Ooh, report's going down today!
I got Mom's Tennessee Waltz back from Paula and got the binding on it.
And then I finished sewing together the Sunkissed Jewel Box rows. It's 48" square and I don't think I'm going to put borders on it.
And in saving-my-stash-report-by-not-buying... I still haven't decided on a back for the Halloween Hexagons. I tried a minkee back, but the stitches totally disappeared, and I really want them to stand out. So there's black flannel, or Kona, or...has anyone ever used poly-satin? I think it would be too slippery, but it comes in 60" so I wouldn't have to piece it.
Used this Week: 8.93
Used Year to Date: 109.78
Added this Week: 0
Added Year to Date: 145.12
Monday, September 12, 2011
Design Wall Monday - Week 37
Still Sunkissed Jewels...
Poor thing got relegated to leaders/enders for a while. The top three rows are completely done. I should get it together soon, though I'm going to spend the next couple of days cutting for a retreat, and I'm not taking something as big as this for retreat leaders/enders.
Of course, it's hard to work on anything when your cutting table looks like this...
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Work in Progress Wednesday - Week 26
{All my pictures look dark, because - thank goodness - it looks like we're going to get some rain! It feels a little off to be happy with a dreary day, especially with the East Coast flooding in the rain, but we really need it.}
The Steelers Quilt top is done! And almost in time for football season!
42/42 Sunkissed Jewel Box blocks pieced. I'm working on the layout - separated the blocks based on the four-patch colors. The first picture is a circle of pink, then grey, then alternating yellow/orange. The second has the circle of yellow/orange as their own halves of the quilt. I may switch out the yellow for green - the yellow is very washed out.
16/25 stars
18/24 snowballs
1.5 rows pieced
It's nice to have a project where layout doesn't matter. I can piece the rows while I finish the four-patches for the last star blocks or the corners on the snowballs. By the time I piece the last block, the quilt will be almost completely together.
Untouched This Week:
In Planning:
Cars Quilt (the Dude)
Hunter's Star (my sister)
New Projects: 0
Completed Projects: 0
In Progress: 10
Monday, September 5, 2011
Design Wall Monday - Week 36
I've been working on two different projects this week.
On the wall, Sunkissed Jewel Boxes.
I need to fiddle around with the color placement, and I think I'm going to ditch the last row. 6x6 is more symmetrical for this layout, and the extra blocks will look nice in the back.
On the floor, the Tennessee Waltz:
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Work in Progress Wednesday - Week 25
I started doing UFOs on the 15 Minute Challenge, so I have some movement on a couple different projects this week.
The Steelers Quilt has side borders. Top and bottom are ready to go. I may actually get this before football season starts! (Which, um, is when?)
37/42 Sunkissed Jewel Box blocks done. It's currently laid out in a 6x6 pattern, which is nice and even. I have the blocks to do 6x7, but I'm not sure it'll look right. Or at least symmetrical. I can easily use the extra blocks in the back, though.
50/100 four-patches
29/100 star points
8/24 snowballs
This is supposed to be a Quilt in a Day, but Eleanor Burns is a much faster sewer than I. Once the four-patches and star points are done, they still need to be sewn into blocks.
Untouched This Week:
In Planning:
Cars Quilt (the Dude)
Hunter's Star (my sister)
New Projects: 1
Completed Projects: 0
In Progress: 10
Monday, August 29, 2011
Design Wall Monday - Week 35
After finishing up all the in-progress chunky log cabin blocks - and hating them - I needed something light and easy to work on.
Thank you, Jo and Moda Bakeshop. I already had the Sunkissed charm packs, so I made HSTs out of one and 4-patches out of the other.
I wanted to lay out the log cabin in a barn raising pattern, but my awful color choices will prevent that. This one will end up being my barn raising.
I didn't have the jelly roll that the pattern calls for, so mine will only be about 48x56" without borders, but that's a good size baby quilt.
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Sunday, August 28, 2011
Sunday Stash Report - Week 35
In:
1.5 yards of the yellow tone-on-tone on the right. I'm making this quilt from Moda Bakeshop, but just from the two Sunkissed charm packs I already had. It should make a nice size baby quilt, and it's super fast to put together.
Nothing out, but hopefully by the end of the week, this will be done and out.
Used this Week: 0
Used Year to Date: 90.97
Added this Week: 1.5
Added Year to Date: 136.2
Net Used for 2011: (45.23) yards
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