WiP/FMC - Shiny

Happy Leap Year Day!

{As a total aside, I noticed I'm two followers short of 50. Hitting 50 followers on my favorite not-really-a-holiday would probably make me want to do a giveaway. Just saying.}

There wasn't a whole lot of sewing this week. There was a whole lot of running. Followed by a whole lot of icing. Not sugar icing, unfortunately.

{I'm the one in the red skirt. Which, those are from Team Sparkle. Which, there were a LOT of sparkle skirts and tutus out there. Purple is my friend Lori; pink is my sister, who's 30th birthday was the day after the race; and blue is my sister's friend.}

See where I'm touching my right leg in this picture at Mile 12? I discovered my IT band! By the finish line, I was limping. Now I have a freezer pack taped to my thigh.

 But I also have a big shiny medal.

And I'm delusional enough that I think it's going to be fun to do Disneyland's half this year, too.

Fifteen Minute Challenge - not Sew Starry! Sew Starry is done!

Instead, I worked on my mini-quilt challenge. Pieced the first six blocks into rows on Wednesday; worked on blocks 7-11 on Thursday, Friday, and Tuesday; tried my hand at embroidery on the plane on Saturday; ran a half-marathon on Sunday; and picked out my hand embroidery on Monday. {It sucked. A lot.}

Sew Starry - finished!

Quilt-Alongs: 
Fat Quarter Stars - 6/10 blocks - need more background fabric

{Road to Oklahoma - Star of Friendship - Clay's Choice}

LQS Saturday Sampler 2012 - 6/36 - my points are not the greatest on this set. Ugh.

LQS Saturday Sampler 2011 - 10/12 blocks

Quiltville Orca Bay {Skorca!} - okay, this is only two more blue blocks since Monday...

Swoon A Little, Swoon A Lot - no new block this week

Untouched This Week:

Chunky Log Cabin

St. Paul's Cross

Frolicking Pinwheels

Awaiting Quilting:

Sunkissed Jewel Box

Bad Romance

Layer Cake Quilt Along

Hunter's Star

Fall-gyle

Star Wall Hanging

At the Quilter's:

Big Blue

Adoption:
Application Submitted - 2/12 
Home Study - in progress 

New Projects: 0

Completed Projects: 1

In Progress: 16

Linked:

Work in Progress Wednesday

Life in Pieces' Fifteen Minute Challenge
 What A Hoot's BOMs Away!

Design Wall Monday - Skorca! in Assembly

Yes, assembly!

All the Ohio Star rows are together! And it looks awesomely insane. Insanely awesome?
I totally forgot about the backward hourglass in one of the stars. I'm going to fix it. Orderly chaos, people.

The border has been picked - a penguin fabric I had stashed, with a strip of iceberg blue. To separate the penguins from the Skorca. Of course.

Ten more blue pieces and a good day of red paper piecing left!

Check out more design walls at Patchwork Times!

Sunday Stash Report - Week 9

Um, so there was a sale...

$2.99 a yard on all sale fabric.

I tried to limit myself to basics (those dots are 54" so even more bang for the buck)...or baby quilt stuff...or 3.25 yards of awesome candy cane binding.

And yes, over 5 yards of the 26 are Sandy Gervais. I don't want to talk about my addiction.

I finished Sew Starry, so I get to count the back and the binding out. That makes a dent in 26 yards. A teeny tiny dent.

Used this Week: 1.33

Used Year to Date: 19.74

Added this Week: 26

Added Year to Date: 63

Net Used for 2012: (43.26) yards

Check out more reports at Patchwork Times!

Fleece Friday - Yellow Bird

Last Angry Bird for a bit!

He's yellow and he's angry.

Obsessively Stitching tutorial, not as hard as I thought sewing the triangle would be.

Shake ya tailfeather!

And the group shot. 

The Dude asked for a slingshot for his birthday.

Someone help me.

Sew Starry - Finished!

My first bigger-than-a-wall-hanging (even though it's...a wall hanging) finish of 2012!

From the Made in Cherry Quilt-Along at Pins and Bobbins. Pattern by Sarah Fielke of The Last Piece.

There were four size options - I, of course, chose none of them. Mine is 40x40, made from 2" squares.

 The fabric is three colorations of Felicity's Stash by Makower, and two colors of unknown thread fabric. They match pretty well, so they could be from the same line, but I only had fat quarters without the proper selvage.

I decided to go orderly instead of random in my placement. If you decide to do this, use the coloring page here. I used a lot more reds, especially in the points.

{Obligatory Oklahoma Wind Shot}

I did the quilting myself - cross-hatching in the star, radiating lines in the corners, crossing lines in the triangles. It's very dense for me, and I very much like it. In fact, I keep staring at my husband's Steeler's quilt and imagining the quilting I could add. He thinks I'm staring at him.

The back is plain muslin, and I'm not showing a picture because I haven't buried my threads yet.

It will be hung on the wall in my sewing studio, which is almost set up to the point I'm ready to share the full thing. Almost. I need to vacuum first.

Linked:

Can I Get a Whoop-Whoop?

Finish It Up Friday

Thank Goodness It's Finished Friday 

Sew and Tell at Amy Lou Who

WiP/FMC - Life in Progress with the Military

The first bit here is going to be a bit heavy, so just scroll down to the pictures if you don't want to read about life.

So... We're in the process of adopting from Korea.
{I know. I talk about it A LOT.}
But then my husband was put on a deployment list, and we put life on hold. Then he went on from the deployment list to the moving list, so we rushed to finish up the last bits of paperwork.

Then...
{I bet you know where this is going...}
Yeah. He's deploying.

I threw a bit of a hissy fit. We've put off the adoption process for five years, and this specific adoption for six months, because of the military holding us in limbo.

Cried. Prayed. Called our agency.

They rock.

The application is in, and the home study starts immediately, so that everything can be sent to Korea before he leaves.

And then the Dude and I have a lot to look forward to - Daddy and a brother/sister coming home in the winter/spring of 2013.

{And then we move.}

Anyway, on with the WiPs!

Fifteen Minute Challenge - still Sew Starry. Who would have thought cross-hatching would take so darn long? Anyone who only did it for fifteen minutes a day, probably.

I quilted it for fifteen minutes every day except Monday (road trip to Stillwater!)
I want to get it squared and bound today, so it's time to pick a new FMC!

I'm making my first mini-quilt for the Ellison Lane contest. It is not modern - built from log cabins and courthouse steps - but it's something I've wanted, so... I'm making it! Any guesses?

Quilt-Alongs:

Fat Quarter Stars - 6/10 blocks - skipped ahead to #9 because I'm out of background fabric. LOVE this one. So simple but so cute.

Plus, look how cute the bonus triangle from the flying geese is! It's going to make a great couple of pinwheels.

LQS Saturday Sampler 2012 - 3/36 (new blocks to work on)

LQS Saturday Sampler 2011 - 10/12 blocks

 

Quiltville Orca Bay {Skorca!} - lots of blue filling in... I'm so ready to start assembly!

Made in Cherry - see above

Swoon A Little, Swoon A Lot - the blue box? That's my Swoon fabrics... (Newest block to the side.)

Untouched This Week:

Chunky Log Cabin

St. Paul's Cross

Frolicking Pinwheels

Awaiting Quilting:

Sunkissed Jewel Box

Bad Romance

Layer Cake Quilt Along

Hunter's Star

Fall-gyle

Star Wall Hanging

At the Quilter's:

Big Blue

New Projects: 1

Completed Projects: 0

In Progress: 17

Linked:

Work in Progress Wednesday

Life in Pieces' Fifteen Minute Challenge

Design Wall Monday - Skorca!

I see a light at the end of the Skorca! tunnel!

Including the side that doesn't fit on the design wall, I have 24 more blue sections to piece. I'm about halfway through piecing the elements for that.

And then 22 red squares.

And then assembly!

Check out more design walls at Patchwork Times!

And check out Jaybird Quilts' new Scrap Sunday!