Friday Finish

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My Mother used to say don't start anything on Friday or you will never finish it. Looking at all the unfinished projects stored in bags, boxes and even tubs I didn't follow her advise. With that in mind today I did get one to a closer to finished category. .This is a disappearing 9 patch that didn't need much to get it to the flimsy stage. Hopefully I can get the binding made and find something for a back then push this one on out to the quilt shack.

I know I have not posted anything in a long time and as I was adding borders I thought do this might be a way to make myself more accountable to finish more of these projects. Guess we will see. 

Teresa

2019 scrap challenge

Besides all the twin size quilts I made for Sleep in Heavenly Peace I also made this top and donated it to Ivy for Habitat. Yes pretty much all I've done is eat, sleep and quilt.


happy stitching,

Teresa

More

Here are a few more pictures of quilts we have made for Sleep  in Heavenly Peace.

We make a lot using 6 inch finished half square triangles, which can be set together in several ways. I think we have a good variety of other patterns too.

Happy Stitching,

Teresa

Still here

I'm still here, just been very busy. Making quilts for Sleep in Heavenly Peace has become my passion. With the help of fellow quilters making blocks or putting tops together plus my friend Donna helping me quilt them we have made quite a few quilts for them. I have 9 ready for pickup now and I know we gave them 7 last month. I will have to go back and see if I can figure out how many we have given them this year. Here are a few pictures.

Stacked up ready to go.


Happy stitching to you,

Teresa

February 1st

The first month of the year has already passed, I think at about 90 miles an hour. I got a good bit done and if I can keep the momentum it will be a good year, what is it they say about best laid plans, we will have to just wait and see. On Jan.1st clue of Bonnie Hunter's Good Fortune mystery, she suggested making a list of your unfinished projects as something to work on for the year. I had already been thinking of doing this so this was just the push I needed. Three pages later and I have still not gone through all the drawers and project boxes(reality check), I took a break on the listing and started working. I am writing the finish date to the left of the list in red ink, definitely a red letter day. So for January I have 6 finishes. A few I have shown in earlier post.

This little blue and yellow Oklahoma Backroads had waited patiently for a couple of years but now it is done.

My twin size version of Good Fortune.

I know better to think that I would not start anything new but my plan is to finish anything I start quickly. So that means it needs to be something small like this little heart banner.


So January numbers are 6 finishes of old and one new. Wish I could say that was the only thing I started in January but no I can't. I also quilted and bound one little baby quilt for a friend and got started cutting up the t-shirt for another customer.

Happy Stitching,


Teresa

Jamestown Landing

I probably started my Jamestown Landing by Bonnie Hunter over 5 years ago. Here it is on the quilting machine. I took the last stitch in the binding on Jan. 18th, 2019 but apparently I haven't taken a better picture of it. Got to do better with that.

The flying geese and the Tobacco Road quilts were picked up yesterday by Sleep in Heavenly Peace.

I call this one Wonder block and it was picked up too, but unless I have a picture on my phone I didn't get another one of it. The back of it was 10 inch squares. These 3 had not been in the UFO pile too long but I was glad to get them finished this year.


Happy Stitching,


Teresa

New Year New Challenge

This new year is already in high gear. It's already the 24th day of the first month and this is my first post of the year. One reason was computer issues but I have those corrected now and have still drug around about posting. I'll keep this first one kind of short just to help ease back into things. This picture is my version of Bonnie Hunter's mystery Good Fortune. I really didn't to start another project at this time but there are several of us who have done the mystery for several years and it's always fun to challenge each other. I knew I didn't want a square quilt and really didn't need a large quilt so I made each step knowing I was going to rearrange it somehow and make it twin size so that I could use it as a charity quilt. Instead of setting the blocks 7 by 7 I put them together 5 by 9. That gave me 2 of each block left over. I also had several green 2 inch half square triangles left over, but I have 2 other projects using that size so I just shifted those to that box. I'm not sure why I was short on the outside blocks but I found a way to make it work and yes I turned these blocks opposite of the way she did. It was one of those happy mistakes.


I'll try to get back soon to tell you about other challenges this year.

Happy Stitching,

Teresa