Graceful Moments Flimsy

It's been about six weeks since I last made a sewing project list. I've primarily been spending my time working on staining the wood in the basement, which is nearly finished. I've blogged about it over at the house blog here.

We had company in town last month so I ended up packing up my mountain of fabric in the guest bedroom. I had six boxes of fabric!! Once we've finished moving around the furniture, I'll start unpacking and ironing them.

Last Friday, I had planned to participate in Friday Night With Friends, but instead, we ended up spending our older dog's last day with her. I was pretty sad over the weekend so I went and hid up in my sewing room and sewed for the weekend.

On the bright side, I finished my One Monthly Goal. These were some fabric scraps I was gifted recently and I decided to turn them into a lap quilt. I think it turned out fairly well, though I did make lots of mistakes I had to rip out and fix. I was not at my best this past weekend, but it is finished now.

My list for next time is:

1. Finish my Pink blocks for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.
2. Figure out what quilt project to start next.
3. Start quilting all my quilt flimsies once the long arm is delivered.

I am linking up with Design Wall Monday, Tuesday ToDo and once it's available, One Monthly Goal.

April One Monthly Goal

My main monthly goal for April is to get my house furniture rearranged so I can take delivery on my new Handiquilter Infinity, but that doesn't count for this particular linkup. Once I actually take delivery, I will start churning out quilts. I have 16 flimsies stowed away and ready for quilting!

Anyway, since I needed to come up with a project I could actually finish with not a lot of free time for sewing, I decided to choose this little scrap quilt to work on.

Even with a new long arm machine to play with, I should be able to finish this little flimsy.

I'm linking up with Elm Street Quilt's April OMG linkup.

Apr Friday Night w/Friends

I started my Friday Night with Friends a bit earlier in the day; I was alternating sewing with other projects. I managed to finish nine more of my stained glass blocks!! 

I had a whole lot of chunks already assembled so when I focused on combining them to make blocks, it went fairly quickly. Most of these still need to be trimmed down to the 10½" finished size.

I'm happy, and a little surprised, that I actually managed to finish this goal. 

Now, onto next month's RSC color: Pink. I won't be making any stained glass blocks in pink; they're not needed for my plan.

Drop on by the Friday Night with Friends linkup to see what everyone else is working on.

Now I need to figure out what I want to finish during April. 

Yellow RSC / March Wrap-Up

I barely had any time to sew this month because I had other house-related projects that I made myself work on before I would let myself start a new project. But, I also wanted to meet my One Monthly Goal commitment for the month, so I decided to squeeze in a day to sew as much as I could. 

For the first Bloom block, I actually used a light yellow then I decided it was too light so I ripped it apart and used a darker yellow fabric.

I only had ONE yellow batik fabric scrap for the Flowers for Nana Girl block, so that's what I used.

And I made nine more blocks for the Arlington Square quilt.

I was going to call it quits at that point, but then I decided to try making some Stained Glass blocks. I managed to finish seven blocks by this afternoon. For my project, I need 16 total. Since I have quite a few more in progress I'll probably be able to finish them during Friday Night With Friends.

This wraps up my March One Monthly Goal. I'll be linking up with Elm Street Quilts. I'll also link up with Needle & Thread Thursday and Finished or Not Friday.

Bag of Free Scraps

I got an offer for a bag of free scraps from another member of the Northwest Quilters Guild. Of course, I accepted. I think it would be impossible for me to turn down an offer of free fabric, even if they're just scraps. I guess I should have taken a photo, it was a really large plastic bag. 

Last night I started poking through it and found a pile of coordinated scraps; I assume they're leftovers from a project.

They are pretty and I thought it would be fun to try and make a lap quilt from them. I was fortunate to find a label on one of the pieces of fabric, Graceful Moments. I actually found the original pattern that these pieces were leftover from.

I thought about making a smaller version, but I don't have enough fabric. At first, I spent a while looking for additional yardage, but I finally reminded myself of the mountain of fabric I am currently shifting. So, I spent a couple hours in Electric Quilt and played around with designs that would use the pieces I already have.

Anyway, this is my tentative plan.

I didn't have an exact measurement for the finished blocks, so I estimated it. I may end up adding a border or two.

Since our basement still isn't finished, I'm not allowing myself to start a new project. (If anyone is actually interested in my progress on that project, I've been posting about it over at my house blog. I think it will be another couple of weeks before we can move in.) 

I'm not sure why, but I'm actually looking forward to playing with this one. I think it will be really quick.

March Friday Night w/Friends

My main goal for the evening was to finish the backing for my Rhododendron Trail quilt. Mission successful! I don't have a good place to lay it out and take a photo because it is so large, but this is the huge 72" block I finished a couple days ago.

Basically, it looks like this.

And since that project went so quickly, I had time to finish another squirrel. I had a bunch of pink rectangles I'd cut out as I worked on the Rhododendron Trail quilt and when yellow was this month's color for RSC, I couldn't help myself. It only took a few hours to finish up this little guy. Haha, this makes four of these little practice quilts I've finished in a little more than a month. I'm sure I won't have any problems finding homes for these lap quilts after they're finished.

It's definitely time now to put away the red and pink scraps and get to work on my yellow RSC projects.  It really would be nice if I could finish all 16 of the yellow stained glass blocks.

Thanks to Cheryl at Gone Stitchin' for hosting the monthly virtual sew-in.

Mar One Monthly Goal

Our basement remodel is practically done so it is time for me to spend the next week or two staining the wood and doing whatever finish work down there before we start moving in. I might even do some stenciling while the space is empty. Therefore, I am going to have to keep my One Monthly Goal pretty small.

Anyway, I think I'll try to finish the blocks for my Rainbow Scrap Challenge projects. I love yellow and I am looking forward to pawing through my scraps some more.

As a reminder, these are the projects I am working on.

Flowers for Nana Girl

Arlington Square

Scrappy Stained Glass