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Wild Thing

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After a summer sewing hiatus, I finally finished up my Wild Thing quilt top today!  It’s a pattern from Thimble Blossom and I started it in a quilting class last spring.  I learned lots of great stuff in that class that I used on my sliced nine-patch but didn’t get back to finish this because summer is garden time.  Now that the weather’s turned cooler, my thoughts have turned to quilting.  Besides, I’m almost done hand-quilting my Tall Tales quilt and I’ll need a hand project soon, so I needed this quilt top done!  I took it out for a photo shoot this afternoon and as it’s a rather blustery day, the lighting isn’t great and you can’t see the lovely fabrics very well.  (But aren’t my maple leaves in the back yard awesome?)  The quilt was done with 2 charm packs of City Weekend by Liesl Gibson for oliver & s for Moda and a basic grey to offset the bright pinwheels.  I’ll be piecing the back with more City Weekend fabric.

The reveal:

My Thanksgiving quilt is done!

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Any of you who read this blog know I’ve been working on this quilt for a long time, but tonight I got it completely done and ready to show off!!! Here it is:

This is my fourth completed quilt, machine-pieced and hand-quilted.  I’m on a roll.  Wink, wink!  For this quilt, I received the fabric for Christmas 2010,  got the pattern and cut the fabric for my Independence Day birthday 2011, started sewing for Thanksgiving 2011, got the top done for Valentine’s Day 2012, and did the hand-quilting and binding before my Independence Day birthday 2012.  I’m like the Tortoise, slow but sure.  The pattern is “Off the Grid” Sliced Nine Patch by Quilt Dad and I’m so HAPPY to have it done!  It was my hardest pattern yet and  turned out great with all those lovely fall colors and prints.  It will really make my living room railing festive come November.

I’ll get back to quilting a “Tall Tales” quilt and piecing a “Wild Things” top, so other stuff is in the pipeline.  Wa-hoo!

Hopping

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Three days of the Beehive Shop Hop has resulted in the following:

My camera and the lighting is showing these as a somewhat black background for the frogs and lizards, but it’s actually a warm chocolate brown with greens, teals, and oranges for the other colors.  I’m going to be using this pattern:

Chain Reaction pattern for sale

It’s going to be an awesome boy quilt!  Someday……..

Two months of Variety; or How I Did

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Well, the first two months of 2012 are over and I’m reflecting on how I did on my One Little Word for the year: Variety. I’ve been varied and accomplished much, but still have some areas to hit in the next few months. So I think I’m mostly in a good place. Here’s the scorecard.

Quilting:
Quilt classes attended: 1
Hand quilting: almost 1/2 of a lap quilt
Quilt piecing: 1 Thanksgiving-themed quilt; 1 pinwheel block

Papercrafting:
Missionary scrapbooks finished: 1
Greeting cards: 54
Photoshop tutorials: 5

Reading:
Books read: 40
Book club meetings attended: 4

Crocheting:
Burp cloths: 22
Doll blanket/burp cloth sets: 1

Sewing:
Pillowcases: 1
Fleece blankets: 25

General crafts:
Folded star ornaments: 1
Wreaths: 2

Gardening:
Flats of seeds started: 8

Other:
Piano practicing: 8 times
Online church service: several hours
Hikes: 3
Basketball games attended: 7
Concerts/plays attended: 5


Sliced Nine-Patch

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Saturday I finished the top for my Thanksgiving quilt. For those of you keeping track, I received the fabric for Christmas 2010, got the pattern and cut the fabric for my Independence Day birthday 2011, and got the top done for Valentine’s Day 2012. Yeah, I’m a slow worker.  I’d been working away at it a little at a time, but after I went to a quilt class last week and learned some cool stuff, I just went crazy and worked at it non-stop. So Saturday I finished it up and started the hand quilting that evening.

It’s by far the most complicated pattern I’ve done, but it’s also the best-looking one, so it just goes to show that I’m learning something. Yay! It’s a Sliced Nine-Patch called Off-the-Grid by John at Quilt Dad. And here it is!