Carey Family

Sue

What’s in a Name? 2022 wrap-up

by Leave a Comment

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is wian-22-1.png

Thanks to Carolina Book Nook for hosting. I’ve finished up this challenge for the year & read a book with a title that fits each category.

  • Compound word Murder at Blackburn Hall (High Society Lady Detective #2) by Sara Rosett
  • Speed Fast Girls: A Novel of the 1936 Women’s Olympic Team by Elise Hooper
  • Person and their description The Fallen Man (Leaphorn & Chee, #12) by Tony Hillerman
  • Mythical being Talking God (Leaphorn & Chee, #9) by Tony Hillerman
  • Season Pagan Spring (Max Tudor #3) by G.M. Malliet
  • Color The House in the Cerulean Sea by T. J. Klune

I’ve participated in this challenge for several years & always enjoy searching for books to fill the categories. This year, three were audio books from the library and three were from my TBR shelves.

RSC2022-green May done

by 2 Comments

IMAGE NAME

I finished the masculine donation quilt top No. 2- Star Trails by A Bright Corner. I purchased the green woodgrain background on clearance, but gray stars & blue scrappy trails came from my stash.

Chasing Rainbow blocks with their matching string border blocks. These things take a while to make with all the cutting & piecing, but they sure are cute!

I made the six green blocks I need for the Tula Pink sampler. I’m happier with the contrast in these than the ones I made last month. I also did a third Covered in Love Block Drive block & two more September Sky stars. A bunch more of those to go! With another week of May left & my green blocks all done, should I work a WIP???

My current status for the six five RSC2022 projects:

  • 4 red, aqua, & yellow, 5 pink, 6 green blocks from the Tula Pink 100 Modern Quilt Blocks (on track)
  • 1 red, aqua, yellow, pink & green twinkling friendship block inspired by Deb A. (on track)
  • 3 red, 2 blue, 2 pink, 2 green Shine blocks from the free pattern by Melissa Corry (on track)
  • 14 red, 16 aqua, 4 yellow, 14 pink, 6 dark green blocks for Sweet Kisses by Gigi’s Thimble (on track)
  • 7 red, aqua, yellow, pink, & green blocks, plus matching border string blocks for Catching Rainbows by Bonnie Hunter (on track)

RSC2022-May green progress

by 2 Comments

IMAGE NAME

In late 2016, this quilt began the long journey that finally ended this week. What???? My two quilting partners & I attended a class at our local quilt shop (long out of business now) to learn the hand-applique techniques involved in making this Sue Daley quilt called “Fun at the Fair”. We went for several classes to learn all the techniques, then were on our own to finish. I
fell in love with the handwork & was the first to finish all the blocks, by a long shot. But I hate doing sashing & I had trouble with the keystones. They are supposed to be appliqued circles over each intersection, but I didn’t have large enough pieces left from my charm packs to make the circles. So in frustration, I set it aside to try & figure out what to do instead. In the meantime, one friend finally finished her blocks & got it together, quilted & done. Then eventually the other did the same. I was left with finished blocks, all the fabric needed for backing & binding, but no finished quilt. I still hadn’t solved the keystone problem & didn’t want to deal with it. During COVID lockdown in 2020, I got out several old projects to finish up & this was one. I realized I had enough charm pack pieces left to cut small keystones, re-size the sashing pieces, & get it done. Honestly, it was not
hard! Then it waited for awhile because I had to get so many gift quilts to the quilters. End of 2021 it got quilted, beginning of 2022 it got binding, & this week it got finished!

I got some work done on my scrap projects this week: 6 Sweet Kisses in dark green with some light green saved for another month; 1 green twinkling friendship star; 2 green Shine. These are the only greens in the jelly roll I’m using for this project, so I sewed them up.

On the design wall: This is what I’ve been working on mostly the last couple weeks. I have 2 large sections done with 1 more to go at the bottom. It’s Star Trails by A Bright Corner, her new pattern. It’s going to be another masculine donation quilt. At the top are the two Covered in Love Block Drive blocks completed so far. These are excellent as L&E’s. (and scrap busters!)

My current status for the six five RSC2022 projects:

  • 4 red, aqua, & yellow, plus 5 pink blocks from the Tula Pink 100 Modern Quilt Blocks (need green)
  • 1 red, aqua, yellow, pink & green twinkling friendship block inspired by Deb A. (on track)
  • 3 red, 2 blue, 2 pink, 2 green Shine blocks from the free pattern by Melissa Corry (on track)
  • 14 red, 16 aqua, 4 yellow, 14 pink, 6 dark green blocks for Sweet Kisses by Gigi’s Thimble (on track)
  • 7 red, aqua, yellow, & pink blocks, plus matching border string blocks for Catching Rainbows by Bonnie Hunter (need green; cut & started)

RSC2022-April wk. 3-more pink

by 2 Comments

IMAGE NAME

“Bricks” has its scrappy aqua binding on it & is a finish. This was an RSC2021 project that was a flimsy before the end of the year. It got quilted & bound this year. I got the idea for this quilt from Sylvia, who was inspired by Jo’s Country Junction, who found the idea originated with Julie of Me and My Quilts. I used scrappy light gray squares for the low-volume sections.

This is the first of my masculine donation tops to be completed. It’s from a free pattern called Plus Quilt by Jen Eskridge. Hers is a baby quilt, with some cutting & pasting of her worksheet, I expanded it to 60×70 to fit their requirements. This was quick & fun and used some blue & tan.

I made the pink blocks for Catching Rainbows & more stars for September Sky, both patterns by Bonnie Hunter. I need 53 stars for the quilt & 11 are completed, with all the parts done. With the pink sewed, I’ve accomplished my pink projects for this month! I’m removing the Amy Ellis Dancing Stars from my RSC lineup for this year so I’m down to five monthly projects. More time for squirrels!

My current status for the six five RSC2022 projects:

  • 4 red, aqua, & yellow, plus 5 pink blocks from the Tula Pink 100 Modern Quilt Blocks (on track)
  • 1 red, aqua, yellow, & pink twinkling friendship block inspired by Deb A. (on track)
  • 3 red, 2 blue, 2 pink Shine blocks from the free pattern by Melissa Corry (on track)
  • 14 red, 16 aqua, 4 yellow, & 14 pink blocks for Sweet Kisses by Gigi’s Thimble (on track)
  • 7 red, aqua, yellow, & pink blocks, plus matching border string blocks for Catching Rainbows by Bonnie Hunter (on track)

RSC2022-April pinks week 2

by 6 Comments

IMAGE NAME

Here’s my design wall showing what I got done on pink blocks this week. I did a twinkling Friendship Star block. I made two a month last year & wanted more so am making one a month this year. Below that are the five pink blocks for the Tula Pink sampler. I was a little annoyed that my fabrics weren’t as contrasted as I thought when I chose & cut them. Especially the upper left one. It’s hard to tell the pattern unless you are close up. Grr. The string blocks on the right are the border blocks for Catching Rainbows by Bonnie Hunter. Next week I’ll tackle the actual blocks.

After doing some pink, I wanted to move along some other projects a little bit since it’s only halfway through the month & I have time. So I put together some Rocky Road to Grayson blocks by Bonnie Hunter. They are the blue stars. I have several BH projects going right now & love them, but if you’ve ever made one of her patterns you know that each block requires a lot of piecing. After making lots of the parts, I wanted to make some blocks to feel like I’m getting something done. So I also started sewing together the scrappy yellow stars I’m making for September Sky. The lovely rainbow circles are some progress on Cookie Cutter by Jaybird Quilts with my virtual quilt partner. We sewed all the bottom halves of the circles together & had time to sew 5 whole blocks! That was awesome because, again, it felt like real progress after months of sewing parts. A few more weeks & this WIP will be a flimsy! Hers uses solids like the pattern & mine uses some Tula Pink fabric.

My current status for the six RSC2022 projects:

  • 4 red, aqua, & yellow, plus 5 pink blocks from the Tula Pink 100 Modern Quilt Blocks (on track)
  • 1 red, aqua, yellow, & pink twinkling friendship block inspired by Deb A. (on track)
  • 3 red, 2 blue, 2 pink Shine blocks from the free pattern by Melissa Corry (on track)
  • 14 red, 16 aqua, 4 yellow, & 14 pink blocks for Sweet Kisses by Gigi’s Thimble (on track)
  • 7 red, aqua, & yellow blocks, plus matching border string blocks for Catching Rainbows by Bonnie Hunter (pink border blocks done, pink cut out)
  • 8 red & 6 aqua Dancing Stars by Amy Ellis (no new progress)