class progress

So far this is as far as I have gotten. I have my letters in "blue eyes" all sewed together and I have done a few hearts. I plan to do more, I think. I still don't have a good vision for how this will go. I'm not sure if I want to add more or all of my nicknames or if I just want to build on the "blue eyes" with hearts and maybe some other things. As I look at it, I am not crazy about how the 'y' came out, I forgot I wanted to change that before I sewed them together. But I don't see myself ripping it out either. I think the one thing I have realised about these classes is that I like doing the free piecing, but the coming up with the ideas, not so strong on. I'm better with using other people's ideas!

Stuff I've been working on...

Well, I finally spent some time in my sewing room this past weekend. I got my bargello top put together. It still needs borders but I am going to put it away for a while. Not sure what I want to do with it border-wise and I don't seem to be particularly motivated to work on it. I also finished up a top for a baby. It is for a girl (I thought) that hasn't been born, but now the mom is saying she thinks it might be a boy (they had a sonogram early and it was determined to likely be a girl but maybe only 85% or something, so now she's not sure) so I am not going to finish it til it's born. If it is a boy-she might not get a quilt! We'll see.

I thought joining Tonya's class would give me lots of motivation to quilt, but I am still undecided about what I am doing. I love some of the stuff that others have done. I seem to like everyone's ideas but can't come up with my own! I did do a heart this weekend (I like those) and I like doing the free pieced letters but I just don't know how I want to put them together or what colors to use-I guess I could keep with the green and blue that I started with , but I don't have all those exact fabrics that I started with-I'm running out. I'm just having trouble with decisions lately-even what to make for dinner has become a major dilemma some nights! Hopefully I will get out of this soon and get back to normal. For now I'm going to keep watching what everyone else is doing and maybe one of those lightbulbs will appear above my head, and I'll know exactly what to do-

Slight diversion

Last night I decided to do a spider I had been wanting to do. I was looking through fabric and came across some orange and black and decided to make on e up. I got the idea from Comicbook Lady's blog. Which I found through Tonya. I was going to work on some letters, but somehow got into the Halloween spirit. I didn't put it all together yet, but when I finish this block it will go with the monster and mummy and other Halloween-y blocks I made back in October. I will finish them-I just work at my own pace-Halloween in March, Christmas in June (I still have to finish Santa) whatever strikes me! I do plan to work on more letters tonight-really, unless something pulls me in another direction...

Been a while...

Tonya is doing a new class and I joined up again. I really want to do more letters. I really love the free pieced letters. This class has "repetition" as the theme. I really liked Tonya's idea of the Endearment quilt and I actually did these letters before the class even started. I like the idea though and want to use it (the idea, not these particular letters). I think I want to use a different color scheme though. And I haven't got the complete plan for it yet-I guess it will be a work in progress.

I really have to blog more often. I have been meaning to, I just haven't gotten myself to do it.

I have actually done a few things. I put together the Bento box quilt-the red and white and black one on a previous post. But now think I may do more blocks to add to it and make it bigger-why not that would postpone finishing it anytime soon, and we wouldn't want too much of that going on. I'm much better at starting projects!!! Finishing them is something much less likely to happen.

I'm going to play with the letters and hopefully post some more tomorrow.

Grandma's goodies

My Grandma (on my father's side) is a quilter. She also knits, crochets, makes dolls and does many other crafts I'm not sure of. She is probably how I got interested in quilting. She didn't really teach me to quilt, but peaked my interest in it. Actually I think she did have me start a hand project that was an applique quilt. But she mostly taught me to knit.
These images are quilt tops and pieces of quilt tops from a big box of stuff Grandma gave me. I guess her eyes are not what they used to be and she has taken a break from quilting. So she gave me her stuff. As far as I know no one else in the family is really interested in quilting. I could be wrong, but I don't know of anyone else in the family who quilts and she did give me her stuff!
These are some projects she had started. There were all kinds of stuff in there, books, magazines, fabric rulers, etc. Not sure what I'll do with it all but is interesting checking out what's in the big box!

There are more things that I'll photograph but that's it for now-the boys have been using the camera today to film their videogames and upload them on youtube, so I only get so much time on the computer before I get booted off!

House blocks for Bonnie

I did a couple of house blocks for Bonnie's housewarming today. I did one from her scrappy houses pattern and one from Tonya's free pieced wonky houses. Hopefully she likes them and can use them with the others that she will receive. I like the top one better of the two . I intended the roof to be bigger, but now after looking at the picture realize that it didn't end up being bigger than the house-it was supposed to overhang the edges.

Another new project....

For some reason, I can't just start one project and keep working on it until I finish. I have to start many projects and have them in different stages of completion. So while still working on the bargello quilt which I just started last weekend I decided I had to start another one! What's wrong with me-maybe ADD? I don't know. But I was going to do a baby quilt, then I went and picked out red, white and black fabrics. I liked the pattern, but after doing a couple of blocks I decided that even though they say the black and white contrast is good for babies, I want to do a pink one, so I'm not sure what I want to do with the red and black quilt I just started?

I guess I don't really need to know what I want to do with it, I just wanted to do it.

Oh yeah, and I want to make some house blocks for Bonnie-both a scrappy happy house from her site and one from Tonya's wonky houses also. So I guess I'll start working on those tonight....

Who says you have to finish projects? I just like to start them!