New Direction

I haven't done much quilting lately. Not sure why. I have been looking at quilter's projects on line (blogs) I just haven't had the motivation to do anything of my own. Today I decided to work on my class project. I have decided to start over. Not that I didn't like my other thing, I just haven't fully decided what I want to do with it, how I wanted to proceed and it seemed that not knowing was paralyzing me. I just couldn't do anything with it because I wasn't sure what I wanted to do. Anyway, I have decided to mull over that one and maybe I'll go back to it next month or next year or sometime, but right now-the ideas are just not forming. I know there is a good idea in there I just haven't figured it out yet.



So I have decided to do a house, a flower and a sun (really one of Bonnie's maverick stars-I saw someone do this, but I can't remember who). I am trying to figure out how to do a butterfly (free pieced) and if I figure it out, I'll post that. Right now it doesn't look so good, but I'm going to keep working on it. I'm thinking about adding a big tree and maybe some hearts in the border then when I get some more stuff added I'll start thinking about any wording I might add. I am thinking hearts in the corners with wording either just at the top border or if it is a lot of letters, then all the way around. Still in the thinking mode I guess..trying things out-I think I will go try some hearts and think about those butterflies.....

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-

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.

Finished and almost finished....

So I finally finished my free piecing winter quilt for Tonya's class. I was just in an after Christmas funk ,I guess. I have done a little quilting but not really blogged about it. I made a baby quilt last weekend for Melissa from work, which I did not even get a picture of . Oh well, I have another one to make soon too-Ashley from work invited me to her shower which is in a few weeks so I will need to make one for her too-not fair to make one for one co-worker and not another? Why did I get myself in this mess-there are probably 3 others at work who are pregnant! I won't make all of them a quilt though, but probably one more.

I got Patrick's pirate quilt almost done. I intend to get the binding done today. Then it will be done. I put his name in pieced letters on the back which I thought would be fun. This was a fairly easy quilt as it was just a yellow brick road pattern. But for some reason took a while to get motivated to do. I guess I liked all the pirate fabrics I had but when I put them all together I wasn't as crazy about them. The blues don't exactly match but I guess as a whole it's kinda cute since it has the theme going. I'm sure he'll like it-he's only four he doesn't know how to match colors! So after finishing this quilt and Ashley's baby quilt I should attack some UFOs before I start anything new. Although Bonnie is doing a super bowl bargello I am sort of interested in trying. Do I really want to start a new project? I really like starting new projects, they just don't all get finished.....

Tonya's class update

Here is what I have so far. I don't think I will be getting any more done until after Christmas, it has just been too busy. I have basted my "let it snow" project and have started some hand quilting which I am enjoying doing. I tried the circles that someone (I forget right now who it was but) someone in the class had hand quilted circles on their piece and it looked really interesting, it gave some nice texture so I thought I would try it. I don't think you can really tell right now in this picture but maybe after I add some more maybe you can tell.
The space next to the white tree on the right, I have stitched a green tree and I think I will add a few more rounds or perhaps I will actually fill in the lines instead of having a broken stitched tree.
On the Santa, Ho ho ho top I know it needs a lot of work and I am just not sure what yet. But I think I will keep working on the top one since I can display that after Christmas if I get it done and the Santa can go up next year if I get him done. I plan to get back to this after Christmas, but I have so much wrapping to do and cookies to make and I'm cooking dinner for Christmas Eve and I have to work Saturday-ooh I'm stressing myself out, maybe I'll have to quilt to relax.....Merry Christmas!

Snow Family?

I'm thinking about maybe just doing a snowman family, some snowflakes and maybe trees. I'm going to put this up on the wall and see how it looks. I set some buttons on their bellies to see how that would look. I like thee buttons and I think adding some embroidery after it gets quilted or during the quilting process is a good idea. I'm not sure if I should keep with one color tree or use both, maybe I should make more. I think I have one smaller white tree that didn't get set up here.

Work in Progress

I have added a couple of things, some letters for Santa and a snowman. I couldn't figure out how to add a scarf, so I think he will just be plain. I think I'll add a face either with fabric paint or markers. I might try making a bigger one too, not sure. I'm not crazy about the house, I forgot a chimney, not sure if that's what's missing or if it's just the colors I don't like. Maybe I should make the letters I have more colorful and then I can add more to the body of the quilt and it will work together better. I guess I am still trying to figure out how I want this whole thing to look.
I guess I'll keep adding and changing until I like it enought o put it together into one piece.

Winter Project

I have some work done on my project, but I'm not crazy about it. I like the letters-I even like the house but I don't think they are working well together. I kinda like the Santa though, but I think he needs different letters.

I think the house may be too dark, but not sure what colors would work better.

Maybe that whole idea would work if I just re-did the house in different colors and then made Santa his own project. I don't think he fits on the "let it snow" theme.

But I did want to make him. Maybe he just needs his own quilt.

Winter class

Well, I'm back. Boy it's hard to get the computer with a 13 year old in the house. If he's not doing homework, (which apparently every class needs to use a computer in order to get the work done) then he's checking out videos on youtube.

Anyway, I have decided to join in on Tonya's winter free piecing class. This is all I have so far, I haven't had much chance this week to get up to my quiting room. But I had Tuesday off and made time to try to do some snowflakes and then last night got a few letters done also. Even though it's only part time, this working thing is really cutting into my quilting time!

Well I have to head out to work now, I will hopefully have some more pictures in the next day or two!