Design Wall Monday 8/13/2012

I actually have something on my design wall this week. I took a couple of days off to get some stuff done around the house after all of the company we have had...I still have more coming next week, but in the mean time I was busy.  I spent 2 days cleaning the boys bedrooms getting them ready for back to school.  I only had 1 big black trash bag full of trash and one full of goodwill stuff so not to bad. 

Anyway, I finished the top of my Birds Eye View quilt.  I thought it would only take me a day or so since I had all of the blocks and part of the center already put together.  Well, it ended up taking 3 days but the top is now done and it goes to the quilter on Friday....this quilt came out a lot bigger than I thought for some reason and working on it in the heat was not very fun.

I then did a store sample out of a panel.  From start to finish it may have taken me a total of 2 hours of course I machine sewed the binding down (one of these days I will get better at that).

I have one more sample to finish for the shop...the top is done I just have to quilt it. 

I hope to get that done today then it is of to work on DJ (I still have all 10 blocks to do for September) and then I have Sylvia's Bridal Sampler starting in September so I need to get the first 5 of those blocks done. I have over 20 done so far but I don't think they are the ones we are doing first.  I am going in order by column to get the quilt put together but I will be teaching out of order from easier ones to harder ones.

So between these chores and the back to school orientations this week, I think I will be pretty busy. Not to mention I still have to get school supplies, hair cuts etc..etc...

Hope everyone has a great sewing week and for more DWM's head on over to Judy's.


Michelle

Design Wall Monday 6/11/2012

My design wall still looks the same but with more blocks.  I didn't do much sewing at all this week but yesterday I finished up some more Birds Eye View Blocks.  I finished month 7and 8 and am working on month 9.

Month 7

Month 8 - this one will be top stitched on to the completed top when sewn together.

For some reason I didn't think I had cut out month 9 so off I went to cut.  Once I was done I glanced over to the pile and realized month 9 was there. Since I cut out all of this fabric twice I decided I would go ahead and make all of the blocks.  So now I have 108 blocks I am sewing.  I figure I will have more options and the remaining 54 will go on the back or maybe a table topper or something.  Of course I  would rather a different (easier) block have been cut wrong than this one.  Well...it really isn't that hard just time consuming.

I only work three days this week so hopefully I can get these finished and move on to DJ again.  I must admit that I can not wait until after the first of the year.  That is when I am hoping to have all of my have to sews done and I can move on to more of I wanna sew.  I have been in a have to sew for the past year and it is getting really old.  So off to finish Dear Jane, Sylvia's and Birds Eye View.

For more design wall Monday's head on over to Judy's.

Michelle

Birds Eye Busy...

I have been real busy. I have done some sewing but also yard and house work along with working.  I seem to be on a never ending cycle of running behind.

I am up to block 7 on Birds Eye View...I can only put a few more sections together then I have to wait for the months to come up naturally...we are only in month 1...lol..guess I will have another long term project floating around.

These 3 blocks are really neat.  The diamonds are not pieced..they are set on top of the background square then on the diagonal they are sewn 1/8 in and then the sides and bottom get sewn into the seam allowance when the block is put together...thought it was a really cool idea.

The black squares on this block are not pieced in either...they are set on top corner to corner then top stitched 1/8" all the way around...love it as well..

As soon as I finish the piecing on block 7 - 9 then I will be back to starting on Dear Jane for July (which I get an extra week to do....yay) and Sylvia's and QOV...and....and...well the list goes on and on...

I may even show my progress on this hand pieced block...and my knitting...

Have a great day.

Michelle

Design Wall Monday 5/28/12

Hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday weekend. I actually ended up with a 4 day weekend. I am off thru Tuesday and so far I have not done as much sewing as I thought.

We ended up chopping one tree down...turned out easier than I thought..of course I wasn't the one crouched down with the chain saw either.

I did end up finishing up the applique for my last DJ block..just need to sew it together and I am finally done with DJ for this month...a little over a week early to boot.  I then did another row of knitting...of course the rows take forever since there is 414 stitches.

Sunday..my normal sew day was spent putting bedding on the clothes line and we spent most of the day at the flea market..it was nice but I ended up getting a little sun burnt.

I picked up the first few blocks of our new block of the month at the store..I get to do the sample which I am super excited about. So I spent the early evening hours finishing up month 1...(Mama B if you are reading this change the directions in your book to include cutting the red 2 7/8 squares in half diagonally book doesn't tell you to do that)...so that is what is on my design table..

Birds Eye View BOM with Kansas Troubles fabric.

Month 1 - Hummingbirds.

I did make progress this week on Sylvias as well...I now have 20/140 completed.  I'm gonna try and get Birds Eye done asap and then get back to Sylvias and Dear Jane.

Hope everyone has a wonderful week. For more design walls head on over to Judys

Michelle