Quilters Accountability 1/12

My goals for the last week were:

1. Keep working on Yellow Monochromatic Quilt.  I did well, all the blocks have been finished, and it is pinned into rows to begin sewing into a top!! And then because I didn't want to put the cut yellows back into my stash I started making String blocks.

2. Make backings for 2 quilts:   Done! That sure helps with the stash reports too LOL


3. Cut up at least 3 Quilt of Valor quilt kits D'oh - Almost - I got two completely, and all the darks for the third - so I will get the lights done this next week!!


4. Pull out UFO Number 6 and think of how it will get finished  It is pulled out, and I have pulled fabric to make the borders... and now it is sitting on my ironing board.

 This is my pile of leftover Yellows - does anyone work with crumbs? So of these are 1 1/2 inches, some are half squares, some are just bits, but they fit into a little manila envelope and I would be glad to send them to someone if they want them.... I am officially tired of yellow!

If you want them leave me a comment or email me at alyciaquilts @ gmail.com and I will contact you.  Done - gone - taken - I LOVE it - Thank you for taking these off my hands!! No guilt is left!!!

 We have spent a lot of time doing this - even though the high yesterday was 11, and today it hasn;t quite reached that yet - but everyone needs so exercise right?

The dogs are making sure each others nose hasn't frozen off yet - they do NOT understand why humans would venture outside when there is a perfectly good warm place with cushions in the mud room!




 
 

For this next week:

1. Finish the string blocks

2. Finish the Yellow MC Top and choose a backing

3. Cut borders for UFO #6

4. Quilt Customer quilt - its a food themed quilt - I get hungry easy, so wish me luck!!

5. Finish cutting the lights for the 3rd QOV kit.

To see what everyone esle is up to, or to join in go to:

http://crossroadsquilting.wordpress.com/

 

The Gift Quilt

A way long time ago we were working on this *gift quilt* - it is the red white and black one on this post:
http://alyciaquilts.blogspot.com/2010/12/quilters-accountability-12810.html

We didn't show it because I thought that someone who reads my blog would figure out who the quilt was for..... Here the quilt is in its entirety. My youngest boys picked out the fabrics and helped put it together, and the oldest one helped quilt it.

 Here the boys are giving the gift ( mind you this is the Christmas party ) Can you guess where we are?

Here it is being opened.

And now it is getting the appropriate ohhs and ahhss..... *grin*

This is Coach Doug and his wife. After the quilt was opened he gave it to his wife - who would only let people look, not touch it - cracked us up!

Turns out his Grandma was a quilter, so they were both pleasantly surprised

and were impressed with the boys!

We swim for the Eaton Red Waves  - the colors are Red Black and White.

Surprise!

Design Wall ( err Uhh Floor)

My Yellow Monochromatic Quilt

is on my design floor. I finished all the inbetween blocks and have it all laying out. Every time I look at it I move a block or two around, so this afternoon it had better be ready. It is pinning time!!





Over Christmas I drew up a 2inch rail, 5 rail - rail fence pattern in my EQ7, and decided that I was going to use that for our January QOV sew in. Then I started cutting up my Red White and Blue fabrics. Then, I realized that not all of my strips were the needed 42 inches. So instead of cutting everything down to 8 inches, I decided to sew everything UP to 42 inches..... so this is my pile. I got enough darks sewn and recut for 2 kits. 

Today it is on to the lights!!

Saturday it started snowing, while I was sewing two of the boys needed a project, so they put together my bench for me!

I had thought this would be great next to the front door, so I could sit down and take off my boots before tracking all sorts of stuff into the mud room.

Here it is Saturday afternoon - this morning it is COVERED in snow.....

Check out more design walls at http://www.patchworktimes.com/

Enjoy your day!

Stash Report

I had a great week!!! ( in my own opinion)

Used this week:          -17.05 yds
Used YTD:                  -22.05 yds
Fabric Given to me:     94.5 yds
Fabric Purchased:         0 yds
Added YTD:                  94.5 yds
Net YTD :                       72.45

I decided to add Fabrics given to me because I want to know the difference between what I purchase and what shows up. Especially because sometimes fabric follows me home from different functions ( seriously!!)

I had a few backings to make this week, and a few Quilt kits put together. I am hosting a Quilt of Valor sew day at the end of the month, and hope to *guilt* a few into taking the kits and working on them during the day

You can see how others are doing at http://www.patchworktimes.com/

Enjoy your day - We are off to a swim meet, so no sewing going on this morning.....

Quilt Show

All of the quilts a long the left side are the last of what the Columbine Quilt guild made for 2010. Aren;t they prolific!  

I love looking at them, I get all sorts of ideas in my head.... which might explain why I have UFO's....

ZoeAnn coordinated this efffort, and with each quilt they included a letter about themselves, and a self addresses stamped postcard, It will be interesting to see how many postcards they get back,

I thought that was a great idea though!

This one had me trying to figure out all sorts of measurements - I got a headache ;0(

 The next three quilts on the right come from a group in the springs. Janet F and her friends made sampler blocks and put them together into three wonderful quilts.

Thanks Quilters for all your hard work! These are wonderful Quilts of Valor. I have had such fun taking pictures of them and checking them out!

You all have a great Friday!!

It's Over and Quilters Accountability 2011

It's official - my goofing off days are over for another 18 weeks.... so sad. School started yesterday ( wed) and everyone has to get back in action. And of course I had to go to the dentist to get an old cavity fixed again. And my dentist - he likes to torture me, because I am allergic to pain - he inflicts it!

Apparently I don't have a big enough mouth - little does he know eh? - so he had to use the baby drill and I think that was pure torture.... the numbing stuff took almost 5 hours to wear off.

I used to like my dentist - when we talked about horses, and ranching, and all the cool things - but Nope - he had to be a dentist.....

I think I am going to keep up with Quilters Accountability - I think it helped me stay somewhat on some sort of plan!

For this week:
1. Keep working on Yellow Monochromatic Quilt.
2. Make backings for 2 quilts
3. Cut up at least 3 Quilt of Valor quilt kits
4. Pull out UFO Number 6 and think of how it will get finished.

To see what others are up to - head over to http://crossroadsquilts.wordpress.com/

Columbine QOV's

Here are some more Quilts of Valor that the Columbine Quilt guild made to give to the soldiers.

This one is called Valor - and I believe you can find the pattern for free on the Quilt of Valor Website ( qovf.org)

While you are looking at the beautiful quilts - I am going to tell you a need that some of these quilts have.

Most of the quilts that others make will come with a little journal or letter to the reciepients. But I have a lot of them that don't ... and that is fine. I usually have journals that have been made up by letters from students, people at shows etc.

Well, I had made a lot of these journals -and somewhere a long the way I put the master in with a quilt.... so now I am out of letters. If you, or anyone you know - like your children, your grandkids, people that you quilt with - would like to write a letter to a military person and would like me to put it into a journal.......

I would love to do that. 

There are not a whole lot of requirements - I ask that you write on an 8 1/2 ich x 11 sheet of paper.  With kids I always ask that they use first names only.

And make it a Thank you to a Service Person.  

Please remember that some of these quilts go to branches of service other than army, and marines don't quite appreciate being called a soldier - they are a Marine, so to cover this I always address the letter to Dear Service Person.  

If you have a better idea - Let me know!!

If this is something you think you would like to do - when you are ready to mail them off - contact me at AlyciaQuilts   @   Gmail.com    and I will email you my address.  Thank you!!

And Thank you to the Columbine Quilt Guild - ZoeAnn Thank you for organizing this!!

Design Wall and More

The Design Floor!

I really want a design wall - but we don't have walls with out huge windows. I tried a temporary one with batting and it worked for a litte while - but it was hanging from the sliding glass door.... made it hard to see out of the house, and I need to See. A. Lot. Hence the windows!! 

Anyways - this is my Monochromatic Yellow Quilt in Progress - and I claimed the floor - and so far no one has complained. 

 This is my other project today - My Mom and Dad got me new pots and pans for Christmas!! Whoo Hoo - now I will admit that I don't cook anywhere as well as Judy does, but my other pans were our wedding gifts, and they were getting old..... so sad.... thats means Wrangler Man is getting old too .....

 When the tempature got up to about 15 we thought we could probably brave sledding and snowboarding again. We went out Saturday when it was 8 and only could tolerate about 3 runs, today we lasted about an hour and a half.

Here's the 3 amigos.....

 Super Ninja Snowboarder, and he carries a snow disc, just in case he falls..... kinda smart thinkin'

The weeds jumped out of the snow jump and caught the edge of his board.... crash!

 Puppy had to get in a sled too - he LOVED it.... kept running up the hill to go again!!

 And my boots!!!  my other snow boots were getting old ( about 15 years old) and Wrangler Man bought me the coolest new boots - and my feet were WARM!!! Usually they freeze beyond feeling within 30 minutes.... this new technology is wonderful!

And last but not least - Emma - We sledded - she hunted up snow drifts, and chased us -this is our field to the west of our house, if you look closely you can see the rockies int he background!

To see what others are up to go to http://www.patchworktimes.com/

Stash Report

I admit - I have always wanted to do these - but then think about how Numerically challenged I am and then set myself up for failure. And then I know I use a lot of fabric that is all scraps, and a lot that is given to me. So I am just assuming that all of the fabric in this house is my *stash* . If i give it away for someone to make a QOV - I am counting that too - cuz it's my report and my momma says I can.

But first - I had to beg Wrangler Man to help me set up a little spreadsheet. I am amzed at the things Excel can do - I have been doing things the old 1990's way - Hunh! Technology ( and learning about it) can make things faster.... who knew.

So for my first stash report:

Used This Week : 5 yards
Used YTD  :         5 yards
Added this week:  0
Added YTD:          0
Net used for 2011:   5 yds


Go to Judy L's to see what others have done. http://www.patchworktimes.com/

Monochromatic Challenge at Patchwork Times

I love other people's mono chromatic quilts, and I ohh and awe over them, and I am not very brave, because if I was - I would have made one about now right? But Nope - I haven't. I have been reading Judy L's blog - http://www.patchworktimes.com/ and she is going to host a MC challenge, so I decided to try it.

And of course - the first color picked is Yellow. Yellow. Hummmmm. In all of my Red White and Blue, and my Hotpink and Lime and Turquoise quilts - I am not sure I have purchased that much yellow to make a whole quilt.

My goal with this challenge was to use my stash, and not add more. I headed downstairs and dug thru my stash - and Um. Was. Uh. Mildly. Surprised!!!  Look at all of this fabric that has shades of yellow..... I am astonsihed!!

This - I remember buying... it was to maybe be a border for my Aunts quilt http://alyciaquilts.blogspot.com/2007/04/gifts-for-25th.html
BTW - that was in 2007 ( acckkkk)

 This stuff to the right - I think it grew wings and flew into my stash - seriously. 

After sorting and ironing, and cutting the smaller pieces up into strings - this is what I have chosen to work with. Wish me luck!

I have been playing in EQ7 and think I came up with a pattern to use, and grabbed by AccuQuilt Go cutter - because I have one, and I should use it ALL. THE. TIME.

I turned on the Rose Parade and starting cutting. After the parade I braved the 8deg weather and took the dogs and the kids outside. We made it thru 3 Snowboard runs, before we couldn't feel out faces anymore - we came back in and I finished cutting the quilt.....