Virtual Quilting Weekend--March 14-17, 2019
#21
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: SW, MI
Posts: 827
I'm in!
I posted on the Moratorium thread that I'm starting on four baby quilts using a conveyor belt process. Doing all the cutting for all of them, block making, top constructing, sandwiching, etc.. I have found all the fabric I need in my stash. It's a collection of identical prints in 4 different colors... red, green, yellow and blue, with little white "baby" in rows. I plan to use some white fabric with them also. I'll use different patterns on each of them.
I did 5 quilts using this method and just yesterday I finished the very last bit of hand binding on the last one. It was a great feeling to say, "I finished 5 quilts today!"
I posted on the Moratorium thread that I'm starting on four baby quilts using a conveyor belt process. Doing all the cutting for all of them, block making, top constructing, sandwiching, etc.. I have found all the fabric I need in my stash. It's a collection of identical prints in 4 different colors... red, green, yellow and blue, with little white "baby" in rows. I plan to use some white fabric with them also. I'll use different patterns on each of them.
I did 5 quilts using this method and just yesterday I finished the very last bit of hand binding on the last one. It was a great feeling to say, "I finished 5 quilts today!"
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#22
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Yorkville, IL
Posts: 7,639
I am working on Pam Buda’s 1800 quilt. I have about 250 squares made. They are 2 1/2” and will finish at 2” in the quilt. I think I am about 1/2 way through. I will be getting ready for a retreat as well. It is my first and I am really looking forward. It is only 2 nights so great to see if I will like it. I am taking 2 machines because I can get my Bernina cleaned while I am there. Mr. Peach will have to go to the vet for boarding. He hates that but I will have his annual physical done while he is there. Poor kitty. He will be so happy to come home!
#23
Super Member
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: South Central Indiana
Posts: 1,931
In just a few minutes, I am heading out for a weekend retreat! Not the same one raggiemom is doing, but not far from there. Let's see how much I can get done - 4 projects are loaded. And we have a merchant vendor for the entire weekend so another project or 2 could conceivably land on my table LOL.
#24
I'm in. I need to finish sewing on the binding on the bike wall hanging and sew 4 more penguins. I will post pictures later in the day. lol Now off to sewing and coffee and sewing and tea and sewing and wine....lol
#25
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Join Date: Aug 2018
Location: Greater Peoria, IL -- just moved!
Posts: 6,182
Hello virtual quilters! I've been on a virtual sew-along with a friend in Arizona who would have ordinarily been at quilt camp this past week but due to real life stuff couldn't go.
Saturday I will be going with some of my small group ladies to the Quilters Anonymous show in Monroe, WA. This is a major show in our Seattle area.
I have two projects going on, one I'm calling Not Quite Y2K, which is being made up of about 800+ unique and a few duplicate 2.5" squares most of which yes, have sat in my sewing room for 20 years. Design is traditional Flying Square block with assorted off whites for the rectangles, no -- they aren't unique at all! Blocks are made and have been laid out and numbered, border units are made and this morning I was going to lay out the top and place the border units when I found out the hubby called in sick to work and is huddled miserably in the queen sized bed. He did not appreciate the lights being snapped on nor my cheery let's get working attitude. Poor thing he works so hard, I feel bad but he is one of the world's worst sick people.
So I switched to project two, which for lack of a better name I'm calling the purple quilt. There will be 42 unique purple fabrics (one per block) along with different white on white fabrics for the background. So far I have the strips cut for the white but I have not yet done the subcuts. The purples have been sorted and are in the process of being cut. I'm currently somewhere over 30 cut to project sets and decided it was a good time for a break.
Saturday I will be going with some of my small group ladies to the Quilters Anonymous show in Monroe, WA. This is a major show in our Seattle area.
I have two projects going on, one I'm calling Not Quite Y2K, which is being made up of about 800+ unique and a few duplicate 2.5" squares most of which yes, have sat in my sewing room for 20 years. Design is traditional Flying Square block with assorted off whites for the rectangles, no -- they aren't unique at all! Blocks are made and have been laid out and numbered, border units are made and this morning I was going to lay out the top and place the border units when I found out the hubby called in sick to work and is huddled miserably in the queen sized bed. He did not appreciate the lights being snapped on nor my cheery let's get working attitude. Poor thing he works so hard, I feel bad but he is one of the world's worst sick people.
So I switched to project two, which for lack of a better name I'm calling the purple quilt. There will be 42 unique purple fabrics (one per block) along with different white on white fabrics for the background. So far I have the strips cut for the white but I have not yet done the subcuts. The purples have been sorted and are in the process of being cut. I'm currently somewhere over 30 cut to project sets and decided it was a good time for a break.
#26
I'll try to join in at some point during the weekend. I'm still working on my grandmother's flower garden quilt top. I haven't touched it in a couple of weeks, so I need to get back to it. I'm still sewing on the fourth row of flowers.
#27
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: Iowa
Posts: 495
I'm in...I will try and finish up two quilts I'm making for 2 little great nieces who were in a tragic accident in January which took their brother and dad. We had winter getaways planned which kept me from working on them for any length of time, so hoping for a productive weekend! Can't wait to see what all everyone gets accomplished!
#28
Oh I like this block! Do you have a picture of the blocks altogether?
[ATTACH=CONFIG]610330[/ATTACH]I've signed up for Bonnie Hunter's Smith Mountain Morning workshop. I'm the kind of person who wants to be a step ahead, so I'm going to try to make one before hand. Then Bonnie can refine my techniques when I take the class. This is all out of scraps: cut off edges from the 108 backings.
Yes, I see the center.....Yikes.
Yes, I see the center.....Yikes.
#30
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: East Oklahoma - pining for Massachusetts
Posts: 10,477
I have my little turtle cut out, but am having trouble deciding on the background. The one that looks like the ocean, I thought was perfect yesterday, but now it might be on the dark side.
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