Ufo's Scrap Bag and Sick

I was down with some sort of cold/sinus crap for over a week.... one of the reasons why there was no post last week.....

This week I've been working on completing some projects.... a purse and back pack. The purse is done.. but the back pack is really going slow... for an easy pattern it sure is taking me a long time!

I haven't added any scrap diddly blocks or centers these past two weeks....... need to get a handle on that also......

I have one of my scrap quilts backed and batted and is now ready for quilting.... I also have 3 more ufo's that need to be done soon.... I've now commited to finishing these so I need to hop to it!!! The beachhouse scrap quilt also needs to be done. I'm hoping to get all of these quilted and ready to be bound by the middle of november.... I'd like them to be totally finished by then... but I'll settle for up to the binding stage......

I'm adding a few links I'd like you to visit. The fiberobsessive site is my friend Viki's first blog.... and she's doing great.... she doens't do computers well but she's finally getting the hang of it and her blog is coming along nicely.

patchesandpieces.blogspot.com and splittingstitches.blogspot.com are the other two. Please stop by and check'em out!

And if you happen to do farmville.... I could use another neighbor or two! lol

Have a warm week!

Lish

It's cold!!!!!

It's been cold and rainy most of this week..... could be why my sinus' are acting up and why I feel like I'm getting a cold (sigh) .... I'm due for a flu shot next week so I reallllly don't want to be sick!

I made up 12 scrap diddly block centers this week. I just did centers cuz I've found that if I try to do the whole block... I want to color coordinate them and they they aren't random scrappy...... so I'm trying it this way... we'll see.

I also made my first doll this week. She's not from scraps but she's really cute! I'm not a face drawer by any means but I think her new mommy will like her anyway!

Pictures below...... have a great week!

Lish

Fall is just around the corner

The nites are very cool....the days are warm and breezy and the leaves are falling.... sure signs that fall will be here soon with Winter to follow (sigh)

I've started my Fall Scrap Bag project. It's a block called Scrap diddly. It goes together pretty quickly and I did up 7 blocks this week. I don't know how many I need cuz I haven't decided on a size for this one.... so I'll just make blocks.......

I haven't quilted the summer ones yet.... I'm hoping to get to those within the next week or so... have to finish removing the paper from the beach house quilt first... then I'll get them both ready to go at the same time.

Pictures of the new block are below.......

Have a great week

Lish

Finally!

The final piece of the summer scrap bag project is finished. I finished up the Crazy Bird Wall Hanging this week and it's now with the other waiting to be quilted and bound. I'm hoping to have them done by the end of October.

I still have an enormous amount of scraps......... the three quilts only used up about 1/2 of one of the bags ..... so as I sit here, watching the leaves falling from the trees outside my window...I've decided to keep up this project as the Winter Scrap Bag Project.

My hope is to go thru the bags and separate the large pieces from the smaller ones.... and separate them by color also.... but then I think.... that's really time I could be using to make blocks.... so I doubt it will happen unless I do it as I go along........

I'm looking for one or two more scrap block patterns to use for the next two quilts... they will be the throw size, that I like to make. I really enjoy snuggling up in the chair or on the sofa with a quilt.

I'm posting the picture of the crazy bird below. It turned into a wall hanging because there was no more of the dark background in the scrap bag........ I used up every sliver that I had in there of browns and blacks........... I think it will look just fine!

Have a great week!!

Lish

Two down one to go

I finished up TWO of my scrap quilt projects this week!!. I put the wonky star together yesterday and the beach house quilt today.... they look great! I hope to get them quilted and bound by the end of October...that's my goal anyway.

Still have one more scrap quilt to go.... that's the Crazy Bird.... I need to get working on my blocks for that one.... it's also paper pieced. I need to take a count of my bird and grass blocks and see where I am............

I've used just over 1/2 of one of my scrap bags.... I'll be going thru it and pulling scraps the for bird quilt and then whatever remains will go into bag two. That bag will start another round of scrap quilts... just don't know what kind yet........

Below are this weeks pictures!

Long Weekend

It was a long weekend ......... Labor day........but I didn't get a lot accomplished. Hubby and I went here and there and everywhere this weekend.

I did manage to add 9 more stars to the box for the Wonky Star Quilt...and I finished up a Halloween Label from leftover bits of halloween fabric. It'll be a sample for a class in October.

I hope to get a few more birds and grass done as well as a few more stars so I can concentrate on putting all of the quilts together...... I'd rather do them all at once than one at a time.....

I'm also working on a wedding ring table runner for a sample for class...this is made from scraps from some 30's reproduction fabrics that were left over from some blocks I did a year or so ago........ seems everywhere I look I find more scraps! lol

Below are the pictures of this weeks stars and quilt label

Have a great week

Lish

August is gone!

Wow! The summer sure did fly by quickly! The kids are back at school and it's been rather cold here in the evenings...... I sure hope that doesn't mean winter will come early!!!

I didn't get a lot done this week on the scrap project.... I did 4 star blocks for the star quilt...... decided to do a few more birds and a few less grass blocks for the crazy bird quilt.......and decided that the beach house quilt is gonna look weird with assorted skys here and there... but I'm makin' it anyway! lol

I did two paper pieced quilt labels from scraps left over from a table topper and a wallhanging I made this week..... they can be seen on my flickr site and the labels are posted below. I'll be teaching a paper piecing class in october on these lables... so for now they are samples....and after the class they will be added to the table topper and wallhanging which should be quilted and bound by then.....

Hubby and I were gone all day saturday again.... up to chicago to the Field Museum so I didn't get anything done yesterday....... next weekend... weather permitting we'll be gone to Indianapolis to the zoo....... so I'll need to get busy during the week to get more things accomplished...

Oh.... and if you look at the calendar you'll see that Christmas is quickly approaching.... will you be ready??

Lish