Thanksgiving Virtual Quilting Weekend
 

Welcome to the Thanksgiving VQW. A couple people asked for a VQW over the holiday weekend so here it is! Pop in and out as needed and let us know what you’re working on. Or maybe you’re taking advantage of some of the Black Friday sales. I have a couple projects I’d like to finish this weekend myself 😀

Ps—next regular VQW is December 20-23.

Thanks for hosting Raggiemom! Not much sewing this weekend for me since we have out of town guests until Monday, but I’m looking forward to seeing what everyone is working on.

Rob

Have a quilt on the LA for a customer so want to finish it and start Bonnie's new mystery!

I'll be buys most of today but Friday, Saturday, and Sunday will be dedicated to quilting. I'm assembling rows for my Circa 1880 quilt by Pam Buda. I also am working on Christmas surprises for a few family members. My mom used to make us a sew-and-stuff animal pillow toy each Christmas - you know, those printed panel bunnies or puppies popular in the 70's and 80's. I have been hunting Ebay and Etsy for several months looking for the same ones she made us. I found one for my brother, one for my cousin, one for my son, and one for my nephew. I also found one she made for me, so I will make it for her. I am prepping some of those this weekend and Mom is coming out next weekend for us to work on them together.

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you. I am going to dedicate the next two days to cleaning up my sewing room. Not by choice mind you, but because I have a friend coming over on Saturday for help with her project and honestly, my sewing room is an embarrassment!! Happy sewing!

I will be completing my first row for the Sugaridoo QAL (after the background fabric arrives), pressing the half hexies for the Split Rock Lighthouse quilt, laying it out and playing with the layout, joining the quilt top. Then switching to cutting the first BH clue. If there is time, back to Split Rock to layer, quilt and bind. Thanksgiving dinner is mostly done—pie and dressing made, potatoes peeled and cut and in pot with water, cranberry sauce done. Turkey breast doesn’t go in until about 4:30, so I have all day to play.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

Happy Thanksgiving! I'll be sewing tonight and the rest of the weekend. I want to finish my guild challenge and got a good start on it yesterday. And then Bonnie Hunter's mystery Clue 1 comes out tomorrow, so I will be doing that too.

My goal is to get the three Christmas tops quilted - I didn't get them quilted before last Christmas, and then they went on the back burner. I'm almost done with the big one, the other two are throw size.

these are the last I want to quilt before I start packing things up.

I certainly hope to get some sewing done this holiday weekend. I have the binding on a RWB quilt and will probably sit and sew that while watching football all day. I also have to get the wall hanging in the mail to my grandson so that will be a little project to get the box ready to send. Then on to the sewing room to make some Christmas tree napkins (tutorial from Jordan Fabrics) for the neighbors. I will check in once in a while to see what everyone is working on. Not a big Thanksgiving dinner today as we are expecting tons of snow so it is just hubby and me. Grandkiddos with their dad and my daughter is afraid to get out on the roads-can't blame her.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone on this wonderful board.

I'm staying home today, a tradition I started when my son was young. Thanksgiving was a big holiday for his dad and doesn't mean much to me, so no need to switch holidays, he could bring the son to his mom and I would stay home and be thankful for quiet, peace and bubble baths.

My hubby is going to the family gathering, he's keto. My son and DDiL will also be there, they are vegan and I will miss seeing the grandbundle Leon, almost 2 months old now. I made a green bean casserole with fresh green beans, fresh mushroom and a vegan friendly sauce which is suitable for both keto and vegan. He's also bringing an assortment of fancy olives, again both keto and vegan suitable snacks. Right now I'm waiting for the hubby to leave, he goes early to watch the football game (go Lions!) and then I'm going to start sewing.

I've had a number of issues in the last couple of weeks, but my hot water tank has been replaced, my car is back and actually came in under estimate even if it was in the shop over two weeks. Anyway, I'm behind my self-imposed schedule on the next/current project which still doesn't have a real name. I think I'm going with "Cherry Goose". The blocks are made with flying geese units and all the fabrics have cherries on them except for the red pin dot. My hubby has a bowling league and usually once a month or so I go with him and work on something in the background. While I was pinning the flying geese units Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody came on and suddenly I was head banging along to "Scaramouche Scarmouche can you do the fandango?" which I turned into "cherry goose cherry goose can you make the triangle". (thunder bolts and lightening very very frightening me...)

So, the plan for today is to take some progress photos, finish the last couple of blocks (need them unfinished for some of the photos) and the top put together. Doable.

Tomorrow I am ready for the Bonnie Hunter Mystery, one of the many reasons I'm behind on the Cherry Goose. I found a huge beautiful bag of home dyed fabrics at the thrift store. Unfortunately, although I believe the dyer probably pre-treated the fabric well, and then starched the pieces before pressing, they did not set the dyes properly afterward. While I've been home without a car I've been boiling them to stabilize them, as the hubby said "nothing says coming home like the smell of boiling vinegar". I always enjoy the people who go completely off course with colors or fabrics in mystery project, this year I get to be one of them. Worst thing that happens is I end up with a donation top and someone keeps warm, but it is always fun to do a project like this.

I have to work all weekend, so I won't be doing much sewing. I am planning on starting the Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt though...I pushed through last weekend and quilted and finished my current project so I had nothing else on my plate for the mystery! If it turns out well, it will be my father's christmas present next year.

won't be doing any quilting or piecing this weekend--DS and family here and it's a busy place with grandboys! the times they are visiting with DIL's family is a welcome quiet spell but not enough time to drag out projects. But will check in nightly to see what others are doing! Happy Thanksgiving, all!

Here's what I have on my design wall - - -

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Happy Thanksgiving to all!

I'm stitching a scissors case on the embroidery machine for DD. A recent conversation with her started with "Mom, I'm so sorry for all the times I didn't put the scissors back". Yes, she's all grown up now. I have a new pair of scissors for her too.

Jane, love your design!

Isn't that awesome, Jane. I love how you kept the squares solid instead of being pieced as triangles.

love that strings design, Jane. Wish I access to sewing room this weekend to pull out my strings and get busy! (pre-teen grandson is camping there until Sunday am).

Well, it would very nice to join you fine folks. I have never participated in a quilt along before but I still have the flu so can't go to dinner and today should be my quilting day.
I have a pretty piece of fabric with antique sewing notions on it that I am turning into a machine pad with apron. I spent a lot of yesterday measuring, checking, remeasuring, refiguring. I am going to check a few things again but believe I am almost ready to do this. Oh, the problem is that the piece of fabric is actually not really big enough. It will be so nice to get this done it has been on the list for some time.

Thanks so much for hosting this. I've almost got this whipped. My 4th Smith Mountain Morning this one with a good...not perfect....twinned border. You can see one corner completed in the upper left of the picture. I need my head examined I think. Trying to get it done today because you know what tomorrow will bring.
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Battleaxe, I am absolutely floored by your willingness to repeat things into perfection!

I updated the original thread with the Cherry Goose top here:
https://www.quiltingboard.com/main-f...ml#post8333828

Now that I took the process photos I can get back to finishing the blocks, it's all pretty speedy from here on out. And unlike Battleaxe's lovely workmanship let's not look too closely at those triangle points on mine. I am not happy with my workmanship but then again, I changed machines midway and it always takes a bit to adjust. One of my quilting superstitions is I like to do all my sewing on one machine.

So far, my weekend has started off a little late, lol. I would normally have the turkey in by around 10am, I didn't get it in until almost 11:30am. Pies and rolls were baked between 2-5am, so working on very little sleep but well worth it. It's just me and the fiance, family stayed put this year.

My quilting weekend started off with a bang, however. Last night, with a couple of gift cards, I ordered various sized leather needles, some rubber finger grips and a couple of copper thimbles because I have long nails for the tie-off of my other quilt top, which will be next weekend. Tomorrow, I order the batting and the 6th, I'm going to get my sewing machine, it's finally done! I'm so excited for next weekend.

This weekend though, I'm working on my 2" hexies quilt. This one is going to be kind of a work as I go, this is the last of my stash and even though I've got a lot of all the fabric I used, I don't have enough for a full queen sized quilt yet. The next time I'm in town (town is an hour away), I'm going to buy more fabric. At least it's a start.

I'll be in and out today to check-in, tomorrow though I've already designated as 'I cooked Thanksgiving dinner, this is MY day, I'm quilting, leave me alone' day, lol.

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Thanks Raggiemom for hosting...I am still in California and have been since November 2nd (3k miles from my sewing room) but I did bring a hand project to work on. My DH and I are cooking a turkey dinner and some trimmings at the house we are staying in. We will have my mom, sister and BIL to share Thanksgiving dinner.

Krisb, I have purchased most of my colors but I am also waiting for background fabric fothe Sugaridoo QAL.

GingerK, sounds like a good reason to get your sewing room back in shape.

Happy Thanksgiving fellow quilters.

Ice Blossom, I have the same superstition you have about starting and finishing projects on the same machine.

Hence why I have several UFO's that will have to be taken apart completely and re-sewn with the machine I have now. They were JoAnn Fabrics BOM's. And were started on my trusty Kenmore. When it died all of sudden and couldn't be fixed, those projects came to a grinding halt. Those are on my todo list for next year. It definitely gives new meaning to at least finish the quilt tops in their entirety. (One at a time.)

I am working on my Pat Sloan, Winter Fun QAL quilt top. I want to get the sashing strips sewn to most of the rest of the quilt. I am still waiting for the last block to come out. But, I can finish a lot while I'm waiting. I also need to fish out the next project to work on. I'm not sure if it will be a UFO or a new make. Loads of both of those on the list. I am thinking about treating myself to a new make. I just finished the border treatments on 5 old UFO's. (UFO's are born when I get to the outer borders. Ugh, really bad habit. I think I have 4 others still waiting on borders.)

Happy Thanksgiving. My DH and DS and I are having ours on the 14th of Dec. They are both out of town on business. The day doesn't matter. Spending time with family and being grateful for what we have does.

Bonus, I get a great sew weekend to myself. Now, I need to get going and take advantage of it. See you ladies later.

No need for the quilt inspectors today. I"ve made some boo-boos too. Dad taught jet engine mechanics in WWII and tried to instill in us getting it right and such. So when I make a mistake I honor Dad by saying that " we're not building jet engines today".

And to honor all you great cooks out there that made a stuffed turkey or ham with pineapple...Yum.

I've run into another wall with this. The instructions say to complete the border as it were a frame, then see if your quilt top fits or not into the cavity. I think there are 220 strips that have to be made and then sliced and sewn back together. There is only one way of sewing to do it right so that it comes out twinned. It's a challenge for me.

Yes, I definitely have things to work on. And hopefully my husband isn’t planning on some kind of road trip.

Well, I got my borders on most of the quilt. Now to cut the plaid I'm using for the final border. I can put it on two sides. I will post a photo as soon as I'm able to get things to upload to my account. My internet is moving at snail pace.

I've got two tops quilted and going to get a start on the third.

I recently finished up the 100 blocks for my crazy quilt. I started it on my old viking 990, then moved to the Pfaff embroidery machine that I bought used. Then switched to the Babylock Destiny when I got that, and finished it up with the Babylock Solaris that I traded the Destiny in on. I also used the Juki 2010 for straight stitching, and ended with the Juki 8700. it will be quilted on the HQ.

It's not Thanksgiving here in Canada, but I'd like to join in anyway. No big dinners to cook since we had our turkey a few weeks ago. I'm still working on the Cat Quilt for my brother and SIL's granddaughter. In a perfect world, I'll have it done this weekend... I'm a little doubtful I'll be able to get it completely done by then, but it was a self-imposed deadline. I have to ship the two quilts to Newfoundland so I was hoping to get them to UPS early next week. We'll see how it all goes.

Battle Axe I absolutely love that border, but it is so far over my skill set!
Jane that quilt top looks awesome. I love dimensional quilts and that looks like it will look great when you're done!
Iceblossom I like the option #1, or #2 and a second choice. I like the flow of having the geese units all facing the same way, and I really like the play of colour with the red geese and the blacks and whites of the other fabrics.
Railroader's Brat neat hexies. My first quilt had a center of hexies completed on my embroidery machine. They are fun to sew together and yours look really neat.

Didn’t get much sewing done today. Too busy watching tv and washing my light colors for BHMQ. I’m ready to start that tomorrow. Over the weekend I plan to quilt 2-3 tops and put binding on a red scrappy quilt. I plan to machine sew the binding on. I’ll post pics as I get projects done or make progress.

Thank you!

It's funny you should mention that, I wasn't thinking embroidery but when I top stitch to finish it, I thought a simple continuous line rose would look really nice in them. I haven't gotten that far into the whole design yet, I usually think of those things about mid-way through. I do know I'm doing a dark green backing.

I would like to say count me in, but lots going on this weekend. I have to work tomorrow then it's off to Joann Fabric for some Black Friday deals. Saturday I should get some time at the sewing machine hopefully. Then Sunday I will be vending at a craft fair for the day. I'm sure I will sneak in moments at the sewing machine, but after waking up to 10 inches of snow and no power this AM, not as much time as I would like. This was our first significant snowfall, and snow always make me want to hang out for hours in my quilting studio.

Well, I slacked off quite a bit today, played my video game for awhile, took the dog for a walk, did get in one bubble bath... and I did get some done on the Cherry Goose top. I had to cut the setting triangles but I had my counts and measurements, anyway done now. All blocks are made, layout is confirmed, is sort of a hybrid between 1 & 2 in the pictures in the other thread. Subtle but the arrows go around in an endless loop/figure 8/infinity symbol. I've pinned together the first round of connections but my back said to take a break and my hubby will soon be home and there will be leftovers for me to make a nice meal.

It's been a good day for me, I hope all of you had a good one too.

So fun to hear and see what everyone is doing. I'm cutting and piecing scraps for this to be given as guild presents by the program committee.

http://www.laundrybasketquilts.net/L...PinCushion.pdf

My weekend will extend into next week as I drive out of town to "baby" sit our 2 HS Grands while Mom and Dad are on business trips. Hope to get some more sewing done!

Hi Everyone! I just set up my early Christmas present (Janome 6700) so I'm itching to sew!

I'm finishing up a top of scraps and train fabric for the Linus project. I will post a picture when it's all done. I have another quilt on the design wall, but I'm thinking of working on a few blocks from my oldest UFO first. Then when the mystery comes out I'll be side-tracked! :)

I'm in. My craft fair is next Friday and I'm going to be busy, busy, busy! Probably a nervous wreck, considering it's my first one ever. It's so much more than just sewing, but I do have to have inventory!

Jane, can you please share the name/source of this great project? My string basket is overflowing and this looks like a good project for it! Thanks.

here's a link to a tutorial right here on the QB
https://www.quiltingboard.com/tutori...s-t295413.html

Hello, all. I just stumbled on this thread this morning and so... here I go. I have a long term hand quilting project that is thirteen blocks wide, so I am tracking my progress by finished rows. I want to get one row finished today. I so seldom have a whole day to quilt and Friday is it, until the middle of December. Will have some evenings here and there but it is the end of the semester for my students and well they just would like their grades. Crazy college students! :D Also, I am co-chair for our Christmas Tea at church. That will be over a week from today, so that should open up some time.

I want to do the BHMQ but won't start until after the hand quilt is finished. Will be gathering clues etc. and start hopefully in February. I hope to get two quilts back today or tomorrow from the longarmer that are Christmas gifts and need their binding. Binding cut pressed and ready to go.

Then someone mentioned clearing their sewing room. What a fine idea. I could use a bit of time just clearing up old project scraps and getting UFO's in one place ready for the push to finish some in the new year. So, like many others, I have plenty to do. I have a plan and I will check in tomorrow to see and hear progress.