I have been trying to quilt all day today...on and off all day...tomorrow I hope to be here all day!!! Love you guys...this really helps to modivate me...!!

I planned to sew tomorrow right after church, but DH says he wants to go to hobby store first to get something for his model railroad. I really can't say no as he is so good when I buy things for quilting. SO, I'll be a little later starting, but I plan to be with you in spirit ALL day - even if I'm only sewing for half of it. I have two projects started and want to finish them both - both are hand work and both are to be entered in contests coming up soon.

I finished my first wall hanging today and plan to work on the backing for my first quilt tomorrow!

sounds fun...But I am not at my apt untill the 18th so will not be able to join :( I may check in now-n-then to see what is happening

Last time, I planned to join in. Sewed all day and then remembered I was supposed to check in. I have plenty of projects going and will spend the day binding, basting and maybe starting a new project. I just have to remember to take the laptop and camera to my studio, too. LOL! See you in the morning.

Oh my gosh - just reading this and have been wanting to get a RWB rail fence wall hanging done - so I'm in!!! Thanks for doing this! I've got to "jump in bed" so I can get up earlier to get lunch in the crock pot and get everything ready for quilting!

I plan on being there, my first time :) I have so many blocks from swaps that I might try to get sewn together into tops. Have a lap quilt and full quilt to work on too so have plenty to pick from! Will be here mid morning, have the coffee on :)

I so wish I could join in! I have my husbands daughter and grandchildren visiting! But i will be showing her the fabricsi have in mind for a quilt, ten minute block, i have planned. Does this count?

I'm in!
In fact, since it is already Sunday afternoon where I live, I am already sewing.....

Thank you so much Rachel for doing this. I am working on a project I started with great enthusiasm but poor preparation (nothing unusual there lol).

I saw a scrappy pattern on one of the those great online sites that has heaps, and I printed it out and, I feel sure, bookmarked it. Now I have lost the printout, AND the bookmark!

No worries, I wasnt going to copy the pattern exactly anyhow. Plus, I made it smaller (and made an error in scaling down, as I accidentally scaled down the seam allowance as well....)

I have had trouble with this one from the start- my usual problem is not understanding value well enough to have enough contrast, without making the eye jump everywhere. So I picked four colours (yellow, green, brown, pink)and then picked fabrics that were too similar in value and did heaps of cutting up and sewing, all to achieve very little by way of an obvious pattern..... so, I decided to space out the rows with plain coloured borders. This also helps disguise the fact that the measurements are not so good! (No idea how wide those borders need to be to make the thing look halfway balanced, but, at this point, am not caring much.)

Note to self: if you are doing a scrappy with a row of tumbler blocks and a double row of squares, etc, you really do need for the total width of the quilt to be evenly divisible by the size of each tumbler and each square- oopsie!!! I am beyond that point now, and it will just have to include some half sized blocks- who cares? I just want it DONE!

We are moving house and I need to tidy out my sewing room- there is no way this project is being packed up as a series of strips that are not even all the right length- out with the fabrics and more HSTs and piano keys to be added......

YAY- I am going to NAIL this thing and then I am NEVER doing a project like this again!!!!!!

I am thinking now that, since the thing is so small, I might use it as a medallion later and make a bed quilt out of it. Or not, lets see what it looks like first!

I hope some of you are up before I go to bed........