Virtual quilting weekend December 31-January 2, 2022
 

Good morning! Welcome to our special VQW. I will be trying to finish a couple quilts this weekend. What are your plans?

Good morning Heather, thanks for hosting the final VQW of 2021 and thanks for hosting these wonderful weekends! I am in again with what I hope to be all the final blocks for Allitare. I have just the setting triangles to piece and then on to borders. I am really looking forward to seeing what everyone else is working on.

I will be cutting up shirts for memory quilts and hopefully get to piecing as well (at least the first 2 which will be a simple layout).
I need to decide on a couple of patterns/things I was to try for the 2nd 2 quilts, I hope to pattern browse some this weekend too. I had 24 shirts to start and that doesn't include the flannel ones that will become their own quilts at a later point in time.
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Well it's Bonnie Hunter mystery time for me -- the new clue was just released.

We are still snowed in here around Seattle. Hubby has a cold and we can't get it tested for Covid, so he's home and we are trying to stay apart/he's wearing his mask. We're still working our way through the Call the Midwife series, last half of Season 3 now.

Originally he was going to do the Polar Bear Plunge, that is run into Lake Washington on New Year's Day but that has been cancelled due to the snow and cold. He already realized it would look bad if he was home from work and got his picture on the news...

Hello everyone, Happy New Year.

I have one small sewing project to do that I will probably knock out later today/tonight, then the rest of the weekend, it's nothing but declutter so I can start to reorganize my sewing corner. Will be starting a significant soft sculpture project the middle of January, I've got to have my ducks in a row before I do that.

No sewing for me but taking down Christmas in our home. So my sewing room gets all that where I put things in totes for storage. I do have an octagon quilt I have started piecing, have about 1/2 of the top pieced. It is not my favorite thing to sew octagons together with the Y seams but I will persevere till it is done. I also have a T-shirt quilt for Granddaughter who will graduate this coming spring. I did one this past year for a Grandson so know how to do it. Those two items are my winter projects for 2022 and that will be my New Year's resolution to get them finished. Enjoy hearing what everyone is working on. Happy New Year everyone!!!!

The BH mystery clue came out today plus I'm doing the Merry Mayhem tomorrow so I'm going to be busy! Also taking the tree down.
Happy New Year, everyone!
Thanks for hosting, Heather!

I'm working on a quilt that was born out of some jelly roll strips that were gifted to me by a QB friend. I'm hoping to finalize the layout and get the top done this weekend (it might involve making more blocks or digging through my stash to find setting fabric). Happy New Year and happy quilting, everyone! :-)

This is a busy time of the year. Since we're selling the house, the carpets have been cleaned, spotted, cleaned. Turned up the fans, so hopefully the furniture can go back into place today.
First, to finish the top of the quilt started at the last VQW.
Then, Merry Mayhem
Finally?

Happy New Year to all the VQWers! Thanks Heather for being our host! I will be working on the mystery quilt but have to make a decision as to whether I should use the garnet color or stick with the teal bonus units I made in clue 4. I might just do what I can without committing either way and decide later.
Lots of other things to work on as well!

I hope to get started on something new to start off the new year.

Ok, you got me! I have bindings I have to get to on some oven mitts I made. I still have about a dozen to do. The quilting is simple and the mitts are great. I still have a few people coming over for a later holiday get together. These are the perfect gift for both men and women. The outdoor chef and the queen of the indoor kitchen are all getting mitts this season. The Christmas season here doesn't end until Little Christmas on Jan 6th. Then the tree comes down. With a death in the family on Christmas things are going a bit differently but that is ok. So now it is time to finish up these mitts so they can get where they are suppose to go. Thanks for doing this VQW for the end of 2021.

I have been recutting a quilt I am making for a quilt show entry. I hope to resew the strips tomorrow. Hoping it lays flat on Sunday .Happy New Year. God bless all in 2022.

Thanks for another quilting weekend. I was planning on working on my DD's quilt but my needle broke this morning and it damaged my bobbin case so my machine is out of order until I can order a new one. Everything is closed for the weekend. I will be going through my scrap fabric and pressing the large pieces to go on comic boards and cutting the small pieces into squares of varying sizes. I am going to participate in the 2022 Declutter project sponsored by Just Get it Done Quilts. I have my boxes ready to pack up everything I get rid of. Happy New Year to everyone!

I am finishing up a table runner but spending most of the time reorganizing my sewing room. I missed the Christmas VQW despite my best intentions! I work very slowly these days lol. Enjoying seeing what everyone is up to.
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The Christmas decorations are put away. House cleaning is done and also laundry finished. Tomorrow is the Merry Mayhem mystery. I was to sew with my sister but, she got Covid. So it is a solo sew day.

Thanks for hosting once again. I started a charity quilt top with a bunch of left over homespuns, a couple of days ago. I think I'll continue to work on that. It sure would be nice to get 'something' cleared out of my sewing room!

Iceblossom--hope your husband feels better soon and it's just a cold.

SusieQOH and Karamarie--did you get the Christmas decorations down? Mine are in the basement but just kind of here and there. I plan to work in the basement next Wednesday and organize the mess.

Fabric Galore--I feel your pain on damaging the bobbin case. I've done it enough that I keep a spare one on hand :)

It's been a productive day here. Did some laundry, caught up on some computer work and managed to get quite a bit done in the sewing room. Right now, I'm going to cut up some scraps from another project into a couple kids quilts. Will check back in tomorrow.

Happy New Year everyone!

Yay! I'll be trying to finish quilting the Sept. Color block quilt and piecing the Oct. Color block quilt. If I get the quilting done on the Sept. quilt, then I've got a little bit of quilting to finish on my Doodle quilt and the Snail's Trail Al Fresco quilt is sandwiched and ready to go as well....

Looking forward to seeing what everyone else is working on this weekend.

Happy New Year everyone,
Rob

Thank you for hosting, and Happy New Year!

I hope to get some time to sew Saturday evening, and maybe some time on Sunday too... I'll probably be working on a mixture of handquilting my Cats & Pumpkins table runner, piecing a Sylvia's Bridal Sampler block (or two, if I get wild), and tidying up my sewing room (which is in desperate need).

Happy Quilting!

Heather, I did get the Christmas stuff done!! And I got my mystery clue partially done. Wow, that's so unlike me!! haha :D

Your Cats & Pumpkins runner sounds interesting!

I will join in this VQW. I have my 'Rose & Violets Garden' quilt half quilted. It's looking very soft and girly, but did not like that I couldn't find my usual batting and had to do with poly. The more I use that the less I like it.
Also am putting the blocks together for Bonnies' On Ringo Lake, and it's taken me so long to make. This quilt was on display in our LQS in dusty pinks and browns and looked gorgeous. Happy new year to all, and hope it's better than the last one.

I've been working away at my Bonnie Hunter clue. It won't make any sense to the rest of you, but I've gotten my yellow/neutral/garnet combinations done and am going to start pinning them to the previous clue.

We have the Orange Bowl on -- go Michigan!

I am putting the. Binding in a shadow box quilt that started in March 2020 that has turned into a wedding quilt because she up and got married to her boyfriend of 19 years.

Yeah baby - finishing a ufo while watching 30 Rock and waiting for the ball to drop.

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It's getting there. Right 2/3 together. Left 1/3 all pieces layed into place. Now to start sewing.

I'm in. Back from my trip, suitcases unpacked, animals all home so I can sew. I have a jelly roll quilt on the FMQ machine. The batting is very thick, so it's harder than usual to wrestle under the arm of the machine. I need a lot of breaks. A wedding quilt on the piecing machine. I think I will press the blocks and get them on the design wall so I can see where I'm at.

Happy New Year everyone.

I’m in today. I plan to work on my BHMQ-21 parts 2-4. And get all of the sub parts on BHMQ-20 sewn, so later in the week I can sew the top together. That should keep me busy. Of course this is if I do not loose my power. We are expecting freezing weather and 3-4” of snow tomorrow. I have a love & hate relationship with the weather this time of year. I like that I stay in and can sew, but hate the cold and terrible roads. Oh well in only 8-9 more weeks of this fun weather. Happy sewing everyone.

I did work on a silly little checker board quilt yesterday made of green 2.5 squares and white scraps. About 2/3 of the way to finished making 4 patches then strips. Not much quilting today, January 1, but tomorrow should get me back to making the final three or four rows. Then join the rows to create a top set for layering. Want to have the quilt finished by January 11. Doable! .

Great weekend for sewing…foggy and drizzly. Yes, thank you Heather.
Finished the last of my Quilting Life BOM and will work on sashing to complete the quilt. Also started my annual decluttering, organizing in my sewing studio yesterday. I have 64 HSTs ready for today’s Merry Mayhem mystery QAL
Happy New Year everyone!

Saturday Update:

I've been up for about three hours now, I really was hoping this stupid weather didn't put me down, so far it seems to be okay but the bottom hasn't dropped out of the temperature yet.

I've spent the morning starting to declutter, I made a page in my new bullet journal and have been slowly putting things away that belong in other rooms and picking up some mail trash from the floor when I straightened up my desk. I've also found my new wall calendar, some fabric scraps that I thought I had put away and obviously I didn't and gathering up some crafting stuff that doesn't need to be in here right now. Taking a small coffee break, then I'll do up some dishes and get some green fat quarters out and figure out what I will use for a frog that I'm sewing up this weekend. After that, more decluttering.

Feeling good about the declutter and reorganization, can't wait until my corner is clean and ready for 2022.

Happy New Year Quilty friends! Got all the setting triangles done, all that remains is to move around some of blocks and sew them all together, then contemplate the border. While I love solid borders, I am toying with doing a ribbon border. This color combination screams Christmas especially since I subbed green for gray, and I think that a ribbon border would really look great. I need to do some math and dig for more fabrics to see if this is doable since I don’t want to order any fabric. This is all from my stash, and I’d like to keep it that way. I may or may not get all the top sewn together this weekend, we will see.

Happy New Year, Lisa and all !
Lisa, that's a stunner! Wow!!!!! Love it.

I am making progress on my bindings for my Oven Mitts. Getting ready for a big snow storm today a good time to be sewing the only thing I have to do today besides cook a bit for dinner.

I'm in, I have been working today on some blocks that have been hanging around too long and doing some de-cluttering of the sewing room. It's way to cold to go anyplace today, and too cold to bring up the temp in DH's play room (The second garage, right now the temp is -6 with a wind chill of -21) So he brought some of his wood working tools from the garage to the basement to work on. He has his wood projects today and I have my fabric.

Tallchick - I'm not getting Christmas - but I do see Fall - possibly something regal. Perhaps the color shifted on the computer but it's a real stunner!

Happy New Year! I've been sewing all day in my pjs, just finished Clue 6 on Rhododendron Trail, at least as much as I can finish until I see how those hourglasses from Clue 4 will be used.
I will probably dig one of my other ongoing projects tomorrow, maybe Dear Jane?

I see some of you are expecting snow. We have had rain here all day, getting close to 2 inches. I'm glad I didn't need to go out today :) I have finished quilting and binding the three quilts so I am very happy! I'm not sure how much time I'll get tomorrow. I'm thinking I might sandwich a couple wall hangings and pick up in the sewing room. I feel like I'm always cleaning up in there--probably because I am! I have downloaded this month's free patterns for two block of the months. They are both applique and my goal is to use scraps. I have more scraps than I like to have laying around so hopefully this will be a good use for some of them.

Will check back in tomorrow :) I hope everyone has had a wonderful day.

Got the sub units done for 12 blocks, should get them finished tomorrow. Time to get dinner going and spend some time with hubby. Enjoy the sewing and keep safe and warm tonight.

Yesterday Amazon delivered our covid tests early and husband has tested positive. He has an official test scheduled for the 3rd but he is still here for the foreseeable future. I still have no symptoms. The lady who hosts my Tuesday group suspects she has it -- her (grown) grandson has tested positive and apparently spread it Christmas eve before he knew.

We are keeping as apart as we can, he is wearing his mask but it's a small house... Anyway, I've been able to keep sewing while staying apart. I'm pretty close to finishing the blocks today but might just kick back and slack off for awhile.

We are still cold and snowy outside. The roads aren't so bad but the grocery store was pretty darn empty. Got enough cream for our coffee and enough snacks to keep quilting.