Virtual Quilting Weekend--March 13-15, 2020
 

Good morning and welcome to Virtual Quilting Weekend. Looking forward to seeing what many of you are working on this weekend. I would love to finish my March UFO project, which is to add diamond borders to my Quiltsmart Lonestar. I'm using the Diamond smartpaks and then need to calculate the width of the inner border that connects the center to the diamond border. For some reason, I have a huge mental block when it comes to figuring out how to calculate that! Once I finish that, I have a couple projects I'm in the middle of that I would like to complete the tops.

So what are working on?

Next VQW will be April 10-12.

I'm still recouping from rotor cuff surgery so no sewing or quilting for me. I've been taking the EQ classes online with Kari and we're working on t-shirt and panel layouts. I have a panel quilt I tried to design way before I started taking these classes but now I have an idea how to get my ideas on paper so will work on my layout this weekend. Have already sliced it vertically and added strips to make it wider. Luckily I have another panel of the same so I can take a photo of it and put it on my PC so I can make it look like how I have it now. Its been on hold for so long up on my design wall due to one of my rows I created. Now maybe I can get it figured out correctly. Wish me luck. Have loved these classes online with Kari as I never ready knew just how much you can do with EQ. I upgraded to EQ8 and that's when I decided to take the classes to learn how to use it to the fullest. Have learned so much.

I'm not sure yet what I'll be working on. I didn't do much quilting since the last VQW because I've been down sick with two stomach bugs, the flu, a myriad of migraines and now a cold and I'm still trying to recover from that.

I did manage to squeak out a tool organizer in between bouts of sickness, which proved to be a challenge because I wasn't able to get the actual pattern for it, so I eye-balled the whole thing. I've got a few more things to do with it before I can call it officially done, but I'm proud of it.

One way or the other, I'll be in my quilting room this weekend for certain. I love VQW's.

I have a red and white sampler quilt ready to sandwich. Hopefully I can get quilting on that this weekend.

I'm babysitting my 3 month old grandson all day today so my sewing will start tomorrow. I have 2 QOV tops to put on the longarm. After those are done I'll sew more 2-1/2" blocks for the Circa 1880 quilt I'm making. It's going to be a busy VQW for me!

I haven't posted in forever. I just thought I would poke around to see what everyone is up to. The crud has taken over my life but hopefully going to work on 2 quick quilts for my living room this weekend.

No sewing for me this weekend. I am only 2 days post op for my gallbladder. Doctor said I cannot life anything heavier than my shoes so that includes the project I am working on. Standing is still a bit of a challenge and I am still somewhat sore but getting better every day. Two weeks is what I have to deal with so this virtual weekend is out.

Good luck :)

Considering the state of the world, I think it is a great weekend to stay home and sew. I have a single size charity quilt top that is 3/4 put together. I would really like to finish that today. Plus a friend saw my new bag and asked if I would be willing to sell it. I have to add a magnetic closure to the top and then replace the binding. If I start now instead of sitting here for another hour, I just might get them both done today! Off to my sewing cave.

Since it is raining like crazy outside so I can't do any pricing for the upcoming garage/estate sale, I think I'll sneak off to my sewing room and work on my LBB block #9. Rain...Rain...stay my way, turn this into a sewing day. Yea.

Well thank you Raggiemom, I came on the forum today to get a little motivation. I even have my "next" fabric prewashed and ready for cutting. It will be a fast project and I think fun.

It's not that I don't want to sew but that it's been about 2 weeks really since I did anything and that is rare for me, usually I do something quilting related every day and thinking about it doesn't quite count. Woke up this morning determined to clean things up a bit, I think that although that isn't what I want to do, it's what I need to do so that I can do what I want.

So today I will finish up my coffee and commit to 2 hours of fabric organization and find the red and white pin dot I'm looking for to make binding. I have a feeling I hung it up with the next project and it is hanging up behind my bedroom door -- that should be an easy first task to find out.

First off I will stitch some magnetic tape by hand to the back of the spring table runner I just finished. It is kind of a mindless job but I like being able to put something up on my metal door on the inside.

MSQC Irish Change
 

Working on the latest quilt tutorial from MSQC called "Irish Change" looked quick and easy plus had a bunch of fabrics that I couldn't decide what to do with. So about half way piecing the chain blocks and plan to finish this weekend. More stash busting.

Yay! Thanks for hosting, Raggiemom. Today I’ve been working on painting and quilting the individual blocks for the Helen Godden 2017 BOM. I wanted to learn some of her techniques and this has been a fun way of going about it. I still have 3 blocks to paint and quilt and then there’s a big central panel. I also have my March UFOs to work on. All of which should keep me busy all weekend. Looking forward to seeeing what everyone else is working on.

Rob

I have a quilt top to finish but I don't know what I am going to do with it. It was g

I have a quilt top to finish but I don't know what I am going to do with it. I was going to give it to the local high school's theater production for their gift basket raffle. They were supposed to do Beauty and the Beast this weekend and next but it was cancelled when the government ordered no groups over 250 allowed to gather in NJ

I just made 2 pillowcases for my husband and I using Easter fabric I had. Tomorrow we need to pack up our costumes for B&B and then I have to think of what I want to do. I am on spring break next week and then doing on line learning for at least two weeks after that.

I'll have family here this weekend (starting tonight) so I'm cleaning house in a mad frenzy. Despite that, I will be sewing! My daughter has been begging me to make a quilt for her friend's little girl, so we will do that tomorrow. She is bringing all the fabrics she wants in it. I guess we will take turns watching my little granddaughter (her daughter).

Now that's a clever idea!

Thank you for hosting. I have a baby quilt to put borders on, then build a back. The baby isn't due until June, but I need to get caught up on many quilts.
Looking forward to seeing all your pretty quilts as I dislike the fabric in this one.

I’ll jump in and play! I’m itching to sew again after spending a lot of time on purging my house the past week or so. And I might have been a bit distracted by things happening on the grandma front and the world stage.

I'm always glad to host one of these! Anytime :)

snooze2978, railroadersbrat, and juliash---good luck with your recoveries! Plan some future projects!

Iceblossom, hope you've found something on here to motivate you. Sometimes we just lose our mojo.

I gave up on the Quiltsmart diamond smartpak. It just wasn't making sense to me. So I pulled out a Deb Tucker tool and am making diamond rects for the borders. Should finish that up tomorrow and then the top will be ready to drop off at the quilt shop to be quilted. Will check back in tomorrow morning.

I did my two hours of straightening things up and while I still have a ways to go, things are looking better or at least about down to normal now. I found my red with white pin dot fabric, not at all where I thought it was and grabbed out a couple other things I may want for soon -- one of which might use the rest of that red and white dot. One of the ladies in my Tuesday group was commenting that my bias binding came out better than hers did and I said I'd bring a piece for a tutorial next group, so I'm committed to at least getting that done tomorrow now that I found the fabric. Will just be cutting the triangles and sewing the first seam, will show the trimming and the way I mark at group.

I've been thinking of doing the Canadian Row by Row project, we have a thread on that here with a link to the site.
https://www.quiltingboard.com/quilti...y-t310019.html

I pulled out some fabrics when it was still in a mystery stage for that but I'm rather glad I didn't get started with them. So far there are two easy rows released and plenty of time to get caught up if I can get started this week. Currently thinking of bright dog/cat prints and polka dots (including that binding yardage) with black as a background...

I'll be checking in and quilting as much as possible. I think this weekend will be LA.

I'm so glad to have found this. Just what I needed! I'm working on a charity quilt top. I don't like the way it's turning out, but will finish it. I also have three quilts to quilt for our prayer quilt ministry at the church. Plus I haven't touched Bonnie Hunter's Frolic for weeks or the Cuts and Bolts NYE mystery. For sure I need to do the quilting, but not sure which other project I will work on.
Toehkatz - I saw that tute as well. It does look quick and easy. If I do it I'll make it much smaller. I'd be interested in your take on the pattern after you've made some blocks.

It's been a few VQW ago since I've partipcated but this weekend I'm all for it. I will be working on a current WIP sampler that has been kitted for a year, then packed, then moved 1,000 miles and stored...so, I'm super happy to be finally working on it. Also, Sunday is our 33rd anniversary and we decided to just hang out and be together, do nothing, flake out in front of TV, which I typically and rarely do, so I'll be doing some of the EPP and applique blocks for the sampler while flaking. Perfect!

Good luck on your projects everyone!

This is turning out great. I love the fabrics you chose. Amazing you did this without a pattern. You go, girl! Hope you feel better this weekend and kick the bugs that have been attacking you for good...

Thanks Raggiemom for hosting! I'd like to join in this weekend. We have company in from Atlanta, Georgia (my older brother and two of his sons), but they're staying at my younger brother's house so they aren't here all the time. I'm working on my Dream Big OBW for our bed. I'm up to the stage of sewing the strips together, so I'm sure I'll get some of them done this weekend. This is my starting point. We'll see where I get to by the end of the weekend.

Just needs a binding!

Thank you Raggiemom for hosting. I forgot VQW was this weekend. The gift shop I sew for at the local hospital contacted me that they needed baby quilts asap, so I did work on some what I call "cheater" quilts yesterday, am I suppose to feel guilty using these panels?:o (the presewn blocks that you buy yardage of) I cut and sandwiched 8 baby quilts, got 5 sewn and ready to finish today. I also have been working on "bibdannas" for the gift shop too, I bought a snap setting tool, Dritz last weekend and got the snaps onto the bibs, that was a new to me tool so was fun to learn and figure out yesterday, so easy, I can see where I will be using this tool for other projects. I had intended to post pictures with this thread and just realized I have no paperclip to attach them. I will post pictures later of my projects. Happy sewing everyone, and for those of you under the weather or recovering from surgery, I hope you are feeling back to yourselves again soon.

My list is not long but I am trying to be reasonable.....
1. finish hand stitching the binding on a baby quilt
2. cut a gazillion 5" blocks and turn them into half square triangles.
3. prepackage envelopes for the birthday swap when I get tired of HST
4. make pie for pi day! Yummmmm

It's 7am on Saturday now, I'm feeling a little better but the constant rain today will no doubt just bring back the blahs. There's two times a year that I just can't stand, from winter to spring and from summer to fall. My migraines are mostly triggered by the weather, so I'm in bed a lot during the season changes.

Thank you, I just grabbed a picture off the Internet and studied it until I had a rough idea of how to do it and then just did it. I'm sure that I made a ton of mistakes versus what the pattern called for, I tried to get it but Bluprint just wouldn't take my paypal card, so I sewed my interpretation of it. I originally thought soft florals would look beautiful, but then I realized that this is going to get a lot of use, so I went with stronger colors to combat dust, oil from my hands, etc. I still may do one with the florals, though, lol.

Working on a matching pressing pad this morning, I use a mini-iron to do my finger pressing and I'm getting tired of using scraps of fabric over a hand towel. I'm not quite there yet to work on my hexies, this will at least keep the sewing machine busy and I can knock this out in a couple hours. I'll post a pic when I'm done.

I don't know if this counts, but I finished longarming a quilt for my BFF ( Sesame Street theme for her grandson , 18 months old. He can hardly contain himself when Elmo appears on the screen!) So, I gave that to her last night to trim and bind. Another friend had a beautiful stack and whack OBW that she completed in a class years ago, she had backing, binding top ready to go and then moved so it's been bagged up. I plan on spending a lot of time sewing this weekend and probably for the next couple of weeks.

Done! More details on the UFO thread (under "Contests"

Railroadersbrat-Love your tool organizer that your made. Looks like it will be very helpful to find everything. Sorry to hear you are sick and it sounds like what I have been battling since January. Hope you get better soon and that every day from now on you are better.
I am working on a bow tie quilt with Christmas fabrics I wanted to use up.

Binding and binge watching some movies! Got lots of binding to do before the 3 quilts come back in 2 weeks from LAQ.

I'm longarming today, I have 2 tops to get finished. One is a QOV. I had a visitor in my quilting studio yesterday, I thought I'd share that photo as well!

I have three projects I started last autumn I want to work on and set aside to chauffer my brother to his cancer treatments and appointments with doctors. Wowser! I had no idea the amount of appointments that takes. But, worth ever moment.
Recently I finished a couple for a charity auction items two weeks ago and they sold very well, happily. But now, it is back to the projects on hand. A wiener dog quilt and a backpack made with custom fabrics I paid far too much for. LOL! I believe it was a Studio Kat designed backpack. See, so long ago I am losing my memory as to who designed it. What a blonde. ( No offense to anyone else if you are blonde too.) There are other projects I have planned, but, I will not cut one more thing until these are finished, I swear! I guess my mind has been in a swirl since finding out about my brother's cancer.
It is onward and upward from here. I pledge to get to it!

Great fun to see what everyone is working on!

I'm still working on the Helen Godden 2017 BOM. It's one where you paint the individual blocks, then back them with batting and quilt them before assembling them with sashing into a top which is then sandwiched and lightly quilted. Anyway- today so far I've gotten block 12 quilted and block 13 painted, sandwiched and ready for quilting. All that's left is to paint and quilt block 14 and the large central part of the quilt. Then I have to put it away until next month so I can work on things that have deadlines LOL! Taking a break to read QB before working some more. I really need to get my UFO off the design wall and do some detail quilting so I can get it done...and there's a finished quilt that needs a hanging sleeve and label... and one of the collaborative pieces that DH and I are doing together...Here's some pics of the BOM. These 6 are the ones I did yesterday and today.

Rob
:sew::sew::sew:

Well this certainly took longer than I expected. It is a twin sized charity quilt top. The pattern is 16 patch and pinwheels. I am very glad to have it out from under my needle. Time to start something new.

Well I have the four diamond rects borders pieced. I’m waiting to hear back from a friend who’s double checking my calculations for the inner border. I have just enough fabric left so want to make sure I cut it correctly!