6 & 6 in 2018

I'm linking up to the "6 & 6 in 2018" challenge hosted by Meredith and Anne.

UFOs

1. Blue and Grey QAYG

2. Yellow QAYG (The Pizza Quilt, according to my daughter...)

3. Picnic/Christmas blanket

4.

5.

6.

New Projects

1. Teal curtains for the living room

2. DS' Free-Wheeling Single Girl

3. AG's Cobblestones 

4. purples/green/blue HST --> big pillow

5. knitted scrap-y (sample) yarn blanket

6. TBD

Pics coming soon!

January OMG - hat box

I had a tough time deciding again this month, but I chose to "make this pretty" as my goal.

It used to be a hat box, with a pin cushion on top, in some not-me 
colors of olive green/dark blue in a ditsy floral print.  I think.  It has been naked for 7+ years.  :P


I want to store my perle thread in here, so I can see it out and be inspired to do more hand-stitching.


Linking back to Elm Street Quilts, our lovely host. 

December OMG - done

I have been puttering about doing other projects (and also lots of nothing!) this month, and only began sewing my OMG yesterday on 28 Dec.  I think the confetti block is fun and quick to put together, so I finished up my block today.

Here is what I came up with:

16" square

I used most all of the scraps.  Keeping the triangle...!

Linking back to Elm Street Quilts, our lovely host. 

ps: I am proud that I have kept this up all year!  12 for 12!

December OMG - Improv in Blue

I was not sure what I wanted to do this month, but I finally decided.

I will take this small stack of fabric (from 2+ years ago...) and make it into a confetti block <--Second pic down.  It is from the awesome book Block Party.

that's lime green at the bottom...  I'm still a newbie at pics. :P

Linking back to our lovely host, Elm Street Quilts.

November OMG - done

I actually finished most of this earlier in the month.  My method of quilting it was to attach the flimsy to the center of the roughly cut batting by folding it in half, then in half and lining up the center point.  I used glue basting and heat-set before I used a serpentine stitch over all of the block-joining seams in a vertical + horizontal grid.




Then I glue basted the back to this partially quilted bit and attached the long-side of the borders and did more serpentine stitching, spaced out with masking tape.  These lines are mostly straight, but since it is black thread on black fabric, it looks great!  Then I attached the last two border parts and quilted them the same way.

I considered my binding options and went with one that would blend in.  I decided to practice Rachel's zigzag method.


It was not easy for me because I do not think I measured out 3/8" correctly...  So I really had to pull some spots tight to get it to line up and did you know pins are sharp?


Last part was to do some "hand" quilting around Jason, Toria and my hands.


Linking back to Elm Street Quilts, our lovely host. 

current list of UFOs/wanna-makes

In no particular order, a brain-dump of all* my current UFOs and (things I want to make).

From Stitched Holiday:

•   Joy
•   (Tree Pillow)
•   (QAYG Tree Skirt)

Cobblestones with AG Sun-something-or-the-other

(DS Free-Wheeling Single Girl)

(HST via this month's Saturday Demo - purples/green/blue)

Building Blocks via October's Saturday Demo - brights/that really ugly fabric my mom bought for me 15 years ago for curtains...


*Ha!  All that I can think of/see right now.  Plenty more that I've got buried under other things.  :P

November OMG - UFO

I am not late.  I am just really early for next year...  :P   My goal this month is to turn this flimsy into a real quilt that the kids can snuggle under next fall.

I want to border this in black, using up the batting from my current design wall.  I have a few large chunks to piece together for the backing.  Binding is still TBD.

Linking back to our lovely host, Elm Street Quilts.