Spiderweb progress

Here they are - the 18 blocks I have to date:

Isn't it great? I'm planning on finishing the 1/2 row and then adding one more for a 5x5 layout. I still have 1/4 bucket of scraps...and a lot of strings. It'll be interesting to see what happens after 7 more blocks!!

I'm really starting to dig the yellow too - I'm so happy I found more so that it'll be the same exact farbic throughout.

More Spiderweb Blocks

Happy Memorial Day! Thank you to all of our patriotic men and women who have fought and are fighting for our freedom. We can't say thank you enough! We live in a military town and we appreciate these brave people who lay their lives on the line for us.

It's been a beautiful weekend here. We were a little worried as it was a little cooler than we liked but as the weekend continued, it warmed up nicely. Today felt like summer!

We only made it to one movie - Battleship. Loved it!  Great effects! Great timing to see it this weekend. Sad the theater was almost empty.... Next is MIB3...love that series! Should be a good one.

I've been picking out paper piecing papers from some new spiderweb blocks. I made 10 blocks and have picked out half of them. I did buy some yellow fabric as I used all that I had...or so I thought. I hadn't found anything to match, but did pick up a couple yards of something darker and another fabric that was the reverse coloration. Then I washed them and was putting them away when I found nearly 2 more yards of my original fabric.  Here's the 8 finished blocks:

Yep, that yellow fabric was what I was looking for. I can't remember how many years I've had it...I had bought a ton and have used it in a quilt and as backing... this will be the last quilt as I'm double the above picture with the blocks I've got made...and then I need to figure out how many more to make...

That's about it for this weekend. We have a 3 day work week this week with the holiday today and our regular day off Friday. Woo Hoo!

Starry Eyed finish x2 and Spiderweb blocks

Wow, can it be nearly a month ago that I posted? We had a few things going on during our last couple of weekends. I try and post Sunday nights and by then, I was too tired...or not home...or...

Here's what I've been working on:

 

Starry Eyed x2 --- both back from the quilter and I bound them both in a black print. They are both amazing and have the reindeer's names in the quilting. The names match how they are spelt in one of the fabrics in this line.

Can you see "donner" in the middle of this picture? so cute!!!! I made two - one to keep and one to sell.

Spiderweb blocks - Here's what I have so far. I sewed and sewed and sewed...and only have 8 blocks so I'll be sewing a TON more on these. I was a little bummed at how many strips/strings/scraps I still have until I saw how small this is so far. I'm starting to like the yellow. I wasn't too sure after the first two blocks, but I'm loving it now.

I also have some Granny Square blocks with a black background and another quilt top finish. I forgot to take pictures of these two things, so I'll get that done and then post them. You'll love them as they are both looking fantastic!

Have a great week - I hope to get in some sewing during the upcoming 3-day weekend... WOO HOO!!

Knickerbocker Glory #2

Back on July 25, 2011, I blogged about my Knickerbocker Glory Quilt (pattern from the book Jelly Roll Inspirations by Pam and Nicky Lintott). At that time, I had made double the number of four patches...so I made another quilt. Here it is:

It's quilted by my LAQ using green thread and done in a stipple format.

Here's the back:

It's scrappy with a central patch of 2.5 inch squares.

I've been busy on some othe blocks. Hopefully, I'll have some of them completed and picture of them in a week or so...

String Clean - Ironic!

I've cruised through many blogs over the past couple of months and saved many pictures and downloaded patterns for scrap quilts to help use up my stash - one of my 2012 goals. I found a really cool picture of a string pieced star quilt and used it for inspiration to make my own. I was looking for the blog/maker to be able to post a picture and give the site credit for the inspiration. Well, I found the original source and I found something very interesting and ironic!

The inspiration quilt is called Spring Clean and it's in issue 8 of Fat Quarterly's newsletter (http://www.fatquarterly.com/issues/issue-8). Once I tracked down the source, I bought an electronic version of the newlsetter as there are a couple of other projects I'd like to make. So without further ado, here's the first block of my "String Clean" quilt:

The original Spring Clean quilt has 9 blocks and finishes at 90 inch square. I'm going to make a 4-block version as the block above is 30 inches square. I've pieced enough sub-blocks to make the next block. After that, I'm out of long white/cream/light strings.

Here's the ironic part.... I made my blocks 8 inches since I had foundations from muslin cut for something else and just used those...turns out, the pattern called for 8 inch blocks so I made the same size as the pattern!! I didn't follow the directions from the newsletter as I had already made the blocks, but I think it's pretty funny that I'm making the same size... the newsletter had paper pieced foundations so that's a little different but still a lot the same.

Red/White/Blue Interlocking Stars - top finished!!

I can't believe I completed the top this week. It seemed like I was making the star point blocks for days and days...and then, once I settled on a layout and size, I started sewing...and then found out I had to make more. YIKES!

Here is my top:

Isn't it pretty??! I love it! I got more and more excited as the top came together. I used a PowerPoint file for the layout. The top is 20x20 squares, and is 40 inch square. It took me awhile to get in the groove and by the time I had pieced the 20 rows, I just wasn't that motivated... but the next night I sewed rows into 2s and things started shaping up. After that I got more and more excited until the top was done on the 13th. I did end up with some extras... so I made this:

This took up 24 squares. I didn't have enough extra to make this any bigger, but I do have some more of the star points... I did still have tons of the red, white, and blue blocks, so I also made these last night:

These are Granny Square blocks and I've seen them popping up on blogs everywhere this year. I think I have enough to make one more block... Not sure what I'll do after that with them, but they are easy and fun.

Now I have to figure out what the next project will be... I think I'd going to work with some other colors for awhile!!

Red/White/Blue interlocking stars - squares

Here's the next thing I'm working on ... it's an interlocking stars quilt in red, white and blue using my 2.5" squares. Here's the stack of star points that need trimming. This is the next thing I have to do...

I need to trim these and pair them with their centers. Here's all of the sets that I have trimmed so far:

Here's some squares and triangles in sets waiting for sewing (the blue triangles) and cutting into triangles (the red squares):

Here's the stack of blue and red squares to eventually be made into blocks:

 I love having this all in stages and in the basket. Now to get those top squares trimmed so that I can sew some more!!!