Design Wall Monday

The same projects are up on the design wall as the last time I posted, but they have grown to include more blocks.  I'm keeping up with Circa 2016 from Temecula Quilt Company, Westerning Women by Barbara Brackman, adding a row or two each week to the tumbler quilt, and I've completed 20 blocks in the Latimer Farms BOM. 

I recently finished hand quilting a quilt for a friend's retirement but I'll save that for another post. 

On My Design Wall

I've been flitting about from project to project, so my design wall has lots going on.  Left to right I have my Tumbler leader-ender project which has become more of an add-a-row-a week project.  Next I have a project from Primitive Quilts and Projects (Summer 2014) magazine.  I need to get some pearl cotton in red and gold to get this moving along.  Does anyone know if embroidery thread works for wool applique?  The small applique pieces are from Old Voices New Impressions.  I'm late to this sew along but enjoying it just the same. My birthday present to myself was the Latimer Lane BOM from Red Crinoline quilts.  This is so fun and right up my alley--small pieces, reproduction, and a sampler to keep me from being bored with the same old thing.  On the right are my Temecula Circa 2016 and the first block of Barbara Brackman's Western Women sew along. 

This bottom quilt was gifted to my girlfriend's daughter at her baby shower yesterday.  As soon as the shower was over, she went into labor.  It is made from mostly recycled shirts (thank you Bonnie Hunter)  I'm subbing today and Thursday, so it will cut into my sewing time, but I have to work to support my fabric habit!

Linking Up

Wow.  I'm a terrible blogger.  I haven't posted since October.  My goal for the new year is to be more consistent starting now.  First, I'm linking up with Lori at Humble Quilts to share my version of her Cascadia quilt along.  I'm not too surprised that mine looks similar to Lori's, as we have similar taste in fabric and quilts and therefore similar scraps.  Thanks, Lori, for this fun sew along.

 

Next, I'm linking up to Patchwork Times for Design Wall Monday.  My blocks for "Where Poppies Grow" are up on the wall.  I still need to applique the leaves down on two of the blocks and I have yet to make the last 4 blocks.  Putting them up on the wall like this has inspired me to finish this quilt.  I'm just kind of bored with appliqueing these leaves however.

I've also been trying to keep up with Bonnie's new mystery.  So far, so good. 

Design Wall Monday

Winston Ways, from Adventures with Leaders and Enders, is on my design wall today.  I have all the rows assembled, and now I just need to sew them together.  I've been piecing on my new (to me) Singer 301.  This was my retirement present to myself, and man does this baby go!  I love the sound she makes as she zooms effortlessly through seams.  Originally a quilting friend who also is retiring from teaching soon and I thought we would buy NEW machines, but once I tried this machine I knew I didn't need to drop thousands of $$$ on a new machine. 

 

Enjoy your Monday.