Miscellaneous Monday

My Rainbow Road runner is finished! I loved making this and will use the technique again, it was so much fun. For those of you who don't know I am taking a Curves Camp on line course with Rachael of Stitched In Color. It is a 5 week course and every week we have 3 projects to choose from to work on our curves! This week is a little bit more challenging, so stay tuned.

Some close ups of my quilting.....

I chose a lot of quilting because that is what I like and it is going on my kitchen island where it will get a lot of abuse.

I love that little piece that goes along the bottom. I was a filler and adds a lot of interest.

A lot of my time has been taken up working on a quilt that is for a friend's book. There are 18 strips (mostly 1"!) in each block. There are 16 blocks....I feel like I need to finish this before I can move on to my own work. I am almost there!

How is this for a jelly roll? I needed to clean up a spot to work on the pink and green quilt.

So now it is January 28, how many of your resolutions are you still committed to? This is one "goal" (no resolutions for this girl) I had for this year. To make a list every day.
Buy yourself a cute notebook, this one is from Target. Date it every day and write down, 4 or 5 things you want to accomplish that day. Sometimes I put things in there the night before for the next day.

The trick is to make them attainable goals. Carry things over to the next day if necessary. I don't know what it is but I am getting so much done. They say if you write down your goals you will accomplish them. To me there is nothing like a check mark next to a completed chore!

Kelly

Blogger Bizzaro!

So here is my runner that I made in my Stitched In Color Curves Camp. Isn't it cool? We learned how to sew gentle improv curves. It really was fun and I am happy with the outcome.
I tried to get it quilted and bound today but real life got in the way of my sewing.

If you notice there is not a speck of yellow in this. The color that looks yellow is actually a green. After I sewed ALL of the strips together there was something about it I didn't exactly like. It was the yellow, it just jumped out too much.

After almost of month of not being able to upload any pictures, boom all of a sudden blogger works. I will not question it but?????

Kelly

Fun!

Today was day to dig through my solids and hand dyeds ( is that a word?)for the runner I am making. I wanted an eclectic look so anything goes for this project.




Here is a part of what I worked on, there are 4 more in the wings. Even though I like yellow, it felt like it was too much so I took every piece out. It looked much better.
Even though this is practice I till want it to be fabrics I like. It makes it more fun to work on and it's not like I am going to run out!
Tomorrow it will be finished, she says confidently......

Kelly

Happy Birthday Bob!

First I want to say Happy Birthday to my wonderful husband, Bob!
Tonight all the kids, spouses and grand kids are coming over for lasagna on a freezing cold night.



Look what I made today on week 2 of my curves class. A card using some gentle curves. I think if I do another I would make the center a little smaller.




Again this is totally doable and not as hard as I thought it would be. After you trim up the center it is stitched down to the card. Cute!

Thank you for the great comments on my pillow. I just wanted you all to know it is not my design but Rachael's from Stitched in Color.
I cannot wait for tomorrow's project. It is a table runner that I am certain you will like.

Kelly

Ahead Of The Crowd

I am sure by now you have seen this all over blog land. It is the trip round the world pattern by Bonnie Hunter. This past fall I took this workshop with her. I came to the workshop late and as a result did not sew but soaked up the fun and energy in the room.




Once I saw how fast, fun and easy this block was to make I knew this was on the "list". Again my colors don't look correct all that orange you see is red. I have decided to have a little red and black in each block. There is no placement of fabrics, anything goes.
The blocks are also big, 12". I am thinking a bed size quilt.




It works perfectly with jelly rolls....you use 2 1/2" strips.





Or you could work on cleaning off your shelves. Either way it is a stash buster! I am also thinking, soldier quilts, baby quilts ( you could change the size of the strips too) and charity quilts. It's that fast.

Kelly

Purple Pillow

This is the pillow I made to go with the bunting. It was fun to make and it matches the bunting. A little too much purple for me but not for a 5 year old who loves it!




The point of this exercise was to get used to stitching around curves. It was not too hard. The only thing I changed was to make it an envelope closure instead of using a zipper. It was nice to use a palette I don't usually gravitate to, it took me out of my comfort zone.

Sorry the pictures aren't so good. The colors are clear with white not cream as it appears.

The projects for next week are 2 good ones, one simple and the other a little more challenging. Stay tuned!

Kelly

Clams on the Half Shell

I should have taken this picture earlier when it was a little brighter. It has been gloomy here for the entire week. The colors are greens, purples, blues and purpley blues..




These are my clamshells templates that came with my class. It did take a while to prepare them, there are 27 .





I have never been a fan of Steam A Seam but decided to use the things Rachael (Stitched In Color) suggested in our supply list. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be but I am wondering how hard it is going to to get the paper backing off. Isn't it going to pull off the fusible too? Hope not.......

The finished project is a pillow I hope to show it to you tomorrow.

Kelly