Quilt/Stash Project-2020--Determined Quilter
Friday,February 19,2010...Year 2...Week 27...Blog 43--Day l90 of 4,014
Christmas 2010 Challenge Adventure.....
RAIN!!! and Fog....so amazing progress...for last 2 days on the Christmas 2010 Challenge Advenutre....
Adventure???well yes..CHALLENGE!!! FOR SURE
In 1999--11 years ago-- I took my first Empty Spools Seminars class from Carol Leibzeit--and learned to make interesting quilts from her "cheveron" design--requiring only 2 x 4 inch pieces.
Over these many years I have happily used this simple cheveron pattern/piecing to enhance the interest/complexity of several quilts--and also it seems...at one time long ago I went on a cutting spree (orgy"??)-- cutting hundred of 2 x 4 inch pieces..
So...a time consuming decision...a puppy/kitty quilt.....using 33 aqua with teeny-tiny red heart pieces...and 33 various pink-to rose pieces....alternating...this required 60- 4 inch seems...and finally 5 row seems....plus some borders.....and CELEBRATE!!!
I am A WONDER-WOMAN... it is a happy quilt......AND...now my "stash" of these 2x4 inch pieces is much diminished....
So...5 to-sell quilts in progress....3 puppy/kitty--2 GREEN on design walls..one completed except for a binding; and one in scraps on the cutting table..
So ever onward...RAIN!!! predicted for all next week....
More progress possible!!!
Happy quilting!!
Determined Quilter
Friday, February 19, 2010
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Quilt/Stash Project-2020--Determined Quilter
Quilt/Stash Project-2020--Determined Quilter
Tuesday, February 16, 2010...Year 2...Week 27...Blog42--Day 187 of 4,014
Progress Report.....
Focused on the Christmas 2010 Challenge Adventure....and worked steadily on President's Birthday day...
Now have 5 of the 2010 Christmas Challenge Adventure projects in process....3 doggy/kitty quilts...and 2 small GREEN wall hangings..
AS I have mentioned...the really small bundle of GREEN scraps (fitting easily into an ordinary 11x11 inch plastic food storage bag) will easily yeild 3 small wall hangings..AFTER much..much CREATIVE WORK..and strenuous mind work..
Well..it does keep the dendrites and neurons growing..
And...a good learning....old-old white with small blue leaves fabric that looks really o.k./fine for the top of a puppy/kitty quilt does not look particularly wonderful when used to patch-in/fill-up the backing...
well..so be it...I'm NOT perfect..and maybe some puppy/kitty-owner will like it anyway.
Investigation/research for this morning...Consumer Reports..on digital cameras...yes!!! I must learn how to take pictures for this blog...
and for a record/accounting of the quilts I will sell...
O.K. Ever Onward...maybe some quilting time this afternoon....and just maybe a celebration of a quilt completed.
Happy Quilting--Determined Quilter
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010...Year 2...Week 27...Blog42--Day 187 of 4,014
Progress Report.....
Focused on the Christmas 2010 Challenge Adventure....and worked steadily on President's Birthday day...
Now have 5 of the 2010 Christmas Challenge Adventure projects in process....3 doggy/kitty quilts...and 2 small GREEN wall hangings..
AS I have mentioned...the really small bundle of GREEN scraps (fitting easily into an ordinary 11x11 inch plastic food storage bag) will easily yeild 3 small wall hangings..AFTER much..much CREATIVE WORK..and strenuous mind work..
Well..it does keep the dendrites and neurons growing..
And...a good learning....old-old white with small blue leaves fabric that looks really o.k./fine for the top of a puppy/kitty quilt does not look particularly wonderful when used to patch-in/fill-up the backing...
well..so be it...I'm NOT perfect..and maybe some puppy/kitty-owner will like it anyway.
Investigation/research for this morning...Consumer Reports..on digital cameras...yes!!! I must learn how to take pictures for this blog...
and for a record/accounting of the quilts I will sell...
O.K. Ever Onward...maybe some quilting time this afternoon....and just maybe a celebration of a quilt completed.
Happy Quilting--Determined Quilter
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Saturday, February 13, 2010
Quilt/Stash Porject-2020--Determined Quilter
Quilt/Stash Project-2020.....Determined Quilter
Saturday, February 13, 2010...Year 2....Week 26---Blog 41--Day l84 of 4,014
Project within a project:
Christmas 2010 Challenge Adventure
The Quilt/Stash Project-2020 is to:
..get all unfinished quilt projects completed
..use ALL stash and scrap fabric to zero
..not purchase new fabric unless absolutely necessary to complete a quilt
...by the year 2020...giving myself 10 years...
The Christmas -2010 Challenge Adventure is to:
...complete at least 20 quilts--probably "small' wall hangings and puppy/kitty quilts to sell at Christmas craft fairs at local senior centers by Christmas 2010
...use as many "ugly"-orphan scraps as possible; use as much "why-did-I-ever-buy-that??" stash as possible......and
NEVER buy new fabric....as using money to purchase fabric would defeat the purpose of somehow making a "profit" from the sale of some quilts.
...definitely this is a challenge and an adventure...because these "orphan" fabric quilts HAVE-TO-BE SALE-ABLE.
REPORT: Christmas-2010 Challenge Adventure
1...The top and %90 back of a 27 by 23 inch blue/white puppy/kitty quilt is completed (ANOTHER RAINING-FOGGY DAY PROVIDED HAPPY QUILTING TIME)....
and several scrap fabrics were actually used to zero; however some blue scraps are stubbornly TENACIOUS!!!--CONTINUING AND CONTINUING..oh dear!!!
2. a 19 by 28 blue/white/purple puppy/kitty quilt is (and has been for several months-years?) complete except for binding. This quilt includes left over blocks from a Sandi Cummings design-----a class project for Empty Spools Seminars in May, 2002....yes!!! 2002...
Ample testament as to WHY this project is necessary...
and...3.
The small (fitting into an ordinary 11 by11 inch plastic food storage bag) bundle of GREEN scraps keeps giving and giving.....at least THREE small GREEN wall hangings......FOR SALE: ANYONE INTERESTED???
Finally...Welcome!!! to Japanese comment-ors. Did I mention that the November--2009 trip to the International Quilt Show in Yokohoma (with TRAVELING TOGETHER) was my 63rd trip to Japan since 1993??
Schedule next week looks promising for quilting time....
Happy Quilting--Determined Quilter
Saturday, February 13, 2010...Year 2....Week 26---Blog 41--Day l84 of 4,014
Project within a project:
Christmas 2010 Challenge Adventure
The Quilt/Stash Project-2020 is to:
..get all unfinished quilt projects completed
..use ALL stash and scrap fabric to zero
..not purchase new fabric unless absolutely necessary to complete a quilt
...by the year 2020...giving myself 10 years...
The Christmas -2010 Challenge Adventure is to:
...complete at least 20 quilts--probably "small' wall hangings and puppy/kitty quilts to sell at Christmas craft fairs at local senior centers by Christmas 2010
...use as many "ugly"-orphan scraps as possible; use as much "why-did-I-ever-buy-that??" stash as possible......and
NEVER buy new fabric....as using money to purchase fabric would defeat the purpose of somehow making a "profit" from the sale of some quilts.
...definitely this is a challenge and an adventure...because these "orphan" fabric quilts HAVE-TO-BE SALE-ABLE.
REPORT: Christmas-2010 Challenge Adventure
1...The top and %90 back of a 27 by 23 inch blue/white puppy/kitty quilt is completed (ANOTHER RAINING-FOGGY DAY PROVIDED HAPPY QUILTING TIME)....
and several scrap fabrics were actually used to zero; however some blue scraps are stubbornly TENACIOUS!!!--CONTINUING AND CONTINUING..oh dear!!!
2. a 19 by 28 blue/white/purple puppy/kitty quilt is (and has been for several months-years?) complete except for binding. This quilt includes left over blocks from a Sandi Cummings design-----a class project for Empty Spools Seminars in May, 2002....yes!!! 2002...
Ample testament as to WHY this project is necessary...
and...3.
The small (fitting into an ordinary 11 by11 inch plastic food storage bag) bundle of GREEN scraps keeps giving and giving.....at least THREE small GREEN wall hangings......FOR SALE: ANYONE INTERESTED???
Finally...Welcome!!! to Japanese comment-ors. Did I mention that the November--2009 trip to the International Quilt Show in Yokohoma (with TRAVELING TOGETHER) was my 63rd trip to Japan since 1993??
Schedule next week looks promising for quilting time....
Happy Quilting--Determined Quilter
Thursday, February 11, 2010
QUILT/STASH PROJECT-2020....Determined Quilter
Thursday, February 11,2010---Blog 40 continued......
Well SOMETHING!!! HAPPENED...AND I DON'T UNDERSTAND THE WORKINGS OF THE LIBRARY COMPUTER..OR THE BLOG FORMAT SUFFICIENTLY TO KNOW WHAT..AND HOW TO CORRECT PROPERLY...
...SO TO CONTINUE...
The GREEN story (saga)
GREEN IS NOT MY COLOR...
However, in 2005 my oldest daughter's family was moving from North Carolina to Tennessee... my gradaughter's nannie asked me to make two quilts: one for my grandaughters bed; another for the doll bed for an American Girl Doll; she sent samples of the colors she wanted..GREEN!!!
So...I MADE THOSE QUILTS....
Long story short: Grandaughter is NOT a doll girl; grandaughter has a ????belt in Taikwando and at age 12 can wack a piece of wood in half with her hand...
On last visit..both quilts were hung neatly in an attic closet.
Well..so it goes...
This project left me with a 11x 11 inch plastic food storage bag full of GREEN fabric....So...determined to use all scraps and complete at least 20 quilts for the new Christamas-2010 Challenge Adventure--to sell at senior center Christmas craft fairs...I said: get rid of the GREEN... use ALL those scraps....Those GREEN quilts will not be MINE.
Easier decided than done.....unbelievably..I think with that essentially small bag of scraps I will eventually get 3 presentable..and possibly sellable, small wall hangings. One is completed except for binding; a second top is almost finished...and still there are "good' scraps...waiting
Oh Dear......sometimes I dispair...and getting the scraps and stash to zero by 2020.
But EVER ONWARD!!!.... The blue-white puppy/kitty top is now 80% complete.....
So..perhaps..a Celebration by next post..
Happy Quilting--Determined Quilter.
Thursday, February 11,2010---Blog 40 continued......
Well SOMETHING!!! HAPPENED...AND I DON'T UNDERSTAND THE WORKINGS OF THE LIBRARY COMPUTER..OR THE BLOG FORMAT SUFFICIENTLY TO KNOW WHAT..AND HOW TO CORRECT PROPERLY...
...SO TO CONTINUE...
The GREEN story (saga)
GREEN IS NOT MY COLOR...
However, in 2005 my oldest daughter's family was moving from North Carolina to Tennessee... my gradaughter's nannie asked me to make two quilts: one for my grandaughters bed; another for the doll bed for an American Girl Doll; she sent samples of the colors she wanted..GREEN!!!
So...I MADE THOSE QUILTS....
Long story short: Grandaughter is NOT a doll girl; grandaughter has a ????belt in Taikwando and at age 12 can wack a piece of wood in half with her hand...
On last visit..both quilts were hung neatly in an attic closet.
Well..so it goes...
This project left me with a 11x 11 inch plastic food storage bag full of GREEN fabric....So...determined to use all scraps and complete at least 20 quilts for the new Christamas-2010 Challenge Adventure--to sell at senior center Christmas craft fairs...I said: get rid of the GREEN... use ALL those scraps....Those GREEN quilts will not be MINE.
Easier decided than done.....unbelievably..I think with that essentially small bag of scraps I will eventually get 3 presentable..and possibly sellable, small wall hangings. One is completed except for binding; a second top is almost finished...and still there are "good' scraps...waiting
Oh Dear......sometimes I dispair...and getting the scraps and stash to zero by 2020.
But EVER ONWARD!!!.... The blue-white puppy/kitty top is now 80% complete.....
So..perhaps..a Celebration by next post..
Happy Quilting--Determined Quilter.
Quilt/Stash Project-2020--Determined Quilter
Quilt/Stash Project-2020--Determined Quilter
Thursday, February 11, 2010...Year 2--Week 26--=Blog 40--Day 182 of 4,014
Christmas-2010 Challenge Adventures...
Report...and...the GREEN Scraps Story (SAGA??)
GREEN is not my color--I prefer blue, purple, hot pink.....and, of course...sometimes I do buy green fabric for ?? reasons.....in fact in the scrap boxes
Thursday, February 11, 2010...Year 2--Week 26--=Blog 40--Day 182 of 4,014
Christmas-2010 Challenge Adventures...
Report...and...the GREEN Scraps Story (SAGA??)
GREEN is not my color--I prefer blue, purple, hot pink.....and, of course...sometimes I do buy green fabric for ?? reasons.....in fact in the scrap boxes
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Quilt/Stash Project-2020--Determined Quilter
Quilt/Stash Project--2020--Determined Quilter
Saturday..February 6,2010...Year 2--Week 25--Blog 39 --Day 177 of 4,014
DECISION:Cancel Quilting Tour to Ireland, June 1-13.
After 3 days of exhaustive...and exhausting... investigation and research...with many frustations!! I have made the "difficult" decison to cancel the quilting tour to Ireland...
Yes..of course, I CAN get there from "here"...but the schedules are daunting/difficult...and with almost all possible airlines the fare outrageous..
So...now I am recovering from this extended...many hour.. marathon of focus and effort.
Christmas-2010 Challenge Adventure Projects on hold.....until hopefully next week...when I can focus again....
...and EVER ONWARD....
Report on the blue/white puppy quilt...and the small "green" wall hanging next week.
Happy Quilting....Determined Quilter
Saturday..February 6,2010...Year 2--Week 25--Blog 39 --Day 177 of 4,014
DECISION:Cancel Quilting Tour to Ireland, June 1-13.
After 3 days of exhaustive...and exhausting... investigation and research...with many frustations!! I have made the "difficult" decison to cancel the quilting tour to Ireland...
Yes..of course, I CAN get there from "here"...but the schedules are daunting/difficult...and with almost all possible airlines the fare outrageous..
So...now I am recovering from this extended...many hour.. marathon of focus and effort.
Christmas-2010 Challenge Adventure Projects on hold.....until hopefully next week...when I can focus again....
...and EVER ONWARD....
Report on the blue/white puppy quilt...and the small "green" wall hanging next week.
Happy Quilting....Determined Quilter
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Quilt/Stash Project-2020--Determined Quilter
Quilt/Stash Project-2020--Determined Quilter
Thursday..February 4.2010...Year 2---Week 25--Blog 38 (blogger says 44)--Day 175 of 4,014
&^%$%^&^% ONE WEEK SINCE LAST BLOG....LIFE DOES KEEPING HAPPENING (INTERFERING) IN DIVERSE WAYS...some happy (a morning visit from a special friend) some "difficult"..a funeral.......and some FRUSTRATING!!! LIKE TAXES....AND "trying" to get myself from either Atlanta or San Francisco to Ireland...and back.. with a resaonable schedule and cost.....Unblievable!!!! both British Airways and Delta want $1,700 PLUS for the trip Atlanta-Dublin (return from Shannon)....This is the Traveling Together quilting trip May 31-June 14....
Check it out if you are interested in Ireland...Traveling Together does provide super good trips...and the "right" price....and maybe you would have better luck with air arrangments than I am having...
ONWARD!!!!..
Christmas-2010 Challenge Adventures...
On the design boards..2 almost completed projects...each taking incredible ingenuity...and struggle.......using "just" scrapes and stash with completely unrelated fabric bought over a period of 13 years....is a demanding challenge...
..and....the blue/white puppy quilt IS progressing.....and the small "green' wall hanging..FINALLY will "work"...( more about THAT challenge next time).
O.K. weather prediction: RAIN..RAIN..RAIN and more RAIN for at least a week...
If I am able to solve the Ireland....struggle...(endless calls to various airlines etc--will a train from Shannon to Dublin do it???) I will be focused on quilting again.
Happy Quilting--Determined Quilter.
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Thursday..February 4.2010...Year 2---Week 25--Blog 38 (blogger says 44)--Day 175 of 4,014
&^%$%^&^% ONE WEEK SINCE LAST BLOG....LIFE DOES KEEPING HAPPENING (INTERFERING) IN DIVERSE WAYS...some happy (a morning visit from a special friend) some "difficult"..a funeral.......and some FRUSTRATING!!! LIKE TAXES....AND "trying" to get myself from either Atlanta or San Francisco to Ireland...and back.. with a resaonable schedule and cost.....Unblievable!!!! both British Airways and Delta want $1,700 PLUS for the trip Atlanta-Dublin (return from Shannon)....This is the Traveling Together quilting trip May 31-June 14....
Check it out if you are interested in Ireland...Traveling Together does provide super good trips...and the "right" price....and maybe you would have better luck with air arrangments than I am having...
ONWARD!!!!..
Christmas-2010 Challenge Adventures...
On the design boards..2 almost completed projects...each taking incredible ingenuity...and struggle.......using "just" scrapes and stash with completely unrelated fabric bought over a period of 13 years....is a demanding challenge...
..and....the blue/white puppy quilt IS progressing.....and the small "green' wall hanging..FINALLY will "work"...( more about THAT challenge next time).
O.K. weather prediction: RAIN..RAIN..RAIN and more RAIN for at least a week...
If I am able to solve the Ireland....struggle...(endless calls to various airlines etc--will a train from Shannon to Dublin do it???) I will be focused on quilting again.
Happy Quilting--Determined Quilter.
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