New tasks & WIP Wednesday

I got a promotion at work. 

Awesome right.
Well it's true, I'm pretty proud.

And now that it's started I've lost track of time and space.  I have no clue what day it is or when deadlines are approaching or whizzing by my head.

I am not that bad but wow...I have an appreciation for my management now.

Last week alone was a super long week for both my fella and I.  It felt like 72 hours for every 24 hours.  And there was no extra sleep! This week feels the same sadly.

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So when the weekend rolled around, my little family were all on the same page.  We need to unwind.

My fella immersed himself in his new hobby .. model building



And my wonderful step-daughter is continuing on her path of baking up a storm.



Hear the complaining...



yeah us either!

Even I got to unwind and do some quilting.



Actually a lot!
The above beauty is done and has the binding on it.  Just waiting for moments to hand stitch that down.



And I sent off a package to Orchid Owl Quilts.

I'm super excited to see this one as it's MINE!  None of this going away .... stuff.
The previous quilt I sent to Vicki hasn't been blogged about yet.
I've posted a few photos in Instagram.
I'll do a real post once that's done for real ...ya know - later.

This sending a new package has been a month in the process... but it may have been promoted by Melissa at Sew BitterSweet Designs sending off her June ALYoF projects off to Vicki.  I don't have a problem with competition...{cough}...noooo!

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I'm so excited to share that I'm working on my MQG Michael Miller Fabric challenge quilt.



I'm finally having fun with this FMQ stuff.

Happy quilting to you!

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WIP Wednesday 11.28.12

Remember how I said I kicked it this weekend. . I did!

I made a few blocks.  4 to be exact but after I took the photos of 2 of them, I realized that I put the corners on WRONG.  Sigh. 

But I will share the two that I pieced together correctly :)

These are from the Curve it Up QAL from Sew Kind of Wonderful. 

I followed the amazing tutorial for the Curved Rail Fence found over here.

I loved these. They are HUGE blocks when finished.  So much fantastic inspiration over at the flickr group. I know that I have 2 started but I want a few other color ways in this now.

I worked on another curve project with the Quick Curved Ruler, but I'm going to share that with you this weekend or next week during the giveaway week from Sew Mama Sew. I have been kicking it - really really.

What else am I working on?

I'll be working from my works in progress (WIP) list from the 100-day hustle including:
Knitted baby blanket - so slow it hasn't been out the bag in a week
Quilt-top for the friends toddler - halfway quilted. . lalala STILL
Commission quilt - slow but steady
PJ pants for fella - no a lick on this one
Quilt top put together from Block Party - lalalala
Matching sock to a lone sock - what . . what is this?

I'm linking up to Lee over at Freshly Pieced for WIP Wednesday.

♥

WIP Wednesday 11.21.12

I love when I have a few hours that I have free and that I actually get to accomplish something.

Monday I finally FINALLY FINALLY

finished my postage stamp quilt.

Because of when the sun sets and all that jazz I can't seem to find a good time to take a photo.  Oh and it's been raining like it's the west side - yuck! :)

I'm in shock and awe that I finally got something checked off my list for the 100-day hustle.

I really do love lists . .

I think.

I'll be working on more projects this weekend - yipee!

I may do a sew-in with Becky that blogs over at Solar Threads.

She is so talented!  And sewing may (or may not) prevent me from spending money.

I'll be working from my works in progress (WIP) list from the 100-day hustle including:
Knitted baby blanket - slowly but surely
Quilt-top for the friends toddler - halfway quilted. . lalala
Commission quilt - this is up NEXT BABY!
PJ pants for fella - going to have my fella help me with this one!
Quilt top put together from Block Party
Matching sock to a lone sock

Other projects that I'm working on but not on the above list includes my stripper row - love my private strip club! A few holiday gifts.  

AND I get to make fabric napkins.  .super excited!

I'm linking up to Lee over at Freshly Pieced for WIP Wednesday.

WIP Wednesday 6.20.12

It's been awhile since I've linked up to Lee over at Freshly Pieced.  With my brain absorbing  the changes of life including but not limited to: my laptop dying, on-line bee's ending, garden needing to be tended to, summer coming at us like a lion where my step-daughter will be back and forth visiting her mother. 

It's time for me to link up again to Works in Progress (WIP) Wednesday with Lee over at Freshly Pieced. I haven't done this for way too long but it's time to take account again.

Finished projects:

- Clean sewing area - seriously it's amazing to see the floor again!  I of course didn't bring in a new trash bag so small pieces of fabric are already starting to gather.

- Bee Blocks!  I'm finishing up my bee commitments but still have a few going on.    I ran out of fabric - gasp!  But more is making it's way to my mailbox as we speak.

Oh did I show you this one yet?  The Orange you Glad bee I was able to sew for The Pewter Acorn


Everything was cut so well I didn't even blink and this block was done.

New projects:

- Packaged up bee blocks for July for the awesome bee group {Sew Bee It} - the last time I'll be mailing out for myself in 2012.

- Wedding wall-hanging for my fella's peeps.  I'm doing a New York Beauty!

Active WIP:

- Pay it Forward items
- May Bee Blocks: Bee a Lone Star(burst)
- June Bee Blocks: Bee a Lone Star(burst)
- Layer Cake quilt-top {hanging on my design wall . . lalalalala}

- Knitted Socks ~ my first pair baby! I'm even on the second one.
- Knitted baby blanket for Lou

Back-Burner WIP:

- Postage Stamp quilt.

- PJ pants for fella

- Twice as Nice quilt top

- Threadheads quilt-top
- Aqua and Red (Round 1) quilt-top
- Waiting for blocks for: Aqua and Red (Round 2), Sew Modern Bee, and Aqua and Orange - then all of these will are offically back-burner WIP's too!

This week's stats:

Finished projects - ~3

New Projects - 2

Currently in progress - lalalalala

Hope all is going well in your neck of the woods. 

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Mid-Summer 2011 Summer Projects Check-in and WIP Wednesday 8.10.11

Did I say that I love lists?

Yep - love them.

I had to resist some awesome fun things going on around me.  Although throw a bee at me, mug rug swap, or another bloody QAL - and I'm in.

Right - where was I . . . 

yes - lists rock!  

 I made this list while it didn't feel like summer.  That was a whole 3 months ago. . pfft.  At the time these felt like very reasonable goals.  Especially when I don't have my 11-year old stepdaughter and I have all the time in the world.

NOT

I did join in Fairy face Design's Summer Sewing Plans.

I posted about it HERE

Here's a recap of how I've progressed through my list:

1. Dresden Plate fabric for bee.  Uhhh not sure right now.

2. Finish {Modern 12} quilt top. . nope still hanging on my design board

3. Sliced Coins QAL quilt top .. nope still in a neat cute pile

4. Knitted sweater for a gf's baby girl. . . no but I've looked at it a few times.

5. Summer top for me. . nope

6. PJ Pants for fella. . lalalala I can't hear you.  {That's a no}

7. Summer Dress for gf's baby girl . . YES!  See my previous posts here or here

Ohhhh Pretty dress!

 


8. Postage Stamp Quilt. . don't even want to see this

9. Choose blocks for my remaining bee's.  YES!  I've done most of this. 

I even whipped up a test block for a bee next month.


10. Birdie Sling .. sigh - no



 
11. Baby quilt . . no but I got 2 blocks worked on.  Yippee!




Wow. . well for only 11 things I've not touched as many as I hoped just 3 months ago.  But this list is grand and does remind me of my WIP's.





How are your summer plans going?

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Finishing up all my July Bee Blocks . . . aka WIP Wednesday 7.27.11

For starting out behind the 8-ball for this month. . I've made it my mission to not fall behind again.  My own projects (which I don't have that much passion for right now) are sitting.  But it doesn't mean that I can't work with other people's fabric to make them some wonderful blocks.

What have I done?  I've made myself (really some other gals) some blocks!

Red and Aqua Bee

This bee is a shortened time-frame (which feels great) but that means we have two lovely gals to sew for each month.

These two beauties are what I made up for toerintx.

One of her inspirations is Fairy Face Design's Dresden quilt

I really enjoyed working on these.  Oh the things I learned along the way.  These are way different than "traditional" Dresden plates with the leaves. I might say harder.
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The second gal for this bee was the lovely tinkingalong had us make anything we wanted with her yummy aqua and red fabrics.   

I did this flying geese block but then had enough left over for another block.  Only after I finished the blocks did I read the instructions asking for no wonky.
Sorry beauty.  I must say that I'm not a wonky lover myself but this blocks has enough for me not to feel dizzy.

Threadheads

This month we got to sew for Fairly Mairly

She chose a block inspired from Block Party.

She even made an awesome tutorial. After reading this a few times, I had to wrap my head around the freezer paper was just a ruler. . nothing to do with paper-piecing.

WOW.  I so want to keep these.  I love the purple, I love the Joel Dewberry fabrics.  And I'm so interested how she'll put these together.  If you go to this group you can only imagine what the possibilities are for these blocks. 

{Sew Bee It}

The wonderful Say Yes Juliet {her blog is here} has started off this bee.

How grand to make cross blocks for her.  These were fun and OH the creations everyone has made!

I have to say that these are my favorite gals to sew for. I'm biased as I know a few of them personally and I twitter with a few of them.  I am in awe of ALL their talent each and every one of them. And this is only the beginning.

  
That's what I've being up to.  Go check out my July Bee Block photo set.  There you can get a re-cap of all my creations that I rocked this month.  

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WIP Wednesday 7.20.11

What Wednesday again. . this comes around a lot faster than I expect.

FINISHED:

Oh this week has been productive.  I would have loved to finish more but I'm super proud of myself.

First I made up an Oliver & S dress right before the recipient arrived.  Here's the post I made up this past Monday.

I've been procrastinating on this .. and tada.  Something off my list.

I was almost tempted to make those PJ pants for my fella but I didn't.




I did finish up some bee blocks and also put a huge dent in a few others.

Here's the two blocks for the Queen Bee in Aqua & Orange

That's right. . another set of garden fences.  These are lovely and I love how quick they come together.

What are the chances that in two bee's the ladies choose the same block.  Oh how fun!

And I also finished a block for the Orange you Glad Bee.

This block with some awesome helpful hints went together much better than I previous attempt at this block.  Starch is your friend!

NEW PROJECTS: 

None.  I did clean my sewing space.  My fella wasn't able to see the difference.  Sigh!  But I swear it's better than it was!

Works in Progress:

- Mug Rug for Swap

- Bee Blocks. . this one is so in the bag!

Things I would love to be working on but are on hold:

-Postage Stamp Quilt

- Quilty Gift for GF

- Arcadia quilt

- Sliced Coins Quilt

- Choose and cut fabrics for Dresden quilt

- Finish top for quilt for nephew

- Summer top for me

- PJ pants for fella

- Summer dress for friends little girl

- Pick fabrics and blocks for on-line quilt bee's - the other ones I'm in

- Birdie Sling bag

- "baby" quilt  

-Skill Builder Blocks

-Embrodery 101 blocks (these are on the cutting table. . does that count?)

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I'm excited to join Lee at Freshly Pieced this week.  Go check her and many other great folks.

 

WIP Wednesday 7.13.11

What a good sewing week.
Twitter, rocking out, and sewing.  Oh the girls life!

Finished:

A few bee blocks

The past June blocks that I blogged about here

I also added this cute Snail Trail block because I was so late in getting my blocks out to my {Modern 12} bee-mate.

Sew Modern Quilt Bee

Monday was a busy day as I also had to finish up a flower for a few bee blocks.  There were some awesome fabric flowers but I decided I wanted to knit something up for Issabella the Cat.

Here's the flower I whipped up {took me much longer than I anticipated}



I even started in on my *July* Bee Blocks for the Sew Modern Bee Queen Bee - mad for dyes

I haven't been able to work on a garden fence before.  These fabrics were cut out so perfectly it was a dream!

Can you see my goof on the block to the right?  I didn't until seeing in the photo.  The small pieces don't match up.  Ugh!  But the queen bee said not to worry about it! So I won't. :) 

I also finished up the sewing of  2 mug rugs I have started {no photos please - they are supposed to be suprise} What to do for the stitching. . ohhh dear!

New Projects:

None. . really!

Works in Progress (WIP):

Because it's offically Stashtacular!


~it's time to get the July bee blocks done but also tackle some that's on my list show here (sigh)

- Knitted sweater for 18 month old

I'm on the arms - finally.
Slowly I'm telling ya! Didn't help that I forgot this at my parents when I went to go visit them a few weekends back.

Things I would love to be working on but are on hold:

-Postage Stamp

-Mug Rug for Swap

- Quilty Gift for GF

- Arcadia quilt
- Sliced Coins Quilt
- Choose and cut fabrics for Dresden quilt
- Finish top for quilt for nephew

- Summer top for me

- PJ pants for fella

- Summer dress for friends little girl
- Pick fabrics and blocks for on-line quilt bee's - the other ones I'm in
- Birdie Sling bag
- "baby" quilt  
-Skill Builder Blocks
-Embrodery 101 blocks (these are on the cutting table. . does that count?)

I'm adding this post to be part of

I'm excited to join Lee at Freshly Pieced this week.  Go check her and many other great folks.

WIP Wednesday 6.29.11

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What a week, traveling to Portland, Oregon for work again. It always throws me for a loop. I wasn't pleased traveling again.  So I had to console myself with a trip to Fabric Depot. 

It was lovely, as always.  I picked up some Kona grey which one?  I don't remember!  It's the dark one.  :)

I promptly cut up for the Queen bee blocks I sent out.  Yep, that's what I've been doing.  Bee things.

Finished:

Sending out blocks for my month being Queen Bee
A few bee blocks

Like these two!

Anna wanted 1.5" postage stamp blocks.  She sent such lovely fabric.  I was happy to make these.  I was impressed my attention to seams made these two blocks go together so quickly.  My own postage stamp quilt is a WIP because my attention to detail wasn't as grand.

 

New Projects:

None. . what really?
I did buy the Farmers Wife book. . another QAL in my future

Works in Progress (WIP):

- Knitted sweater for 18 month old

I'm on the arms - finally.
Slowly I'm telling ya!

Things I would love to be working on but are on hold:

-Postage Stamp

-Mug Rug for Swap

- Quilty Gift for GF

- Arcadia quilt
- Sliced Coins Quilt
- Choose and cut fabrics for Dresden quilt
- Finish top for quilt for nephew

- Summer top for me

- PJ pants for fella

- Summer dress for friends little girl
- Pick fabrics and blocks for on-line quilt bee's - the other ones I'm in
- Birdie Sling bag
- "baby" quilt  
-Skill Builder Blocks
-Embrodery 101 blocks

I'm adding this post to be part of

I'm excited to join Lee at Freshly Pieced this week.  Go check her and many other great folks.

WIP Wednesday 6.8.11

Oh there has been a lot o' happening around these parts.  Not much craft love. 

This weekend my fella was my superman. He not only planted the blueberry bush but prepped the garden spot.  The garden wants are a bit larger than the spot I have available. 

I hope overall it will work.

Here's the result of the weekend prep plus Monday planting bonanza.

Monday I set out to do a lot of things.

Most of them accomplished.

One of the big items were to go through my many flickr groups.

I wanted to find the bloggers that I'm participating in bee's with and make sure that I'm following their blogs.

I was missing a few peeps, but not anymore.

Here I am wandering again.

I've started two new virtural flickr bee's.

{Sew Bee It}
&
New Bee on the Block

I was looking to start a knitting project for a little addition for a bee-mate. I couldn't find any of my needles.
I might have all my needles but they have WIP knitting projects on them.
-Oh dear-

Finished:

Nothing crafty
Finished planting for garden
I did finish teaching a college course. . whoop whoop

New Projects:

I joined one new bee
and started two of my own


Works in Progress (WIP):

- Knitted sweater for 18 month old
I've made a ton of progress on this. . I'm in love again! 

Things I would love to be working on but are on hold:

-Postage Stamp
-Mug Rug
- Quilty Gift for GF
- Arcadia quilt
- Sliced Coins Quilt
- Choose and cut fabrics for Dresden quilt
- Finish top for quilt for nephew
- Summer top for me
- PJ pants for fella
- Summer dress for friends little girl
- Pick fabrics and blocks for on-line quilt bee's
- Birdie Sling bag
- "baby" quilt  
-lots o'knitting on needles 

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I'm excited to join Lee at Freshly Pieced this week.  Go check her and many other great folks.

*Edited to fix my brain jumps.  Oh dear*