Quilting is in my Blood

To-Do for the week of April 18th-April 24th:

1. Finish sewing my flying geese units into columns for the first quarter of 2022 for my three temperature quilts and write my April OMG Finished post. √Done
2. Bind my stepson’s Sushi quilt. √Done
3. Start working on a high school graduation quilt for my great-nephew, Colby. √Done

To-Do #1

My April 2022 One Monthly Goal was to sew together the first quarter (January, February, and March 2022) of the THREE temperature quilts I am making this year. Below is a pic of Jan-March units sewn together with my town in New Mexico (NM) on the left, my stepdaughter’s Bay Area city in California (CA) in the middle, and my stepson’s city in Washington (WA) on the right. For more information about this project, please read this post.

To-Do #2

On Sunday I attached the binding to the quilt for my stepson, Drew. He will turn 39 next month, and the quilt features his Boston Terrier, Sushi. Below are pics of the front and back of the quilt (minky). The Loops & Swirls quilting was done by Melissa at Sew Shabby Quilting.

To-Do #3

My great-nephew, Colby, will be graduating from high school in May. Camping has been a big part of his life, so I opted to make another camping quilt to commemorate the occasion and to celebrate our family’s love of camping. I am using the Apex quilt pattern by Mitzie@Jittery Wings. The pattern uses strip piecing to simplify the piecing. I wasn’t able to strip piece all of my fabrics due to choosing to fussy cut two of the units, but I can tell you that the pattern is well written, and I can see me making it again and totally strip piecing my next version of it. Below is one of the blocks I’m using in the quilt for Colby.

To-Do for the week of April 25th-May 2nd:

1. Finish my Apex camping graduation quilt top for Colby.
2. Cut more strips for my Kantha quilt top.
3. Write my May 2022 OMG post.

Linking up to Texas Quilt Gal: To-Do Tuesday.

To-Do for the week of April 11th-April 17th:

1. Start sewing my flying geese units into columns for my three temp quilts. √Done
2. Bind my four sunflower placemats. √Done
3. Cut more 2.5″ strips of Alison Glass fabric for my Kantha Sew-Along quilt top. √Done

To-Do #1

I have made progress on sewing the flying geese for my temp quilts into columns. Below is photo of the month of January from left to right for New Mexico, California, and Washington. The purple fabrics denote colder temperatures, so you can see that the temps in my city in New Mexico has been significantly colder than my stepdaughter’s Bay Area city in California or my stepson’s city in Washington, except for Jan 7th which got up to 65 degrees shown in Clover green!

To-Do #2

I did get my Sunflower for Ukraine placemats finished, and they’ve been used and laundered. I just did not have it in me to put them nicely on the dining room table with some sort of decorative centerpiece, so here’s your basic on-the-cutting-mat shot! I really love the sunflower quilting done by Jessica who is on Instagram as @sugarmillquilts.

To-Do #3

I cut some red violet, pink, poppy, and coral colored strips for my Kantha quilt. It’s been fun playing with these gorgeous fabrics!

To-Do for the week of April 18th-April 24th:

1. Finish sewing my flying geese units into columns for the first quarter of 2022 for my three temperature quilts and write my April OMG Finished post.
2. Bind my stepson’s Sushi quilt.
3. Start working on a high school graduation quilt for my great-nephew, Colby.

Linking up to Texas Quilt Gal: To-Do Tuesday.

To-Do for the week of April 4th-April 10th:

1. Start sewing my flying geese units into columns for my three temp quilts. Nope
2. Make bindings for my SAHRR2022 quilt, Drew’s Sushi quilt, and for the four sunflower placemats. √Done
3. Start cutting 2.5″ strips of Alison Glass fabric for my Kantha Sew-Along quilt top. √Done

To-Do #1

This past week I didn’t have time to work on sewing my temperature flying geese units together for January-March, but I should be able to make progress with them this coming week.

To-Do #2

When I have a lot of binding strips to cut, I get out my Accuquilt-Go machine with the 2.5″ strip die. It really makes short work of cutting binding strips. Too bad it won’t sew the strips together and press them in half 🙂

To-Do #3

I cut some 2.5″ the regular way for my Kantha quilt. I will piecing strips together to make them approximately 78″ long. And probably not surprising, I’m planning to arrange my strips in a gradient order.

To-Do for the week of April 11th-April 17th:

1. Start sewing my flying geese units into columns for my three temp quilts.
2. Bind my four sunflower placemats.
3. Cut more 2.5″ strips of Alison Glass fabric for my Kantha Sew-Along quilt top.

Linking up to Texas Quilt Gal: To-Do Tuesday.

To-Do for the week of March 29th-April 4th:

1. Make two more Sunflower for Ukraine blocks. √Done
2. Work on some flying geese for my three temperature quilts. √Done
3. Write my April 2022 OMG post. √Done

To-Do #1

I was going to quilt my Sunflower for Ukraine placemats myself, but then I decided I wanted a sunflower quilting design and checked in with Jessica who is on Instagram as @sugarmillquilts because not only is she skilled, but she is also fast! So I sewed the four placemats into a quilt top and sent it off to Jessica on Thursday.

To-Do #2

I have continued to make flying geese on a daily basis for my three temp quilts. I generally make the flying geese before I turn my attention to more challenging (and interesting) tasks.

To-Do #3

I had a few different ideas about what I might want to choose as my April 2022 monthly goal but decided on getting the first quarter of 2022 completed for my three temperature quilt tops. Read the post about this project here.

To-Do for the week of April 4th-April 10th:

1. Start sewing my flying geese units into columns for my three temp quilts.
2. Make bindings for my SAHRR2022 quilt, Drew’s Sushi quilt, and for the four sunflower placemats.
3. Start cutting 2.5″ strips of Alison Glass fabric for my Kantha Sew-Along quilt top.

Linking up to Texas Quilt Gal: To-Do Tuesday.

To-Do for the week of March 22nd-28th:

1. Get some pics of  the front of Lucy’s I Spy quilt and write a post about this finish. √Done
2. Work on a set of placemats.√Done
3. Bind a short runner for my sewing machine. √Done

To-Do #1

I wrote a post about finishing Lucy’s I Spy quilt (read it here) and got a decent shot of the front in between some wind gusts. I’m definitely putting the curtain rod on my shed to good use!

To-Do #2

I decided that since I am such a fan of sunflowers that I need a set of four sunflower placemats and have chosen the use the Sunflower for Ukraine block for the center of the placemat, and I will sew 4″ x 12.5″ rectangles to either side to make the placemat the right size. I’ve gotten two blocks done so far. Here is the first one I made on Saturday.

To-Do #3

I am delighted with how nice the Kantha Cloth by Valori Wells in Pomegranate purchased from Etsy shop Modern Quilter looks with some Alison Glass Kaleidoscope Pomegranate binding in the photo below. I love the Kantha running stitch so much (similar to Sashiko but there is not so much emphasis on uniformity of stitches) that I have decided to participate in Alison Glass’ Stitch Club 2022 Kantha Sew-Along that starts April 19th. I have plenty of gorgeous Alison Glass fabric, and I think 2022 is the year to start putting it to good use!

To-Do for the week of March 29th-April 4th:

1. Make two more Sunflower for Ukraine blocks.
2. Work on some flying geese for my three temperature quilts.
3. Write my April 2022 OMG post.

Linking up to Texas Quilt Gal: To-Do Tuesday.

To-Do for the week of March 15th-21st:

1. Make two mini Pineapple coasters. Nope
2. Bind Lucy’s I Spy quilt. √Done
3. Work on my temperature quilts flying geese and/or Peloton project. √Done
4. Watch the How To Videos for my Emeril Lagasse Air Fryer and try a recipe in the coming week. √Done

To-Do #1

I did start making a couple paper-pieced Pineapple coasters but ran into some difficulties sewing the different sections together, and honestly I just wasn’t having fun. I decided it’s time to take a break from fiddly paper-piecing. I absolutely love straight-forward paper piecing like my temperature flying geese and my Peloton units, so I haven’t lost my fondness for sewing on paper! And most likely I’ll do some more complicated paper-piecing down the road like this Colorburst Quilt Block from Sassafras Lane that I purchased yesterday.

To-Do #2

I got Lucy’s I Spy quilt bound on Sunday, but it was too windy to take an outside photo. I decided to just take a pic of the quilt back which I just love. It features Sarah Watts’ Birthday Panel in Teal.

To-Do #3

I continued to make daily flying geese for my temp quilts and also made some progress on my Peloton project. Here’s a photo of the units I paper-pieced for Weeks 5-8 of 2022 (Jan 29th-Feb 25th). What looks like burgundy is actually Alison Glass Pomegranate, and those strips signify 10 minutes on the bike. The Citrus yellow is 15 minutes, Poppy is 20 minutes and the Dragonfly (turquoise) is 25 minutes on the Peloton bike.

To-Do #4

I watched the Air Fryer videos and made pork chops on Sunday in my new air fryer. Unfortunately they were a little overdone. I think my next recipe is going to be green beans. My hair stylist raved about how good green beans tossed with some grated parmesan cheese are made in the air fryer.

To-Do for the week of March 22nd-28th:

1. Get some pics of  the front of Lucy’s I Spy quilt and write a post about this finish.
2. Work on a set of placemats.
3. Bind a short runner for my sewing machine using Kantha cloth by Valori Wells in Pomegranate.

Linking up to Texas Quilt Gal: To-Do Tuesday.

To-Do for the week of March 8th-14th:

1. Work on my Sushi quilt top. √Done
2. Work on my Peloton project. √Done
3. Post a couple more times on #IGQUILTFEST2022.√Done

To-Do #1

I was able to get the last four borders done on my Sushi quilt this past week and on Monday I sent it off to Melissa at Sew Shabby Quilting for edge-to-edge quilting. I had started the appliquéd paws a couple weeks ago. Please don’t anyone think that I am developing much appliqué proficiency because that is definitely NOT the case. I would rather paper piece any darn day!!! Finishing this quilt top is my March One Monthly Goal and I will be linking up with Elm Street Quilts later this month. I wasn’t very happy with the pic below, but I just wanted to get a quick photo before taking it in the house and getting it ready to send to Melissa.

To-Do #2

I worked on my first Peloton inset circle using the tutorial by Susan at Quilt Fabrication. I used Applipops to create the small block circle in the middle. It is glued down but still needs to hand-stitched on (yes, appliqué again!). My seams all meet in the middle, and I honestly wasn’t sure what do with the bulky seam allowances, so I reached out to Rebecca at Rebecca Grace Quilting knowing that I want her to quilt this project for me when I finish it in early 2023. I have to say that Rebecca was so helpful and supportive. She suggested trimming the bulk with duck billed scissors which I did not have but yesterday ordered a Tula Pink pair. I absolutely recommend Rebecca for her exceptional longarm quilting. She’s highly skilled and knowledgeable and is a wonderful collaborator.

To-Do #3

I posted four times this past week on the #IGQUILTFEST2022 as @MRINGER58. My favorite post was on Day 9 of the quilt fest when I shared about a coveted quilt that I absolutely love. This is what I wrote:

Today’s topic is Coveted Quilt. I recently saw a photo of Sarah Schreiner’s 2020 Temperature Quilt that was on display at QuiltCon 2022 in Phoenix. It is jaw-droppingly gorgeous! Here is a pic of Sarah with her masterpiece!

To-Do for the week of March 15th-21st:

1. Make two mini Pineapple coasters.
2. Bind Lucy’s I Spy quilt.
3. Work on my temperature quilts flying geese and/or Peloton project.
4. I generally don’t put any non-quilting items on my weekly To Do List on my blog, but I’m going to make an exception this week as I need some accountability. My brother and sister-in-law recently sent me an Emeril Lagasse Air Fryer. I need to watch the How To Videos and try a recipe in the coming week. Feel free to share any favorite Air Fryer recipes with me!

Linking up to Texas Quilt Gal: To-Do Tuesday and later this month I will be linking up to Elm Street Quilts: One Monthly Goal March 2022 Finish.