Design Wall Monday July 30

I have been working on my Forester`s wife (Farmer`s wife is what many of you know them as) Blocks this past week and it was time to see what they look like together. I was doing a sew-a-long but I am so far behind and they are taking a break for July. I also have had fun playing with my own block designs. I did the Blue blocks this Friday and Saturday for my Rainbow Scrap Challenge. These blocks are only 6 inches so I will need so many more before I am done.

Last week I showed you my Spider Web quilt on the design wall. Well I did good and got the first 4 rows (out of 9) all sewn together. Here in the box below, are the next 5 rows. I guess they will be next up on the design wall. I would like this quilt for our new king size bed we got this past month.

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Blue Scrap Saturday

I have been working on Blue scraps this month for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge over at Soscrappy. There are other Blue projects the other quilters have been working on.

I have done some more blocks for my Forester`s Wife ( also known as Farmer`s wife blocks). I started to work on the blocks from a sew- a- long but they are taking July most off. I started last so I have many blocks to catch up on.

 

I have been loving the little triangles the best. These blocks are 6 inches square so the triangles finish at 1 1/2 inches. Yesterday I just kept making the little triangles without thinking how many I needed. Then today I made my blocks I can up with some that were not apart of the sew-a-long.

I also mixed in some purple into this block because I had a few left from last months purples.

Five blocks this month. I may have to work on this quilt next year also. They are so small and to not make up much of a quilt yet.

I did a boob boob. Can you believe I did it twice. I ripped and sewed wrong a second time.

This is some of the poverty piecing I did was a leaders and enders project. I think most of these end bits came from the log cabins and the large rainbow blocks I did earlier in the month. I just kept the little pile of clippings next to my machine and in no time, they were little rows.

I have a lilly flowering again after Monday`s storm. It is not perfect with a few buries and holes. But it is some colour to my garden.

Next today is Pie making. Blueberry Raspberry and Peach. Hope to watch more Olympics well I make Pie.

Purple Scrap Blocks

The last few days have been crazy busy, so I did not get my purple scrap posted on Saturday for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2012 but here they are Sunday. I love this little 6" block. It is part of my Forester's Wife blocks.

I found these blocks on Randy's Blog last month. I am way behind and I am not doing them in any order.  I work on the blocks I want to do or what fits with the scraps I have.

I had I nice sized piece of the pinkish purple and used all one purple but now I do not like it. The blocks with more variation are better looking.

Here is the fourth one for the week. I love this funny strip fabric and this is getting to be some of the last of it.  The background fabric is a long sleeved shirt I got at the Good Will store. It is the lightest pink colour.

I did a big thread order this past week. I just love this thread. I have no troubles in any of my machines with it. The long arm loves it and at least three of my domestics machines love the thread too. It is Wonderfil cotton thread. Now to just machine quilt lots this month so I can pay for the thread order.

Yesterday was another Dog Agility Trial. Lex and I had some good runs but did not pass any of our runs. One class the course was very tough and no one passed it. |We had the best time and only 10 faults. Another run we had a rail and were 10 sec under the time, so we are speedy enough.

Happy Scrappy Saturday - Last Yellow

Yellow Fruit Basket block

Today it the last Saturday of May. I have been working on my Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2012 and linked  to Soscrappy. I was trying to decide what else I could make with my scraps. I also have seen many blocks from the Farmer's Wife and the Sew a Long over at Barrister's Block, I have jumped in too. I see Bonnie Hunter is doing these blocks for her Jubilee Quilt. My friend Kathy S is working on this too, but not in a rainbow fashion.

Yellow Big Dipper

I know I am way behind on the blocks as they got started back in February. But this way I can just do what blocks I want when I want. I do not know if I will do them all but I will have a cute little stack of blocks. These blocks will finish up to 6 inches square.

Basket Weave in Orange and Yellow 

 I have done this one with both yellow and orange and the background cream. I think if I use a colour next on the colour wheel it will be easier to put this together. I am also going to use white and cream for background colours. I will have to go back and do some of the colours we did earlier this year.

Battlegrounds in Red and white background.

 Red was our colour for January.

The first four blocks for now. These blocks are from Farmer's wife but I am a Forester's wife and may have to rename it.

I have sorted my box of pre sewn triangles. Many have white or cream with them and so they can be used in these blocks. many are 2 half inches but some were 2 inches or larger. I thought it was a good place to start. I was able to Red Battlegrounds block with every triangle coming from here.

Lex the dog and I have an Agility Trial on Sunday. Wish us luck. Sounds like we will get good weather for it sunny but not to hot.