Design Wall Monday Oct 8th

Happy Holiday Monday - Thanksgivings 

My wall has some bits a pieces to the left side but what I want to show you is my third block of Grandmother's Choice. I have hand pieced the center but now need to put it on a background. I am not sure which one I should use.

I am also behind in GC. This is block 3 and I still have to do blocks 4 and 5. Maybe I can get together soon.

This is the fabric I was planning to use, but the large dots take over and the background is too powerful. This is now my least favorite of the blues.

I have a FQ of the solid blue. not bad.

The flower print was not planned for this quilt but I dug it out of the stash. It is a bit busy too.

I think I like this print the best. What do you think? I will not get it done today. Maybe Tuesday.
Taking photos and looking at them differently helps.

I have added today's post to Patchwork Times Design Wall Monday.

My husband has been repairing siding. We had hail in July and found many dozens of holes and cracks in our siding. The new pieces are different so we are using the old siding off the back side of the garage and putting the new pieces on the garage. They all look a little different. What a job. Next time it happens we may need to replace all the siding. The siding is getting brittle.

Lex the Chessy is tied up outside as his run is taken apart because of the siding.

WIP Wednesday

WIP Wednesday  has my Grandmother's Choice block for this week, the Sunflower. I did not know what I should do to make this 8 inch block at first. I desisted on English Paper Piecing. So it is all hand pieced. I now need to pick a background fabric. A friend Liz is sending me some fabric with my mom tonight that looked like it may work great. I did most of the piecing yesterday at my Bee group stitch day. Liz gave me a kids quilt to quilt and one of the fabrics is the perfect blue. She thinks she has some left and will see my mom tonight. Then I can pick the fabric.

I have added this post to Freshly Pieced WIP Wednesday

This is one choice I have. The large blue dot print. It maybe to strong for the block.

I am having computer trouble. My lap top is dead and my great Geek of a brother found me a nice recycled one but it does not have the programs I know. I can not edit my photos the way I like too. Maybe tonight my husband can give me some new programs so I can edit photos and make the post I want. Good thing my men know how to fix these computers.

Maybe tomorrow I can show the other choices, if I can fix up the computer for easier use.





I have also lost all my contact list for my emails, so if you think I have your email, well now I do not. Send me an email and I can add you to my new computer. Thanks.

Design Wall Monday Sept 17th

 It is Monday again. I love spending time looking over everyone work from the weekend of sewing. I got a few different projects a little farther. I  have leaders and ends Spools in blue and orange. Then I have some orange hexagon flowers. I have the first three blocks done for Grandmother's choice. I had trouble and cut the nine patch square to big and the block on the bottom right is to big by a large 1/4" so I redid the block. I also got the last 10 string blocks done that I needed for RRCB last night.

On the second wall is my Roll Roll Cotton Ball. This wall is much too small to hold much more than this. I think with the addition of the 10 string blocks I might soon be able to sew the main body of this quilt together. I may take this to retreat in mid October. I have tons to do on the boarder as the units are not together yet. 

If you want to see more about Design Wall Monday, go see yourself. I have added this post to Manic Monday at Sew Happy Geek.

I am quilting this sweet wall quilt today. I should have no trouble finishing  after lunch and then getting it back to her on my way to Agility class on Tue.

I have a super busy week. Dog class twice, Birthday, Wedding Anniversary, Golf tournament, Dog agility trial on Saturday, family photos Sunday. And I am to get a hair cut but do not have a hair dresser. Not sure how much time I will get to sew for myself.

Grandmother Choice Blocks 2 and 3

I have a nice start to my Grandmother`s Choice block of the week. You can find the posts Here. This is #2 Amethyst and was out last Sunday. I had trouble with my computers and printer so could not get it printed. Then I ended up drafting it myself. Worked out great.

Then block #3 Union Square was posted on Saturday. Maybe they will all be on Saturday as many of us sew on the weekend. I got it done and measured it. It was too big. I sewed a seam allowance to two deeper, and it is still to big. I cut all my Red and White square  2 1/2" not the 2 3/8". I am thinking I may redo this block over. I like the fabrics I used but it is still a large 1/4" larger. Just not happy with it.

Here is all three together. You can see I am using lots of the yellow.

WIP Wednesday

I have jumped on the bandwagon and started the Block of the week with Barbara Branckmen at Grandmother's Choice. The blocks are based on the suffragists, so the name Grandmother's Choice is so fitting. I am not following any of their colour choices but making up my own. The first block I have made is the 8" block which is given on the Monday's Post. 

I then challenged myself to see if I could do the math and make a 4" block. Oops I lost my points on the red squares. I may have not calculated the little background triangles correctly. While then I looked into Block Base, a software that goes with Barbara's book Encyclopaedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns. I have now added the software to my birthday wish list. My birthday is later this month. I love her book and with block base I would have some patterns and sizes to with the book. 

See how much smaller the four inch block is. Really too small.
I have linked this post up with Freshly Pieced Wip-Wednesday

Here are the fabrics I have picked out to use. I see she has a part on yardage that I need to go check out. I need more green if I am going to use it. I like the shade I have picked out but the one is a small piece and the other fabric is bad quality and I do not want to use it. I hope I can find something else to go with it.

Tuesday was back to school for my boys. I have gotten photos of them on their first day of school for years. This year they are being turkeys.

I am ready for my talk tonight in Leduc at the guild meeting. Got quilts packed, my hand out done and a few boxes of blocks and scraps to show what I do with my scrapes.