Quilting a Judy Pattern

I have a good customer in Northern Canada that brings me her big beauties for machine quilting. Her name is Elaine Coumont. I got to do this Judy Niemeyer Mariner's Compass quilt. It was done mostly in batiks which is always a treat to work on.  

The photo of the over all was not great as every time I went to take a photo the sun was shinning

 in and giving it hot spots. 

Some more detail shots.

Here is the middle of the star.

I did lots of wiggle quilting and did a ton of thread changes. Elaine was thriller with the work I did on her quilt. Thank You Elaine for trusting me with the work. 

Dyed Again

I did some more fabric dying this past week. It take a few days before I can show all the fun colour. First is the fabric in the large zip lock bags. I have dyed 16 pieces of 1m Kona cotton. I leave them for about 24 hours to batch. 

The second day, I wash out my fabric. First I hand rinse each fabric. Then I washed about 8 fabrics in the machine together. The fabric gets 2 full longer cycles with the extra rinse. Dry and fold, hoping that I do not have to iron each fabric (I hate to iron). 

I needed to do more dying for some Door Prizes. The Edmonton and District Quilter's Guild has us pay for our ads with prizes. It only makes sense to me to give pretty fabric. I was having trouble making up nice packages. Some of the fabric I did not want to part with. 

Also the Black Gold Quilt Patch also has a quilt show Oct 16 and 17th 2015, and I want to donate a door prize there too. 

These are the last 5 prizes I needed for the Edmonton guild's year end. Next Fall we start over again. 

Pink Saturday

I got some more Wild and Goosey blocks done. The first row of blue were from last month. Then I worked on 8 Pink blocks for the RSC2015. I wanted more blue so, I did a 8 more blue ones too. I  did them all with paper piecing. I do not really think of them done till the paper is out. So yes the paper is out now. Then they stick to the wall too. 

I have added today's post to Soscrappy Playing with Pink post and linky party. 

Edit: Here is the PDF pattern for the Wild and Goosey 

I found these blocks. I made then back in Sept 2014, the colour of the month was Orange back then. I did post about some sampler blocks I did but for some reason I did not get a photo of these blocks. They were out near the design wall but no photos and no post about them. The large spool is 8" sq and the nine patches are 3 1/2" . I have most of the large spools that I wanted to get done. Not sure what I will do with them next. Not sure what I will do with the nine patches. 

Blocks to Exchange

I have another set of 2 blocks done for the KFC Block Exchange group (Kaffe Fassett Collection). I got then in the mail this past hour in fact. I have 1 more set of blocks to do and then I am done with block exchanges for a little while. Well maybe. 

There is talk of doing some kind of block exchange or block of the month with the Leduc Black Gold Quilt Patch. I might have to do that one. 

Pineapple Crazy

I got the next batch of Log Cabin Pineapple blocks done. I finished another 27 (26 shown) 1 needs a little hand fix up. There is lots of pink scraps in these blocks so I am adding this to Soscrappy's link page for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2015. Pink is the colour for February.  

I find I like to do these in assemble line order. Add the red center to all and the first bit of white, then the next piece. However it is taking me many many days and hours to do a set of 25 to 27. The pattern is from Bonnie Hunter's book String Fling. I got my mom, Betty, the book for her Birthday over a year ago, it is signed by Bonnie. I think that mom and I may end up making most of the quilts in the book.  If I make the quilt the size in the book, I need 224 of these little 4 1/2" blocks. So I thought I would do sets of just over 25 (in case one block gets lost or cut). So far I have 52 blocks complete out of the 224. 

I got started on the next 27 blocks. I have been doing this in the living room on my older singer in the cabinet. I can watch TV with the family and dogs. I do not let the dogs in my sewing room. Best go, I have Rally obedience class with Gemma later today. 

Happy Valentine's Day to Everyone. 

KFC Blocks

I have some more blocks done in KFC - Kaffe Fasset Collection. They are also part of the block exchange. I kind of did an oopps last week. I mailed the last set of blocks to the wrong person. She is forwarding the blocks on to the correct person, so I have made her an extra block, 3. 

I have had some trouble reading the patterns. This pattern gave me the most trouble. I did the purple and green block 3 times before I got the block the correct size. The other 2 are too small. The bottom star is from earlier on. I will save these for some kind of mixed up quilt. I have so many miss matched blocks I am sure there will be more then 1 miss match quilt. 

Last week our Leduc guild did a little block making demo for program. We had 4 tables set up each with a different block. Brenda our guild President did the 8 easy triangles and then made all these blocks with the method. So really she showed us so many more blocks. She drew on the back of the light fabric a grid with the cut lines and the sew lines. Then you sew then you cut then apart. Lots of triangles. I needed a photo of all her pretty blocks. I have always loved how much you can do with triangles. 

This year I am on the program committee, I am in charge of the Quilt Till You Wilt Weekend.  I am also second to help out with a few other things like the retreat. I will help take the guild ironing boards and irons and step in if our leader should need help. 

In the Mail

I got these 2 blocks in the mail this week. They are off to Washington state. 

They are part of the KFC block exchange. KFC is Kaffe Fassett Collection. 

A quick little post today.

Blue scraps

I got a few more nine patches done in January.  

I also did some wild geese blocks. The first one I did was multicoloured. But then I did a few in just blue. I love these ones. I guess I am stating a new block for the Rainbow scrap challenge 2015. I may need a few more Blue ones. 

I have added this to Soscrappy's linky party.

The month of February is Pink. I have done all kinds of sorting out my Dear Jane. I have all the fabric picked out for Pink. So now to get to them. I hope to get one block done today. 

Sorry it took me so long to post I miss placed my camera. Not really lost, I just did not know where I left it.  

Gemma playing with snow balls outside.

Blocks remade

I got to work on my Grand Illusion Mystery quilt at the end of Christmas break. I got 12 blocks done then started put them up on the wall. TOO Much Yellow. My yellow was bright and I was not sure I liked it. I will not finish it if I do not like it. So I looked around. 

On the left our 3 blocks with different bright pinks I had used. OK but I was still not sure. So the 6 in the middle have a Painted Daisy print. I liked them, I had just bought the fabric a little bit ago. Yes I wanted to change it. 

I think the light is a bit different these two days.

I now have the fabric in the middle changed and all 25 blocks made. I am much happier with this for a quilt. I have some of the sashing and comers just up on the wall so I can see if I like it. I am good to keep going. 

Now to get the sashing on and blocks into rows. I am not sure about the boarder but we will see later. Do the parts I know for now. 

Added to Design Wall Monday at Patchwork Times

January Blues

Blue scraps for January sounds about right. Christmas is done and we are back to the same old same cold. We have had a cold week. Some snow and some bad roads. Blue and icy all around. I also kind of slid into the ditch today. Me and my van are fine, thanks to the nice man who towed me out. 

Last year I got doing the 6" sampler blocks. At first I used what ever lights. Then I got using lights that were the right colour of the month. I did not like the 4 blocks on the right. So this week I remade the 4 blocks on the left to make up my 9 sampler blocks. 

Here is the 9 blocks. I have added this to Socrappy's Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2015. There the blue blocks are all fixed up. I have many other blocks to do in many other colours so the sampler will be at least a 2 year project. 

Today I worked on these little Lime Green Dear Jane blocks. 

As this is my first post of the year, I feel this need to tell you all what I have planned to do for the next year. Both the quilt guild I belong to have quilt shows this year so I need to do some finishing. So here it is

1. I work on the RSC 2015  (Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2015) I may find I need to finish a few quilts and not start new blocks. So I will plan to work on a quilt that has some of the months colour. So maybe some blocks but I must finish more. I have too many to list today. 
2. I will keep making Dear Jane blocks with Kaffet Fasset fabrics.
3. I will keep working on my Hexagons using the  Kaffet Fasset fabrics
4. I have a quilt to finish that is a joint quilt with my mom. We need to finish it.
5. I hope to finish the log cabin quilt with Kaffet Fassets that was part of a block exchange. 
6. I have some blocks from the Leduc Guild tin box exchange I hope to do a table runner with.
7. I have a Scrap Garden challenge to do for the Leduc Guild past president challenge. I think I have all the blocks done. 
8. Maybe I should get at least 1 or 2 of the Bonnie Hunter Mystery quilts done. Easy Street is a top waiting to be quilted, 3 others in block form need to be made into tops then quilted. 
9. and more. 

Happy New Year to you all.