Design Wall Monday - 4/1/13

DESIGN WALL MONDAY - 4/1/13
Check out all of us who link up with Judy L. at Patchwork Times on Mondays.
We have some awesome stuff on our walls!
Well, THEY do - ME - not so much sometimes - ;))
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So this past week -

I finished ALL of my UFOs!! -

Haha - ;))

You probably didn’t fall for that one -

Considering what day this is -

But I did ALMOST get the borders on the Folk Art Christmas Tree - ;))

Folk Art Christmas Tree - HERE -
Folk Art Christmas - by Cindy Taylor Oates - (c) Taylor Made Designs -

Wednesday - I finished the Machine Applique -

You still can’t really tell from the front photo -
Except for a slight puckering in the background -

My Machine Applique tends to “pucker” if not stabilized -
But I didn’t bother to “stabilize” this one -
Because I used a very pretty “white on white” as the background fabric -
And it was a bit heavier weight than regular muslin -
And the applique pieces were fused -
So - all in all - a minimum of “puckering” - Yay!! -

Maybe you can see better -
If I show you the “dotted” lines on the back - ;))

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Thursday - was a no-sewing day -
I spent some time rescheduling some posts -
Writing some other posts -
And “surfing” - ;))

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Friday - I auditioned border fabrics -

Too many choices -
And none of them “tickled my fancy” -
So I set them all aside - ;))

I think that I will “ponder” for a while -
And probably wait until I decide to quilt it -

By that time I will have chosen a backing -
And - depending on how much fabric I have -
And how much I need -

I can decide how big to make the borders -
And what to use to make them - ;))

While I was futzing with that -

I prewashed a bunch of fabric -
To be ironed later - ;))

Then I made the “Heart” for my Memory Quilt -
And the scrap card - ;))

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Saturday - I pulled out the embroidered Christmas blocks -

That KatieM sent me - HERE -

I decided to try to sash them with “geese” -
Like Linda - HERE - did on her Christmas Snowman Snuggle Quilt - HERE -

So I dug out my copy of Billiie Lauder’s Quick Quilt Tricks booklet -
For her method of making four Flying Geese blocks at one time -
I have seen other “no-waste” instructions on the internet -
But hers seem to make more sense to me - ;))

Anyway -

I made a “test” set -
Having learned my lesson years ago -
With some “circles” - (Hi - LindaJ) - ;))

The fabric and pencil didn’t play nice -
When I was marking the first set of squares -
But they looked pretty good -
When I laid them on top of one of the embroidered squares -
(The white peeking out in the corners is part of the square) -

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So Sunday I made some more -
And decided to back the squares with freezer paper -
To stabilize them when I marked them -
Which seemed to help -

But I must have messed up somehow -
Because when I measured them -

I don’t know if you can see real well -
The plastic ruler doesn’t play nice -
With my overhead lights -

But I’m short in the TOP LEFT corner -

And in the BOTTOM RIGHT corner -
On this one -

Oh, crap!! -

And that’s as far as I got - ;))

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It was weird playing with Christmas blocks on Easter Sunday -

Buy - hey - a girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do - ;))

And now that it is the First Day of April -

I will set the Christmas stuff aside until the 25th -

To be worked on once again - ;))

Today I want to work on my LHQSQ -
Left-Handed Quilter Sampler Quilt -

I only have 19 more blocks to go -

The block patterns are all printed out -

And they have been calling my name - ;))

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -