Monday, July 26, 2010

Design Wall Monday

This week my design wall has finished projects on it, and it feels good to have them done!
First up is Cowboy Cirle and 1 kid quilt completed with binding - wahoooo!
It only took 3 attempts to get it right on Cowboy Circle (but I stuck to it!).
It means  I managed to  complete Amy's "One thing - one week- Challenge";
 knowing without it there would still be 3 quilts waiting for binding in my house....

I also got the binding on another quilt, but it needs the final sewing -
so you can still see the pins sticking out every inch or so.
It's been a learning curve for me how to sew on a binding by machine.
They aren't perfect, but every time I try it, I learn  something new...
I added some more blocks for the Music Bloom quilt
(they look meaningless alone on the floor, but there is a plan... :)

Then today I just needed some easy strip sewing
(& stash busting - Sunday's report was NG ...)
and did a quilt top following Mary's instruction
The photo doesn't do it justice:
the green fabric are guitars and the pink are flowers.
Most likely it will also go to V for BASICS.

Ok, so this week I really have to sew some flying geese for Music Bloom -
I know I am procrastinating.
Maybe this will be my next One-week-one thing challenge?
Please go to Judy's Patchwork Times and see what other quilters are working on!
Happy sewing,
Barb

7 comments:

  1. Your quilts turned out so nice. I am waffling on making a circle quilt with my Moda's Hello Betty. I have a raw edge applique pattern in a magazine. You really have worked hard on the finished, yea!! The quick strippie is cute.

    I am too afraid to try the machine bindings. My fingers are really sore from the hand stitching so I am going to have to just read the tutorial again and try soon. I have to be in the mood, I guess.

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  2. You've really been busy. I'm going to have to look in your archives to see about your music bloom quilt. It looks and sounds interesting.

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  3. Wow you've got lots going on here! Love that circle quilt, aren't those fun?

    I do all my bindings by machine, but they need some improvement... I keep trying different methods.

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  4. The circles look good. I must stretch one day and make circles. but there is time for that.

    glen in louisiana (or just g this morning)

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  5. Hooray for finishes!!! They all look great.

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  6. woo-hoo on finishes-it's a great feeling! I'm trying to master the machine binding technique too, so far I've only tried it on small projects.

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  7. I really love your circle quilt. I would love to do one but cutting all those circles seems a bit daunting. I love that you have so many projects to choose from: my way of working.

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