The 100 day hustle

I may be a day late, 

but I am hopping on the band wagon nevertheless!

Kelsey Sews is hosting it:  - 

so September 22nd meant that

there were just 100 days remaining in 2012.

Just 100 left, 

I mean 99 today - where did 2012 go?

"Let's hustle through our to-do lists and 

start the new year with a clean slate!"

Well, I am in and here is my list:

* Finish a certain b'day project out of Tula's Book

(image to come once it is gifted)

* Complete AMH's Feather Bed Quilt (top only)

* Participate in Sew Sweetness Sew-along

project to be decided...

* Quilt 2 more charity quilts

Houndstooth 

and one more from the Quilt Guild Charity Table

* Finish 2 more UFO's - yes, I fell off and have too many left

Flying Geese - sew into a top

Binding for Cathedral Stars

* Quilt Lenora's quilt

* How about 8 more Farmer's Wife blocks (2 per month)

currently 18 blocks done

* Add some more Swoon blocks, also neglected

Well, I will try and see what I still can pull off in 2012.

Are you in?

Linking up to Kelsey's blog.

I better get sewing,

Barb

Design Wall Monday

I am finally ready to join DWM by Judy again.

Have a look at my UFO Flying geese:

I have sewn all the blocks into long rows 

and now need to add the sashing.

And right behind it

are my first 2 Swoon blocks:

(sorry for the poor lighting)

only 7 more blocks to go...

Please go and check all the other beautiful creations

linked up on Judy's blog!

Barb

National Quilt Day

Happy National Quilt Day and

Happy St. Patricks Day!

Hope you will find some time

to fit some Green Sewing into your day.

Flying Geese quilt update - and yes, there is some (lime) green in it!:

I added a few more geese and finished sewing the top long row.

Current lay-out is 15 x 5 geese with 3 inch long sashing:

Who knows -

maybe I will finish the top this weekend?

Can you see the sunshine in the bottom left corner?

We are enjoying a great Spring here in SE Michigan

with temperatures in the 70s! 

Unreal!

Linking up to Pat Sloan's NQD post,

Barb

Friday Night Sew-in...

Somehow I felt like starting a new project,

but instead ended up pulling out

my Flying geese blocks and added about 20 more!

Not yet sure if this will be the final block count.

It still needs sashing strips between the (long) rows.

Linking up to FNSI and Whoop Whoop,

Barb

2012 UFO challenge

This will be my 2nd year of joining Judy's UFO challenge.
While I will be listing 12 projects and see whichever one gets chosen, I may need to adjust my monthly project by season. Seems to be more difficult for me to do summer projects, so we'll see how it goes. But I will try to get more than 5 UFO's done, so I can beat my 2011 finished UFO!

1. Orca Bay mystery - while it is still ongoing, I will have to work on almost all steps; hope to get it done as a quilt top by the end of 2012!

2. Jelly Roll Race quilt: is promised to be given to a friend, latest for her birthday in May; it needs quilting and binding

3. Lenora's quilt: I gave a her pictures of several quilt tops and am waiting for her to pick one!

???

4. Friendship strips: we had a strip exchange going last year and I really would like to finish it into a top

5. Mod Blossom: needs quilting

6. Houndstooth top: needs quilting

7. Modern Cross; add borders, quilt

8. Farmer's wife: make 10 more blocks (or it would be an overwhelming task...)

9. Binding for Cathedral Stars quilt

10. Binding for Jelly Roll quilt along quilt

11. Tropical Twist: needs borders - hope to find a for me do-able solution

12. Flying geese: finish top (and quilt)

That's my list - please check all the other participants listed on Judy's blog -

and maybe you will join yourself!

It sure helps to get things moving along!

Happy UFO sewing in 2012!

Barb

Design Wall Monday

I think I have been bitten by the flying geese bug.

And now I can't stop making them.

It all started with my book review and

testing of the flying geese ruler by Quilting in a day.

So here they are on my design wall this week -

48 geese, just 24 more to go for a twin size top.

You can see the Tucan border fabric on the left side -

hmmm, maybe it should be called "Flying Tucan" quilt?

I hope to finish the geese, oops Tucans this week

and that will help my stash report as well...

Please go and check other DWM on Judy's blog!

Barb

Flying Geese - quilt in a day

Please have a look at my very first book review:

The book is called "Flying Geese" and I also received the large ruler from Quilt-in-a-day by Eleanor Burns.
So I read through it and looked at all the pictures and schematics. All is very easy to understand. And of course there is lots of eye candy of beautiful Geese quilts!

Included in the book are yardage charts for all common sizes and detailed step-by-step instructions from cutting to sewing, pressing, and finally putting the entire top together and quilting it.
If you have never made a quilt before, all parts of the quilt making process are described as well.

Whether you have the specialty large geese ruler or not,

these are the easiest flying geese I have ever seen!

What a great method - I had to try it out!

I decided to do a twin size Flying Geese quilt:
I selected Tucan fabric as my focus fabric, added 6 fabrics for the geese and the white fabric for my sky/ background. Yes, these fabrics are all from one collection (and leftover of an earlier quilt). They just waited for the perfect pattern: Flying Geese!

 Then I followed the steps in the book and - while not yet done - ended up with 24 flying geese so far!

These are 8.5 x 4.5 inch.

Don't they look great?

I love them!

And they are all perfect without cut off corners!

This will become a beautiful & colorful quilt -

with the final lay-out to be still changed up a bit.

Just 48 more geese to go

to finish my very first Flying Geese quilt-

with guaranteed success!

Love the book and geese ruler for great easy flying geese.

I never thought I would put

easy and flying geese in one sentence.

Now I do!

Barb