How about a little video? With stash report at the end.

August 24, 2009 Wild Rose Quilter23 Comments

I know I have really been neglecting my little blog, as of late. I have been skipping out on the weekly stash reporting, as well. I was going to have quilting content this weekend, and then I came down with a migraine , that just would not stop, on Friday. I felt badly all through the weekend, and am still suffering some after effects. I did manage to make y’all a short little video of me quilting one of the feathers, from the Georgian feather stencil I am using on my 9P & stripe quilt, which is a big stash project. I love to watch other people’s quilting videos and see how their quilting might differ from mine, or what similarities we have, or just learn from a different approach. So, I hope you enjoy my little video. And remember, it’s just the way I happen to be quilting this particular stencil. It is certainly not the only way. And cut me a little slack, as I really wasn’t feeling very well when I was filming it.

Quilting Georgian Feather Stencil:

Since the last time I did do a stash report, I have not had any new fabric in, and no new fabric out. I did, however, manage to finish that row of feathers, and that completed all the quilting on my kingsize 9P & stripe! Yay! I do still have to bury some thread tails. I got tired of that before it was done, and went back to back-tacking…lol. I will get some pics of it all finished up on here before too much longer, and will answer all the questions of what stencils, how I marked, what rulers, etc. After I’m feeling better.

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Sunday Reporting!

July 19, 2009July 20, 2009 Wild Rose Quilter14 Comments

Hi y’all! I’m back from our trip. Golf was not kind to my son last week. But he kept an amazing attitude the whole time. I am so proud of that kid. He never lost his cool, and put every hole behind him and tried his best on the next one.

I also wanted to say I am loving using Google Reader to keep up with my blog reading. I caught up with so many posts yesterday, and it was so easy. I got my whole blogroll moved over to it, and will be adding some new ones to it, as it makes it soooo much easier to keep up with all y’all.

I looked for a cool quilt shop to visit while in Abilene, but wasn’t able to find one. So, as far as my stash report, it remains unchanged. None in, none out. However, this weekend I have gotten to get back to quilting on my 9P & stripe, and it is a stash project. A big one. I have another set of borders finished, two to go. And, I’m afraid the final two will be problematic, because I did not follow the rules. I did not have enough fabric to leave myself enough extra backing on the edges. Since it’s my own quilt, I’m going to try to forge ahead, but I may end up having to try to add some strips, which will not be easy at this point. Someone slap me. I know better, really. Yesterday, I quilted the swags and beadboard, and today I did the Georgian feather strip. I love feathers. I love quilting feathers. A few progress pics for you, even though they aren’t much different than what I’ve posted from this one before. But, I’ve been seriously lacking blog content lately, and I guess same old, same old is better than none at all.

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Stash Quilt Reporting

July 5, 2009 Wild Rose Quilter14 Comments

I don’t think my reports are about stash busting any more, but what I’ve done with my stash. I added 5 yards of Kona white cotton back to the stash, since I’m using what I had in my Boston Commons. That is a staple I like to keep on hand. I finished by sawtooth star blocks, finally. And, I think I might like them all together, after all. If you’ve been following my progress on them, you may remember this previous post, where I posted the ones I had finished together, and then divided into different color groupings and settings. Well, here is the whole lot of them, finished and laid out how I would sew them together, if I decide to follow the original pattern.

I think I do like it. My husband likes it. How about a poll?

To see how they looked divided into orange and no orange groups, click the link to the previous post, mentioned above. I’m curious to see which one wins. Doesn’t mean I’ll follow it, but I might!

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Sunday Stashing

June 28, 2009 Wild Rose Quilter4 Comments

YTD:

Incoming Yardage to date: 52 yds.
Outgoing Yardage to date: 48.25 yds.
Total Stash Busted to date: – 3.75 yds.

I don’t have the last 8 star blocks sewn together yet, for the Gracie’s Star, but I do have the pieces all cut out, so I’m going to mark that fabric as busted. 12.5 yds out this week. I still haven’t decided if they are going together in the original pattern, or if I will separate them into two different quilts. We’ll see. I was hoping to make more quilting progress on my 9P & stripe quilt, and, had I not screwed up on the swag quilting, I would have. Somehow, I got off center with it, and didn’t catch it til I had almost the whole border of it stitched. I got to the right bottom corner and I was not ending in the right position. And way too much off to fudge a bit. So, any significant time spent on that this weekend was frogging. Yuk. But I got it done, and now I can get back to quilting, when I can find some more time. Today, I did pieced four more Gracie’s blocks, and put together a block from the final instructions for the mystery quilt I’m making. Hmmm…I’m not in love with it, but oh well. Not sure what I’ll end up doing with these blocks, either.

I’m still trying to knit a sweater, too. I’m really anxious to try my hand at socks, but no better than I seem to be doing at a basic stockinette stitch sweater, I should probably hold off a bit.

In the meantime, if you like knitting, then stop by Maria’s blog. You will be in for a treat. Click on her finished projects tabs at the top of the page. And don’t worry, there’s some pretty quilting eye candy in there, too.

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Sunday Reporting, 6-7-09

June 7, 2009June 7, 2009 Wild Rose Quilter6 Comments

This past week has sure been a busy one! I was very busy at my day job last week, so I didn’t get a lot done on my quilting projects last week. I did get some more sewing in on my sawtooth star blocks, during my lunch hours. And since I’m not sure how I’m going to use them, I th0ught I better make sure I had some border fabrics on hand, just in case, you know. 🙂

That means my stash report is all about fabric coming in this week. And it felt good! 14 yummy yards to fondle and fold.

YTD numbers:

Incoming Yardage to date: 52 yds.
Outgoing Yardage to date: 35.75 yds.
Total Stash Busted to date: – 16.25 yds.

Yeah, I’m going the wrong way. Oh darn.

I have picked my knitting back up, for something to do when I’m just chillin’, watching TV and relaxing. Or when it’s nice out and I want to sit in the yard under my shade trees. However, I don’t think I’m ever going to graduate from knitting kindergarten. Oh man, I seem to take out more knitting stitches than quilting stitches. I make so many mistakes. And I’m only doing a stockinette stitch. I started this sweater completely over several times. Hopefully, I’ll make it to the finish! And it will actually be wearable.

I bought some other quilty goodies this week. Connecting threads had a 30% off notions sale, and I have been wanting to try Clover yo-yo makers, so I got one of every size.

I’m a little too busy to be making yo-yos right now, though, so don’t expect to be seeing any soon. I also got this cool stencil from Full Line Stencil.

They are made of a mesh like material.

Even though I’m not using it on my 9P & Stripe, I tested it out on it, just to see how it works. I like it!

And here is where some of my time has gone! Every minute worth it! The first two pics are after the NTPGA junior tournament here in Perryton. 1st place with a four under par of 68!

And a first place in his age division at the Jim Hitch Memorial tournament in Guymon, OK.

I have gotten some more, though very little, quilting done on my 9P & stripe, but it’s just more of what you’ve already seen. So I’ll save posting more pics til the end.

Have a great week, and remember to spend some time doing something you love, and hopefully spend some quality time with someone you love!

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Thankful Tuesday and Early Wednesday WIP

June 2, 2009June 2, 2009 Wild Rose Quilter13 Comments

I know it’s usually thankful Thursday, but I’m going early this week on some things. My Dad is doing much better. Everything seems to be resolving and doesn’t look like anything too serious is going on with him. Yay! My husband had some tests a week ago Friday, one involving what the doctor suspected was another cancerous mole. But it wasn’t! Yay! And while he was having that biopsied, he also had the blood test that screens for prostate cancer, and that came back normal, also. Yay!

And I’m thankful for all my blogging friends that sent prayers and kind thoughts. And thank you all for the encouragement you’ve given about my 9P & stripe! So many sweet comments. I appreciate them all!

I’ve been doing a bit of piecing on my star blocks again, but I don’t think they are going to end up in the pattern that was intended. I love the blocks, I love the fabrics, I’m just not loving them together. So, I think this project is going to go a different direction, which will require a bit of extra thinking on my part…lol. I think that it’s the orange fabrics not going with the reds…maybe. At least not when they are butted next to each other, like the pattern.

When I pull out the orange ones, I like it better.

And the oranges aren’t bad on their own.

But I’m still not really feeling it. Maybe it’s a value thing…I’m not really sure why I don’t like it, it just doesn’t seem to be working. But I know these block have the potential to be an awesome quilt, or maybe more than one quilt.

So, I looked closely at the fabrics, and notice that several share a similar green accent color, that happens to be very close the color of this bolt I bought to use for backing fabric. And I wondered, what if I set them on point, and used this green for setting blocks and triangles?

Or, sashing and setting triangles, with the blocks on point, which I think is my favorite.

Even like this, I don’t think the polka dots and oranges go with the rest, and will figure out a way to put them together, on their own. What do you think? Am I on a better track with this?

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Sunday Report, 5-31-09

May 31, 2009May 31, 2009 Wild Rose Quilter8 Comments

I haven’t posted a stash report for the last couple of week, because I’m still working on the same quilt. Still quilting on my 9P & stripe quilt, but just remember, it is a stash project! 🙂 You can see the progress on it in every post since mid-May. I now have approximately 31.25 hours into the quilting. I did get the outer top border done, and I have all the setting triangles and blocks quilted now, except for the very last row.

Top border:

I was afraid of doing the beadboard down to the swags, because of the backtracking there, but I did fine on that.

What I didn’t do quite right, and didn’t notice til after I had all the beadboard done, was a couple of the swags…apparently I didn’t have them lined up just right, and a couple are a little lower than they should be. I am not taking it all out to fix it. I can live with it, and have learned to pay closer attention to that detail in the future. 🙂

This is the stencil I chose for the setting triangles. It’s from Barbara Chainey.

I have this much left to quilt, to get to the bottom, then I will turn it the other way and quilt the side borders.

It doesn’t look like much, but based on how long it took me to quilt the top borders and the other setting triangles, I’m guessing about 7 more hours to turning. I love that Georgian feather in the stripe border, but that first one took about three hours to stitch. I love the way it looks, though, so I think it’s worth the time.

So, even thought my stash numbers aren’t changing, I’m so glad to be getting the quilting done on this very large stash quilt. If I get nothing else finished this year, I’ll still feel great about getting this one done!

I spent a very anxious morning waiting by the phone. My Mom called and she was taking my Daddy out to the ER. They came to see me yesterday for a visit, and we had a nice day, but Daddy wasn’t feeling well. He was having stomach issues, which worsened overnight. They gave him an IV at the ER, as he was dehydrated, and ran some blood work, which looks ok, and sent him on home. He will be seeing his regular doctor tomorrow, so I’m glad he is following up with this.

I have a busy, somewhat stressful week ahead, so I may not get much quilting done this week. I hope you have a good week!

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Sunday Reporting…What Was I Thinking??

May 17, 2009 Wild Rose Quilter20 Comments

When I said to myself, “crosshatching would probably look good on both the 9P blocks and the stripe blocks, why didn’t myself say back to me, “Well yea, it will look good, but it’s going to take you at least half the rest of your life! Are you nuts?” And that is assuming that I still have quite awhile left to live.

Are you thinking that’s not so bad? Well, between loading this puppy on the machine, the SID stabilizing, and the crosshatching, this is as far as I have gotten on it. And this took me 7 hours. I’m kind of slow. And I intend to use stencils and feathers in all that other space you see. And this is how much is left.

It’s 110″ square. Yep, gonna take me awhile. This will be the Wednesday WIP project for quite awhile. OMGosh! What was I thinking?!

On the upside, though…this one is MINE!! And all the fabric in it is from my stash. However, it doesn’t change my numbers this week, as I’ve already accounted for it, in previous reports.

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Weathering (or should that be feathering?) the Storm plus Stash Report

March 29, 2009 Wild Rose Quilter12 Comments

My stash report is short & sweet. None new in, none new out. I have continued to work on blocks for my One Block Wonder quilt. That’s about all I’ve done quilty. I haven’t even touched the longarm since I took my last customer quilt off. Well, I have touched it, just haven’t turned it on…lol. I have that king size quilt of my own all ready to go and just can’t get motivated.

Our blizzard brought much needed moisture to our area, and for that I am very grateful. It did ruin the blooms on my magnolia bush, though. 😦 I’m not sure how the tulips will fare, but I suspect better than the magnolia. So much of it is already melting away.

I thought I’d share a few pics I took of the birds that were seeking shelter on my patio, and congregating in my tree for food, during the blizzard. There were finches, doves, red wing blackbirds, blue jays, sparrows, grackles, starlings, and something I didn’t recognize.

During a time when they had flown back out and away from the patio, I slipped some seed out there in an old cat food bowl that was still out there on a bottom shelf. When they came back, they had a nice surprise.