2014 NewFO Challenge - January

I had decided that I wanted to make a Churn Dash Quilt, so I asked hubby for assistance.  Of the ones I showed him, this is the one that he said he liked the best.

I started working on the blocks using a variety of the different red fabrics that I had in my stash.  Hubby and I both like red, so I had quite a few.

I don't have a design wall, so I use the floor in the living room.  I originally had made only 16 blocks, but decided that I'd like a rectangular quilt rather than a square one.

Here I have all of the blocks turned into rows.  I'll be connecting the rows together with sashing between and picking out what I'll be using for the border.

Visit Barbara over at Cat Patches and see what others have started this month.  Happy quilting everyone!

Quilt Doodle BOM 2014 - January

I cut out all the pieces I needed for the January Quilt Doodle BOM and I've got the HST's created.

I got all of the Snowman heads sewn together.

Then one by one I connected each of the Snowman heads together to make the entire row.  I had to stop and think about what I wanted to use for the eyes.  It looked like the french knots made the eyes way too small and I didn't have any beads to try.  I thought about using heat and bond to make them, but remembered that I had some buttons that I had saved from old clothes.

And here is how they turned out!  I liked the way they looked all willy nilly and so that is how I put them on! It turned out they I had even more buttons than I needed.  I just might make a couple of Snowman pillows and use the rest of the buttons.

Every month photos of the Quilt Doodle BOM finishes are posted in the BOM flicker group and they can all be view there.  

Celtic Solstice Mystery Quilt Part 6

I finished putting together the blocks for Celtic Solstice which is this year's Bonnie Hunter Mystery.  I decided to not do a full-sized quilt as I already have three that haven't been quilted yet. This one will end up as a baby quilt.

Check out everyone's progress on the Celtic Solstice Mystery here.

Celtic Solstice Mystery Quilt Part 5

I started part 5 by cutting mirror image neutral triangles with the Easy Angle ruler from 2" strips.  The notches where the missing dog ear is will help line everything up.  To do this I had to cut with two strips right sides together.  after that I cut the blue triangles with the Easy Angle ruler from 3-1/2" strips.

Part 5 is made starting with the half square triangles from part 3 that weren't made into pinwheels and attaching the neutral triangles to the yellow sides of part 3 and the blue triangle attaches to the neutrals.

I'm not sure how many more parts there will be before we start putting the pieces together.  Besides the sewing I did for Christmas, this is the only thing that I've started this month.  Check out everyone's progress on the Celtic Solstice Mystery here.

I will be linking up with Barbara over at Cat Patches for the 2013 NewFO Challenge - December Update.   Click here to see what others have started this month.  This is the last update for the year; however, Barbara has decided to host a NewFO challenge for 2014 that I am going to participate in.  You can read about it here if you're interested.

Hope you all have a wonderful year coming up!  Happy New Year!  Tami

Celtic Solstice Mystery Quilt Part 4

I really like 4 patches and 9 patches so Part 4 was a breeze for me to do.  It's a good thing too because I have some Christmas sewing to get finished.  These were made with green and orange 2" strips and will finish at 3" in the quilt.

I've made three Christmas table runners as gifts for my two sister-in-laws and my mother-in-law. They have to put up with me talking about my quilting all the time, so I thought I'd make them a little something.

And, because I promote the use of  fabric bags instead of paper or plastic, I also made some Christmas bags to wrap them in instead of paper.  

They can use them for wrapping presents in next year.  These are made using the pattern developed for the Green Bag Lady which is an eco-friendly art project started by Teresa VanHatten-Granath in 2008.

Check out everyone's progress on the Celtic Solstice Mystery Here.

2014 NewFO Challenge

I would like to make a Churn Dash Quilt.  I asked my hubby to help me decide what it should look like.  I showed pictures of some on goggle and he liked this one the best, I'm going to make one something like this.

I have several quilts on my To Do List that are designed by Bonnie Hunter of Quiltville, starting with Boxy Stars which is on her Free Patterns Tab.

Ohio Stars and Rails is another of Bonnie's quilts that I'd like to do.  I think I'd like to do this one or another red, white and blue for a QOV quilt.

Pineapple Blossom is yet another of Bonnie's patterns I want to do!  I particularly like that pattern that was made in Christmas colors.  Red and Green and my favorite colors.

I'd like to make some Oven Mitts and Potholders for my kitchen.  Mine are getting a little tired looking.

I have a pattern called Arrows All Around  by Cheryl Brickey of MeadowMistDesigns that I'd like to make.

Towards the end of the year, I'd like to make You Got Cookies that is in the Nov/Dec 2012 issue of Quiltmaker magazine.

I'd also like to make Merry Baskets which is in Nov-Dec issue 2013 of Quiltmaker magazine.  Again, I would be using my favorite colors!  Hopefully, we'll be able to have a Christmas tree next year.  We had trouble with the cats loving it!

I'm sure there's lots more that I'd like to do, but those are the ones I'm thinking of now!

Celtic Solstice Mystery Quilt Part 3

Pinwheels

We need Half-Square Triangles for Part 3.  The half square triangles will measure 2” and finish at 1-1/2” in the quilt.  Some of our half-square triangles in this step will be made into pinwheels, and some will be left single.  The pinwheel unit will measure 3-1/2” and finish at 3” in the quilt.  I used the Easy Angle Ruler and 2” strips to cut the units for my quilt. 

Check on Bonnie's Monday linkup  to see how everyone else is doing on the Mystery!
   Keep on sewing!  Tami