Seriously I Have Been Doing Something Sewing Related

I haven't posted for a very long time.  So here is a quick catch up.  I have been doing some sewing honestly!

BOM from the LQS

Amish with a twist

This next one is called Kaleidoscope.  I am having challenges with this one.  When you get your block for the month you get a roll of fabric, and there is just enough to make your block.  Misread your pattern, or cut wrong and you are out of luck, because they had more people sign up than they were expecting there is no extra fabric.  Um lets just say that I have had 2 months that I have cut wrong and been on a search for matching fabrics.

This months block I cut this color wrong, the strips laying across the pile of green batiks.  So I had to go shopping and I chose online and several shops that specialize in batiks for my spree. 

 These are all from Batiks Plus which is out of Missouri.  I love that if you order a yard you get 40 inches, if you order 1/2 a yard you get 20 inches.  I also like that they always label the fabrics so you know which colors they are.

The above picture is what I ordered from Batiks Etcetera &Sew What Fabrics.  

I ordered 12 different fabrics and none of them are quite right.  I was told that it maybe an Anthology Batik and so may be hard to match because they know the line, it was created for Jacqueline De Jong, and they have noticed that the colors are drastically different between runs and the one they had in their store was more blues in it. Urgh!

At the Tuesday guild we are doing a bag lady quilt. My block with my fabrics.

The January bag I received.

February

March

Each of these blocks belong to a different lady and her fabric pull.

We are also doing some HST blocks.  But I have been working on my quilt math so I am doing flying geese, square in a square.  I broke into my stash of Bonnie and Camille to make these.

January I hadn't figure out how big the square in a square was yet.  But if you did a square in a square for the center, 4 flying geese, and 4 HST units it would be just as easy.

February I figured out how to do the flying geese instead and my block turned out the right size!

March.  This time I did use the square in a square, flying geese and HST.

I have also been fixing guild quilts that someone turned in and they are way too small.  So I am digging through the boxes trying to find fabrics that will work together and make odd sized quilts fit at least 36 X 60.

This one I added some muslin borders, and then found some fabric to make flying geese and then a floral border.

I have also been working on a label and binding for my quilt I brought back from the quilter in Oregon.  Maybe I will get that done this week.