Round Robin update

 Doing just one border of scrapppy, wonky flying geese border.  May or may not add other borders of wonky flying geese.  This could turn out quite big if I add on all sides.  So this is where it sits on the design wall until the next clue. 

Wondeful, Sunny Wednesday, Round Robin Progress

 Sunny Wednesday here in Michigan.  33 degrees outside, but feels so good to see the sun shining on the snow.  We are normally in Florida at this time of the year.  We are staying home to stay safe and stay healthy.  Allows for more sewing time.

SAHRR update:  Worked on round three of the round robin challenge.  I will be adding wonky flying geese blocks to my center work.  At this time I am thinking I may only add to one side due to four more rounds to still complete.  

Enjoy your Wednesday.

Terrific Thursday

Yes, a terrific Thursday to be in the sewing studio.   Working on Stay at Home Round Robin (SAHRR).  I am on the second round, making wonky plus signs.  Want to be finished by dinner time. 

I puttered and moved things around as I contiue to improve the stash/sorting/easy-to-get-at system of my material.  Too many different containers of crumbs, strings, triangles and pieces of odd material.  In addition, several bags of unsorted scraps that other folks have given to me,

Well, back to my sewing oasis.....

Planning for Tuesday

 Concentrating on these tasks for week of January 25 - January 31

• Stay-at-home round robin.  Round two is being released tomorrow for this 7 week challenge
• Irish Chain cutting background and continue creating green four patches
• Sandwich Shelby Jelly Roll  and get on the long arm
• Empty moving box and continue organizing "stuff" on shelves

Think I will get the jelly roll on the long arm first.  A good size top to warm up and practice my long arm quilting skills.  Been doodling the design that I will  use on this quilt.   I have so much to learn on the long arm.   But if I don't get the tops on the machine, there will no learning going on.

Ready for Tuesday!

Monday update:

Wonderful week end of sewing.  I participated in a stay-at-home quilting retreat with online, Stashbuster group.  Good motivation to concentrate on several UFO's.  Borders have been added to complete two quilt tops.  Then prepared a backing and binding for Pine Tree Point, now to get that flimsy onto long arm.   In between this work, I cut more strips for my green Irish chain quilt top in progress.  Another Bonnie Hunter project I have been dreaming about and started doing four-patches as leader/enders back in December.

Renew, Refresh

 Wow, time to move forward on my blog adventure.  Been too busy with grandchildren, moving and sewing to keep at conversations.  

Renewing my intentions to chat about quilting.  New sewing studio has motivated me to get more organized and working hard to get some of these projects completed.  Last count 101...

New start this week, Stay at Home Round Robin.  Actually got my husband to participate in this adventure.  He has a small block leftover from his postage stamp quilt that he is going to use for his center.

I dug into my orphan block container and found several choices.  The block I selected was actually given to me in a large bag of scraps.  It is a small, pre-printed picture of an elf.  So squared it up with coping strips and added the first round.   Small piano keys.  

With that finished I can get to work on adding the final border on Flurry, a quilt guild block exchange challenge.  Then next on my list is to get borders on Pumpkin Patch.  All pieces ready to be sewn together.  

Going to be a nice, stay at home retreat week-end.

Quilting, quilting

The joys of cutting fabric up into various pieces and then rejoining them into a quilt top is pure joy to me.   Today I am cutting up large pieces of fabric for a ruler class tomorrow. Need to have some quilt sandwiches to practice on.   Learning to use a ruler with my domestic machine will be so interesting.   I enjoy free motion quilting and ruler quilting will be an additional technique.

Here is one of my current tops coming together.  Took two classes in November at the Shipshewana Quilter's Retreat and started two tops, Narragansett Blues and Sand Castles, both Bonnie Hunter patterns.  So working now to get the rows all together so this will be ready to quilt.

Now I off to put another row (column) together.

Quiltin' in Michigan
Su