Quilts - In progress

I was trying to think of a title for this post and of course this song came to mind.  So now all of y’all can get it stuck in your head too.

I’ve been on a square kick lately.  Last week I set out on a mission to start getting rid of some fabric that I’ve had since last year.  Time to finish (er, start) those quilts and get them into the store.  My first collection up for stash busting was Dick and Jane.  Apparently I’ve hoarded a lot of that since I managed to make enough blocks for 3 quilt tops (56×63, 42×56 and 42×42).  I might keep the small one for the kids (because they really are lacking in quilts </sarcasm>).  Ironed but still need trimming. They’ll be in the shop starting next week or so.

And then the last two Christmas quilts (both have been claimed).  They are all pinned and quliting starts tonight.

I promise the next quilt won’t be full of squares… maybe…

… to be working on a quilt full of Santas, snowflakes and stockings while the outer bands of a tropical storm are hitting outside.

Nicknames a husband gives their wife?  Honey, sweetie, cutie …

My nickname?  The Slowest Dot Matrix Printer Ever.

Piecing on this will be done tonight and I’ll quilt it over the weekend.

Apparently I can’t stop making blocks like this.  I love these colors and really want to keep it for the family room but it will probably end up in the shop sometime next week.

It’s like the crib quilt, just a lot (lot) bigger.

Time to pin, quilt and bind.

At least now it’s done. D - O - N - E. Done! DONE!

It’s in the wash now. Real pictures tomorrow.

Let’s not talk about how many hours I’ve spent on this in the past three days.  I hadn’t intended on spending that much time on it this weekend.  Oops.  Back to the huge pile of Etsy work tomorrow.

Eek!  So exciting.  All sewn together.

Taking a test drive on the bed.

And even a little quilting.

Eek!  It’s done!  I actually finished all the blocks.  Wow.  I never thought I’d be able to type that.

(See Miss Maeve’s quilt, Pink, Yellow, White, Green.)

And a small sample of the blocks (sans blue) together.  I totally love it (which is good because it’s taken me about a bazillion hours so far).

(See Miss Maeve’s quilt, Pink, Yellow, White.)

The crib quilt is pieced.  I think it came out nicely.

This is a project for a customer on Etsy using her amazing Ginger Bliss stash.  There will be a full/queen quilt, crib quilt, curtains and euro shams.  Today involved a lot of math, ironing and cutting.  I’ll start sewing tonight.

What happened to this week?  I can’t believe it’s Thursday afternoon already.

(See Miss Maeve’s quilt, Pink, Yellow.)

Only two more colors (79 blocks) to go.

All done!

(See Miss Maeve’s quilt, Pink.)

At Waters Edge progress.  The quilting is about half done.

We have a quilt top (sans a date with the iron).

We have some fun plans for the weekend that includes no sewing (!!??!) so this will be finished up next week.

More progress.  The green blocks are done and the yellows are half done.

This is a custom quilt for a customer through Etsy.  The background colorway stays the same while the cartwheels will be brown, goldenrod and green.

And again, it’s a nighttime picture so the colors aren’t perfect.

450 pieces of pink fabrics made into 42 blocks ranging from 3.5″ to 15.5″.

146 more blocks to go!  I think I’ll do white next.

I seem to have a million quilts in the works right now.

Ginger Blossom.  Being pieced.

Joel Dewberry #1.  Pinned and waiting to be quilted.

Joel Dewberry #2.  Piecing done and waiting for pins.  Wow, that’s a bad picture.

Decadent Victorian #1 and #2.  This quilt was originally going to be for me but while I was doing the math so I could buy the backing I realized that I had made so many blocks it was going to be queen sized.  So I redid my math and it’s now 2 laps sized quilts, one for me and one for the store.   Piecing is almost done and then I need to sew the blocks together.  I ordered the backing last week.

I picked up some cool baskets this weekend to help store these two projects.  On the left is Baby Jane.  I’m (I think) 11 blocks behind and Friday is officially my Baby Jane block workday.  On the right is Maeve’s and Saturday is my workday for that.  These are such long-term projects that they really do have to be scheduled into the week or they are never going to get done.  When I get caught up with my Jane blocks, maybe I’ll spend the extra Friday time on Maeve’s cause that thing is going to take f-o-r-e-v-e-r to make.

And I have two new quilt categories… in progress and completed.  I should have separated them a long time ago because now it’s just a disaster in the ‘Quilt’ category.  I’ll slowly work through reorganizing them so the old category will stick around until I finish.

Other quilts on my to-do list include more Dick and Jane, Aliens, more Freshcut, a Christmas quilt for us, binding the quilt for our bedroom, etc, etc, etc.

Part of Maeve’s new quilt I finally got started on. These are about 3″square.

This one might not make it to the store.

I wasn’t sure if I liked it while I was sewing it but now that it’s together I really like it. Phew.

It was going to be a lap quilt but then I decided to add a couple more rows to make it a twin so I didn’t quite get it done.

While I’m not trying to do a quilt top a day, it’s kinda turning into that. So, so, so many more to do…

Midwest Modern (56″ x 72″) on the left. Chocolate Lollipop (60″ x 60″) on the right.

(Gotta love nighttime photos!)

Just a new block for a new quilt. This block and quilt are a morphed idea from a Dick and Jane idea that is floating around in my head.

And a friendly reminder to my fellow residents of north Raleigh: If you have a stop sign and I don’t, even though the world really does revolve around you, you really do have to stop and let me go. Sorry for the inconvenience. </sarcasm> Now back to some quilting…