Hooked on Quilting

I really need to blog every day, if I sew! I made a pillowcase for the quilts I made here . This one is for the twin for my granddaughter's birthday next week.  I need to make two more for the queen size, but her birthday isn't until March. I started and finished the diaper stacker to go with the nursery. We daubed the project "Fresh" for the line of fabric we used. It goes with the pillow , photo frames , runners  and quilt . For many reasons, these didn't get finished in a timely fashion.  Here's the second block of the Skillbuilder BOM called Magnum. No hand applique is getting done. Need to correct that today!

One of my goals for 2013 was to do a Quilt As You Go type quilt. I joined the Skillbuilder BOM at Pile of Fabric. I worked on Block 1 and have gotten it sandwiched. Watched a bunch of Alyssa's videos in preparation. I practiced on paper and will try a practice piece after I feel I've gotten the hang of it! I realized that I hadn't completely finished the block and found a bunch of this red fabric that I'd bought on the bolt of the last day of the closing day of JoAnn's (relocated).  It's not the best, but I knew I'd have enough fabric for the back and that, hopefully, it won't show my mistakes too badly. I worked a bit on: Dear Jane Baltimore Autumn Baltimore Liberty  Stop Sign Pot Holders (need to get these done soon) That's it! How did you do on your projects?

I didn't post yesterday because I thought I spun my wheels all day yesterday. Actually, I did do two BOMs so I wasn't flitted from one project to another. I did get my Craftsy BOM finished!! I'm using scraps because I am trying to make a conscious effort not to buy so many kits anymore. <grin>  So, that's the reason that blue in the middle just doesn't seem to go with all those reds!! This block taught us how to do partial seams. So, I'm done for the month of February, so there's less on my list to do each day. The other project that I let extend for over an hour was the Skillbuilder BOM . It's a QAYG project which is one of the skills I had wanted to learn in 2013.  I didn't really buy any fabric except for the black, so it will be a bit scrappy, but controlled scrappy.  The instructions say to press seams open and that seemed to take forever because these are 1" strips. Ugh!!! I didn't get to the block two weeks ago wh...