3 panels done

Last night I finished the third panel off through the woods to grandmother's house wall hanging now I need to dig up that pattern and work on the block. that go between the embroidery. Nice to be finished with this embroidery.

Yesterday I was able to pick up the backing for the Sun Bonnet Sue quilt.  Today I need this so that together and maybe get it to the quilter. Time will tell what gets done.

Quilt moving forward

I have been working on this top for a couple weeks. This is the second top using these Sun Bonnet Sue blocks. I had hoped to be further along on this project but life seems to be getting in the way.

Where did Sept. go!!!

It is hard to believe we are almost at the end of the month I sure don’t know where it went but looking at the calendar it has just about completely disappeared that is for sure.

Let see the 2nd Monday of the month my small quilt guild did a shop hop and we went to Manchester, Dyersville and Cascade and visited the quilt shops in those towns.

I have been to the shop in Manchester and really like going there even though it really is bit of a drive. While there I picked up this pattern

Along with some fabric to work on a different tote and the stiffener that you use in the different totes/purses. I got the Caddy done but did not get a picture of it to show off. Will go for that in the next couple days.

Add to that I am now writing this blog from my second job. I am doing two 10 hour shifts from noon to 10:00 pm so that keeps me busy too with this being the first month for this.

The nice part about this job is if the world is quiet I can bring hand work along and get a few things done. So far I am about 3/4ths of the way thru doing the 2nd Sun Bonnet Sue Quilt I think I have like 5 blocks left to button hole down to the black background.

So that is what has been going on in my world hope you have been busy and getting a lot done in yours.

where has the week gone

Well I sure don't know where the week has gone it is Wed all ready and I don't feel like I have gotten any were on things. I did get Annie up to the Vet this afternoon for her shots she likes to go for rides and then we did a couple other errons but it is hard to go to far when you have a doggy shut up in a vehicle. Even though I leave the vehicle running I worry about it stopping and even though it is not super hot out if some how the car should stop she would be in the heat of the day.

Just not a good thing so my trip was short and then we came back home again.

Had a sisters weekend with my sister's in law and that went well I forgot my camera but have  pictures shared by Sherrie  Pictures from the weekend Hope this works 

I have been working on the binding for the Sun Bonnet Sue quilt and that seems to be slow going too.

Quilt Progress

I found the backing fabric for the Sunbonnet Sue it was on sale an so I was able to pick it up at a really good price I think it totaled out at 54 dollars for 9.25 yards. It is a black background with small white daisies all over it and the daisies have yellow centers. So tonight I am straightening the edges and cutting off the salvage and I will sew it together. In fact as I started to measure it out for the piece I needed I think the store gave me almost a half yard extra so I am sure the machine quilter will not have to worry about fitting the top on to the backing.

I suppose I could of cut off the extra but who knows what I would do with it and besides I will cut off the edges when I sew on the binding and that way the machine quilter will not be thinking evil thoughts about me as she puts the top on her machine.

My hope is to get this done tonight and then I can run over and get the quilt top from Pat who has had it for a little bit to kind of get a chance to pet it and play with it before it goes to Elgin  to the quilter.

So that should work out just about perfect. So after I get off work in the bakery and then can hopefully head out.  See if the rest of the world agrees with my plan or if something will put a kink into it.  Some times my day’s plan changes on a dime.

Hmm as I type this the weather seems to be getting a little bit of a go again. We came home Monday to find that a storm had blown thru sometime over the weekend. I quizzed at work and was told it happen Monday AM.  There must have been a bunch of wind we have a canoe in the back yard on a rack and it had been blown off the rack and half way across the yard and had a bunch of water in it.  That seem to be the only thing that happen over the time we were gone.

Well I best get the strips trimmed and sewn together.

One of the Sun Bonnet Sue quilts is done!!!

Well I finished the top and now I need to get backing and batting and get it to a quilter. I laid the quilt on our bed and it looks pretty good it is a good size quilt it measure 104 long and 101 wide.

The border is on 3 sides of the quilt I left off the top since it really does not seem like it is  a border that makes sense for over the pillows.

This weekend we woke up to a surprise of sorts the weather man said cold and wintery weather well that is what we got. This is looking out the window going down the stairs in our house.

Saturday

Well my plan for the day did not go as I had it figured out.  I washed some rugs and was going to hang them out side it was a beautiful sunny day. Well they did get washed but not hung out. (had to dry them in the dryer)  We got a call to do an ambulance run and so that pretty much shot the day.

I did get some of the strips cut for the piano key border for the Sun Bonnet Sue Quilt this evening. I have a bunch more to cut though. I am just going to cut up all the fabric into the strips and then if I have more then I need I am sure that something else will surface for them to be used on. They are nice size strips 2 1/2 inches should work for other projects down the road or they will go in a scrap pile for future use.

Sun Bonnet Sue moving along

This is the quilt so far I have over half of it sewn together. I have done it in sections of 4 blocks together and then added the last row to the square units.  The sections of 4 blocks on the left need to be put together and and then I will sew them to the right side that is together I need to add a sashing strip to both sides and across the bottom and then a piano key border around the whole thing. I wish to lay it on the bed it will be going on and see how wide the border strips need to be.

Moving forward on the Sun Bonnet Sue quilt

Today I have been working on the black sashing on the Sun Bonnet Sue blocks. I have the black on two sides of all the blocks except for the last row I want to sew them all together and then put a full lenght strip on each side.

Well except for the top because I was not thinking and sew the strip on the top of each of the block so that strip will be pieced. Sigh!  Oh Well I am definitely not perfect. I do like the look after I sew some of the rows together I will snap a new picture.

I also got a block done up with a picture of the maker to go on the top. I think it works. We will see how it finals out. Then I am going to take it and lay it on the bed that it will go on and see what lenght I want the piano key border on the quilt.

Sun Bonnet Sue is moving along

Well it has been a while since I have posted time does fly by. I have all the Sun Bonnet Sue’s attached to their blocks for the first quilt. “Yes there is going to be two of them”  I have them laid out on two twin beds the black sashing is not in place yet. I not sure I like the placement of the blocks.

Take a look and tell me what you think!

I still have to put black sashing between each block and that will help I just trying to balance the light and the dark borders.

 

What is going on in my sewing room!

LOL that title sound very ominous. I have been sewing like crazy the last week on the Sun Bonnet Sue project. There are 14 Sue’s to be attached to the black background in there block. I have 30 total Sue blocks so that is going to mean a second quilt. Originally my thought was to make a smaller wall hanging quilt to use the blocks that were not in the main quilt.

Then after laying things out if we use 14 Sue blocks in the quilt and then do a picture of the block maker on one of the squares there are enough blocks to make two quilts. I doubled my work on this project but I think it is a perfect plan to have two quilts they are both going to be queen size.  So far they are going together just as easy as pie. I debated at first if I was going to machine button hole stitch around the Sue blocks when I put them on the black background but the more I thought about it with the Sue blocks all hand button hole stitched I just could not go to the sewing machine for that part.  It is a showy part of the quilt and so I really feel that they should be hand stitched down.

Yepper it is more work but it really is going fast. I have 7 blocks all ready stitched down and only 7 more to go for this top. Then I need to sew the black sashing around the blocks and the top will be done. I am debating if this quilt would be better to have it hand quilted or if machine quilting would be good.  Decisions decisions. Though the owner will have some say in that part of it.  I am leaning toward suggesting that the quilt be hand quilted.

I took a picture of the blocks that I have done and the one I am working on as they are on my flannel wall. Some of the colors are not where I want them to be on the outer border of the blocks but they can be moved around that is not a big deal yet.

I also am working hard on getting the blocks done so I can sew the black sashing on them since it is on sale this coming weekend and 20% off is a good deal.

No Sun Bonnet Sue’s on the quilt yet

Well I am working on the Sun Bonnet Sue project and I am moving along nicely. I put some of the blocks up on the wall to see how they look and so far so good. You have to use your imagination a little bit. the blocks are going to have black sashing between them and right now on my white flannel wall there is not black sashing between them.

Still not to bad for the rose blocks the Sun Bonnet Sue’s are going in the black open space’s I think they will be button holed down around the edges of the muslin squares that they are on centered in the black squares.  The Sue blocks are to close to the edges for me to piece them into a quilt and so this seem to be the best plan.

New Project Sun Bonnet Sue, Weather

Last year at Christmas I promised a good friend that I would finish off the quilt blocks she had. They were made by her mother and are Sun Bonnet Sue on a swing. With each Sue’s dress made out of left over fabric from her school dresses. These blocks have been around a while and a few of them needed to be button hole around and over the last year that has gotten done.

So I am going to set the blocks together with a black fabric and border them with another fabric around that and opposite blocks are a rose preprinted fabric.

Here is a picture of sort of how they are going together.

 

I have a different print to go around the blocks so that each Sun  Bonnet Sue and each rose block will have the same border then a black sashing between them.  Each Sun Bonnet block is button holed down on a muslin piece of fabric the plan is to button hole that into the center of the black square.   They were to fragile and the applique part was to close to the border to actually piece the blocks with out loosing part of the applique.

So this is the plan.

On to weather  this is what it looks like out my window as I sit at my sewing machine.