May Accomplishments

May is often one of my slowest months for sewing, but this seemed to be a pretty busy month. I finished Mrs. Ivey's quilt before teacher appreciation week, so we gave it to her then.

I was even able to get an embroidery label done. The next thing I tried to embroider locked up the machine, so it's in being serviced now.

I finished the sample Everyday Wallet I made for the class I'm teaching in August.

This is the inside.

I made boo boo bags for my MIL to give to her workers.

The Amethyst Project bag probably took me the longest to complete. It was a bit of a challenge, but I'm excited to make another one and teach the class in the fall.



More boo boo bags, this time to sell to my MIL's worker.

I finally made these two trinket cases.

I gave one to my co-worker Tammy and kept one for myself.

Mathew got a new cars fleece blanket with a red back from Grandma Delia's fabric stash.

Mikaela picked out the Frozen and got a purple fleece backing also from Grandma Delia's fabric stash.

I finished up a few more Ahhh's

Hoping to get the rest of the blocks done this month.


While we were camping I finished up these 4 Sweet pea pods. I have a bunch more that I started to work on as well. They are great for doing in the camper as I don't have to be precise and they are quick and easy.

With NO deadlines looming, I took out mom's Fall friendship braid and started working on it. I trimmed it up, only to realize some of the WOW were wrong, so now I am fixing those.




I went with Mikaela to her school field trip and I just LOVE this picture of her.

She graduated from Kindergarten last Friday. She just loves school so it will be a long summer. It's a transition for me to only do one drop off and start work 1/2 hour earlier.

We enjoyed Hart Ranch last weekend and the kids got to go on a train ride before we left. We simply love spending time there and are excited to be going back a couple weeks in July.


Yards In this Month: .75
Yards Out this Month: 25.5
Yards In this Year: 48.75
Yards Out this Year: 149.25
For a total of 100.5 yards used!

October Quilting Accomplishments

October was a very productive month for me! I got a lot accomplished and worked on several projects that weren't on my list, but that I wanted to get done. I've found that sometimes I'm just not in the mood to work on a project, but if I do something else, I can get more accomplished in the long run. Paul's been working out of town all month, so I get a lot done in the evenings, but not much on weekends.
My Goals for October included:
Quilting Aunt Vi's Quilt - I was able to get it completely quilted and the binding on. I'm not sure I like the stippling on it, so I'll do a different type of quilting on the next two.

Happy Holidays Tree-Skirt - It's done, but turned into a tabletopper instead. It fits perfectly on our kitchen table and we're hosting Christmas this year, so I decided no to make it into a tree skirt.

Essence tablerunner - This is the Baby Blocks tablerunner from the On the Run book by Heather Mulder Peterson. I've finished several tablerunners out of this one and still have some honeybun strips I could make a tablerunner out of.

The other Essence tablerunner is called Ripple Effect and turned out really neat. I love how easy it was to make everything match!

Other Accomplishments included:
I ended up making three bags for Paul to use as bathroom bags. He has this one at home.

The other two bags are from the green and he uses the bigger one for his stuff when he travels. The smaller one went to my dad to go with his new bag.

I bought enough to make 4 trick or treat bags, but ended up with enough to make 10! The first five turned out so cute.

I also made this minkee/flannel baby blanket for our little girl. It is so super soft and I can't wait to use it.

Jenn came out and spent an evening quilting with me. I worked on sewing the hexagons together for a new one block wonder quilt. I'm really looking forward to seeing how this one turns out.

My co-worker Jacey is having a baby about the same time I am and there was a baby shower for her last week. I quickly quilted up this panel and bound it. She loved it as she's doing a zoo themed baby room.

Since I made dad a bag for my parents anniversary, I told mom I would make her a purse. I finally got it done. It's Margo from Lazy Girl Designs.

I made her a wonder wallet and checkbook cover to match as well.

TSC is starting a new program called Groovy Girls and I'm working on samples for it, so I got the first months Cash and Carry Wallet done. It went together super quick and easy. These are going to be so much fun! Groovy Girls is November 5th at 6 at the Sewing Center, so bring a machine and work on this project or just see what fun projects everyone else is working on. This is a great club for beginning sewers/quilters.

Mom and I also got together and finished two more tops for Aunt Vi. This one is a 9 patch queen and the other is a 4-patch/12" square throw. I'll be working on getting them quilted in Nov.

I finished up the last 5 trick or treat bags and gave them to co-workers and friends for Halloween on Friday. They turned out so cute!

The UFO Sew Down 2010 is in full force. I haven't received any updates from others, but I'm not doing so well on the UFO part. I've done about 3 UFO's and 19 new projects! At least I'm sewing and that's all that I'm really concerned about. I have started on a few UFO's, including the Sewing quilt and the OBW, so I'm working on the, just not finishing.


My November Goals will be lofty, but I am having a sewing retreat weekend with friends, so hopefully I'll be able to get a lot done.
Deer Wall Hanging for Paul's Boss
Quilt 2 DK quilts for Vi
2 Pink Ribbon Bags
4 sewing totes for retreat girls
2 samples for Groovy Girls

I'm sure I'll get a lot of tops done at retreat, but I know I won't get them all quilted. I'm taking these quilt tops to retreat to work on:
Sewing Themed Quilt
Essence Tumbler Quilt
Mocha Merigue Wonder Blocks
Sign Language Baby Quilt 2
Snowball Quilt Along
Cowgirls OBW
Frolic Baby Quilt

Wallets

Last night I got busy and made a couple wallets. The first was a wonder wallet for my mom's new purse. It turned out really cute and I'm sure she'll get lots of good use out of it, in addition to the checkbook cover I made for her.

Then I made a cash and carry wallet. I made the large size, but now I'm thinking I may make the small size too. I think it turned out cute, but I could have gone with a lighter colored zipper. It was really easy to make, but different than many patterns I have followed before, so it took some extra time to make it. I'm usually more of a winger when it comes to reading patterns, but for this one I actually needed to do it as the pattern said. Luckily it was a very easy to follow pattern.

July Quilting Accomplishments

July was a productive month for me! Maybe not in the quilting department, but definately in the bag making area. I was able to accomplish all the goals I set and still had time to make more bags!
My goals for July included:
Bind 2 Wanna Be a Cowboy quilts - DONE!


Finish Lego Wedding Quilt - DONE!

Make Margo Bag - I finished 3! I also made a wonder wallet to match.


In addition to my goals I made lots of BAGS!
I also finished a pink/brown Runaround Bag for Macie.

I made a Runaround Bag for the Wedding and a wonder wallet.

I made a purple/green Margo, checkbook cover, and wonder wallet to match.

I finished checkbook covers for the teal/brown Margo and wedding Runaround.

I made a schlep bag out of Adoring fabric.

I made myself a Margo bag out of Wanna Be A Cowboy fabric, with a wonder wallet and checkbook cover to match.

I made a Summer Tote for Hannah out of Pink/Brown John Deere fabric.

I made a Lots of Dots Schlep Bag and taught the class.

We attended the Lego/Grieme Wedding in MN!

My goals for August??? Let's see, I don't have anything too pressing, but I should set some kind of goals.
Make Fabric Book
Quilt Baby Quilt
Tablerunners for Pfeifer and Kuhn weddings
Throw quilt for Aunt Lil
Work on 1 UFO