Mystery Quilt with Gyleen

I am going to do the Mystery Quilt with Gyleen Fitzgerald.  She is running on Facebook.  First clue is finished.  I think if I can keep up this will be good therapy for me while Wayne goes thru his cancer treatments.  This is the center and is 17 1/2 by 17 1/2 inches square.  Now I have to wait for the next clue.  All of these came from my scrap bin.  That is part of the challenge, use your scraps.

Happy Quilting, Vicki 

Gyleen Mystery and baby quilt

Gyleen Mystery

 Gyleen Fitzgerald hosted a mystery quilt starting first of June.  Yea, I am finished (with the top) before the end of June.  Which was the goal.  Supposed to make a pieced backing by her method.  So, that will come together in a few days. Maybe!

The wind kicked it up just a little, dont you love Wayne's feet.  LOL  I took another picture, but the color was faded looking.  The sun is just a little too bright to get a great pic. Hope you like it, was fun to make.

BABY QUILT

Baby Quilt for our sons friend.  Arron and his wife had a little boy in May.  He was due in June, so I was running a little late on this one.  William came home for fathers day on Friday.  He only had 24 hours off work.  I only had half the binding sewn.  So, like a good mom, after supper I sat down to finish with the TV on and a movie.  What should happen next.  Thunderstorm, very close.  I almost jumped out of the chair.  Power went off, and here I had this quilt to finish.  We are at the end of the power company so there was no telling when it would come back on.  Wayne (DH) and William (DS) got the oil lamps and candles out.  It wasnt quite enough light (how did our ancestors do it)  I took one of those small led flash lights and propped it up under my chin.  That gave me light directed right where I was sewing.  William played the piano by candle light and we talked.  It was great fun after all.  I do love my family.  Arron got the quilt the next morning as William headed back to Brevard NC he stopped in Columbia to see Arron and gave him the quilt.  The other story is that Aaron and his wife both work at the zoo in Columbia.  I found a cute animal print and the back has penguins on it.  Their favorite.

Happy Quilting, Vicki 

T-Shirt quilt and Gyleen mystery

T-shirt quilt for graduate.  Word was sent back to me that she loved it.  Hard to tell, but the fabric is a RWB uneven stripe.  Therefore the corner stones to keep from having to match stripes.

Gyleen Fitzgerald is running another mystery quilt.  Yea!!  started Sunday.  I have finally picked out fabrics.  I say finally because I had other things to do before I got to this.  Now to cut and sew.  Here is a picture of the fabrics.  Yes, that is a bright yellow, but it needs to be. The print is the main fabric.  I will follow up with progress pics as I can.

Happy Quilting,  Vicki 

Birds of a Feather

Trying to catch up on my blogging.   I have been a bad blogger.  

Two weeks ago I went to Birds of a Feather long arm retreat with Joyce, Pat and Margaret. This was located in Virginia Beach, Va.  We had a great time.  I took Statler classes and learned lots.  On the right is a small quilt that Page Johnson quilted using her Statler.  It is amazing.  Her customer used great fabrics, too.  I also took several close ups so you can see the quilting. 

The next 2 pictures were Page's other samples from class.  The ring quilt is using point to point designs to quilt. the stack n wack is how to use a block to make and edge to edge design.

Next are quilts from Kim Diamond's class.  This was a great class too.  I learned so much, I will never remember it all. 

I know this post is getting long, but there is soo much to share.   Here is the Birds in a Feather quilt. This is their logo.

Jamie Walden was there. He is a great quilter and teacher.  Here is his donation to Birds in a Feather.  It is beautiful, too.  The goose head is thread painted.  the back ground is hand dyed flannel.

Swans everywhere.  This is the local swan. She lives at the hotel.  She begs at this door for food.  I think they feed her from here.  She is beautiful.

I hope you enjoyed the pictures.  Now I have to get back to quilting.  I was selected to teach a class at QSC fall retreat in Oct.  I need to finish the sample for a display in March.  I have a month.  I will make it. I am sewing rows together now, then the borders, only 2, and it will be ready to quilt.  Watch for pictures in March.  I am also sewing the binding on a Gyleen Fitzgerald quilt from this past summer. Will get a picture when I finish.  It is a great quilt, if I must say so myself.  lol 

Happy Quilting, Vicki 

Pursuit of Happiness

Another Gyleen Fitzgerald mystery.  Yes, I got carried away.  LOL.  Basically she was using us as pattern testers for a new book coming out spring of 2014.  My Garden of Eden and 2 into 1 quilts should be in the book.  I did not get Happiness finished in time for pictures.  Life gets in the way, sometimes.  I finally finished the top, so here it is, a wild thing at least!!

 

I am thinking of adding another hexagon and having it floating.  The background is 2 different stripes cut (or cuss)on the bias and pieced into the quilt.  Lots of starch and pins, but it worked.  I think the picture looks better that the quilt.  Maybe I am just tired of all of those strips at a diagonal??  now to find time to get it quilted.  Customers quilts come first.  Oh My, I have many UFO's that need quilting.  Maybe I can take Jan. off to quilt for me.

 

Happy quilting, Vicki

 

 

Happiness

Another Gyleen Mystery in progress.  Here is the first block.  That is as far as I have gotten.  Not really, I have the center hexies cut and a bunch of the half hexies cut, but I need many more half's.  I am at a stand still.  I pulled a muscle in my upper right arm.  Darn thing has been hurting like ****.  Finally easing off a little this afternoon., but no rotary cutting yet.  Need to let it heal.  Maybe  DH will cut some for me.  Yes, he really would!!!  I have been using the mouse with my left hand, what fun.... brushing teeth left handed....  very interesting.

Happy Quilting,  Vicki

 

Two into One

Here is my next Gyleen mystery quilt.  I ran out of the green so used a different one in the top and bottom borders.  This is a bright cheerful quilt. Much fun to make.  Boy that orange is bright....lol

 

Happy Quilting, Vicki

Two becomes one

Finally working on Gyleen's 3rd mystery quilt this summer.  I am about a month behind.  Lost my Mojo.  But, I have it back, yea!!!  The is called 2 becomes 1.  Here is the first star.  The next step is to make another star with this as the center.  I have this step part done, not enough for pics yet.  Besides the camera has to charge.  The next star points are orange with a different back ground.  Maybe some pics this weekend.  I am in a sewing mood today.  yea!!! Lets hope hubby wants to stay home so I can sew.

Happy Quilting, Vicki

Design Wall Monday

Monday is not over, yet.  And I promissed some pictures, so here we go.  This is the quilt on my design wall.  It is a zig zag quilt.  I know that is obvious, LOL...  I cut this out after Christmas. I got the pattern from a magazine add.  This pattern is called Chevy Twist Cuddle.  I cant find which magazine.  I redrew it in EQ7 to get the size I wanted, a twin-ish.  The blocks are cut 4 1/2 X 8 1/2 then sewn together.  The lay out is on point, that is why there is a long unfinished section on the diagonal.  All of the white is the same and has stars in red and blues, the blue and red zig zags are different.  I am really liking this one.  Now if I can get the time to finish it....
 

 

 

Last week I went to our state quilt guild's Spring into Summer retreat.(Quilters of SC)  A great time was had by all.  Here is a top I made for a class I was going to teach at our fall retreat, but not enough folks signed up for it, so This top will be a QOV (quilt of Valor), I do believe.  I am loving this one, so it will be hard to give away, but going to a great cause.  Our state guild challenge this year is QOV'S.  We will be passing these out here in SC to our great service personal.
 

 

This next quilt is designed by Lynn from our longarm quilting group here in SC.  This is a challenge quilt to see how many different ways we can quilt it.  The idea is for it to be a Modern Quilt.  I am still not sure what that is??  LOL  Wayne is my quilt holder.  He is making faces at me.  Having fun.

 

 

Next is a T-Shirt quilt I just finished for a customer.  Her daughter graduates from high school Friday.  This is the first time I didnt use any sashing or other fabric... Turned out kind of nice, if I must say so my self.  LOL  I used the left over pieces of the shirts to make a mock border... really looks good. The back was a fleece throw the customer had.  So, this was also the first time I quilted with fleece.  NOT really fond of it.. when I trimed it for the binding the fleece fuzzed everywhere, I mean everywhere.  I shook it out outside and that didnt get it all off, so I threw it in the drier on no heat for 10 min. and presto... all the fuzys were gone.

 

 

This Post is getting long.  I sure have a lot of catching up to do.  Finially here is my Glyeen Fitzgerald mystery quilt.  Finished, well almost, it is on the quilting frame ready for me to get it quilted tomorrow, I hope.  It is called Garden of Eden.  You can find it on her website  http://www.colourfulstitches.com/

 

 

 

I think I am caught up for now.  I am out of new pictures.  I will try not to get so far behind again... you believe that???  I will always get behind.    Cant get spell check to work, please forgive the miss spelling.  I am terriable at speelin........

 

Happy Quilting, Vicki  

 

 

 

 

Stash report

Same as last week....0 in...0 out!

Worked on the boat seats and on Glyeen's mystery.  
So, nothing new...
Happy Quilting....Vicki

Design Wall Monday, opps its Tuesday

I did it again.  I am a day late.  Nothing new there.  I am still working on the mystery quilt from Gyleen Fitzgerald.  This is where I am.  The directions are a little further along.  Hopefully I will catch up soon, but I am not worried about it.

There are pieces to go in the blank spaces left on the design wall.  So, I will work on those and wait for the next set of directions.

I have been quilting for others this past week here are pictures of 2 quilts I finishe for customers.  First is the Burnstain Bear jelly roll quilt.  Check out the back on the right, I quilted this quilt with bears.  Looked great.  This is going to a 3 year old boy, I hope he loves it.

The next quilt was a mystery quilt from several years ago that Barbara finish. I quilted this one with purple thread and a floral design.  You can kind of see it in the backing picture below.  This was a fun quilt to finish for Barbara, too.

That's all for now.  Happy Quilting, Vicki

Opps, forgot to tell you about the DesignWall link up on Mondays.  Check it out at www.patchworktimes.com.  Get inspired.

Stash Report

No new fabric in or out this week.  Been busy with doctor appts and getting my Canada friends quilts ready to go back to Canada.  Barbara's are finished, now on to Heathers.  Barbara is leaving this week, got hers done just in time.  Now to get Heathers quilted, I have until the end of April, so hopefully will get hers finished also.  If she doesnt bring more. LOL.... every week she brings me another one.  She is on a UFO clean up.

I have been sewing, working on those hexie flowers.  The next step came in the mystery. I have 3 flowers to add leaves to, the on to the next part.  I am not telling you until I get a few made and can post a picture.
I got one boat seat covered for my son.  If you dont know, I am recovering boat seats from the 1970's . the fabric was very worn and very ugly, orange and brown plaid.  ULCK... the new fabric is marine vinyl and royal blue.  much nicer.  I am not counting the marine vinyl in my stash, cause it would NEVER be in my stash under normal conditions.  for real.

OK,

Fabric in 0
Fabric out 0

total for year used 47 3/4 yrd
total added 21 1/3
net usage 28 1/2

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Happy Quilting, Vicki