DWM: A Walk In The Park

Early this morning I realized I needed to find a quick and easy project to share with my sewing group on Thursday.  This super simple free pattern by Ellie Roberts came to mind.  It is called A Walk in the Park and is available for free on Craftsy.  About half of my blocks are pieced so I should be able to at least finish the top by Thursday.  The pattern calls for jelly rolls but it would be great made with 2-1/2” strips from stash.

I’m using a Moda jelly roll called Holiday Medley a Sandy’s Solid red.  The picture shows the red much brighter than it really is so I’ll post a picture with natural light when I finish the top.  It will look much better.

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Week 31, 2013 Stash Report and Weekly Recap

This week turned out to be more productive than it has been the rest of the summer.  I’ve managed to finish three quilts this week.  I took this one off the quilting frame this morning before church and stitched the binding this afternoon. 

This is the fifth quilt I made from one fat quarter bundle of fabric.  I really got my money’s worth out of that bundle!!  Here is a close-up of the quilting—very simple but it added some nice texture—up and down continuous lines in the blocks and wavy lines in the sashing.

My weekly stats:

The weekly stash report:
Used this week:  20 yards (Double Four Patch-6, Secret Project-8, Coquette-6)
Used year to date:  212 yards
Purchased this week:  5 (Pillowcase fabric-1.5, Juggling Summer-3.5)
Purchased year to date: 75 yards
Net year to date:  137 yards used

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Double Four Patch Finished

This is another donation quilt I made from the "Box of Stuff" I found in February.  This has to be at least the 10th quilt I’ve made from the fabric in that box and I’m STILL not finished.  It was just a small box so I thought it would be gone after a few baby quilts.  Boy was I wrong.  Good news:  the end is in sight.  Bad news:  there are a lot more boxes like this down in the sewing room.  I’d better get sewing!!

This quilt was made with leftovers from the fat quarters I used for the Bright Rails and Chain quilt.

Lately I’ve been in a rut with my quilting designs but I used one on this quilt that I haven’t done in years.  It is an echoed teardrop (sometimes it’s called “paisley”) that adds a nice texture to this super simple quilt.

Here it is only August 3 and I’ve already completed as many quilts as I did in June and July combined.  Haha!

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July 2013 One Mile Challenge Update

It was another month with less than stellar production.  In June I didn’t finish a single quilt so July was marginally better with ONE finish.  For some reason I’m just not finding time to get in the sewing room.  I was all set with a new audiobook from the library (Jodi Picoult’s The Storyteller) but that book turned out to be a big bust.  It has hundreds of good reviews on Amazon and the story about a World War II war criminal sounded interesting but I found the story line way too contrived and formulaic.  Maybe something was lost in the translation from printed page to audio but I couldn’t get past the characters in the book:  Adam and Eva, Josef and Maria, and Sage, Pepper and Saffron.  I burst out laughing just typing that!!  Anyway, it was too much like a Lifetime movie.  This morning I downloaded The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer onto my ipod from Overdrive.  It sounds like a more realistic historical fiction novel so we’ll see how it goes.  I’m hoping it is so engaging I don’t want to stop quilting!

The one and only July finish was the Half and Half Quilt made from “A Day in the Country” fat quarters.

I quilted this with the Jilly pantograph that was still on the frame from the last QBB quilt I did.  The soft curves look nice with the geometric design of the quilt.

This quilt was just about 9 yards so that put me over 200 yards used—206 to be exact wit 1,554 to go!  For sure it’s taking longer than I thought!!

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