DWM - not a bad sewing weekend after all

Granny Sqaures

I think I did pretty good this weekend.  8 more granny square blocks, 4 blocks of suebobsquarepants, 4 Dear Jane blocks and Mirage is done.  I honestly thought that Mirage would never make it off the Waiting to Be Quilted list, but nope surprised my self.  It's not my favorite but it's a finish :)

HST Quilt - suebobsquarepants

Dear Jane - B13, B4, C1, C3

Mirage

Sign ups are starting March 18 - March 24  for Hands2Help 2012 - and there's prizes!!!!  Check it out at Sarah's and sign up to make a quilt for one of two great causes, or make one for each :)



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Whooping It up on Friday

Well I got a little more done this week than last week.  I couldn't resist the granny squares.  I'm making a baby/toddler size quilt for a boy.  I just love the granny squares.

I did finish Sea Shards, but I'm so tired of it that I'm not going to post again until it's quilted.

And I finally started on my Dear Jane Blocks - 3 done - oh so many many more to go.

Dear Jane A-4

Dear Jane A8

Dear Jane A6

There's another blogger giveaway for St Patricks day.  I have some fabric on my table that I don't want to put away so I'm giving it away :)  Stop back on 3/17 to see the goodies and  it check out
 

And Sarah is starting up Hands2Help for a couple of great charities.  The schedule will be posted soon, there's prizes and guest bloggers.  Stop by and see what's going on

Chenille and DWM

Fabric choices

Cyberquilters bucket challenge this month was Chenille.  I'd never done this so was pretty excited to give this a try.  I used the tutorial here  This one calls for 3 layers of flannel.  As I was searching for this link I saw one that called for 4 layers.  I think if you are doing 1/2 inch channels one additional layer might be nice.  I chose 3 different flannels,  to go iwth the stripe backing.  I 'm not sure what I was thinking, but for some reason I did think the pattern of the flannel that I chose for the top wouldn't show up as much as it did.  I would have put it on the bottom and the blue on top had I known.   I used scissors  to cut the flannel which was fine.  If I were doing another I would definitely get the chenille cutter.  The sewing was easy, just need mark that first line and then set everything to go 1/2 inch from there.  Boring but easy :)  I think it took longer to wash then it did to make.  Here's how it looks after 4 washing (yep, got my laundry yesterday :)

after cutting, before washing

All in all, don't think I'd make another.  This one is going to Rocko who needs a rug, he loves quilts.

Finished - washed 4 times

And here is my design wall, I decided to show the whole thing this time.  My husband was a bit surprised with everything on there.  He thought I had too much in progress at one time.  I didn't let him know there was stuff on the design wall in the room where the long arm is, nor that there was a project on the chair that I needed to dig out :)  But here's what we have:

• flower blocks - was suppose to be a wedding quilt for nephew but made something else for him. Someday I'll do something with those. Been there for a while and going to be there a while longer
• Little girl Owl quilt 3 more blocks to do.  These have been there for a while, and going to be there a while longer
• Sea Shards - will it ever end - between this one and sea glass I'm getting sea sick - just need borders. Someone gave me  the idea of a port hole and I like this better than just the odd block.
• 30's repo block swap from Pieceful Kwilter - it's not too late to join in, need to have blocks done and at Shannon's house by 3/31 - I finished all mine this weekend - nothing else got done, just these guys - all 30 of them.

Anyone out there using Google chrome as their primary browser?  I was using Chrome exclusively until I started having just a tiny issue.  It seems as though I can no longer comment on blogs (specifically blogger blogs) that have in line comments.  If people have their blogs set as a pop up window there is no problem at all.  Anyone else having this problem?  I think I'm gonna switch back to Firefox if I can't get this figured out.  I think it was in the Chrome last update that this started happening for me.  Of course it could be a setting in Chrome that I have incorrect, but I can't seem to figure that one out. 

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Whooping it up on Friday!!

Well not really, but thought if I said that what I have might seem a bit more impressive. :)  I have a block.  Yep that's it a block.  Pieceful Kwilter is having a 30's repro block swap.  Which sound really nice to me as I have absolutely NO 30s repro.  So I went got some fabric and made the first block.  Now I'm wondering if these are really 30's repo enough?  Then I thought, heck I don't even know what 30's repro fabric really is.  I know when I see quilts made out of them I really like them. But not sure that I like the individual fabrics enough to purchase any - go figure.  So here's what I have 1 block of 30 needed.  Is it good enough for a 30's repro swap? Also note this is my first ever block swap and I'm a tiny bit nervous.  Stop by Sarah's and see what other are whooping about.  

And the winner is....

Congratulations Lisa Cox who won the Jelly Roll! She's never used a jelly roll before so this should be a good one to get her rolling :) Lisa I sent you a private email. Please send my your email privately and I'll have your prize sent by Saturday. If I don't hear from you by Saturday, I'll pick another winner.

The response was really overwhelming, thanks everyone who played along. I hope y'all got some great prizes out there :)