A Start and a Finish

A Start and a Finish

Don't you just love those days where you get a lot accomplished in sewing and finishing up work !!

My Start:

I actually began to put together the first blocks in my  Irish Chain Twist Quilt-A-Long quilt.

Sewing along happily with Melissa at Happy Quilting

                                                       
I am making a lap size quilt.  The size will be 60" x 70 ".  

The quilt layouts in various sizes   by Happy Quilting

My  fabrics:

They are :  A FQ Bundle  of  This 'N That  by Nancy Halvorsen  by Benartex 

(  am so glad that I waited for "THE right project"  to come along, to use this lovely gift bundle!)

For the backing-  I will use 4 other fq left from the bundle, plus some Lazy Day (by Riley Blake) floral fabric, and some yellow Michael Miller stash fabrics. It will pieced ... for a fun look.

This ' N That FQ Bundle  plus  some Riley Blake Lazy Day flowers

I was happy as a clam,  after cutting out all of the blocks for a lap size quilt!  

Melissa gives wonderful tutorials and charts , for figuring out the block pieces.  Thank, Melissa!


Last week, we began to make the X Improvisational block units.

I am in love with these aqua fabrics!

84 blocks , saying to me.... "Well here I am!  Ready for you to sew !"  

And then, this week...  after some trimming , and being "wonky"  cut on purpose...

Now they are 21 Improvisational X Blocks

Some blocks are wonkier than others!  All of them make me happy!

I am so glad that Melissa showed a picture of the 5 1/2 "  Bloc-Loc ruler that she used to trim her X blocks.  I realized that I had one , too, and that made the trimming go so smoothly. 

Now, I have a cold and wintery Saturday to sew, and have to wait until next Thursday to work on the Twists on Tradition blocks!  


My finish:

My "Pink for February"  Red Letter Day Mini quilt  #177
               Design by Camille Roskelley  of Thimbleblossoms

Meet block #4  

"Tinkled Pink"       Red Letter Day mini  15 " x 15 "  by Susie's Sunroom

In case you were wondering.... 
Yes, I did have to use my seam ripper AGAIN!  
But only for turning around two HST's this time.  I must be HST dyslexic.

I'm off to my sewing room!

I am linking up at:  Can I Get A Whoop Whoop! @ Confessions of a Fabric Addict  and
                             Fabric Frenzy Friday @ Fort Worth Fabric Studio and
                             Irish Chain Twist QAL @ Happy Quilting  and
                              Sew Cute Tuesday @ Blossom Heart Quilting

The Simply Striped Pillow Blog Hop

A Blog Hop Is Coming...

A Blog Hop here on March 2 to March 8 !

Guess what?!  There's a Blog Hop coming here on Monday, March 2!

Six talented and amazing  quilters are coming  over to Susie's Sunroom, 
to share a pillow that they make, using  my new pattern.... 
                       the Simply Striped Accent Pillow !   {on Craftsy here }

Click here to go to Craftsy

It's  a tutorial style pattern, with directions for sewing up a 13 " by " plump pillow.  

I have showed you two of my pillows so far...

My Valentine's Day pillow  using a Patchsmith applique pattern   {blogged here}

The Simply Striped  accent pillow... as a mate  for my
Quilt Art Designs winter snow star block {blogged here}

Oh, and did I mention that there will be a GIVEAWAY  or two  that week, too?!

I hope you will be stopping by during the blog hop to see the latest pillow ideas!!


The Schedule-                                     their  blog links

March 2   Elaine    Summercrafter        http://summercrafter.com/

March 3   Susie  Susie's Sunroom      http://susiessunroom.blogspot.com/

March 4   Geta      Geta's Quilting Studio     http://cadouri-din-inima.blogspot.ro/

March 5   Sheri   Sunshine in the Attic         http://www.sunshineintheattic.blogspot.com/

March 6   Lara    BuzzinBumble          http://www.buzzinbumble.com/

March 7   Amanda    The Patchsmith    http://thepatchsmith.blogspot.co.uk/

March 8   Amy  Amy Made That!     http://eamylove.blogspot.com/

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Red Letter Day Mini blocks-

           

                       

I completed a third mini Red Letter Day block, in pink:

Three  pink blocks for February  (7.5 inch )

 Pattern  Design by Camille Rosskelley  - Red Letter Day #177                                                                                                                      at Thimbleblossoms

Yes, I made the same mistake again !  Four of the half square triangles were put in wrong again, and had to be ripped out.   (Serves me right for getting a little smug, until the 4th row.)  But it ended up well.  ( I looked for the errors sooner this time, so there was less to rip out.)

I am ' bound and determined'  to not make the same mistakes in the fourth block!  We''ll see how that goes....

I'm off to my sewing room!