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Saturday, December 31, 2011
Binding choices........

Friday, December 30, 2011
I needed a change....

On the quilting scene, I got another 2 rows of H's ditch quilted so I can put the binding on now and I will call it a finish for 2011 even though I'll probably have a few more H's left to quilt around.
Thursday, December 29, 2011
What a day.......


I had an electrician coming at 3 to hang new lights in the basement and replace a ballast in my main floor studio. While I waited for him I was looking through all of my button boxes for something to use for the rings on the ring bearer pillow and I came across this token. I looked it up on the internet and it is an early 1900s slot machine token. My grandpa must have given it to me when I was a kid. Nice find but still no rings.
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
A little ditch quilting......
The only sewing I did yesterday was to ditch quilt a few more H's. I felt like I was getting a migraine so I was working a little slow all day. The weather is changing today so it may still develop but I hope it doesn't.
I made a trip to the house where the Quilts of Valor donated fabrics are and chose selections for Take 5 quilt kits. I choose the fabrics and another lady does the cutting with her Studio die cutter. These are the kits that people take home to work on so we like to have a bunch ready all the time.
I made a trip to the house where the Quilts of Valor donated fabrics are and chose selections for Take 5 quilt kits. I choose the fabrics and another lady does the cutting with her Studio die cutter. These are the kits that people take home to work on so we like to have a bunch ready all the time.
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Flannel quilt decisions.....

Monday, December 26, 2011
Kringla recipes.....
Several people asked for my Kringla recipes so I took a photo of the 2 together for you. On the second one it says put under broiler until light brown but in the new gas ovens the broiler isn't separate any more and the heat is at the top so they brown in the oven.
Still blooming.....
I still had one Christmas cactus blooming even though they started blooming in October. I guess this is a good reason to have more than one plant; continuous blooming for 3 months. There are a few more buds but the last ones on each plant usually dry up.
The other Kringlas........

Today I'm having lunch with a friend at a fairly new restaurant in town that I haven't been to yet. It is our November birthdays and Christmas combined lunch. Then I need to work on the latest flannel quilt and finish quilting the H quilt.
Sunday, December 25, 2011
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Baking again.......

I baked 2/3 of the recipe last night and will bake the rest this morning.
I finished my flannel pillowcases and got most of the center of the triangles flannel quilt sewn. Yesterday was my day to visit Dad and he was in good spirits. He always asks me what my brother is doing and asks my brother what I am doing so we know he still knows who we are.
Friday, December 23, 2011
A few more gifts......

Thursday, December 22, 2011
Center panel.....

Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Planning ahead........
This is my next selection for a stack and slash quilt. I will use the floral print more often than the rest of the fabrics. I may wait until after Christmas to start this one.
Yesterday my blogger friend was travelling through this area again so we went to lunch. She was also looking for a fabric with a certain color group for a quilt she is making so I let her look through my fabric stacks and she found a couple possibilities. She also had the fun of looking through my mug rugs for the one she would take home. After she left I had fun rearranging the fabrics on one shelf. I love grouping and restacking the fabric, very therapeutic.
Yesterday my blogger friend was travelling through this area again so we went to lunch. She was also looking for a fabric with a certain color group for a quilt she is making so I let her look through my fabric stacks and she found a couple possibilities. She also had the fun of looking through my mug rugs for the one she would take home. After she left I had fun rearranging the fabrics on one shelf. I love grouping and restacking the fabric, very therapeutic.
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Sewing, pressing......
First I'll show the formal portrait of denim/flannel/corduroy number 2. I sewed the binding on last night and then washed and dried it. I should add to the discussion yesterday about the 6" shrinkage. That is both the amount that it pulls in from the quilting and then the shrinkage from washing. This one came out 58" x 73" so about the same amount of shrinkage. This type of quilting allows for a lot of puffing up which means it is pulling in from the sides and therefore becomes smaller. If I took it out of the dryer partially dried, laid it flat and smoothed it out to dry it would be larger.
I mailed this journal cover to its new owner yesterday. It is made from the leftovers of the striped diamond quilt shown in progress here.

I showed the stash of flannel plaid strips in Sept. 2010. I just ran across them again and decided to use the 1.5" ones (top container) and make as many squares as I could. They are 8" so this would make a nice center for a baby quilt.
Labels:
Flannel quilts,
journal covers,
machine quilting,
triangles
Monday, December 19, 2011
Mug rug collage and portraits.......
I think I am done making mug rugs for a few days so I decided to make a collage so I can see all of them at one time. It is nice that there isn't just one size for them so I could use a lot of different size patchwork pieces. A few people mentioned giving a mug with the mug rug and then the recipient can see the intended use. A couple people mentioned that they can be used as candle mats too.
Batting scrap uses: dusting cloths, mug rugs, doll quilts, preemie quilts...........I might actually use up all of the batting scraps that I create.
I took the formal portraits of my last 2 finishes. This flannel quilt ended up 60" x 69".
The denim/corduroy/flannel quilt has been washed and ended up 58" x 74". It shrunk 6" in both directions even though all of the top fabrics had been prewashed.
I took the formal portraits of my last 2 finishes. This flannel quilt ended up 60" x 69".
The denim/corduroy/flannel quilt has been washed and ended up 58" x 74". It shrunk 6" in both directions even though all of the top fabrics had been prewashed.
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Finishing, cutting.......



Saturday, December 17, 2011
Back to the big projects.......




Friday, December 16, 2011
contest.....

A finish, more mug rugs.....




Labels:
binding,
machine quilting,
mug rugs
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