2019 FAL: Q4 Finish "C4 Quilt"

Finish Along Q4 Goals

Another one of the original C4 Quilts done.



The only problem is that I've changed the requirement...

2019 FAL: Q4 Finish "Halloween Curtains"

Finish Along Q4 Goals

Two: Halloween Curtains


Now to decide whether or not to quilt it.

2019 Q3 Finish: C4 Quilt #1

Finish Along Q3 Goals

I said I only finished one goal, but I finished a part of another.

Six: Cousin P's quilt

This is the first of the cousin quilts: grey and green with black highlights.



There's also pink and grey with dark blue highlights, orange and grey with green highlights, and grey and green with blue highlights. Still don't know who is getting which quilt yet. Don't even know if they like the style, so that might be a bit of a Russian roulette.

Still, one more quilt top done.

2019 Q3 Finish: Soroptimist Raffle Quilt

The only finish I actually managed this quarter, although I have made a start on the Cousin P quilts at least!


Finish Along Q3 Goals

Four: Soroptimist Raffle Quilt


Fabric line is Joel Dewberry's Notting Hill, I didn't use a pattern, I just made blocks and fitted them together.

Done and raffled and the person is apparently very happy with it.

FAL Q2 Finish: Send Jeremy's Quilt

Q2 Goals Post

Jeremy is the son of my oldest cousin, a teenager with a love for...a football team in the UK with blue and yellow as their colours? (Can you tell I don't follow the European football leagues?) Anyway, I gave his sister Stephanie the Walkabout quilt, and have been promising him one for two years...

I finally got it backed at the end of last year, and quilted by Jo at Thirroul Custom Quilting.

It came back, got bound, and got sent.


I got a nice card back, which was a bit amusing because I know his mum probably nudged him into getting him to write it. Hopefully he really does like the quilt...

I can't seem to find a full picture of it bound and completed anywhere, unfortunately. But it is! I promise!

FAL Q2 Finish: Bind and send Birthday Stars

Q2 Goals Post

binding
- Birthday Stars: it's sitting around taking up space!

Done and sent!

This one's been around since, oh, 2013-ish as well. I did a birthday block swap for a couple of years (2011-2012, I believe) and while this one went better than the first one (where the sizes were all over the place, and people used rather crappy fabrics), I still didn't feel like the blocks were me. I ended up making another five blocks to make it 4x4 blocks and a 'colourwash' (sort of).

It looks much better now!




On the back, I made another quilt top, experimenting with 'wonky' log cabins. (I know, they don't look wonky, but they are a little.)


I had to add a border to the Birthday Stars flimsy to make it large enough for the Wonky Cabins, but I like the result.

I didn't take a photo of it hanging, so I'll have to ask my friend to send me a proper photo when she receives it.

Three QAL finishes!

FAL Q2 Finish: Quilt Show Quilt 2

Q2 Goals Post

Diamonds Are A Quilter's Best Friend


This one has sat around for years - since 2013, in fact! The charm squares were part of a charm swap of Kona solids.

WIP Wednesday: the one where diamonds are a quilter's best friend

I always knew I wanted to quilt it myself, but I didn't do FMQ on my own domestic, and the longarm was no longer available to me...


It's done! I learned a few new things while quilting this, and I need a whole lot more practise with it, but...I'm happy with my work on it, even as I can see all the things I could have done better...

Ah well. Done is best!

FAL Q2 Finish: Quilt Show Quilt 1

Q2 Goals Post

Where The Forest Meets Suburbia

a.k.a. #100KonaTulaBlocks

Quilted, bound, submitted to the Sydney Quilt Show at the Craft Fair, and hanging:

You know how sometimes you make something and halfway through you just hate it? I had a lot of that with this. Put it away for a few months when I knew I had the quilt show coming up. Ended up quilting and binding in the last month. Whew!

But all done, generally well-liked but nothing standout, I think. I would have liked to quilt down the sashing a little but I think it's softer this way.

It goes to my mother, who seems to get first dibs on all the most complicated of my quilts!

2019 Finish Along: Q2 Goals

Right, so starting over again...



complete at least 2 UFO Challenges out of the 3 for this quarter
For the APQ UFO Challenge, there'll be three challenge months. I have to finish at least two. (Ideally, all three would get done, but I'm not particularly hopeful.)



Mum's laptop sleeve

For her birthday, I suppose...



binding - DONE
- Birthday Stars: it's sitting around taking up space!

Sending - DONE
- Jeremy's Quilt: it's been bound and sitting around for FOREVER

Quilt Show Quilts

ETA: DONE


ETA: DONE

I won't get them all done, of course. I have a job again, and things are looking pretty hectic. But we'll see how many easy wins we can get this month...

FAL2019 - Q1 Finish: 100 Kona-Tula blocks

Link to First Quarter Goals

The only thing I actually got done in the sewing realm!



Sadly, I was just too busy doing something else (writing) and just didn't get anything completed... *sigh*

2019 Finish Along: First Quarter

A couple of Easy Wins, I think. I have three months in which to get this done, and at least some of it needs to involve a quilt show quilt

complete at least 2 UFO Challenges out of the 3 for this quarter
For the APQ UFO Challenge, there'll be three challenge months. I have to finish at least two. (Ideally, all three would get done, but I'm not particularly hopeful.)


Mum's laptop sleeve
I made her a laptop sleeve for Christmas.


It turned out to be too small...

This actually needs to be done for Friday. So CHOPCHOP!


100 Kona-Tula Blocks
This is the January UFO Challenge, so the goal is to finish the top - sash the blocks together. It doesn't take long, it's just fiddly and the weather is hot.


flower shirt
Needs completing before the end of summer.


halterneck dress
Wants completing before the end of summer.

DECIDE ON SYDNEY QUILT SHOW ENTRY
I have no idea what to do for this this year! I mean, our guild hasn't even worked something out yet...

2019 Finish-Along!

Overall, there are scads of things I want to get done this year. But there are scads of things I want to get done every year. This last year has been quiet on the quilting front, because I've been focused on getting a garden system working, and I think it's pretty much worked out now with some refining possibly necessary.

Finishing off

bindings
- Jeremy's Quilt
- Birthday Stars

backings
- friendship supernova
- 3:10 to Yuma

New quilts

cousin quilts
- 4 cousin quilts
- 3 cousin quilts
- 2 cousin quilts

Imp Quilts
- Dan and Cam quilts

Works In Progress

The list for the All People Quilt UFO Challenge (#apqresolution)

- Kona Scrappy Trip Around the World - 2 blocks finished, make another 14 blocks and join
- Build Me Up Buttercup - top centre finished, needs a border
- 100 Kona-Tula Blocks - blocks made, needs sashing
- Scarlet Split Square - blocks made, needs joining
- Bard of Avon - scrappy - 1 block made, other blocks bagged and ready to go
- blue stars from 50 states - a couple made, have templates, make at least 3 more
- king of the nile - make backing, send to quilter
- QAYG FMQ blocks - 6 done badly, do another 6 and practice ("I Guess If I Practice Then Better I'll Be...Uh...")
- Dancing Stars/Fibonacci Never Did Quiltmath/Kona-Tula scraps - find these projects and get them done
- Rainbow Neutrals - rainbow colours, but pattern from book of Neutrals
- Break Free or Build Upon? - back and sandwiched, but split into two
- Rainbow Selvages - ~12 blocks done, need many more

clothing

- flower shirt
- halterneck dress
- a comfy shift-dress
- a pretty going-out dress
- take the sleeves off 'Groove Is In The Heart'
- Harriet bra
- Sierra bralette

miscellaneous

- make mother a laptop case

Am I going to find the time to do all this? While doing up my garden, writing a couple of novels, keeping house, and working?

Probably not. That's okay. I tried.

I'm also going to majorly destash this year - I have too much fabric that I'm not going to use. Also, I'm kind of broke right now on account of not having a job, but the bills still need paying. So quite a bit of it will go, I think.