Springfield Modern Quilt Guild Challenge for May

Can you believe it, it's not the end of the month and I am posting....

For our Guild Challenge it was to take 8 - 2 1/2 strips of modern fabric and make something, anything....  so here is what I did with those 8 strips and some white fabric.

I took the strips and cut them 7 1/2 in. each and added white strips around them. Then with the extra pieces I made some circles on the back.  With having the straight lines on the front, I decide to quilt some swirls to break up all the straight lines.

Front

Back

This was a fun challenge, no pattern, just started piecing fabric together...

April post

It's been about a month since I blogged.. With working full time, I don't get much time to quilt or even blogging... but I am going to make my self try to blog at least once a month, so here it is on the last day of the month. I found some time, before dinner to write about what I did for the month of April, not much quilting, but I did do some.
I signed up for a couple of Craftsy classes.
"The Machine Embroidered Quilt" with Eileen Roche.
here is a picture of a couple of the blocks from her class.

I did 5 of these so far





 

Also did 5 of these

 

 This one has 5 in a row, I think that I should have done my background threads in a different color so they would have stood out, but it was my first attempt.

When I complete the entire quilt I will post pictures of it.

 

 

The other class that I signed up for are:

Design It, Quilt It with Cindy Needham

Designing Modern Quilts with Weeks Ringle

Pieced Hexies with Mickey Depre

Pre Cut Piecing Made Simple with Camille Roskely

and also

Free-Motion Quilting with Feathers by Angela Walters.

 

 

I can't believe that I singed up for all those, but I couldn't help it, I love the Craftsy platform, I can watch them anytime I wont.

 

Oh I almost forgot about Free Motion Fillers, Vol 1 with Leah Day.

Here are some pictures of the quilt that I am working on for her class:

I actual did these blocks in March 50 blocks

 

 

So there is some of what I have been working on for the month of April when I'm not working.

 

Tutorial for making Hexagons from circles

On March 7th at my Guild meeting I will be doing the Tips and Techniques.
We have been talking about Hexagons so I thought that I would do some different views of creating them.

The first one will be creating a Hexagon from a Circle...

First you will need a 5" Square .... Fold in half

 Don't throw away the extra... I will show what I did with that later.

 

 

Here's what you can do with those extra pieces...

 

Add another 5" square under the extra.

 

Create a small quilt with it...

Here's the front

 

 

Here's that back..

Wasn't that fun....it was easy...

It's Been awhile

It's been a month since I posted anything to my blog...Life happens... I still have been quilting, just not much time to post anything. One reason is that my computer crashed and had to get a new one.  Which I love this one.  Starting next week I will be working about 50 hours... which I am ready to go back to work, but that means not much time for quilting... but you know me I will find some way to get into my quilting room....

Here are some of what I worked on this month...
I was playing around with 1 1/2 inch blocks... First picture is 100 blocks (left over) to go into bigger blocks

First one that I did...                                                                   Second little block

 Here are those two and one that I did with 2 inch blocks.

 

For our Modern Quilt Guild the challenge for February was to create something with a rainbow theme and from Pinterest  (my pinterest)

I went with the Easy Zig Zags, that I found on Pinterest. You need to check it out it was so cool and easy to do... I also did some crazy patching. Still working on the quilting part.

 

Front - I did some stitch in the ditch before marking.

Back



 

 

 

 

Here are some pictures of the marking that I did for some of the quilting.

I was also working on Hexagons... I completed 16

Here is my storage bin of 105 that I basted

 

I also did the blocks for the Row Along that I am doing with Bee In My Bonnet. 

But only got one picture of one of the blocks... Hoping that tonight or tomorrow that I will be able to get the row put together and show the entire row.

I'm gonna be doing a Tips and Technique on Thursday at my Guild meeting so I will do another post on that to show how to create a Hexagon out of a circle...

 

 

 

Skill Builder BOM - FMQ - Magnum and the Sound Wave

I worked on my Skill-Builder-Block-of-the-Month the FMQ.

Here is my practice sheets.  The Magnum and the Sound Wave. Still need a lot of practice.

 

Here is the quilting on the blocks. Can't really see it very well, but it was fun... If you look close you can see that I have hidden my threads yet.

  

Leah Day Free Motion Project 2013 - Friday linkup

I know that I am running late on this post.

Here is my Express Your Love from Leah Day Free Motion Project.

 

I haven't been able to work on the Boomerangs that Leah showed on Thursday.  But will get to that next week hopefully...

Skill Builder BOM

Worked on my  Skill-Builder-Block-of-the-Month This is the first BOM. There's two this month and also some FMQ, but I only got one done today. The FMQ will be posted later this month.  I really enjoyed doing it.. mainly cause I haven't been able to quilt for days.... Having the flu is awful.  Felling better today so thought that I would work on this BOM.

I also made a Round Bottomed Fabric storage basket to put all my scraps in for this BOM. One of the girls from my quilting guild showed this, so I thought that I would try it. Here is the tutorial from www.filminthefridge.com,
It was really easy to make and fun.

So this is how I spend my first day out of my bedroom... It was really relaxing. I know don't over do it, I wont.... I just love to quilt....

Until tomorrow or it may be Monday since I haven't been able to spend any time with my husband this week either, so I will be spending the weekend with him.  

Thanks