Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Radiant Night and Summer Garden BBQ

My main goal today was getting the house cleaned up, now all that’s left to clean is my sewing room. This poor room is trashed. I have too many piles and I hate it when stuff isn’t put away. I will have to get it cleaned up this week and then I will be happier.

It will have to wait though because my friend Chere is coming over in the morning and we going to make a jacket that we can wear for the Greater Atlanta Shop Hop in March.

In between cleaning and watching my favorite show called “House”, I did get some sewing and prep work done. I got my top from a pattern called BBQ on the quilt frame. Here is a picture of it on the design wall.

I didn’t have the border on it in this picture, I was trying to rehearse which border idea I liked and I ended up just putting a small pieced border on it. Took me 3 days to decide. I just didn’t like anything else.

When it came to this quilt top, less really was better.

Here is a picture of it on the frame.  You can get a look at the final border I decided to put on it.

The pattern I made this from is called BBQ and it is from Debbie Bowles at Maple Island Quilts.  I really liked how easy this went together. I just needed to do something simple and I liked this one as it will give me some area to practice my machine quilting on.
She has a lot of patterns available on her website and I may just do another one of hers later this year.

I really need to get some projects that date as far back as 8 years done. I think every quilter reaches a time where the UFO’s just get under our skin and we have to get some of them done.

My other goal is to use up at least five fabrics before I buy any more. I guess that would be 5 out for every 1 in.  May help me get over this feeling of being a glutton for fabric.

Since I have that on the frame now, the other project I started on was a pattern I bought at the end of summer last year. When I saw it I knew I had to do it.

I was lucky enough that the shop owner gave me the pattern and all I had to buy was the fabric. Sheesh!! more fabric.
At least this will help me get some more out of the way for my goal and I just love this quilt. Here is a picture of what I have done on it so far.

This fabric line also came in other colors and if the Red would have been more vibrant I would have done this with the Red. It was just so dull looking on the bolt.

One of the other things I did this week was I changed my design wall. I had originally had cotton batting on there but it wouldn’t lay flat enough on the wall and it was pieced. So what I did was I put 120” white muslin up and then sprayed that with temporary adhesive. I am really happy with that. I also put a strip across the top so that when the entire top was done I could hang it from that for photos and not have to worry about it pulling on the fabric. I like it much better so far.

I still have been to lazy to scan some photos that were taken at guild and post them here, I will try to get that done later this week.
I hope to have my jacket done tomorrow and I will post that up tomorrow night. I hit Hancock fabrics for the flannel and homespuns that are going to make up the jacket and thought is has a bit more Magenta than I like I really liked the fabrics.
Talk to you all tomorrow.

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