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ma for both i m also part of a secret project in the spring and would like the opportunity to take on more commitments in the quilting community goal finish the big five i have five bed sized quilts in various stages of completion that i would like to finish laura s quilt i spy for our bed i spy for mom bookshelf quilt and food themed picnic blanket goal track fabric usage aka use more than i buy overall i want to use far more than i buy and i think tracking usage will help i also plan to track fabric purchased i don t have a quantitative goal for yardage out but i am curious to see the numbers goal try simpler version of quilter s planner using the quilter s planner didn t work for me so for 2018 i bought a pretty blank book and plan to use it to track just a few things i m hoping that going simpler will mean i keep up with it part of this goal is to figure out what i want to keep track of i like the idea of tracking yardage i wish i had a better record of when i finish projects kate at life in pieces tracks the days she spends at least 15 minutes sewing and that sounds intriguing to me so i guess i ll start with these and see how it goes goal remember that it s okay watch from the sidelines and still be inspired that phrase is in quotes because it comes directly from diana at red delicious life this is a repeat from last year and i m hoping i can do as well again i like to join in on the fun but i have so many projects already that taking new ones on can stress me out when i feel like i need to stay caught up i felt like i had a good balance this year and i strive for that again in 2018 so i guess one way of looking at this goal is join some of the things but not all of the things goal clean up organize sewing room it s so hard for me to spend time cleaning up or organizing partly because i don t really enjoy it though i enjoy the finished product but also because i d rather be sewing with that time this is an example of where i m hoping that writing it down helps me make it happen i don t have dreams of it being completely neat or organized but better than it is would be nice part of this is likely to include giving away abandoned projects goal 12 quilts for project linus this is my standard yearly goal since i got involved in 2015 and works out to one a month though that s never how they actually get finished i tend to work in spurts i also attend monthly meetings of the charlotte chapter and 2 personal goals goal weight loss in 2017 i lost about 15 pounds i d like to lose at least that much again in 2018 ultimate goal is 40 pounds from starting weight goal learn spanish my husband is from mexico and is a native spanish speaker and of course so are my in laws while all of them are fluent in english they would much rather speak spanish when they are together it is past time for me to learn spanish i ve made a few attempts but nothing has lasted one of the perks of my job i m a librarian at a community college is that i can take 1 class per semester for free i am registered for a spanish class that starts in january i am aware that the class will cut into my sewing time but i think that the time investment will be worth it and i have a live in tutor i had a good year in 2017 and am ready to see what 2018 has in store for me happy new year posted by emily at 9 20 pm 4 comments almost finished december omg christmas is over but i m still working on my i wish you a merry quilt along quilt my goal for the omg linky party hosted by patty at elm street quilts for december was to complete my blocks and assemble each of the four rows i m happy to say i made it and got a little bit further than anticipated i finished all my blocks the 12 original blocks and 4 bonus blocks i did quilt as go so everything was quilted before assembly nope not quite complete it s currently in 2 sections all four rows are assembled and have been paired and sewed into the next step now i just need to sew those together and bind to get two for one i m making completing this quilt my omg for january 2018 posted by emily at 1 19 pm 9 comments labels omg wednesday december 27 2017 christmas dinosaurs my son and my niece are both 4 this means they are both at an age where dinosaurs are particularly interesting my public library has a great book called playful hoodies by mary rasch that has 20 costumes you make with a hooded sweatshirt dinosaurs are one of the patterns and i decided to make both kids dinosaur sweatshirts for christmas roar the dinosaur scales are made out of fleece since i back most of my project linus quilts with fleece i have lots of fleece scraps making this a scrap project for me my son s sweatshirt has 2 different shades of green in an alternating pattern he loved it and put it on as soon as he opened it my niece is crazy about rainbows so her sweatshirt is a rainbow dinosaur i was lucky enough to have fleece scraps of all the rainbow colors though the purple is a very pale purple and put the scales down her back in rainbow order happy dinosaur the dinosaur sweatshirt was project number 19 on my list of q4 goals for the globally hosted finish along only munchkin s sweatshirt was listed in the goal since this is technically a scrap project i will be linking up with oh scrap hosted by cynthia of quilting is more fun than housework posted by emily at 8 01 pm 4 comments labels finished not a quilt scraps sunday december 24 2017 orange pink elephants for most of 2017 i kept up pretty well with the rainbow scrap challenge until september fall is always busy in my house and the rainbow elephants fell by the wayside the pattern i m using is elephant parade by lorna of sew fresh quilts i got a little sewing time at the end the week and i spent some of it getting caught up here is the orange elephant family originally meant to be september and here is my pink elephant family meant to be completed in october each color family has now been sewn into rows and 4 of those rows are sewn together sadly that s when i ran out of background fabric so i am stalled until i can get some more kona fog i was at my lqs 2 weeks ago and they didn t have any so it s an online order for me that means i won t actually finish my 2017 rainbow quilt in 2017 but this hopefully won t bleed too far into 2018 posted by emily at 3 15 pm 5 comments saturday december 23 2017 i wish you a merry quilt along last 3 blocks the final block has been released and i ve finally finished them all i wish you a merry quilt along has 12 blocks and they ve been released every two weeks since august one of the great things about this quilt along is that we are encouraged to make the blocks our own i ve done some minor adaptions to various blocks but i went a little farther out of the box with block 11 the north star designed by kathleen mcmusing i ve been planning to make 4 extra blocks so i can get a 4 x 4 setting i made a list of possible things to include and my list was way longer than 4 so as we ve gotten closer i ve looked for ways to incorporate things from that list into the original blocks when i saw the north star my first thought was to put it on top of a tree with lights as lights is one thing i really want to include but i couldn t get the placement of the star figured out and the scale would have been really far off so i put my north star on a mug of hot chocolate i used the paper pieced pattern for the star points and reduced the to 50 i took my inspiration from the in from the cold pattern by kate spai n this is essentially mug 3 i love how it turned out block 12 is a string of christmas lights lights were one of the things i was hoping for so i was really happy to see this one this was my first time making and using bias tape i did not enjoy making it but it did bend flex quite easily this is one of my favorite blocks i did make the original block 8 which was the presents block designed by alice samuel s quilt co but i wasn t crazy about how mine came out version 1 so i made a different present i modified a tutorial to be the correct size but it was too messy looking and not distinctly a present version 2 i wanted to like this one i left it around for a few days hoping it would grow on me but it didn t so i created a simpler present and found that the third time was the charm final version i am now working on joining the blocks the quilt as you go method that i m using involves some hand sewing so this will sadly not be done by christmas day our celebration with husband s family is christmas eve day so my time will not be spent sewing still i ve really enjoyed the quilt along and love the project so far even if it won t be done for the big day wishing everyone a joyful holiday merry christmas posted by emily at 7 59 pm 1 comment wednesday december 20 2017 christmas tree farm i loved the christmas tree farm block by april of janda bend quilts so much that i expanded the original block and turned it into decoration it s now hanging on my front door i just love these trees each one is a different green scrap the background is kona snow april gave instructions for traditional piecing or paper piecing i combined them i paper pieced the greens of the greens and traditional pieced the rest including all the trunks here it is on my front door tree farm was project number 1 on my list of q4 goals for the globally hosted finish along posted by emily at 6 01 pm 4 comments labels finished kona solids friday december 8 2017 rainbow revisited my niece who turns 4 today is crazy about rainbows my sister in law tells me that she carries the rainbow doll quilt that i made her everywhere she goes earlier this year i made a rainbow quilt for myself with a kona jelly roll i decided a few weeks ago that noodle would get even more joy out of it than i do so i sent it to her for her birthday along with some rainbow knee socks and a few other goodies totally the right decision look at that smile and my sister in law managed what i could not a decent picture of the quilt rainbows are the best happy birthday noodle posted by emily at 9 42 pm 3 comments wednesday december 6 2017 i wish you a merry quilt along extra blocks there are 12 blocks in the i wish you a merry quilt along i decided that i would rather have my final quilt be 4 x 4 so i needed 4 more blocks to bring my total to 16 my bonus blocks the first bonus block that i made was a candy cane i used this tutorial from inspired by fabrics and added extra fabric on the sides to make my block square instead of rectangular adding the holly was my idea and i used the template from the lantern block block 10 next i made the mittens from lorna of sew fresh quilts this block was part of her have a jolly little quilt along and is already the same size as the i wish you a merry quilt along blocks in fact lorna s quilt along was ending as the other was starting and she mentioned in a blog post that the blocks were the same size and could be used as mix and match if desired i think my favorite of the bonus blocks might be the dove i used a free pattern from craftsy that is actually meant to be an embroidered ornament i made the original a little bigger i think 170 on the copier and still made the dove in 3 pieces body and two wings i freehanded the olive branch and let me tell you i drew this freehand is not something you will hear me say very often my final bonus block is the gingerbread man my original plan was to trace my cookie cutter but the one i have is much smaller than i remembered the big one i was picturing must actually be my mom s so i found a printable coloring page and used that shape outline for my gingerbread man though i did enlarge him a little on the copier i still have two of the original twelve i wish you a merry quilt along blocks to make and then i can finalize my layout and start assembly i am doing quilt as you go and my method of joining blocks involves some hand sewing so the assembly may take a while while i would love to finish the entire quilt in december i m not sure that s realistic my goal for the omg linky party hosted by patty at elm street quilts is to complete my blocks and assemble each of the four rows posted by emily at 8 04 pm 4 comments sunday december 3 2017 november bee blocks flying geese seems quilters either love them or hate them i don t exactly hate them but i certainly don t love them either and yet as luck would have it both november queens in my online bees asked for blocks that feature flying geese one of the reasons i love these bees is that it forces me to make things i wouldn t pick and i while i wouldn t have picked geese heavy blocks i liked these queen laura asked for scrap bag geese in any and all shades of pink i liked doing the geese in two parts and putting them together so these scrappy geese were actually a lot of fun i enjoyed these and think that all the pink geese will look amazing together can t wait to see them all fly queen paige designed her own tree block in honor of the loblolly pines in her part of south carolina she sent each member of our bee some ground fabric and i love it it s the color of carolina red clay paige gave us some wiggle room on the height of the block because her setting allows for variation good thing because mine are not the same at all i love these trees and think paige s quilt will be amazing and while this block wasn t for a bee it doesn t really fit anywhere else when i was at quiltcon way back in february the michael miller booth let you pick out 4 fabrics from a list and cut you a sample of those fabrics in return they asked for 6 finished blocks that will be turned into quilts for kids charities i completely forgot about this until i found my fabric bundle and saw that i still had a week before the deadline i looked through some block choices and picked out quatrefois i used this tutorial i really like this block and think it s something i am likely to make again in the future this ends the year for me in terms of bees stash bee runs january november so this was it bee inspired does have a december queen but it s me so i get to sit back while others make blocks for me i really like these online bees i make new friends and i get to try a lot of different blocks i m in for another year of both posted by emily at 5 22 pm 1 comment labels stash bee wednesday november 29 2017 advent calendar my goal for november was to make a quilted advent calendar in time for december 1st made it with one day to spare i looked at a few patterns and read several tutorials and ultimately followed the method of this tutorial by fanny lu designs i really wanted to use the 5 squares i have collected through various i spy swaps over the years so my measurements don t match hers but i did use her method of making the pockets i have number templates that i ve used for several other projects that i traced onto fusible web for the dates the background is kona snow the backing is a really fabulous alexander henry christmas fabric with aloha santa i have no idea 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