What are y'all working on this week-end? I'm off to my mystery quilt class this morning, and then the embroidery club that follows.
Have a good weekend, whatever you do!

i too am piecing a DWR, this one is in peach scraps with a medium blue for the squares and then white background. it's queen size and machine pieced. i have all the "scrappy" parts done, now adding the melon pieces

SS

I got all the paper templates printed and ready to go for the 2007 Truck Convoy quilt. I'm not going to count the pieces, as I might get discouraged.[/img]

Then the phone rang and I am goig to be a GREAT AUNTIE again :shock: , so watch out stash, herre I come! It's another baby quilt in the think tank . I'm thinking of using the turning twenty pattern since they didn't give me much notice and it sews up so quickly. The shower is the first Sunday in March!!

I'm just finishing a spool scrappy quilt in which each 7 inch block contains 64 pieces - it's all hand pieced and quilted. It's the leftovers from my first grandchild's quilt and will be for #2 if and when it arrives. If it doesn't, someone else will get a surprise!

I'd post a picture but haven't figured out how to do it on this forum. Have done it on others, but this one still mystifies me. : : : :

Dawn-Marie, I just finished a small project with my 7yr old granddaughter. They love to draw and so I gave her a plan block and she used her crayons to draw a valentine for her teacher. She cut scrappy pieces out of fabric and I turned them into a crazy quilt block for the front of the card,and we emelished it with beads and, a heart and flower.
Keep the projects small and simple for the younger ones.

RickyTims wrote:
I would do something with fabric crayons or markers to start out with. Then they can draw their block.

I am finishing up a King size Double Irish Chain. One more border then on to the quilting. I will also be getting a group of friends together and we are gonna spend the day on Superbowl Suday at my LQS sewing up a mystery quilt.

Dawn-Marie

omigosh! I have a "roswell" cupboard full of ufo's. I "try" to at least work on one before starting something new. but I have sooo many "want to makes".
I've just finished making samples of 2 mystery quilt projects for my guild. they are a mystery, so I can't tell you what they are (yet).

I went on a shopping excursion w/16 pals. the new fabric is fanned out on the table and my rotary cutter is mewling for a taste.

I'm on pins and needles waiting for the reply from AQS to see if my first entry will be accepted to the Paducah quilt show. altho, I think just filling out the entry form made me more nervous!

Quiltbirdie, please tell us more about the Little Women quilt. That was one of my favorite books and I'd love to know more about what you are working on.[/quote]

Hi Katydid -

Jo's Little Women is a program from Jo Morton, who designs Civil War repros for Andover Fabric. We meet at our LQS for a new, small (doll quilt size) project every month. Jo Morton, the designer, has designed these small quilts just for the Jo's Little Women clubs.

I am working on a John Flynn Mystery Wheel. The front had such pretty colors that I did a border and backing in a Black Batik. I am machine quilting with white thread on top using a tear-away star pattern and the bobbin thread is a bright blue verigated. It's coming along wonderfully.

As for Strip Clubs, I love them. I don't always follow the pattern to the letter, but it gives me a wonderful new pattern and some very pretty fabric.

I have been known to mix one Strip Club Month with another at times.

My boys, who are 24 and 21 have been heard to say they can't believe their mother is a member of a strip club. I tell them you MUST have some excitement in life.

I'm working on too many things at once, of course. Let's see--I'm trying to finish a small wall hanging of snowflakes/winter blue for my cubicle wall at work. Also, I am determined to finally machine quilt a quilt that I made as a one day mystery quilt in July of 2005. Very close to finishing handquilting the border of a very bright lap quilt I've been working on in fits and starts while we watch TV as a family. Then there's a large double wedding ring quilt for a friend, and.......

I have got to master this machine quilting thing if I'm going to get everything done. There's a pile of tops on my piano that are aching to be layered and quilted, and I'll not get them done until I get to the machine!

DaddyKevin

The main project I'm working on right now is a movie challenge quilt. I'm making Spaceballs the Quilt. I didn't want the background to be plain, so I made a convergence and set it on point, then added some simple borders. Then I got to cut holes in my quilt and sew in some circles ("balls"). Now I'm working on free-motion machine quilting it, well learning I should say.
Since I don't get a lot of time to work on the machine, I don't really think about all the UFO's I've probably accumulated in my short time as a quilter, but I do know of one that will probably be a UFO forever. It's a rather ambitious frog pond quilt. When I designed it, I gathered frog patterns from various sources, so it's big and has a lot of paper piecing in it. So far I only have 3 frogs done, lol.
I also have a great idea for a MicroCosmos, and I'm hoping I can make it in time for the show, hehe.

I'm working on a bargello design. I got the pattern from a library book on lap quilting, but I sure won't quilt this bad boy on my lap. I enlarged the pattern cuz the pieces were so small, now the overall size is overwhelming. But I'm sticking with it! It's for my oldest son. The pattern is a phoenix. The bird is yellow, orange, and red. The background is black. It should be amazing if I can ever get it pieced.

I am just finishing a Musical Theather quilt for a friend and was looking for some musical notes to put on the label. Does anyone know a site where I can find a boarder like of musical notes? Also, I am interested in finding out more about the Jo's Little Women's applique work. That was a favorite book of mine and the Alcott home is not far from my home. I do a lot of had work especially, red/blue work.

This is my first time on the forum and really am looking forward to meeting some old friends and making some new ones.

Joannd

I'm starting a new topic for Gretchen's Quilt Project for Pre-schoolers. I'm also starting one for ideas about good ways to approach projects for elementary school age kids. Have at it gang! - Ricky