Explosion of Ugliness

I finally got the applique border on my roosting round robin that I'm doing with the Allatoona quilt guild. My daring eldest son has named it "Explosion of Ugliness". I resent that! Although I will admit it is not turning out quite like I envisioned.

I have one more border to add. It is one of "my choice". I have no earthly idea what to add. All I have are fat quarters that may or may not match well and scraps from the other borders. I'm using batiks and hand dyes and trying to use fabric from my stash. I didn't want to have to buy any fabric for it. Hancock Fabrics has batiks on sale, 50% off, 60% off on July 6th-8th. Right now it is mighty tempting. Maybe I could find something to pull this mess altogether.

I've also finished up my April and May UFO's. Better late than never.

April's is above. It is a Christmas panel that I've had for several years. I finally add a couple of borders and quilted it. May's is my very first T-Shirt quilt. It just needed the binding put on. I had commissioned to make one for a client and thought it might be nice if I had a little experience under my belt before I did theirs. So I used some of my old shirts to practice with. I made two before I tackled the customer's quilt.

I wonder if I could finish my "Bonny Baskets" top before the end of the month for my June UFO. I wonder what I did with those blocks and the fabric to finish the top. I really need to get started on my challenge quilt for the Etowah Valley guild. It is due at the Aug. meeting. It will be my July UFO. It is not really an UFO, but the UFO Challenge is with an on-line group that I'm in and they allowed us to but current projects on the list this year. I find the challenge helps to at least get a few of my UFOs done that might otherwise not get completed.

Quilt Camp and Mother's Day

Quilt Camp

Last week The EVQG had quilt camp at the Civic Center. We had lots of fun. There were several class, plus we worked on our own projects. I wish now that I would have signed up for the tote bag made from the pet screen and the bucket cover classes. I did do the other tote bag class. There was also a class for a very cute, but quick and easy quilt.

This is the tote bag that I made on Thursday. It went together real easy compared to some that I've made. I may still try to make the bag from the pet screen. I bought some Friday when we were in Lowe's, but I got the insect screen. I haven't unwrapped the roll yet, but am hoping it will work just as good. I'd better make it pretty soon, before I forget what it is supposed to look like. It will pretty well be my way, anyway, as I don't have the directions. I also bought the Simplicity pattern for the bucket cover Friday. I'm wanting to make the 5 gal. size. I didn't realize that it was included in the pattern, if I had, I might have signed up for the class. The ones the ladies made in class were for the 5 qt. bucket.

The main project that I worked on at quilt camp, were these little bags for the Civil Air Patrol. I made around 40 of them.

I did managed to start a scrappy star quilt that will be a wedding present.

Mother's Day

I got this red basket filled with fabric and a hand made card from my daughter for Mother's Day. She scanned some floral fabric I have in my stash and printed it out and then cut out the flowers, rescanned it and printed it out on the card stock.

Roosting Robin - Triangle border

The triangle border is now on my RRR. I'm not sure I like the little applique heart Flowers in the corners. I ran out of green and had to think of something for the corners. I've just got a few narrow short strips left to use for the leaves on the next border, which is applique. Think I'll do a vine with heart shaped flowers.

I got the community service quilts for EVQG back Thursday. I still haven't put the binding on them. Maybe I can find time today to start them.

Community Service Projects

I've been working on a couple of community service quilts for EVQG this morning. I used some duck panels that were donated to our guild. As I haven't had much time for quilting this past month, I decided the easier the better, so I used Anita Grossman Solomon's pattern "Super-Sized Nine Patch". It is a free pattern on the Quiltmaker Magazine web site. I still need to get the backings ready and fix my binding strips. With any luck, I will make contact with the machine quilter tomorrow and give them to her to quilt. They need to be turned in at the May guild meeting. Think I'll use that same pattern to make baby quilts for next years community service project. If I follow her directions, I can get 3 crib quilts from 3 - 1yd pieces of co-ordinating fabrics.

March UFO

I finally finished my March UFO. It is a Christmas panel. All I did was ad the green outer border, quilt and bind it. No big deal and shouldn't have taken all month to finish. I've just been so busy I haven't had time for quilting. The 21st Sandra and I went to the quilt show at the library in Rome. We enjoyed seeing the quilts. It was a small show, but there were some nice quilts. Afterwards we went to Hancocks. I found a nice light background fabric and a few fat quarters. To day I went to Hobby Lobby and got some Kona red. I was out of solid red. For some reason, I seem to use a lot of red. The Quilt Station is having a big sale, so I went down there this afternoon. I got a couple more pieces of light background at 30% off , 30 fat quarters for $30 and a book "Traditions with a Twist".

Tuesday was the Roosting Round Robin. I already had it turned on point. Next month we do a triangle border. I don't think I'd like a saw tooth or flying geese border with my center. I'm thinking more a ribbon type border. I looked through some of my border books and found a chevron border that I think will look nice. Hope I will be able to work on it next week. I also need to decide which UFO to work on in April. Something that won't be too time consuming in case I have another month like this month. If I get done early, I can always get a head start on May's UFO.

Week-end project

Last week-end one of the on-line groups I'm a member of had a week-end workshop. We worked on the "Wicked Easy" quilt. It is a free pattern at byannie.com. I made two tops over the week-end and made a third one this week. One is a crib size shown on the left, and another is a twin size. shown below.

The top on the right is the one I made this week. I made it from the left over pieces from the other two, plus a few I had to cut to have enough.

This one will be a community service quilt for EVQG.

Roosting Round Robin

Tuesday was the first meeting of the AQG Roosting Robin. I had my center done, although it didn't have to be done until March 27th when we add a couple of narrow borders and set our blocks on point. I was so excited about it that I did mine already. That just gives me more time to decide what to do for the triangle border.

I'm not sure if I like the bright setting triangles. I'm thinking it will look better once I get the next border on. I had a little miss-hap with the iron when I was pressing the first border. The water spewed out of the iron and caused the red to run onto the border fabric. I had to take one of the triangles off and then replace the border on one side. The red is one of my hand dyed fabrics. I Thought I had rinsed them out good and heat set the color in. I guess the color ran because the water in the iron was so hot.