2013 Finish Along- Q1 Finishes

 It is time for the Q1 2013 Finish Along report. I had listed eight projects in January that I hoped to finish. I'm really pleased that I finished five of them!

Madrona Road Herringbone was finished in time to enter it in the challenge, and it was selected to be displayed in the Michael Miller booth at QuiltCon!

Olivia's quilt was made for my fourth grand-niece. Technically, it doesn't count for the FAL because I hadn't started it yet in January. That's OK. I'm counting it for myself.

After  ripening in the WIP pile for two years, Sugar Wave is done and I love it!

Highest priority, the Ninigret raffle quilt had its day in the sun last week.

My most recent and quickest finish was quilting up this mini Friendship Star quilt. 

I will be linking up everything but Olivia's quilt. Stay tuned for the Q2 list.

(Madrona) Road to Texas!

I'm so excited that my Madrona Road challenge piece was selected to hang in the Michael Miller booth at QuiltCon! It is a huge honor to represent the Rhode Island Modern Quilt Guild at this event. It was really a joy to work with these fabrics. Thank you, Michael Miller and Violet Craft, for a wonderful challenge!

My quilt from Little Rhody will be heading to Texas soon. I wish I could go, too!

I love this t-shirt design! Yes, I think that is to scale!

Madrona Road Monday

 I'm so excited that my Madrona Road challenge piece is finished before the deadline! It was actually finished on Thursday, but I have been busy dealing with 2600 cases of Girl Scout cookies since then.

It doesn't have a title yet. Madrona Road Chevrons Herringbone?

It is almost 47" square. The pieced chevrons are 8.5" wide. 

I only used the fabrics provided (Thank you, Michael Miller!) plus 2 yds of Vanilla  Cotton Couture and 1 yard of Blue Sprout that I purchased. I used virtually every bit!

It is quilted with Aurifil 50wt, #2326 (sand/tan). This thread is a dream to work with!

 I had quilting design issues. My original vision was for feathers along the chevrons, but they were too wide for me to handle on my Bernina. I played around with some drawings and thought I could pull off the swirly fern effect (left). Nope. Hated it. So I tried a swag thing and liked it much better (right).

 Here you can see both options on the back. It took me an hour to pull out the quilting I didn't like. So worth it!

This is the only shot I have of the back. You can see how I pieced everything I had left. It wasn't quite wide enough and I had to add some Kona gray to the side. I want to write my own little story on the white part as a label. Still thinking about that!

And because it is snowing again, I made Pete hold it up for me outside. Look at those skinny legs! He didn't get them from me.

Hop over to the flickr group to see all the amazing entries!

Q1 Finish Along Finish #1.

Ready to quilt

My Madrona Road chevrons are pinned and ready to quilt. I decided to bust out the prized Aurifil thread! I wish I had a color in between these, but I think I'll use the darker shade.
I had been thinking about quilting feathers, but I think the chevron is too wide for me to create a smooth feather on my Bernina. Plan B is a vein with curled leaves. Wish me luck!

Progress

The Madrona Road challenge piece is coming along. I'm still hoping to get the top finished for the meeting this afternoon but I have a Girl Scout event this morning. Back to work!!

WIP Wednesday 2013

Happy Lucky 2013! 2012 was a big year for my daughter (high school graduation, Gold Award, starting college), and 2013 will be all about my son (high school graduation, Eagle Scout, joining the Marine Corps). We're looking forward to a great year!

 

I'm so happy to get back on track with WIP Wednesday! My goal this year is to show you some quilty progress each week.

Finish: The biggest and most important finish of the past few weeks was my nephew's wedding quilt. I'm so happy to have this quilt off my WIP list and onto their bed!

New: Madrona Road Challenge. Many of you are participating in the Modern Guild challenge with Michael Miller's Madrona Road collection. I started playing with the fabrics last night and I'm hoping to finish by Saturday's Rhode Island Modern Guild meeting.

I found inspiration in this print and several herringbone quilts popping up in Pinterest.

This is as far as I got last night during the Rose Bowl Game. The braid is pieced on a 60" long piece of 9" wide brown paper. There's no way I'll have enough fabric to piece several strips this long, so I will need to figure something out later.

In Progress: (In order of importance)

Ninigret Quilt Guild Raffle Quilt

Sugar Wave

Swap Soup

4x5 Bee Quilt

Friendship Star Mini

Mod Bento Swap

3x3 Swap Quilt

Bears in the Farmhouse

Planned for 2013: (not started yet)

Mo-Stash Bee (Jan - June)

Baby Quilt for new grand-niece (February)

Emerald Challenge (due March 8)

New York Beauty (always on the list!)

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