Deana: One Monthly Goal - Snowman Finished!

I just barely finished the binding on my "One Monthly Goal".  I have been finishing quilting projects for others and now it feels good to finish one for me.  

This is also a 2nd Quarter Finish Along goals.  Click here to refer back to my goal setting post.  Here is a link to the finisher's linky party.

This snowman quilt was also the "draw #" from Patchwork Times list for May.  That list is helping me SO MUCH to finish things.  I have completed every one so far this year with the exception of one and I did make great progress on it.

This hand embroidered snowman quilt has been in the works for many many years.  I took it to wrestling tournaments for at least 3 years just getting the hand work done.  It is a joy to see it finished!

I also got a lot of work done on Diamond Hill.  This block only has the light green leaves left to stitch.

The next two blocks are glue basted and ready to start stitching.  I only have one more daisy flower to turn under - yay!  The hand stitching is my favorite part.

I am linking up with:

One Monthly Goal
Esther's WOW
Let's Bee Social
Weight Loss Wednesday
Midweek Makers

Deana: Top done!

After several years of working on this quilt, I finally have the top done! Yay!

I am linking up with:

Show & Tell Tuesday

Sew Cute Tuesday

Fabric Tuesday

Freemotion by the River
WOW
Let's Bee social
WIP Wednesday

Deana's Design Wall Monday

Here's what's up on my design wall today.

Flowering Snowball...

Snowman Embroidery Border in progress...

Linking up today with:

Design Wall Monday at Patchwork Times

BOMs Away

Monday Makers

Main Crush Monday

Deana: Snowman quilt assembled

I finally finished the last embroidery strip and added it to the quilt.  Now all that is left are the borders.  This will be a wall hanging size.

I wish I was good enough to quilt it like the one at this link.  It was quilted by Karen Marchetti.

Deana: Mon/Tue Progress this week

I am linking up with Sew Cute,   Whip Wednesday, and WOW tonight.  Please visit them and see what everyone is working on.

I have three more windmill blocks in progress.  The centers are not appliqued on yet; they are only pressed and ready.

I also made a little bit of progress on my Christmas Log Cabin quilt.  You can see that I have added log 6 and there are 14 logs.

 
I also completed some more Dear Jane blocks.  The more of these little cuties I make the more I realize the talent Jane must have had.  I think she was a little nuts too (ha ha).  Honestly, these little guys are challenging for a highly experienced quilter using modern tools and electric sewing machines.  I truly admire Jane and understand why they refer to her as "Dear"!

The block in the middle had to be redone.  It is a good thing it was not hand stitched down yet because the brown is turned wrong.  Also, I did not like how the little pink flowers in the brown were not evenly spaced.


The statistics on those three blocks are as follows:

(Left) G4 is called Shutter Bug.  It has 29 little pieces and was done with a paper pieced method.  It took me 50 minutes and has 29 pieces.  I LOVED making this one.  I so love the square-in-a-square blocks as I have come to call them.  I want to make an entire quilt our of them someday, but perhaps not this small.

(Center) G5 is called Poof.  It has 8 pieces, took 31 minutes, and is paper pieced and hand applique.

(Right) G3 is called Four Leaf Clover.  It has 4 pieces, is hand applique, and took 1 hour.

I decided to replace the brown and pink with a brown on brown instead.  It is turned the right way and stitched down now.  Yay!

G6 is called Papa's Star (on the right below).  I paper pieced this, and believe me, that little star in the middle is the smallest little pieced star possible.  Jane was honestly nuts when she made this one.  This block took me 1 hour, 1 minute, and has 31 pieces in it.

 Below is my latest Jane of the day.  It is G7 and called Indianapolis.  It is paper pieced with some applique, took me 52 minutes, and has 21 pieces.  I am not quite finished with it because I till have to hand applique down the circle.  It is not as perfect as I would like, but it was also more complicated than I originally thought.  I decided it is perfect enough.

My current Dear Jane totals are:

78 Hours and 21 minutes.

1,819 pieces

I also want to add my progress on my snowman embroidery quilt.  I have not worked on it since Saturday, but I was able to complete the music and words this past weekend while sitting at my son's Region Wrestling Tournament.  He took 7th and is going to state!   Yay!  I hope to get the tree done and some or all of the snowflakes this coming weekend at state.

Deana's February Goals

This post shows my WOW or whips with Esther today, Sew Cute Tuesday, as well as my February goals. 

I joined "A Lovely Year of Finishes" in hopes of getting some encouragement towards finishing some projects.  To join you have to post your monthly goals and link up with the group (I am #101 in the link up group).  We will post our actual goal finishes at the end of the month.

Here are my February Goals:

1.  Finish the words in "Walking in a Winter Wonderland" as well as the strip of music.  This is a hand embroidery quilt.  I will be at some wrestling tournaments this month where I can do hand work. 
 FINISHED FEBRUARY 9, 2013  --

 2.  Finish the quilting on my mom's Utah Quilt.  It is pretty well on its way.  I machine quilt with a regular Bernina.  I don't have a longarm, so it takes me a lot longer.  The strings you see are basting stitches.    

FINISHED FEBRUARY 5, 2013  -- HOORAY!!
See the finish here.

 Below is my favorite block in the Utah quilt...the covered wagon with a little quilt in the back.

 3.  I hope to get 10 WindMill blocks done this month.  They sew up pretty fast except for the black applique centers which I do by hand.  I will be making two queen sized quilts out of these, one for each of my daughters.  I will need a total of 40 blocks. FINISHED FEBRUARY 24TH.

 4.  I hope to get this other quilt of my mom's quilted this month as well.

 5.  Number 5 is my Christmas Log Cabin Quilt.  I hope to complete 10 blocks for it.  It looks a little off because it is laying on top of my "Dear Jane" quilt on my design wall.  My snowman quilt is also on the bottom under it.  COMPLETED FEBRUARY 21.

6.  I also hope to complete 8 Dear Jane blocks this month which comes to two a week.  It is hard to do more than that with those little 4 1/2" blocks.  You just need a break from them.
FINISHED FEBRUARY 26TH.

The blocks next in line are shown below:

Deana: Weekly Progress Report

I got so much done this week.

Below is a new project I started.  I am making two queen sized quilts out of this pattern, one for each of my girls.

I also kitted another quilt.  It is ready to go out to it's waiting sewers.

I cut strips and did some starter strip sewing on the two queen quilts.  The strips are in the box. 

 I finished sewing the tiny spikes on the gold star below.  I also cut the next twelve blocks for my Christmas quilt.

I really went to town on Dear Jane this week.  Below is G1, Hattie's Hen House.  

It took 50 minutes and is 8 pieces.  It is pieced with applique.

 This one is called Autumn Aster (F9).  It is all applique and took 2 hours and 46 minutes.  It has only 13 pieces.

This green one is called On Target (F11)  It gave me several problems because I tried to sew it in Y-seams.  It was just too small and the wrong angle for that, so I redesigned it for paper piecing and added the applique white pieces and corner pieces.  It took 2 hours and 30 minutes and has 20 pieces.

F12 is called Starburst.  It is entirely paper pieced with 20 pieces and took 41 minutes.

The next one is called Tour De France (F13)  It is all applique, 5 pieces, and took 1 hour and 16 minutes.  

Below is F2 Kaleidoscope.  It is paper pieced, took me 54 minutes, and has 28 pieces.  

 
 I finished the F row and made one block in the G row.  When I finish G row I will be halfway done with the quilt top excluding the pieced border.  

My goal is to do one block a week, but two a week will finish the main blocks this year.  This week I did 6 -- two were for the week before when I didn't have time to sew, and the extra two just got me ahead of schedule a little bit.  I am pleased.

Dear Jane totals to date:

1,703 pieces

74 hours and 30 minutes

Below is my Snowman Embroidery Quilt.

Here is the progress I have made at my son's wrestling tournaments this month.  Once I complete the section below I will be done.

Below is a link to what a finished version of my Snowman quilt looks like.

Also, I linked up with Freshly Pieced Modern Quilts WHIP WEDNESDAY!  You should check out the inspiration there.