Chopin – A Passionate Quilter From Texas
I love to share my Quilting projects with other Quilters. My goal is to share my progress on projects that I am working on. I would love for you to follow along with me during my endeavors. I hope you enjoy watching me tackle new techniques and projects. Hopefully you can learn from my "hiccups" and mistakes and make your journey easier.
Just a note to say that I enjoyed the snow but ready for it to be over with. It is. We list water for 50 hours and electricity fir only 4 hours. We were blessed.
We have no Internet until Wednesday and no sewing here. Not in the mood. See all next week.
Hugs Nanette
on my phone
Good evening. The cold front has arrived – I love winter, guess I should have been born in the North Pole! LOL I had a long day – 12 hours that included my walk, breakfast, and cutting out blocks for OMIGOSH, and mix in a few interruptions. It was a great day! I am now relaxing and ready for my evening show. This morning It was sweat day for walking – 60 degrees with 93% humidity and tomorrow is going to be in the 40’s and 50’s during the day, and not much warmer for a week, so no sweating during the walk. Yea.
On to Quilting and last week’s goals: (Yup – I am a Dreamer)
Scarlett’s Baby Quilt. I decided that I wanted to put all my energies into making a quilt for Julie’s baby this week since her last day at work would be the 14th! I decided on 9 patches on point. She wanted Lavendar and Grey so I chose a lavendar with dots, a medium purple, and a dark purple for the quilt and the grey border! This quilt fabric is from my original Patrick Lose Moda Marbles stash from early 2000. The quality of the Moda fabric has changed so it makes the quilt even more special. I quilted it Sunday and took it to her on Monday. She is such a nice young woman. I thought that she was about 19, but she is 26 years old! I asked her to let me know when Baby Scarlett arrives in April and send pictures. I am sure she will. The quilt measures 48” x 48”.
I have progressed on my SAG Medallion. I believe I have 3 leaves, all stems and 5 flowers including the Center Flower. Now that I have finished the baby quilt, I will finish SAG this week in the evenings. I am just too tired to do anymore this evening!
OMIGOSH! I am really enjoying making this quilt. I finished cutting out the last of the 16 remaining blocks. I have all of the 9 patches, 4 patches, HSTs, and background pieces cut and put in individual plastic bags for 16 blocks – all I need to do now is sit, sew, iron, and square things up. This entails up and down work and no straight sitting all day! Better for the body – not mine, but someone’s.
Goals for 8 February – 15 February: (Better work faster – the month will be more than half over! Yikes!!!
Remaining February Goals:
Have a wonderful week and keep on stitching and having fun.
Hugs, Nanette
Linking To: My Quilt Infatuation; Confessions of a Fabric Addict; Finished or Not Friday ; Em’s Scrap Bag; BOM’s Away; Sew Fresh Quilts; Crazy Mom Quilts; Oh Scrap; Scrap Happy Saturday; Slow Sunday Stitching Quilt Fabrication Mid Week Makers; Peacock Party; Design Wall Monday, For the Love of Geese,Scrap Happy Days, Quilting Patch Linky Party To-Do-Tuesdays;PHD in 2021;
Good morning. I am trying to figure out who beat me up during the night as I woke up stiff as a board! I do believe it is the extreme weather changes here in good ole’ South Texas. The weatherman just does not know what will happen with the Arctic Cold front that is projected this week. As much as I would like to just sit in a chair today that won’t happen. I am heading out for my walk and goal for the day is to quilt Scarlett’s quilt!
I am making great progress on SAG Medallion. I see the end of this puppy this week, heck IF we watch the Super Bowl, I may have it completed tonight! (Wishful thinking). Only 7 more leaves, 2 daisies, and 2 roses, and one large flower in the center to join everything!
This week as an “added” attraction, I am making a baby quilt for the sweetest young girl who works at HEB Curbside who is expecting a baby on 14 April which was my Mothers Birthday. She was born in 1911 and would be 110. Julie is naming her baby girl Scarlett. Mother used to call me Scarlett O’Hara (Gone with the Wind) because she said I would now worry about things until later! These are the colors she chose for Scarlett. I did not know if I would be able to work with the “grey” that the younger generation loves, but I did! Yea for me!
It is loaded and ready to be quilted today! I have not decided whether I will bind it by hand or machine. I prefer hand method. I have to have it completed by tomorrow since Julie’s last day at work will be the 14th.
When this “unplanned” quilt is finished, I will be moving back to OMIGOSH. I have 8 more blocks to cut out and prepare for sewing. I have 16 blocks to make to finish the quilt, so I will be working 100% on OMIGOSH this coming week and hoping to finish it!
Have a wonderful Sunday and a great week! I am pulling for the Kansas City Chief’s to win the game tonight. If we watch the game it is the only one we will have watched this season.
Hugs, Nanette
Linking To: My Quilt Infatuation; Confessions of a Fabric Addict; Finished or Not Friday ; Em’s Scrap Bag; BOM’s Away; Sew Fresh Quilts; Crazy Mom Quilts; Oh Scrap; Scrap Happy Saturday; Slow Sunday Stitching Quilt Fabrication Mid Week Makers; Peacock Party; Design Wall Monday, For the Love of Geese,Scrap Happy Days, Quilting Patch Linky Party To-Do-Tuesdays;PHD in 2021;
Good Tuesday morning. The weather is calm and cool today! The wind has stopped coming in from the North which is a blessing for me! This Cedar season has been mixed with dust from the Plains blowing in and giving me fits, but I am great today! Additionally being a Celiac, the diet can be very challenging, to say the least. I was eating eggs (5 a day) for years, but now I have discovered that I have an intolerance to them. Within 24 hours of eliminating them in my diet I began to feel 100% better with great energy coming back like I used to have! This is really a big blessing for me, even if I can only tolerate chicken and potatoes – I am losing weight, sleeping better, and feeling great – so it doesn’t matter about limitations on food!
I have had a very productive week and very thankful for it being that way! I made decisions that will keep me on track to finish as many of my UFOs and Longarm quilting backlog in the next 5 months. I would hope that by June I will be working on new quilts!
Goals for 26 January – 1 February 2021:
SAG Medallion. I have started on the 2nd half of the Medallion but after taking this picture, I realized that I had to change one of the leaves on the right hand side since I am using a different fabric for the leaves under the Daisies (little oops). SAG Medallion and Jacobean Holiday hopefully by the end of February.
Poor Minnie Mouse and Cross Stitch – she is just not getting her just do. I am hoping to play with the Counted Cross Stitch this coming week since I have made some changes to my projects that will free up a lot of time.
PHD 2021: I had not quilted in quite awhile, so I had to let my HQ warm up, set up a practice piece, and then worked on the backing, cut the batting, and loaded the quilt on Saturday! I quilted it on Sunday and did the binding by machine (not my preference, but…it is done!)! My HQ is not computerized, so I do free motion. I did a mid-size (small) meandering. I am calling it Colorful HSTs.
And the backing:
OMIGOSH – I decided to make a total of 30 blocks. I have 8 ready to sew (completed 4 this week) and have the remaining 8 strips cut out and ready to sew the 9 patches together and Shoo Fly HSTs and they will be put in baggies waiting to be sewn together. A good goal would be to finish this quilt by the end of February – we shall see.
SAHRR. I have decided to not continue on with the Round Robin, so I am stopping with the first border and will hand quilt both wall hangings. I am so happy that I have now completed these UFOs as they have found a home! They are basted and ready for the quilting hoop!
The backing fabric is Kona Bay for Seattle Bay Fabrics, a fabric line out in the mid or early 2000’s. Very difficult to find any and if so, it is expensive. I wish there were more fabrics like it. It feels like silk and to me it was the perfect fabric for the backing. My only regret is that I had only purchased 1.5 yards.
The Arrowhead Block: This project is cancelled! Another decision – I have too many other quilts that I wish to make or finish this year, PLUS I do not know if I will ever use the Jenny Beyer fabric!
I am thinking I need some suggestions as what to do with this fabric!
Goals for week of 1 February – 8 February
Included in this weekly goal, yesterday I did my monthly house clean and did all the washing! DONE √ This will give me the entire week for quilting!
Have a wonderful week and keep on stitching – it is truly calming and rewarding!
Hugs, Nanette
Linking To: My Quilt Infatuation; Confessions of a Fabric Addict; Finished or Not Friday ; Em’s Scrap Bag; BOM’s Away; Sew Fresh Quilts; Crazy Mom Quilts; Oh Scrap; Scrap Happy Saturday; Slow Sunday Stitching Quilt Fabrication Mid Week Makers; Peacock Party; Design Wall Monday, For the Love of Geese,Scrap Happy Days, Quilting Patch Linky Party To-Do-Tuesdays;PHD in 2021;
Chopin - A Passionate Quilter From Texas 