One finish a week, not bad (and a link party)

At this pace, I may be able to get many of the 10 projects I planned to finish this quarter done! 

The Ongoing Project List:

1. SYS2015 future projects - paused until September
2. Mirror Mirror Afghan - no progress
3. D wall hanging - dooooooone (see below)
4. Block Swap Adventure - done July (see below)
5. the SK project - no progress
6. Tiny Quilt Challenge (American Made Brand) - no progress
7. Zipper pouches - cut 1 pouch pieces, ready to start assembly
8. the Ender project - no progress
9. Geese project - printed pattern, received fabric, ready to sew
   This is my project for A Lovely Year of Finishes
10. Cross stitch scene - half way done
11. Americana QAL - no progress

The EverythingElse List:

1. Embroidery calendar - no progress
2. Animal blocks for charity quilts - paused for a while
3. Project of Doom 2015 @ Fandom in Stitches - 3 blocks done (see below)
4. College Days Blog Hop blocks for tote/grocery bag -  no progress
5. Alice in Wonderland quilt - no progress
6. As You Wish -  no progress
7. Happy Halloween wall hanging - printed next 2 patterns
8. Crazy optical illusion - no progress
9. Memory quilt 2 - no progress
10. B quilt - no progress

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I finished the wall hanging I will gift to my dad to decorate our house in the mountains (which is the piece in the middle).

Dimension: 24'' x 25''

Patterns: Topsy-Turvy Tree (by Jennifer Ofenstein), Sleeping Cat by Maureen,
Cow face by Piecemeal Quilts, all other animal blocks from the book "A Quilter's Ark"
Project for Q3 finish-along (full list of Q3 projects here)!

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I made few block to be donated to Jennifer for her Linus quilts. They are super easy and fast to make!

Patterns by Jennifer, Harry Potter's POD-2015 QAL

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This is the project for August, Lovely Year Of Finishes. It's going to be a wall hanging: I have the panel, I have the Spoonflower fabric I created, I have the pieces that I will applique above the panel... now it's time to start sewing!! :)

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And finally these are the blocks I made for my June partner in the Block Swap Adventure. I hope she likes them!

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Good progress (and a link party)

Another good week with good progress!!

The Ongoing List:

1. the SK project - 1 block done + several designed and ready to go (see below)
2. Tea Towel challenge and PPV BOM - last block done! (see below)
3. SYS2015 future projects - a great finished object (see below)
4. Embroidery calendar - started cutting several scraps for the backs!
5. Color of the Year challenge - top done!
   (this will be my March project for a Lovely Year of Finishes)
6. New project - J wall hanging - gathered fabric

The EverythingElse List:

1. Animal blocks for charity quilts - more blocks done (see below)
2. Project of Doom 2015 @ Fandom in Stitches - 1 block done (see below)
3. Reversible sewing machine cover - 4/8 blocks done
4. College Days Blog Hop blocks for tote/grocery bag - 1 block done
5. Alice in Wonderland quilt - printed 1 pattern, picked fabric!
6. As You Wish - 8/16 blocks done
7. Happy Halloween wall hanging - 13/32 blocks done
8. Crazy optical illusion - 1 "row" done
9. D wall hanging - collected some fabric and some ideas
10. B quilt - to be designed
11. Memory quilt 2 - no progress.

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I shared this fabric box made with Syndrome block earlier this week in this post.
But seriously, how can I not repost this fun sequence of picture I took of my sewing budding using the scraps box as new place to hide?? She is too cute, sorry for reposting!! ;)

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The variation of week 7 of Project of Doom 2015 was to cool to miss! So I had fun making this block with scraps of green for the plant, and fun prints for the book. The block will go to Jennifer for Linus.

Another block, designed by Jennifer, is my last block for my wall hanging Tea towel challenge/PPV!!

Now only two pieced border are missing and then it will be done!!

Pattern by Jennifer @ Sewhooked

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The top for my mini for the Color of the Year challenge is done. Cannot share yet, but this will be my March project for a Lovely Year of Finishes.

Sneak peek.

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Speaking about charity quilts, I am working on collecting animal blocks and while I was struggling finding patterns that I liked, a light bulb turned on in my brain: many Disney/Cartoon characters are animals and FiS is full of those patterns!! DUH :)

In my defense I should say that I consider cartoon characters just people of different sizes and colors ;) so that's why I didn't realize I could use some patterns from FiS for my animal quilts ;)

Anyway... these are the first two I picked: a fish (YES, I know!!! she is not just a fish!!! she is Dory!!) and a sheep (because the year of the sheep just started) :)

Pattern by Lilja

Pattern by Jessica

As usual, I was allowed to use only one main fabric and the rest had to be from my scraps bin... which is why the green background is variegated and pieced :) but it worked out great I think!!

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And finally a new block for my SK project is ready.

Opening line of "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon",

You can find the pattern on my The SK Project page.

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Secret sewing, Test sewing (and a link party)

Again significant progress this week! I am on a roll!! :)

The List:

1. Pumpkin's play mat - general layout planned with the fabric I have left from the Mickey Mouse quilt!
2. the SK project - 1 block done (see below)
3. Tea Towel challenge and PPV BOM - 2 blocks done (see below) 
4. Color of the Year challenge- 16/36 border mini-blocks done (cannot share)
5. Project of Doom 2015 @ Fandom in Stitches - second block done (see below)
6. Black and White pillow - second half done (see below)
7. Secret projects - 3 big + 2 small blocks done, 1 traced (cannot share the main ones, but the additional ones are shown below!)

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These are the latest blocks for the Tea Towel challenge/PPV BOM. They are the December blocks.
3 more blocks are missing and then border and the wall hanging top will be done! Very excited!!

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As mentioned last week, I have a new sewing machine... so I wanted to test the free motion quilting features that I didn't have in the previous machine (dropping feed dogs, larger quilting table, speed control). Since I don't like to make "useless" practice projects, I decided to join a Free Motion Quilting Challenge @ QuiltShopGal :)
There were many things I wanted to test with this project, so I adapted the project to my needs:

1. I wanted it to be a match with the Yin Yang pattern so I can make a pillow with it!
2. I wanted to use the pattern how variegated red thread looks on black and white fabric (I never used variegated thread before)
3. I wanted to see if I can do some FMQ without tracing. So I traced only the half of the heart on the white part, then mirroring the marked shapes
4. I needed to test the new setup (speed control, new space, etc) so I decided not to care at all if the stitches are not consistent or ugly :) just going with the flow and trying to enjoy the process was my goal.

So this is the result of my test:

I used the design that I saw on Joan's blog for the heart, and the one presented of 2012 challenge on quiltshopgal for the background. I really like the effect of the variegated thread both on the white and on the black. And I also like that the same color thread for the rest of the space: it adds texture without drawing the attention away from the center heart.

My FMQ skills need a lot of work, but I think I like the speed control of this new machine... still don't know how to use it properly but I have the feeling that in the long run it is going to be helpful! :)

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This is the second block from the QAL Project of Doom 2015 @ Fandom in Stitches!

POD 2015, week 2 (in my house colors)

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I started working on a secret project... and since it's secret I cannot share the main part of the project. But I needed some additional blocks to complement the main one, so I made these scrappy blocks. You will see how they are combined with the main block to create a fun finished object ;)
(Linking up at Oh, Scrap!)

(r and s pattern available at Fandom in Stitches)

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And finally another block for my SK project is ready.
Opening line of "The Waste Lands"

You can find the pattern on my The SK Project page.

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