DOUBLE DELIGHT

I've been working working working on all these little blocks ( 3.5 inches! ) and I might be finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel - HOORAH!
I have all the square in a square done,,
I have all the strips sewed and cut into 1-1/2 pieces for the 9 patches
I have the inner 9-patch blocks done and trimmed and pressed

and there still seems like a lot more to do -- please play the violins for me, you know the sad songs? On the good side,,, I got to go spend time this weekend with The Amazing Grandson and The Most Precious Granddaughter. They always rejuvinate me. Amazing Grandson told me I was his favorite granma! I told him it was because I was the granma sitting next to him and he said
"Oh NO Granma - You ARE my favorite and I love you very very much!"

Now, doesn't that just make you want to tear up and give him a big ol hug??!!

Ok, I wiped my eyes and blew my nose -- back to the quilts

My friend tirane and I have been doing this quilt together. Same basic design but we both put our own touches to it, our own colors.
She is a much faster sewer than I am so ((( aarrrggghhh -- that bad 4-letter word W-O-R-K gets in my way ))) she is putting her borders on!!!
Check out what she did at http://quiltifications.blogspot.com/2009/02/at-long-last.html

Maybe when I'm done we can post both of the quilts together -- kinda cool to see what two friends do together!

STASHBUSTING REPORT - WEEK 5

I think I have been really really good!
I have purchased no fabric this week,,, and what I have used has all been from my stash. I have been working on the Bonnie Hunter Double Delight, keeping track of the yardage I use, so when I get everything all cut, I'll post that as my usage.

See me pat myself on my back (( OH,, don't stretch the arm so much! ))

Fabric added this week - ZERO
Fabric added year to date - ZERO
Fabric used the week - Zero
Fabric used Year to Date - can't remember ( grin ) but it's posted on a little place on the left hand side of the page

How are you doing with your stashbusting?

STASHBUSTING - WEEK 4

I haven't done well this past week,,, I've been really busy sewing on my version of the Double Delight. But for my stash busting I need to add the fabric that I have cut for this quilt..

Fabric added this week -- ZERO !! Isn't that wonderful!!! It has been a whole 4 weeks since I have bought any fabric! I am so very proud of myself!
Fabric added year to date - ZERO !! I don't care so much what I use,, just that I haven't added anything is a win for me! ( besides a boost to the pocketbook! LOL )
Fabric used this week - 4 yards ( for the Double Delight blocks I'm working on, not the whole quilt )
Fabric used year to date - 16 yards -- guess that's not so bad, I'm happy!

I think I'm liking this idea of using what I have. It has been like breaking a bad habit, usually on the weekends I was out shopping - for fabric that I really didn't NEED but sure did like. Now I have more time to do other things and maybe get some sewing done!

I've been a very good girl - and I get a great big gold star!

UPDATE ON DOUBLE DELIGHT

I was hoping to get alot more done on my version of Bonnie Hunter's Double Delight Mystery quilt. I just didn't know there were SO MANY square - in - a - square blocks in this quilt!!! ARRRGGGHHH !! I'm really tired of sewing HST pieces to the squares.
I need 200 complete S-I-A-S pieces,,, will they never end!!

I thought I had all the right red squares cut out,, re-did the math and (( can you see me pulling my hair!?! )) I need 200 and had 179 !! #&*%$$*%,,, so I cut the rest ( thank goodness I had enough fabric! ) and sewed them up.

I have the LAST HST to sew on,,, then press, then (( oh I hate to do this part )) square them up...Don't ask me why I find that step so much a pain,, but I do. But I know that if I don't, I'll have wonky S-I-A-S's..

See my 200 blocks !!! all in nice neat groups of 10. gee, I'm organized! LOL !!

So, tirane,,, how far have you gotten??? I checked your blog.. come on, fess up,,, how far along are you?

DOUBLE DELIGHT - TAG YOUR IT!

I'm a cheater! couldn't help myself,,, I had to see the outcome of the latest Quiltville Mystery Quilt. I didn't have the time to start the quilt when the mystery started so I waited.. and I LOVE the quilt that Bonnie Hunter designed. So I asked my Saturday sewing buddy, tirane, if she wanted to work on the pattern together.
She worked it out on EQ6 and we swapped the file back and forth a bunch,,, coming up with different colors and layouts - I just love EQ for being able to do this.. better visualzation of what is to come ( grin ) and this just MIGHT stop a big OOPS..

I think we ended up with about 47 different variations!

This is the fabric I'm going to use

The apple fabric is the focus fabric and will be the border . The red plaid will be the squares in one of the blocks and the setting triangles.
The dark red will be the red in the 9 patches. The white is actually a cream and that is the background fabric. The green is the main square in the other block and there is a dark green hiding in the corner that will be an accent border and in a center 9-patch of one of the blocks.

This sounds very confusing! but I'm thinking it will come out looking great. All this fabric was in my stash ( thank you Judy Laquidara for keeping me on track for stash busting! ). I just love the apple fabric -- LOL I have a whole bolt of it!!! one of those "good deals" that I just could pass up !!

Well, tirane has already posted about her progress in the piecing,,, she's ahead of me. Oh well,,

One of the first blocks the directions say to start with is a square in a square... here is my progress... .......... ........
hhmm wonder what my camera settings where? that is probably why my pictures are different colors.
I'm finishing up the other two sides of the square in a square, then press, then trim ( ick ).. Yes, I will square all these up cause I know if I don't I will have a big mess.

Go look at the Quiltville.com site and see if you can figure out how my colors are going to work. My quilt will be the same,,, but different. tirane's will be different from mine and from the original too.

That's the Fun!



just had to show you my little guy who stays right by my side - everywhere! Helping Mom sew is such a HARD! job!