A Modern Stain Glass Paper Piecing - BOM - 2014 - Block 2

Block 2 of the Modern Stain Glass Paper Piecing BOM.

Block 2 - Image

Click on the link for your paper piecing instructions.

Block 2 Paper Piecing

Next month I will try and post some video of how I paper piece. 

Hope your enjoying this BOM, come back the first week of February for another block.

A Modern Stain Glass Paper Piecing - BOM - 2014

This is the first time that I have done a BOM, so bare with me if there are some errors. I am really excited and honored to create this BOM with using EQ7 for my Modern Quilting Guild. 
There are two links that will take you to Google Docs. The first link is just the image of the blocks. The second link is the files for the Paper Piecing in the links, I am using Google docs (I hope it works). I am working on some videos for the next block.

Here's the fabric yardage (remember this is just an estimate, you might need more or less)
Orange = 1/4 yard
Red = 3/8 yard
Yellow = 3/8 yard
White = 1/4 yard
Black = 1 + 3/8 yard
Blue = 3/8
Purple = 3/8

I cut 4 inch wide by the width of the fabric of each color, the Black I cut 2 1/2 strips and they worked better to piece.
If you haven't ever paper pieced before, there are a lot of good video's on YouTube and also on Craftsy.com.

January - First - BOM

January First - BOM - Paper Piecing

This is only the first block of two for January I will post the second block in two weeks.
Hope you enjoy trying the paper piecing with me this year. 

Happy New Year "2014"

Happy New Year to everyone. Sure hope 2014 is a better year for me on blogging, I started off pretty good. But then life hit and it was a while before I blogged.

This year I am doing a BOM for my Modern Quilt Guild. So each month I will be posting the blocks on here. This will be paper piecing. Come back on the first Thursday of each month and I will be posting the blocks.

My husband was great this year for Christmas and really listened to what I wanted. I needed a new camera so that I could get better pictures of my quilts in progress. I always wanted a serger, this is a great beginner one I believe, I have already made two quilts with it so far. (pictures following). He also made this thread holder for me. I had all my thread in a large basket. Now I can see them all on the wall.  Then, he purchased all the misc. items that I mentioned that I would like to have. He even went to a quilt shop and got me some fat quarters. A year ago he had no idea what a fat quarter was.  I love it that my husband supports my hobby.

Here are the two quilts that I made with the serger.

Front and Back - Quilt as you go.

Front and Back

I have been quilting/sewing even though I haven't posted much.  Here are a couple other items that I made before Christmas. I made a weekend tote for my mother-in-law, some fabric scrap baskets, I found this fat quarter bag pattern that I had to try (the small one is great for gift cards, made from a 5" square). And, then I have been working on the Bonnie Hunter's Celtic Solstice Mystery!

I believe this will be all for tonight. I will be back tomorrow to post the BOM.
Happy New Year again.
Until tomorrow!

Back Again

I can't believe that it has been since August that I posted anything to my blog.  Boy time fly's when your having fun. I have been super busy lately, I am working full time again (Love It) I am the Administration Assistant to the President of the company that I'm working for. Didn't really know if I wanted to get back into being assistant, but I really enjoy this position.

I'm going to be a grandma, yes my daughter and son-in-law is having a baby next July. I'm so excited about that. The only thing is that the baby will be born in Korea. They will be stationed over there for 3 years. So I will be saving all my extra money to go over there next July so see my first grand baby.

Know on to my quilting that I have been doing, not much, but I have been doing some.

My modern quilt guild has been doing Bee's each month. So I have been doing those blocks. I made another weekender, but can't show until after Christmas. (it's a gift).  

I did 4 blocks for Luci - Modern Maples throw quilt I don't have pictures of those.

I made a couple of table runners. Here's one of them.

 
I will get back into posting to my blog. I promise!

I have an exciting year coming up. I will be creating a BOM for my guild. Which I will be posting on here each month. I created the BOM on my EQ7, and it's going to be paper piecing. 

So if you would like to join this 2014 BOM, I will be posting the fabric information at the end of December.

 

Raining Day in Missouri

 It's another raining day here in Missouri. That means more cutting fabric and sewing.
I have been cutting the pieces for DWR, I will start sewing them together today.

 

There is a craft show in October that some of the girls from the guild is going to have a booth. They have asked me if I would like to make some things for the booth.  Of course I said yes... but I haven't ever done anything to actually sell.  I seen these really cute dress form pincushions and thought that they would be good and then I thought about some mug rugs, bags and maybe a couple of baby quilts.

Here is my first attempt to making the dress form pincushion. (Still need some work)

 

 

 

 The second one that I did, I used a lot of pins and curves looks much better.  These are like chips, you can't just eat one. I made three of them yesterday.  I just need to find something for the stands. They used candle sticks for their stands on the tutorial that I seen these on. But when we moved I sold all of mine.  So I need to get creative and find something.  Will post when I find something.

I am heading to my sewing room for the day.  
Until next time, have a great day.

DWR - "Double Wedding Ring Challenge"

It's a raining day here in Missouri, so I decided to start practicing on my circle piecing for the DWR Challenge. 


I tried to sew the curves without pinning, but it just didn't work out for me.  So here is a picture of my pinning the curves it worked so much better.

 

Here is the project in progress. 

Here is one completed.

Here is two put together.

 

 I think that they are coming together very nicely. These are just practice pieces. 

 I worked in EQ7 last night and come up with a design that I like and thinking about doing for the challenge.  I imported the fabric that I will be using. 
Starting next week I will be getting my Studio AccuQuilt out and start cutting fabric.  I love this die it makes cutting all these pieces of fabric out so easy. I will be posting more pictures of my progress.
 

Until my next post have a great day.

EQ7 Summer Drawing: Block 4 - EasyDraw + PatchDraw blocks

This is the last block for the  EQ7 Summer Drawing Series

I have really enjoyed this series.  I am challenging myself that for the month of August I am going to actually sew all these blocks together and make a wall hanging.  So hopefully by the end of August you will see the finished project.  (If I write it down, I most likely will complete it).

Here is a picture in fabric and also in solid colors.

I will be posting my progress through out the month on my blocks from this series and then the finished project.