someone's been busy and yet nothing's been really done

I don't know why I always have 101 projects at the same time. Good new is one of them is Queen Bee project so I don't actually have to sew for it. So aside from writing my paper (#1) I did some sort of handycraft each day. I have that handy sort of alarm clock that so I do a break every hour for at least 15 minutes ...

So I did sew some more blocks for GREEN (I'm absolutely pathetic when it comes to thinking up names for my quilts - maybe I shoudl call it "Wiese" (pasture) or even "Hope" ...

the first quadrants arrived today

together with the mine - layout is still undecided

I started an appliquée project that looks a bit tricky - but hey I can do it .. I just need to want to enough for long enough. (I'm sure I can get Kathinca to kick me in the behind from time to time if needed) .Well I went for purple/pupleish/bloodred/rosewood this time - creating my own personal purple hell - Lila Hölle. And as I'm a miserable planner I change my plans a lot ...

.. I haven't decided on a background yet  - that is I originally pulled a cream /off white solid, because I really have a lot of it but somehow this print that I found in one of those "end of bolt boxes" (it's almost a metre but not quite) at a fabric store in town seemed like a nice background to take the picture and then I tough -well it doesn't look too bad as a background either ... but I'm not sure - arghh. [They do have another bolt of it so I could get more of it .. ]

But I also almost finishd a quilt - ok the quitlign has been finished since the end of July, but my original plans to quilt it on a train trip home for a wedding somehow didn't work out - on the way there I had to read through a Master thesis and add my comments and on the way back I had my little tin box with needle and thread busried deep, deep down in my backpack - couldn't find it so I just grabed a book. But I have been working on and off sewing on the binding ...

I finished all my Joan Hickson as Miss Marple DVDs though, so late night progress was rather slow. But I got a box of Hercule Poirot movies yesterday so maybe tomorrow I'm on again.

Just showing that I used differently coloured thready to quilt ... yeah I know, I know the lines aren't completely straight, but I guess ones it's been in the washing machine there will be too much crinkling to notice it ... on the solids I marked the lines with a chalk pen, on the pieced parts I just "eye balled" (I know bad manners etc) ...

Yeah I still also have my Storm at Sea the regular UFOs and now a absolutley new project that I have no idea how it's going to look like yet apart form it being a cushoin cover, there are simply too many weddings this year. Let your pattern ideas flow ...

Ohh and before I forget it - I do would love some more critique please  ~ I will not not like you, I will not be mad at you, I will not ignore you and I certainly won't delet your comment if you write something that is not 100% my opinion ... so like the blue-green polka dot in the middle of the upper row in the green quilt I really think it shouldn't be in there it's odd.

Löni

a finish

I used my lunch break to drive to a little bridge to tak a few pictures - won't use much text in this post -- all the other posts can be found here.

Name: bluegreenpink
Pattern: adaption of "Who's peeking" from Brioni Greenberg in Fat Quarterly issue 9
Quilting: STD
Size: 1,47m x 2,14m - 58" x 84"

Löni

progress

Uhhh - well progress is little to none. I did get a non-sewing distraction today though. A short travel to Frankfur aM to have meeting for "Story Drive" on the Book Fair in October. Oh but I guess that's not interessting for you - so the no to little progress on my sewing.

Quilts:

I got a few more inches of binding sewn on my bluegreenpink

I already told that on Monday or was it Sunday? anyway I got a good bit done on my Scrapquilt, that's been in the making since October last year I think - so we will talk again in a year see if it's gotten any bigger.

Bees:

Still waiting on my last June Beeblocks - but I got two more blocks for July today - I'm not sure anymore about the pattern - maybe I need to "invent" something to settle the quilt - maybe a sashing, but that would destroy the pattern hmmm - any ideas?

Swaps:

I started sewing the top for the 9-patch themed Doll Quilt - and I don't liek the result .. now I'm thinking again and I don't have much time left.

QALs:
Sadly I haven't done of the Farmer's Wife blocks - but I will get to them at the end of September.
I might have joined another Quilt along - I have a very traiterous subconsious - well that won't start until September so I'm taking a deep breath and am clming my nerves.

miscellaneous:
I did sew myself some shocking sport shorts - now I'm a bit scared of wearing them in public ... green dots on purple - well give me a few more days. Oh yeah I didn't mention the orange bias tape.

Löni

progress report

Well I thought I would just overwhelm you with pictures - I had quite a busy time. Doing an excursion to Bavaria and then having a tournament on Sunday and a presentation on Monday morning. And now having well no voice anymore. So I've been mostly reading and sulking in bed drinking hot tea with honey not enjoying the almost 28°C at all ...

I started my Farmer's Wife quilt:

I made a NewBee Bee block that had the wrong colours so I made another one:

I started quitling "bluegreenpink"

I started adding my June Queen blocks to the design wall

I started "Spring"

I made a testblock for my month as Queen - and wrote a tutorial on it - sort of - I will still keep calling them "How-to's"

I didn't  work on:

hmm no it's getting late and the list is so long and I don't want to look for the pictures ... another time

 Leo

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progress

Well I am making some progress on bluegreenpink - I used the "perfect" backing to bast it, watching Torchwood again, I really need some new DVDs (sadly I have to say the public library here is very backwater about DVDs).

In the good news department - the time of darkness has started here - it's finally summer and we get to see the sun so to keep the room temperature down the only thing that helps is keep the blinds closed. At least the nights are still cool.Well  I got around and started on one of my projects I put up as my NewFO projects back in January (feels like that was ages ago) - it will be my "Spring"

the obligatory toes for size reference

I got the first set of Bee blocks this weekend (I asked for 4 6,5" blocks instead of one 12.5" block)

Have I shown you my "Finnland"-block yet? it's for a trip around the world quilt my May Queen planned. Well I chose her favourite character from the Moomins - Mymble:

So for June I have a doll quilt and a bee block left to do

 Leo

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my love for unpieced backs

Yeah well all who have been reading my ramblings for a while know I usually use unpieced backs which is not really a problem as long as my quilts aren't wider than 59" (150cm) and even if I go bigger it only makes the selection smaller but I can easily go up to 110" (280cm). And funnily even though I measure my blocks and sashing and everything in inch - as soon as it comes to measureing the whole thing I take out my metric tools - I still can't think in inch when anything get's bigger than 12" and even then I my "idea" of how big the thing is rarely the actual size [12 inch are damn huge]. Same as I still sometimes catch myself at converting the €uros to the old curency - yeah the inch centimetre thing will take some more years.

So yeah I don't use the fabrics from the front in the back as I never have enough for the front pattern and a complete back. So I go hunting looking for the perfect backing fabrics and sometimes I find something - like the one on the left. I saw it, I bought it, now I'm basting it.

Yeah I know I'm lazy and I admit it. I really like being lazy sometimes.

Leo

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February

Ok panic .. no everything is goign to be fine - I have officially to clear my current digs until the end of March - so far I have a meager 3 banana boxes filled - but hey I have 10 empty boxes waiting. So besides having my exams and now having trouble getting my papers because my one "very dear" Prof can't manage to grade the last exam so a lot of runnign around getting "provisional" statements etc etc ohh how I love running after papers .. anyway I did some sewing

I started "bluegreenpink" (wow I'm creative with the names) - it's stored now in the "finished tops" box (ohh yes I already packed that one, together with the "big enough to make a back" fabric)

I promise I even sewed the rows together, just forget to take a picture before putting it in the box

I started a Starquilt, it was sort of part of my "want to do list" - I wanted to try out more hand sewing but after I had cut all the pieces (not necessarly like they were given in the pattern - I'm not good with patterns) I figured "hey I can do that with the machine" so I did. Now I need to start another hand sewing project. 10 stars together, how to make them

I started and finished my doll quilt for February - and since it arrived during the weekend I can even do a post how about it - I need to do the "get things done early" more often so I don't need to wait until the next month ... I even remembered to do a lable (sorry that is on the back of course).

That's it as far as the NewFO sewign went - I did work on a few old things so I just have to show them off - because one of them was really giving me a headache.
I managed to finish my Easy Street top (yeah you guessed it - it's in the box too)

my sewing machien looks so tiny ...

I attacked my scrap quilt again ... well it will one day become a scrap quilt - it's just hard work, but I think worth it.

That's all I did - well sewing wise - I think so at least ... I did have some pretty good ice cream yesterday ... but that probably doesn't count towards sewing - it was 3 coloured and basted between to waffles though - it was almost an edible quilt ... it made me bold enough to post a picture of me though - sugar high maybe, not really responsible for my actions...

Pheww that was a lot to read for you ... I might  have ruined my chances of getting comments

 Leo

bluegreenpink

I haven't made much progress, at least not on anything that I had plans to make progress with. It's a loose interpretation of the "Who's peeking?"-pattern in a Fat Quarterly issue.

I started this one yesterday as a sort of "after exam" treat.

not my colours - but I kind of like it

 Leo