Up to date on Patchwork Barn BOM

I can stop stressing about being behind on the Quilt Show BOM - Patchwork Barn, all caught up as of today!
June blocks were pretty straight forward, except for keeping those stripes aligned correctly!

The rail fence as one of the July blocks was perfect for using as a leader/ender for the other blocks. I used a wide variety of fabrics for those. I have decided I am not a fan of directional background fabric! I changed out the one used for block 19 (middle row) so I wouldn't waste fabric.

In addition to working on quilt blocks, I went to a Stitch n'Bitch for Ren Faire garb. Making doublets (and making your own pattern from a book, at least) and modifying some existing gowns and kirtles was the order of the day. I mostly just helped here and there. I also worked on making me a working woman's skirt, hopefully can show that next week!

Tuesday Round-up - 10 July 2018

I have been working away on Patchwork Barn - below are the month 4 blocks where I just used the suggested fabric to speed things along.

For month 5 I did a bit more individual blocks, some stash and some from the Patchwork Barn fabrics, did one as suggested, then modified the others. I have month 6 cut out, and working on cutting out month 7.

Since I have been working on Moon Garden, I have been in the mood for wool applique. Once month 3 was done I pulled out a kit (Twisted Thistles) I got from Granny's Legacy at some show (I think Stitches West), and got this done in about 10 days. It is only about 12" in diameter, but those star stitches around the border took a while!. I have two more kits, both poppies, that I will work on as desired. Currently they are being prepped.

Then I finally finished my Star Spangled Quilt! This top has been hanging around for years. I used stash fabric and enlarged a Judy Martin block to create this wall hanging. Free motion quilting, no marking, and a machine binding got it done in a day.

2018 Block of the Months

2018 is half over, and I have started several Block of the Months. Once again I am taking part in the Granary's BOM, this time Vintage Sampler by Barbara J. Eikmeier. I worked ahead and replaced the Feathered Star Block with a Carpenter's Wheel, and finished up the top last month.

Also on my to-do list is Lisa Bongean's Moon Garden BOM, this one in wools. We have received 3 months, so far, and I am caught up.

Then there is Patchwork Barn, an Edyta Sitar design, put out by The Quilt Show. I am behind on this one. I kept up through months 1 - 3, and just restarted working on it a few days ago. I have month 4 done, and am working on month 5, so two more months and I am caught up. I got the kit, but am supplementing with my stash. Except for month 4, the blocks are different (you make three of each block pattern). Hopefully with Vintage Sampler done, I can keep up with these two, and get a few more things done as well!

2017 BOM completed

Once again I did the BOM at the Granary, this time BOW Diddley, which I modified a bit (setting) and got done just after Christmas. It is a large quilt, almost 100" square, and took a while to quilt on my Bernina 765. I found some inspiring quilt motifs at The Inbox Jaunt.

Farm Girl Vintage

Last year I took a BOM class at the Granary in Sunnyvale. We really worked on more than one block a month, making Farm Girl Vintage by Lori Holt. I finished up the quilt last December.

Quilted in an allover design on my DMS.

Last year was travel, this year, not so much

In 2016, I traveled through 12 states in my 2008 MDX. I don't drive much while at home, but on the road I put on over 20,000 miles, driving most of it myself. After Empty Spools, I traveled around the Bay Area doing the Shop Hop by the Bay, picking up Row by Row Experience Home Sweet Home packets (mostly kits, some patterns), then a bit of an extended local collection trip (or two). Then my husband and I traveled to Salt Lake City for the ABANA conference. While he was busy with that, I went on my own shop hop, and visited a friend up in Logan, Utah, collecting more rows as I went. Then in August, my sister and I traveled the western states, going through California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Nevada, before returning home to California. I went to a John Flynn retreat while there.

We worked on three projects. I have finished one of them (the Arabic lattice in red and black).

I collected Home Sweet Home rows as we went, now have to finish some of them. I figure I will get several quilts from the 100 or so rows I collected. I collected themes, including one which will have one from each state I visited on my travels. More on those later.

Then in October/November I went to Houston Texas, driving all by myself. I visited friends along the way, and saw more of the western US, but I did not collect too many more rows. this was another loop,
to see different things coming and going.

This year I am trying to finish things, we will see how that goes. So far, I have finished five quilty things:

The Arabic Lattice (above)

Charlotte Angotti's Let me Surprise You class from 2010

a small wool pin holder from a Lumenaris kit

My Celtic Solstice inspired Autumnal Equinox

And my Candy Cauldron!

Candy Cauldron

I picked up this Pearl Pereira design (P3Designs) several years ago instead of her Halloween Baltimore pattern. This is pretty much the center of that pattern, only embroidered instead of appliqued. I started it and life happened and I put it down. I rediscovered it last November or December, got the embroidery done and then added borders at the end of March. Yesterday I got it marked for hand quilting, and today I got it basted. Now to find my small hoop and quilt it! I'd really like to get it done by Halloween, this year.