Pointless Quilter

I make annual goals here on my blog and as usual, I go through and check which goals I finished that year.  Here's a link to my goals for 2018.  6 of my 10 goals are done.  Circle of Illusion - haven't touched it. Orca Bay - haven't touched it Twirly Balls - Done Rainbow Nest - Done Fat Quarter Shop Designer Mystery - Done On Ringo Lake - Done Jamestown Landing - half done The Quilt Show Halo Medallion - Done Local guild mystery - Done, made 2 Use up a fat quarter pack - I cut 2 up for this years' Bonnie Hunter mystery and also for the Blockheads 2 block of the week. Here are my goals for this next year.  Jamestown Landing - but in Oranges. Orca Bay - since I'm on a Bonnie Hunter kick 7 blocks done, I call this my Block of the Year program.  It takes about a year to finish one block (hand applique).  I want to get at least two blocks finished this year. Circle of Illusion - like I said last year I know what I want to do ...

In 2014/2015 (I think those were the years) I was the programs chair for my local quilt guild.  What I loved about it was I got to hire teachers and speakers that I've always wanted to meet.  I contracted Sue Garman and was so excited to take her class and listen to her lecture.  This is her pattern Twirly Balls.  I hand appliqued the project so that's why it took so long.  I machine quilted it.  I'm glad it's done.  It's one of the quilts on my list of quilts to finish this year so yeah me!  I used mostly shiny fabrics.  I also have been able to finish a couple of guild boutique items.  I've had these embroidery designs for a while and on a whim stitched them up when I was stitching the label for the twirly balls quilt. A book pillow for some lucky little kid.  Need to go to used book store to get some kids books. And this little table topper is made with left over half square triangles from the 2014 Fat Qu...

This was the The Quilt Show's Block of the Month for 2017.  It was designed by Sue Garman who was one of my favorite quilters of all times  Our guild was fortunate enough to have her as a speaker and teacher before she passed away.  (Haven't finished the quilt from that class yet-but it's on my lit to finish this year too.)   This quilt is pretty much all paper pieced.  And because I spend so much time piecing it I felt the quilting deserved as much time.  Here are some close ups.  I got to use my machine quilting rulers a lot on this quilt for the curved cross hatching.  Got better the more I did it.  Used some stencil work for the big setting triangles in the center and the rest I used the rulers to draw the spine of the feathers but the rest was done free motion.  And a lot of  'in the ditch' quilting. I didn't buy the kit from The Quilt Show but was able to find most of the fabrics that they used.  I just l...

I thought I had posted these already but I guess that was just on Facebook.  Anyway, I finished my On Ringo Lake quilt.  I just did an all over meander to quilt it.  I didn't spend a lot of time custom quilting it as it was a pretty busy pieced quilt.  So here it is in all it's glory. I'm really happy with this quilt.  I love the colors.  And remember on my retreat over the new years?  And I played with my friends 10 needle embroidery machine.  Well I used those three fall blocks and made this little runner.  When I got home from her house and looked at my fall fabrics I was so happy to see this fabric - it goes perfect with the designs.  I also took a guild class where we made these Hawaiian bags.  They are huge and will hold a few large quilts - perfect for taking show and tell to guild and a great bag for quilt show shopping.  I have one already but the handles were wearing out since I've used it for years. ...

I follow a blog called Quilt By Faith  and her mantra is 'goals are good'.   They are sometimes and I'm hoping this year it will be true for me.  As I mentioned in my last post, my guilds challenge this year is to finish at least 10 quilts that we put on a list of quilts that have been started.  I thought I filled out all 10 but I didn't.  I only had 7 on the list and I've already finished 2.  But that doesn't mean I won't put more here.  Here are the two I've finished from that list - the Christmas ornaments as seen here .  And I also had my friendship group challenge on the list and that was finished and shown... wait - I never posted our Christmas party with all the quilts we did.  That will have to be another post but take my word for it.  I finished the challenge quilt - the challenge was 'travel'.  So the other's on the guild list are some of the same from last year - the Circle of Illusion,  Orca Bay a...