Dinosaur Games

This is a cute little kid pattern that I found in a Quiltmaker magazine. So far, the blocks are just fused but it will be quilted up soon...i hope. haha

It is 50x58"

Their pattern used stripe fabrics, so i tried to do stripes and graphic prints.

The blue and green blocks and borders are the same as the pattern.

They must be in Florida, since there are palm trees.

Who knew dinos could skateboard. hahahahaha

The little babies in the carts are just adorable

Country Journal

Finally, i have finished piecing and fusing the roosters. I've been working on it for months...there are lots of little pieces. I got the pattern from my friend, Sharon. It was a BOM.

This vine around the middle rooster had 336 little pieces. i don't think i shall ever forget that. haha   the blue flowers were actually 5 individual pieces but i cheated and made it one piece. those vines were like a puzzle

And the berry vine across the top was almost as bad as the center vine.

I had to go shopping for rooster fabrics....that was fun

The chickens and roosters fabric was a challenge to find.

 
The pieced background used up some stash

These two seem to be talking to each other.

I am happy that part is finished. it will have to wait a while to be quilted.

New at Molly Mine

One of my favorite embroidery design sites, Molly Mine, has all kinds of crazy quilt designs...that is why I love her.

The latest are crazy quilt animals. These are the ones I've done so far.

Elephant

Fox

Giraffe

Hen

 
Llama

Owl

Pig

Rooster

More to come

May UFO Challenge...#12

May was not a productive month, challenge wise. Judy pulled #12.

I did get my Midnight top quilted.

And that is all that got quilted in May. well, except for 6 doll quilts for Amy at A Doll Like Me.  I still have more to do for her. just didn't happen in May.

I got no embroidery projects finished. I got a few blocks done on the Mylar in the Tropics, then the machine crapped out and it was in the shop the rest of the month. It is now back home and i am working it to death. haha

I did a fish...

A seahorse///

And, a turtle

My piecing project #12 was Jazz.  it did get pieced. I had a panel with the people and a bunch of HSTs that seemed like a good match.

And, that is all i have to report.  sad, i know.

I am still working on my fusible rooster project. i still have about half of a vine to finish on it. the whole vine had 336 pieces....some of them very small. i'll be happy to have it finished. but, after fusing the rest of the vine, i still have a couple borders to put on it.

I did cut out the pieces for the first block of the next McKenna Ryan quilt, Beach Walk. but that's as far as that got.

We have had rain and storms most of May....and no internet....or tv sometimes....or electric a couple times. May has been a challenge.

I'm happy to be in June.

Midnight

This is my May UFO for Judy's Challenge. I finished piecing it on November 14, 2017. It was a pattern I saw in a magazine.

It is called Midnight. Is queen size...95x105

I put Xs in the small rectangles and a different fill in each large rectangle.

It will go to my sister's house and I will use it in my room there.

It's hard to keep a wide quilt from getting loose on the frame, so a few of the places have creases.

I used black, gray, dark blue and brown fabrics....it used up quite a bit of stash.

The binding is leftover pieces of binding from other quilts in black, brown and blue.

Top thread was Glide Bark; bobbin was Bottom Line Tan

I'm not used to quilting larger quilts...it seems like it took me forever but was actually only about 8 days.

The back is a muslin

Jazz Club

This was my piecing UFO #12 challenge for the month of May. I had the panel of the people, some HSTs finished, and piles of the fabric. so, i pieced a few more HSTs and put this together. I cut the panel apart and put the HSTs as sashing.

I love the colors of this. my piecing challenge for the month is now finished. just needs quilting.

UFOs Challenge #5 for April

Judy picked #5 for April. I am playing along on 3 levels, quilting UFO, embroidery UFO, and piecing UFO. I have so many UFOs.

My quilting UFO was the New England Sampler. It got quilted.

I also quilted Merry Merry Snowmen..which is going to my sister for her Christmas room.

And fused and quilted the Polish Santa...also for my sister.

This was my piecing UFO...and it also got quilted. I call it Swimming with the fishes.

My piecing UFO was the mermaid (above). I had to fuse more stuff onto it...and then it got quilted.

I also pieced Home Tweet Home..a batik McKenna Ryan pattern (my first from her).

And I pieced Jungle Cats

And Pave the Way got pieced.

I pieced as many as I quilted, so i basically made no progress. haha

My embroidery UFO was Mylar in the Tropics. they did not all get finished. I got 10 of 16 finished. they take about  3 hours to do...massive color changes....about 40.

Here are a few that got finished.

I did play with some new embroidery sets...Crazy Quilt Animals. I have 11 of them to do and so far have done 2. perhaps this is why the Tropics didn't get finished. hahahaha

Not a super productive month, but all in all, a good month. Studio things slow down a bit around here in the spring and summer. the mowing and gardening stuff gets in my way. not to mention stacking wood in the shed for next year.

Hope your month was super productive and you got your UFOs finished.