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Lovely year of finishes: May

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It just seemed like yesterday I was doing the mid-month progress. This month was a little slower on my sewing/quilt projects than usual, however by no means was it slow in other aspects of my life :-).

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I am linking up with “A lovely year of finishes” to share my end of May goals and successes.

Completed Projects in May

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  • Madrona Road Mini Quilt
    Finished and posted here.
  • Chair Bags
    Completed and sent. See this post
  • Pot Holders
    Completed and received.

Projects Underway

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  • Hexagons (not sure for what yet)
    Underway
  • 18″ Pillow for Quilt Guild Pillow Swap
    Underway, pattern chosen – using a pillow pop design. Squares sewed and ready for cutting for HST’s
  • Finish machine quilting “Four Seasons in One Day” Quilt
    No more progress, posted here and here

 

 

WiP Wednesday {29.05.2013} : Hexagons and HST

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The long weekend has definitely impacted my schedule this week. While on the beach, watching the kids I was able to use some scraps and made up some hexagons. I now have 37 pieced together.  Any ideas on what I should make with these? I was thinking of a pillow or a baby quilt (if I am over zealous 🙂 )….maybe just a portable blanket for a car seat/pram (push chair). What do you all do?

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The other project, I was working on last week for our quilt guild pillow swap….well, I am not as far as I wanted to be, but I have made steady slow progress. I have sewed 30 of the 50 squares together.

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To make the 1/4 inch line on each side of the diagonal, I used a Quarter Inch Seam Marker Ruler. It worked great, I purchased it at Joann’s – a set of three, however I can not find it online to share at Joann’s so here is one similar I found at Amazon. I am sure you can find them everywhere though. I just used the middle line of the ruler, to line up the opposite corners (ie. the diagonal) and drew a line on either side with a pencil marker…then sewed down the lines. So simple, when I measured my squares – they are 2.5 inches around!!!  🙂

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Linking up with Lee @ Freshly Pieced for WiP Wednesday

WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced

WiP Wednesday {22.05.2013}

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For our Guild meeting next month (Triangle Modern Quilt Guild), I signed up to participate in a 18″ x 18″ pillow swap.  I saw this as the perfect opportunity to try my new book purchase “Pillow Pop” out.

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I decided I wanted to use blue and green as more the solid prints and mix them in with low-volume prints. I have chosen from the book to do the “Crystallized” Pattern by Angela Mitchell, it uses 100 HST (Half – Square Triangles).

I spend the evening last night in front of the TV cutting all the 3″ x 3″ squares I will need. Here’s a peek.

The stack of Fabrics I used (now I have a great scraps pile too 🙂 ) + the 100 squares:
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Linking up with Tessa Marie @ The Sewing Chick, who is hosting Plum and June’s “Lets get acquainted”

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