A Quick Project

These are the fabrics for a quick project I am doing today. This will be for my grandson. The numbers are written in Spanish and French. My daughter is fluent in Spanish and German and I thought this would be fun for them.

Thought I Would Return to My Blog

I have not posted on my blog for 4 years now it looks like. That is a long time. I have been going to school for 2 1/2 years and not doing much, if any, sewing. I am cleaning up and organizing my sewing room. Today, I purchased a panel and fabric to make a quilt for my little grandson. I will post photos in a bit.

Here It Is

Here it is, the completed Nine Patch Nirvana quilt! I like how it turned out.

Being Absent

After having been absent from here a while, I am going to try to keep up to date on my projects. I need to take a photo of the completed 9-Patch Nirvana Quilt. I have been slowly working on the other BOM's that I have mentioned here earlier. I just completed the top of a quilt that I made for my niece who lives and works in Taiwan. I just sent it to be quilted so don't have a photo yet. Most of the fabric I purchased when in Taiwan in March of this year. I purchased about 50 yards of fabric for about $150. I have more of it to use.

I am also working on a fun orange and green pinwheel quilt for my daughter. I am almost finished with the top of a Yellow Brick Road one in pinks, greens, browns and off white for my niece's wedding gift. My 2008 Thimbleberries Club quilt will go to another niece for her wedding gift. Now, I need to come up with a pattern to do in 3 - 4 colors, mainly green for my daughter's wedding gift. All 3 are getting married summer 2009. Every time I think I have a pattern picked out, I look at it again and decided not to do that particular pattern for this quilt. I will come up with a pattern soon, I know I will.

Finished Cinnamon Teen

This is the finished Cinnamon Teen quilt. I donated it to a quilt auction for our church's district camp. It brought around $150, but I can't really remember how much it brought.

I have finished a couple of others of which I need to take some photos and post them here.

Cinnamon Teen BOM - All Blocks are Finished!!

December Block - Meet Me In The Middle


January Block - Cross My Starry Heart

This one has been quilted and is ready to bind. Check back at a later date to see if I have posted a photo of the completed project.

Christmas Gift Exchange

On Blockcentral, we had a gift exchange. Jacquie from Indiana had my name and I had her name. This was a random name draw so it was funny that we got each other!

The gifts, the fleese blanket is nice and warm on these cold days and nights.
A closeup of the accessories bag, tea and the neat fat quarters.

I haave not put my gift in the mail yet as it was not finished before I broke my wrist last week. I am planning on sending part this week and then the made by me item after the first of the year when I can sew again.

I Am Caught Up On The Dandy Doodle BOM!!

I have also gotten caught up on the Dandy Doodle BOM. That means 3 more BOM projects to get caught up on.

The August Block: Puss in the Corner

September Block: Log Cabin

October Block: Double X

November Block: Tree

Cinnamon Teen BOM - Caught Up

August Block: Vinyard Pinwheel


September Block: Professor's Bowtie


October Block: Chocolate Dipped Kite


November Block: Half Moon

Table Runner and Placemat Swap

This is the table runner and placemat that I made for Connie in the Block Central swap. I enjoyed making this. I am making another set for the St. Luke's Ladies Aid Silent Auction.

Next up is the item for the Block Central Christmas gift exchange as well as one for the Ladie's Aid Prayer Partner Christmas gift. I am making the same thing. I need to purchase some more batting as well as fabric for the back.

Christmas Table Runner and Placemat Swap

Here are photos of the Table Runner, Placemats, Fat Quarter and Angel ornament I received from lil' pest in the Block Central Swap She did a fantastic job



Here is the back of a placemat and a close up of the fat quarter and ornament.

Photos

I am a member of a webforum for quilting and we have been asked to post a photo of ourselves. Here is a family photo from last Christmas. We seem to have a hard time getting everyone to look in the right direction and to smile all at the same time.

Getting Busy!!

Well, I am getting busy on the quilting projects. I have a swap that I need to get finished and in the mail this week. A bazaar I was making something for is this weekend and I hope I can get something finished for that. Next week is another one and I should have the ones ready for that. Then I have a Christmas gift exchange and my Prayer Partner for AID to get a couple of projects done.

I really need to get my BOM's going again. A couple of them are done with the blocks this month so it will be exciting to finish those up. I am wondering what next year's BOM's will be.

Happy Quilting!!!

Snow!!

Well, we saw our first snow today. Can you believe it? October 11 we have snow. Not much. Flurries in the afternoon and then this evening a tad bit more. You could see some on hoods of cars but that is about the only place you could see it. It was not measurable by any means but yet it was still there. Guess we shall have another day of cold temps and then warmer again.

It's About Time!!

The summer has been very crazy along with the fact that Daniel was home for two months. I have finally moved my quilting stuff back into his room. It is my plan to get some Christmas stuff put together this week and off to be quilted. That is two items for bazaars, two Christmas Swaps and another gift.

Then it will be back to work on the Block of the Month projects. I printed off all of the directions today. I have August, September and October to do on all of them. Let's see, that is a total of 15 blocks. I should have these all finished by the end of the month. When I get all caught up, then I can work on the 2003 BOM project I am working on.

The only thing I need to do is to keep that crazy cat of ours off of my stuff laid out on the bed! He seems to think that that is where he should sleep. Silly cat! I would post a picture of him here but since the fabric I have laid out is for the swaps, I will refrain from doing so as I don't want my swapee to see what I am doing.

My Blogs

I have been asked to switch to the beta version of blogspot so I thought I would do it. Well, when I leave a comment on another person's blog and they click on my name, this blog shows up in my profile. If you got here that way, my main blog is http://jmberg.blogspot.com I have contacted Blogger about this so will see if both blogs show up on My Profile.

This is my hobby and as you can see, I have not done much with it lately. I plan on getting back to sewing this weekend and I have lots to catch up on. I have two Christmas Swaps to finish or do, two Bazaars to make things for as well as my Block of the Month's.

2003? You say

Yep, it is the 2003 BOM I am doing. Got kidded about being behind. Actually, this is on a website I frequent and I loved it so decided to do it.

I have been out of town a lot lately so have not accomplished anything that has to do with quilting. Son has moved out and now I can get back into the room I use for sewing after doing some straightening up of things. I am going to be in and out of town a lot through the end of September so don't know how much I will get accomplished. I am working on some Christmas items for a swap and for a couple of fundraisers

I do miss sewing, but yet, things have been pretty busy.

The 2003 Sampler Block of the Month

February Block "An Envelope Motif"

March Block "Mrs. Keller's Choice"

I like the little florals I picked for this Block of the Month.

This catches me up to the photos I have right now. I do have one more that is finished, but no photo of at this time. My digital camera is in Europe with Andrew and I did not want to start a roll of film with just one or two photos on it so will take the last photo when my camera returns.

Debbie Mumm

Block 7 of the Debbie Mumm Block of the Month. This is going to be neat with the bright colors.

Nine Patch Nirvana July Block of the Month

The Nirvana Block is called "Discovery" I can't wait until this one is all ready to put together into a quilt!

Really, I can't wait until they are all finished and put into quilts.