2020 Finish-A-Long, Quarter 2

2020 Finish-A-Long, Quarter 2 Goals

While the organizers of this finish-a-long have decided to do everything on Instagram, I like this record to keep things straight, so I will list my goals  here too.

1)  Make 5 quilts for Hands2Help Charity. This is organized by Sarah  @ Confessions of a Fabric Addict.  

2)  Cassandra's Circle BOM for April, May and June.   This is the 2020 applique BOM by Barbara Brackman @Civil War Quilts.

3)  Ella Maria Duncan BOM for April, May and June.  This is the BOM offered by Gay @ Sentimental Stitches.

4)  Pieces from the Past BOM-keep caught up every 3 weeks.   This is being offered by Melva @ Melva Loves Scraps.

5)  Buhl-Bushong Quilt BOM for April, May and June.   This is being offered by the Virginia Quilt Museum

6)  Make 1 Father Christmas Block.  

7)  Quilt Fall Into a QAL

8)  3 Kathy Schmitz One Stitch at a Time Embroideries.

9)  Make Boho Bag.  This is a CQ bag I promised a 2020 graduate, a good friend of my granddaughter Kyleigh's.

Think that will keep me out of trouble for awhile.  

Boho Bag

When I joined the 2018 Finish-A-Long in Quarter 2, the last of the items on my list was finishing my Boho bag, which was just a pieced flap at that time. You can see it here.    I finished the bag this morning.  This happens to be the 7th one I have made, I have 2 others, I made 2 for granddaughter Kyleigh and I have sold 2 as commissions.  

This was the front of the bag after I finished the embellishment and added the trim.  The beautiful under the sea laces, trims I bought from Nicki Lee's Etsy shop Raviolee Dreams.  She puts together wonderful under the sea packages with laces, seaweed, shells, charms, fish, mermaids, seahorses etc. I have bought multiple from her and am always thrilled with the packages.  You just tell her what you are looking for and your price range and she will make you a package up.  

This was the inside flap, which I stenciled.  It reads  "She sits quietly by the Sea.  She held a seashell to her ear and listened to mermaid songs of the SEA.  Softly at that moment her Happiness floated like the waves of the SEA."

This is a vintage lace piece I sewed onto the front of the bag, under the flap as a pocket.  

This is another vintage lace piece I sewed to the inside as a pocket.

Its hard to see but there is another pocket here for the inside with a magnetic closure, which I concealed with a flower.  

This was a label I put inside this morning.  

Completed front

Completed back, with another of Nicki Lee's lovely dyed seahorses.  

2018 Finish-A-Long, Q2 - 3rd Project finished, Kyleigh's Graduation

These past 2 weeks have been busy ones.  First I got a frantic call from Kyleigh asking if I could fix her jeans.  

She just wanted top ones on the left leg to be patched.  I first put interfacing on the inside and then made the big patch.  She was thrilled, as they are her favorite jeans.  I have a feeling she is going to need the right leg top hole fixed too before too long. 

Last night was Kyleigh's graduation from high school.  Quite exciting around here, and hard to believe she will be leaving in the fall for college back east.   It was hotter than blue blazes last night but we are so proud of her and all she has accomplished.  I am going to miss her terribly!

This is my third finish in the Finish-A-Long.  My list for the 2nd quarter Finish-A-Long is here.   It was a flimsy I had finished in 10/06 called Primitive Lilies by Patchwork Pieces.  I saved it for so long as I wanted to quilt something special in all those blank blocks, and I did, but I cannot capture it in the pictures.    I plan to gift it to one of Kyleigh's friends who admired Kyleigh's quilts I have made her in the past.  She was trying to get Kyleigh to part with one of them since I made her graduation quilt.  

2018 Finish-A-Long, Q2 - 2nd Project finished

This week, I finished #1 on my Finish-A-Long list for quarter 2. This is a graduation quilt for our oldest granddaughter Kyleigh.   The project started out as swap blocks from a number of years ago.  They consisted of Laurel Burch's line Jungle Songs and black Kona cotton. I decided to add a panel from Laurel Burch's Ocean Songs with a mermaid, and I made a braided border.  I ended up making about 13 more blocks than the original swap blocks.  To be able to quilt it on my frame, I was not able to add any further borders for the outside.  As it was, I had to go back and separately quilt 4 inches on either side that was too long for my frame.  

Front

Back

I have no clue why when I bought the fabric for this swap I bought so much extra but I was able to use up a lot of it on the back of the quilt.  The quilt measures about 91 x 91 inches.  

Two more items on my Finish-A-Long list, and I have actually almost finished an item that wasn't on the list,  quilting a Wooly Flowers sampler, a UFO from 2007.  

2018 Finish-A-Long -Quarter 2

Well it has been 4 years and 2 months since my last post.  The last years I was working out of the home were just too much for me to blog too.  I have since retired last year, and am back to reading blogs and am going to participate in the 2018 FAL (Finish-A-Long) to finish up some of my UFO's.
My list is going to tend on the small side as I have the care of my disabled husband.

My list of projects for Quarter II includes the following

1)    Granddaughter Kyleigh's graduation quilt.  I can't even hazard a guess as to how old this UFO is.   This consists of swap blocks made from Laurel Burch Jungle Songs fabric and a Laurel Burch mermaid panel from Ocean Songs.  I have been working on making additional blocks to make this a decent sized quilt.  I need to get this put together and quilted by the end of May.

2)   Yellow Peony Quilt.  This has been a UFO since 10/06.  It just needs to be quilted and then I will be gifting it to one of Kyleigh's friends who is also graduating this year.

3)  Angel Wreath wall hanging and pillow.  This is one of my oldest UFO's, from when I first started quilting in 1998.  I started out hand quilting shortly after I finished it.  I have kept setting it aside, and a lot of the time it gets  hidden or things stacked on top, so I forget about it.  It is probably 1/2 quilted.  The borders need to be finished.  There is also a matching pillow top that has been quilted.  I just need to assemble the pillow.  I really want to finish this by Christmas.

4)  Make a new Boho bag.  This is one of my crazy quilting projects.  I pieced the front top of the bag about 2 years ago, and gathered together my embellishments, but never got around to embellishing it.  I want to finish this by the end of June as a challenge on a crazy quilt group I am on.