Sweet Land of Liberty. Sew Lets QAL, 2019 Finish-A-Long Quarter 2 Winner

 

I was notified several days ago by Marci, at Marci Girl Designs, one of the 2019 Finish-A-Long hosts that I was the winner of a $50 gift certificate for Quarter 2.  This was so exciting, and I very much appreciate receiving this, and thank Fat Quarter Shop for their generosity!  I'm still deciding what I am going to get.  I have basically been working from my old stash that dates probably before 2008.  I have purchased very little since, and have been trying to use what I have.   I did receive a gift certificate from Fat Quarter Shop several months ago, so that was one of my few new fabric purchases.  

A couple of finishes the past several days.  First, I made the next to last block for the Sew Lets Quilt-A-Long which I am following on Facebook at Partners in Design.  This block was a rotary cutter and mat.      I've been wanting to use this fabric in this sewing-related quilt-along.  One more block on August 27th, and I am not sure how yet I am going to use these.

Next up was this month's portion of Sweet Land of Liberty, a Cheri Payne pattern, that Lori at Humble Quilts is guiding us in.  She did a quilt-a-long last year, and there was enough interest that she is doing it again on Facebook this year.

So these are the blocks we were supposed to do this month.   Nancy Messier @ Joy for Grace kindly shared her tree shape for my people block.  

I'm really happy with how it is coming out.  I have always loved this quilt and glad to have the opportunity of finally putting it together.

Next up on my agenda is to start putting together my Nutcracker Suite BOM.  I have all the months, just need to start putting it together.  It is one of my goals for 2019 Finish-A-Long quarter 3 to have this as a flimsy.  

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2019 Finish-A-Long, Quarter 2 Results

It is time to report the results of the 2019 Finish A-Long for Quarter 2.

I originally stated my goals for quarter 2 here.

1)  6 Quilts for the Hands2Help hosted by Sarah @Confessions of a Fabric Addict.  I actually finished 7 quilts for the project and sent them off.  I blogged about them here

These were for Jack's Basket

These were for Quilty Hugs

These 3 were for Mercyful Quilts

2)  3 Nutcracker Blocks.     I actually finished 5 Nutcracker blocks.  I blogged about it here

3.  Flourishes Block #12, and assemble top.   I achieved this goal and blogged about it here.  

4.   Finish last 3 Redwork Nursery Rhyme blocks.  Goal Achieved and I blogged about it here.

5.  Sweet Land of Liberty BOM for April, May and June. Goal achieved and blogged about here, here, and here.

April

May

June

6.  . Complete 2 Father Christmas Blocks  Goal completed, I actually did 3, I blogged about it here

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7.  .  All Things Bright and Beautiful to flimsy stage  This was actually the only goal I did not achieve.  I found I had lost part of the instructions and had to repurchase them.  This quilt came in 4 different books. each book had a different blessing in it and stitchery.  I had done the first section years ago.  I lost the second section.  I did do the third section this quarter, the blue and green blocks on the right.  This quilt is actually called the Blessings Quilt. I blogged about it here.  

8.  Hospital Sketches BOM, the Civil War Quilt BOM by Barbara Brackman.  Goal was to finish April, May and June blocks.  They were blogged about here, and here.  I guess I forgot to blog about the pineapple one.  

9.  Get Sweet Annie to flimsy.   This goal was totally completed.   This was an old, old UFO from 1997 that I came across when reorganizing things at the beginning of the year.  I always loved this, primitive crazy quilt type wall hanging.  All that I had done was some really primitive stitching on the Annie block and the background was pieced already.  I am so happy I was able to find my stencil to do the stenciling on the border.  I just sprayed tea-dye on the stencil and it worked OK with a few minor oversprays.  Using the stencil paint acrylic type paint was not working too good.

So I got all of my list done, except 1.  So that is 90% finish rate.  The Father Christmases and Sweet Annie date back to 1997 at least.  The redwork blocks date back probably to 2000 or so.  

One Monthly Goal, 2019 Finish-A-Long Goal Achieved

I'm happy to say, I achieved my goal again this month for One Monthly Goal, hosted by Patty @Elm Street Quilts.  

The goal I set for June One Monthly Goal was to get three of my Father Christmas blocks done, a UFO that has been languishing with 1 lone Father Christmas since 1997.  I misplaced the patterns for quite awhile.  Last month I got one done.  This month, I got 3 done, and 2 were actually the most involved. 

Here are 4 of them together.  The guy in the sled needs some 3 other components attached before I can join him to the others.  

It was also my goal on the Quarter 2 Finish-A-Long to do 2 of the Father Christmas' and I have surpassed that by 1 more.  

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What I've Been Up To

The past two weeks have been a little crazy with little time for blogging. I am watching my youngest 2 grandchildren, John almost 9 and Klara almost 6 for the summer 2 days a week.   Their older almost 13-year-old cousin Keaton has been helping keep them busy and per his mother's request, is over here to keep him off the X-box all day, which is what he apparently does when he is at home alone.  I have been doing little activities when they are here, but not generally sewing, but I continue hand applique at night.

I was able to get one of the Father Christmas' done.  Part of my One Monthly Goal for June, is to get three of these blocks done.  I got this guy done, and attached him to the other two. I'm almost finished with the next one.  I hope to finish the last guy by Monday so I can start working on one of my 2019 Finish-Along goals for quarter 2.  

Granddaughter Kyleigh called last week, and wondered if I could help alter some clothes her mother had given her.  She asked to borrow her mother's sewing machine, but her mother told her talk to her grandmother.  This is about the third time she has asked her mother.  So I decided to give her the Touch and Sew Singer DH gave to me in 1973 or so.  I have it being serviced right now.  When it gets back, will have Kyleigh over to give her a lesson on the machine and some lessons. She is almost 19, and has always been interested in doing whatever I do.  

This skirt just needed to be shortened.  It looks like the hem isn't straight but it is sort of ruffly looking because it has a bunch of gore panels in it.  This was simple, it was the right waist size.  A friend had given her this.  

This was a pair of jean shorts, that I took about 4 inches out of the waist, and made it into a skirt.  That wasn't too bad, and it came out looking pretty good.  She still needs to try them on though.  

This pair of shorts were about 4 inches too big in the waist.  I cut a bunch out of the crotch too.  Not sure if these will work or not.  But Kyleigh is pretty thin.  She also brought a pair of white linen shorts over and they need 4 inches too.  I told her to bring a pair of shorts with her that fit  so have something  compare with.  That linen is making holes where I am pulling out the stitches on the waistband.  

My grandchildren think I can do anything, and some things,like alterations I'm winging it.  The beige pair of shorts, I told her I might have cut out too much, and she told me it was no problem.  

Monday, Klara brought over 2 nude dolls and told me they needed clothes.    The pink outfit was made out of a pair of Klara's favorite leggings.  She told me they needed some skirts, so I made the denim one.  

I made two of these skirts with mermaids and fish on them.  She has many more of these Baby Alive dolls at home.

One of the days last week when the kids were here, and they were playing games with Keaton, I cut out this baby quilt for my neighbor who is having her 5th boy next month.

I was able to cut it out pretty quickly with my Accuquilt.  I was particularly antsy to use my new frog die that my DH gave me $$ to get for Mother's Day.  I was able to get it stitched up today.  

I'm off to work on my Scrap Dance Minuet mystery quilt  by Carole @From My Carolina Home.  We got the reveal last week, but I haven't had a chance to work on it.   I had used the scrap blues I had leftover from 2 of my Hands2Help quilts.  

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Flourishes Flimsy, One Monthly Goal, 2019 Finish-A-Long

I accomplished a biggie yesterday, I put together a flimsy for the Flourishes BOM, I think it came out in 1998.   I had completed the quilt top for the owner of the quilt shop that used to be in our town for a shop sample, and she gave me the supplies to do my own.  I had originally hand appliqued 7 of the blocks for myself and then stuck it in the closet for years and years, and years.   Last year I pulled it out of the closet, and it has been my One Monthly Goal hosted by Elm Street Quilts  to complete one block a month.  This was my May One Monthly Goal to get this to flimsy stage.  I was really excited yesterday when I got this together yesterday.  

I took this picture outside, and I loved how it looked, and then looked closer at the picture on my I-pad and noticed a big mistake.   The two sides should have the flowers facing in.  I had switched the two long wrongs in the middle.  I was just going to leave it till today to rip out, but decided to take it apart last night, so I could just sew it together today.  

This is the correct placement.  The original quilt had another border with sort of half tulips appliqued around it, but I really didn't like the tulips, so I am calling this top finished, finally, after all these years.

This was also #3 on my 2019 Finish-A-Long list for Quarter 2, to finish block #12 and get to flimsy stage.

I will be linking up to both Elm Street Quilts One Monthly Goal and 2019 Finish-A-Long when the linkys come up.

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Hands2Help Final, 2019 Finish-A-Long Goal Completed

I thought I would write my final post about the Hands2Help Challenge for 2019 coordinated by Sara at Confessions of a Fabric Addict.  

Last week, I handed off the first three to Bernie at Needle and Foot for the Mercyful Quilts charity.  I had such a good time meeting her, and she doesn't live that far from me, about 1/2 hour.  It was the high point of my week with all my washer mess. 

Today I mailed off these two to Quilty Hugs.

I got these two back yesterday from my daughter who washed them for me and I mailed them  to Jack's Basket.  Not great pictures this morning.  It was starting to drizzle, but the light was still better than in the house.  

So my totals are: 7

Mercyful Quilts:  3

Quilty Hugs     2

Jack's Basket 2. 

Back here I set as one of my goals for Quarter 2 of the Finish-A-Long to make 6 quilts for the Hands2Help project, and I sent out 7, so I am really happy to have completed, even bettered my goal a bit.  

In other news, I got my new washer this morning and my laundry is caught up!  I am beyond thrilled!  

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