All Dressed Up is ready to quilt

This mini is sandwiched and ready to quilt - if only I knew how I wanted to quilt it. It's only about 22" square. I have no idea whether to do some simple machine quilting or do some hand quilting on this. Or what kind of quilting design to use. Any ideas for me?

A little bowtie progress

 

This might just be my favorite Kim Diehl mini quilt so far. I have my pieced borders done and 7 bowtie blocks made.  These little blocks are just 3" finished but have come together very nicely. Only 22 more itty bitty bowties to go. Maybe tomorrow however, because I'm headed out now to have lunch with a girlfriend and then going to a college basketball doubleheader with my husband this afternoon.

Starting a new Kim Diehl project

 

Yesterday morning allowed me about an hour and a half of time in my sewing room and I took advantage of it by cutting out the Kim Diehl  Simple What Knots project called All Dressed Up. This was the November project and I hadn't started it yet even though our group meets tomorrow again.  I fell behind didn't I?

 

We got all of the fabrics for the project all wrapped up with a bow.  Almost too pretty to disturb . . . but I did.  All of my pieces are now cut and ready to sew.  I cut a few extra pairs of the bowtie pieces and will decide which to use as I work with them.  Hoping I get a little bit of sewing time later this afternoon after work. Right now I'm headed to a bid opening. 

Saturday Sampler

 

Block 11 for Saturday Sampler is done and so is the bonus block to enter into the drawing.  One more block to go. This is another block that I might use again sometime. I like the star points on this one and they are made with adding corners to a vertical rectangle. 

Farm Girl Vintage

This is Grandma's Quilt Block from the Farm Girl Vintage book.  It's really interesting how different a block can look from the original just by placing colors in different ways.  Because of the similar tone of the blue and the green, that makes the pointed X kind of stand out. That wasn't intentional, but I'm OK with the look.

We were expecting a huge snowstorm to hit during the night, but it didn't start snowing here until about 3:00 this afternoon. Can't say that I'm disappointed however because I wasn't looking forward to shoveling. Guess we'll see if we still get the 6-10" predicted or if most of it will miss us. 

Design Wall Monday - Valentine stitching

 

Just a little peek is all I'm giving you.  This little project is for Valentine's Day and I'm working on the hand quilting.  Hope to have this done today so I can pull out another UFO to start working on tomorrow while it snows. I had promised myself that I would finish this completely before tackling any other projects. And since we're expecting 6-10" of snow in the next 48 hours I need to have something to work on so that I can put off the shoveling as long as possible.

 

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The ugly duckling

This UFO from 2011 most likely was set aside because I didn't like very much. The blocks are made using the X-block ruler and the design is fine. But the colors - not my cup of tea!  Makes me wonder what made me buy them in the first place.  

The black batik has a rust design with just a touch of green. The green and rust fabrics blend nicely but the combination is just blah - in my opinion.  

However, the zig-zag quilting gives it some much needed class and it's bound and DONE!  This one is lap quilt size, and will be given away most likely. And ironically, I found that the black batik binding was already made and waiting in my binding drawer, all labeled and ready to go.