Today in My Sewing Room

I was a busy, busy little bee today.  I started off working on Month 2 of Amish with a Twist.  But wait ... what about Month 1?  Never fear .... I did it Monday .... LOL

Month One of Amish with a Twist

I really like these solid colors.  I've never made a quilt like this before and so far it's been pretty fun.

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Month Two of Amish with a Twist

Next I dug out a container of blocks I made quite a long time ago.  I'm not even exactly sure how long ... Anyway, I started putting those together.  It's turning out OK.  Some of the blocks aren't quite square, so it's a little bit of a challenge to get together.  This pattern is called "All Paths Lead Home" and it was a kit from Connecting Threads.

The last thing I did today was dig out some Farmer's Wife blocks I had cut out and put those together.  For some reason my machine decided to start eating my fabric.  I've never had that problem before so I'm not sure what's going on with it.  I re-threaded it, turned it off and back on, and anything else I could think of but it kept doing it.  I finally got 5 more put together ....

Block #81 Snowball & Block #9 Box

Block #23 Country Farm & Block #69 Practical Orchard

Block #41 Friendship Star

And ... I decided that was enough for today until I can figure out what's going on with my machine. 

Takin' Her for a Test Drive

Not a lot of quilting activities going on today.  I started physical therapy today for my plantar faciitis and it's the first time a "massage" made me want to cry!  But, I survived and stopped by Joann's to get some "cheap fabric" for my test drive and some smaller spools of thread for the featherweight.  

When I got home, I cut out the next five blocks for my Farmer's Wife quilt.  Hats off to Marti Michell for giving us free directions to use her templates but sometimes I need just a little more detail.  She suggested a shortcut explained in one of her books to eliminate a seam, but I don't have the book and without the proper cutting dimensions, I just couldn't figure it out.  So I relented and cut the stupid half square triangles and will do it the hard way for me.

I got around to the test drive just a couple hours ago and I must say she sews like a dream!!

Strip Sewing

A Little Chain Piecing

The Final Blocks

I guess I'll go ahead and sew these into a blanket for the kitties.

Sunday, Busy Sunday

I joined the Simply Charming Small Quilts Club from Homestead Hearth. It's a series of 12 small quilts from this book:

I got the book at the 2011 Quilt Festival in Summersville, WV.  I actually bought the book from the author, Tara Lynn Darr.  I didn't know that at the time or I would have gotten my quilt geek on and had her autograph it.  Today I put together my first quilt from the book called Nellie's Nine Patch.

After I finished that I put together that Shamrock block from yesterday. The binding is just pinned down in the picture, but I think it turned out pretty good.

After that .... yeah .... I was on a roll ... I put together three more blocks for my Farmer's Wife quilt:

These are (left to right):  Block #70 Prairie Queen, Block #72 Railroad and Block #84 Spool.  Now there are only 106 more to go!

Lastly, I sewed the Spiced Apple blocks together and cut the borders. Hopefully tomorrow I'll get them sewed on so I can take it to the quilter this coming weekend.

Whew!  It was a busy day!

The Farmer's Wife Quilt

Because I'm crazy, I started my Farmer's Wife Quilt this weekend. I know a lot of my friends reading along have no clue what that is so I'll tell you. It's a quilt consisting of 111 different 6" blocks. Yes, 111.

Here is the book:

I'm using Marti Michell templates to cut out my quilt.  So I'm making them in the order she recommends.  Yesterday evening I assembled Block #16 Calico Puzzle and #21 Contrary Wife:

 

Only 109 more to go!!