ENCHANTED GARDEN FINISH AND A FRESH IDEA TO START OF THE COMING NEW YEAR

 Yes I finished Enchanted Garden and it is going off the quilter in January.  Still making some zipper pouches too. Christmas is over but Hanukkah in full swing, with four more days to go, and a new year ahead for us all.  

Enchanted Garden is finally done!  Just one more tiny chore to do on it.  A few of the vines on the ends need a bit of fabric glue to get them to stay down well.  I fuse my vines and sometimes the folded over bottoms come a bit loose.  So they need a little extra glue to keep them down. 

I saw this quilt block on a Facebook site and thought it looked interesting.  I have a drawer full of left overs and thought they might look nice in this block pattern.

I did adjust the block size and lay the four pieced block parts differently.

Selected fabrics and ran with the idea.

And row one started.  Just one more block to add to it, which will be a repeat of the first block on the left side.  The blocks will finish at 12" and I am thinking I would like to finish the quilt top at 60" by 72".  It may end up at just 60" square depending on enough of the tan fabric which I hopefully have enough for that extra row.  

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WILLIAM MORRIS WONKY QUILT FINISH AND ZIPPER STASH REDUCTION PLAN

With Christmas this week and also Hanukkah as well, life is pretty crazy around here.  Between baking, getting shopping done and a meal plan together and the tree up we have been super busy.  When life is this hectic I still try to get into the sewing room a bit in the afternoons just to escape the mayhem of the season.

I finished the William Morris wonky block quilt top.  This piece was so much fun. I was successful in doing a good deal of clean out of my fabric stash.  These blocks do seem to produce a good deal of waste, but the idea was to eliminate some of that stash of fabric and it did do that and I am very happy with the results.  So off to the quilter next month. 

I finished up all the table runners I plan to do for my guild's quilt show boutique, which left me with a good deal of leftover fabric.  I decided to take those and make these little 11" by 11" zipper pouches.  I had a drawer full of zippers from a project years ago, and this was a great way to use them and the scraps left over from the table runners.  Not sure how many of them I will end up with in the end, I just keep making them as long as I have fabric scraps and a zipper to match.  

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WONDY BLOCKS AND BAKING

 This week has been pretty productive.  My Christmas shopping is done, most of the Christmas decorations are up except for the tree.  Just waiting for the pecan harvesting to be done, so I can clean up the house.  We have had a pretty good rain and windy storm come through so what ever nuts are up in those two trees are down now and we are done with that mess.

Last week I happened onto a blog with a post showing a wonky block quilt and thought it might be a great way to finally rid myself of a bin full of scraps and bits and pieces of my William Morris fabric stash.  Several of those fabrics had birds and other animals on them.  Appliqué projects leave one with a lot of bits and pieces cut into the yardage.  This was a great way to utilize them.  

These are the last 2 blocks to finish off this quilt.  I do plan on some borders as well.  These blocks will be 10" finished and with a 4 or 6 inch border will make a nice size quilt.

We got our baklava baked earlier last week.  It is a rather lengthy process but well worth the effort.  Still have Pizzelles to do this week.

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THE WEEK OF THIS AND THAT

This past week has been full of family events.  We enjoyed a week's  visit with our oldest daughter, a grandson's birthday and husband's and my 60th wedding anniversary.  My daughter and I did get into my sewing room and I was able to send her off home with a great load of scrap fabrics, some patterns and quilt books I was no longer using or interested in.  

My quilt guild has a Warm Wrapping charity unit that makes about 350 quilts a year that are given to 5 different local agencies.  About 20 of us make the quilt tops with kits that are made up by us with donated fabric, others quilt them and bind them and yet another take them home and sew the finishing of the binding down.  I am in the group that makes up kits, sews quilt tops together, and does the finishing binding.  I just finished 3 quilts with hand binding them this past month.  This particular quilt I fell in love with.  Very difficult not to keep it and exchange it for a couple of finished quilts I have made and willing to give up for this one.

I just love this quilt.

I had a goal of 60 table runners for our upcoming guild's January 26 quilt show's boutique.  I wrapped that project up this past couple weeks.  Yes, 61 table runners all at 13" by 28".  

I ended up with a good deal of leftover fabrics and happened to have a stash of zippers and decided that these little zipper pouches might be a good addition to the boutique.  They measure about 10" by 10" or 10" by 11" depending on the scrap leftovers.

Simple quilting fronts and backs.  I  will fiddle with these for a few months and see what I come up with.  I find these little projects like the runners and these pouches as good relief sewing from more complicated appliqué projects I am working on for myself.

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QUILTS TIMES FOUR

Well Thanksgiving is over and we have Christmas coming fast.  Time to get out some Christmas runners and wall hanging over the next week or so.  My daughter has come for a week from Colorado for a brief visit bringing 4 wonderful quilts that she has made for 4 mens in her family.  So thought I would share them.  She is a new quilter with just about 2 years now under her belt.  But she has really taken off with it and loves it.  

These first two quilts were made as gifts for her brother in laws that live here locally.  They were made with batiks and are just beautiful. 

Lovely quilting done on those two.  

This one was made for her godson.

The quilting is really outstanding.  Her quilter is just fabulous.  

This one is for her step son, the kid's tall so it is pictured sideways.  I love the unusual pattern on this one.

Again some really great quilting.  I think I need to talk to my quilters and see what I am missing.  

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