Wednesday's UFO - Alaska Flowers and Berries

I'm spending most of my quilting time working on UFO's.  It has been a new challenge to work on one project and put it away at the end of the day and work on a different project the next day.  I like to work on something until it's done and each project is hard to put away for a week.  I am working on this Alaska flower and berry quilt on Wednesdays.  All of the pieces for the unfinished blocks were in a pile in a plastic bag.  Great storage-not!  I had pieces for 5 quilt blocks all piled together, so my first task was to find the pieces for each block.  

Some were labeled like this, what?

It turned out that all of the pieces had the label of the block they were part of, except one group and that group all went to the same block, the blueberry block.  

I separated all of the pieces into block piles.  This is the blueberry pile.  Look at all of those tiny pieces.

My next task was to lay the pieces onto the pattern page to see what I had and what I needed to cut.  They were all cut at one time, but who knows where the lost pieces went.

These pieces are for the lupin pattern.  I put all of my flowers and berries together and pressed them in place on my fusible applique' sheet.

Organizing, tracing, cutting and putting these flowers and berries gave me a bit of neck tension but they're done.  I will iron these onto their squares and they will join the rest of the bunch for top stitching...next Wednesday.

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Winter Nights Fusible Appliqué Quilt

A friend gave me this pattern for Christmas last year and on a rainy, windy day this summer, I decided to start putting it together.  

 I LOVE fusible appliqué!  It's kind of like coloring in a coloring book in that it's calming and you get to choose the colors for the redi-made design.  You can find a tutorial for fusible appliqué  HERE.  

In addition, to the calming affects, fusible appliqué provides that feeling of instant gratification.

 The shiny, shimmery Fairy Frost adds the feeling of cold snow to the block.

This quilt pattern includes some pieced blocks and block borders to add a little variety to the project.  

The pieces for the quilt are large, which I also love because I like to topstitch around each piece to secure them.  The larger pieces are easier to stitch around.

These blocks are great time fillers.  I have a box with all of my blocks that have fusible pieces next to my sewing machine and if I have a few minutes between activities, I sew around a few pieces.    I'll put thread in the machine that matches the color of pieces in the blocks, and will sew around all of the pieces in all of the blocks that have that same color of thread in them. For example, I put silver metallic thread in my machine and sewed all of the silver metallic pieces in all of the blocks.  It took a few days as I just do it as a time filler.  I usually have several projects using fusible web, so all of those blocks are in the box as well. 

I think I will use these fabrics for my border.  

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A Christmas Project

Christmas is always a crazy busy time so I like to get started early.  I like to do a little throughout the year so I am not totally stressed out when the month of December rolls around.  We have had unseasonably warm weather this Spring. The weather was perfect for sitting out on the deck, listening to a good book and tracing fusible for a quilt from the book, Christmas Is Coming by Cheryl Almgren Taylor.

I made this quilt top last year using red, white and gold.  I sold the top right away and planned to make another one but time got away from me.  You know how that is.

So, this year I plan to make another red, white and gold quilt when my new Christmas fabrics arrive in my Christmas Craft Supply Shop, Christmas Jul.  I pulled some of the last blue holiday fabrics from the Christmas Jul shelf to make a blue and silver quilt top.  Michael Miller's Fairy Frost fabrics add a little bling to holiday projects.  

 I absolutely LOVE fusible appliqué projects.  They go togethers so quickly and they look so lovely.  I still have to sew around all of the appliqué pieces, sew the blocks together and add the border.  I will post a picture of the finished project....soon, I hope.

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