Eye Candy - Twisted Turning Twenty OnLine Class

Over the past 4-5 weeks I participated in an online quilt class hosted by Donna In The Attic. Today is Eye Candy Day. Donna has posted all of the Twisted Turning Twenty Quilts we made. Oh my Oh my please jump over and see all the quilts. AND Donna has an online shop to, I know you'll love her goodies.

This is mine. (My journey is below photo)

My Journey:

We made the Twisted Turning Twenty quilt with 12 fat quarters (6 light, 6 dark). Quilt is from the Original Turning Twenty Book by Tricia Cribbs

Part 1
Fabric Choice
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5

Quilt Room OPEN, only a Sort-of Slob now

Recently I wrote that I was a Quilt Room SLOB .... well now I'm only a Sort-of-SLOB.

On Saturday while DH wrapped all the Christmas gifts I worked on cleaning up my Quilt Room (the whole day).

My cutting table. Oh boy now I can cut and actually see my cutting mat

Side of cutting table space ... fabric that won't fit in the closet is stacked

Under my sewing table ... now I can use the foot pedal

Side of sewing table cleaned up. More fabric bolts stacked nicely

Christmas fabric in their bags and on their shelf in the closet

No trash by the door

Love seat ... we can actually sit on it now


And toys are cleaned up and put away properly

Portable desk setup ... cleaned off and boxes put away

Prince is all cleaned off and ready to quilt up a storm again

YIPPPPEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

I have to admit I did not clean up the closet or all the magazines/books stored under items .... those will have to wait until after the New Year.

Now to keep it this way. I hereby promise to put things away properly and pick things up.

I PROMISE

Look Out Santa We're READY

DH did all of the wrapping for me today ..... he did a TERRIFIC job.

Had to make a few LARGE fabric bags. (I went "green" 6-7yrs ago .... no paper for me.)

Snow Fun

You name it we've had it this week: regular weather, snow, ice, and then 65 degree temp.

GS School Play

Our handsome GS. He knew every speaking part and sang every song ..... really he did

Big Sister #1

Big Sister #2

The Crowd, The Crowd

See you next year.........

Christmas Square Dance Quilt

CHRISTMAS SQUARE DANCE

34 x 43

I'm a member of the LEARNING FIBRE ARTS yahoo email group. The owner is Shirley of One of a kind Fiber Arts Blog. Feel free to check the yahoo email group out .... lots of great ideas and techniques to learn.

Recently the Square Dance Quilt was taught as a on-line class. I'm not a traditional type of quilter but this quilt caught my eye and I had to make it. In fact, I dropped everything I was doing (including Christmas gifts) and jumped right on it. Thanks for teaching this class and for holding my hand.

I changed a couple things like my red border is only 3/4 inch wide (finished) and my outer border is 2 1/2 inches (finished). When I make this quilt again I plan to starch my blocks because you see all those blocks have (all 48 blocks) (four) 4 bias edges. To compensate or rather control those bias edges I used Elmer's washable glue instead of pins. This kept the bias edges in check and also gave me 99.6% perfect blocks and the matching intersections are near perfect if I say so myself. I use Elmer's washable glue for lots of things in my quilting ... thank you Sharon Schamber for enlighting us of Elmer's washable glues value.

I thoroughly enjoyed making the quilt even though it's alot of work .... more than I usually put into my quilts. Why you ask? Well I'm mostly a charity quilter (about 95% charity) so I make simple, easy quilts. Although lately I have been looking and liking more complicated construction of quilts .... looks like after 6 years I'm changing ..... that's good.

I'm a little disappointed in my own color selection. I wish I had used a darker border print and I'm not real happy with using white. This would have given it more contrast ... I love contrast. I'm not a fan of using white in my own quilts. Unfortunately I won't have time to quilt it on PRINCE before Christmas rolls around next week ..... I have closed my quilting room as it's such a mess (I'm so bad).

Anyone have a suggestion on how to quilt it. I would like to make a smaller version but don't have a clue how to adjust the measurements ..... I'll have to figure that part out in 2009.

I really like my Christmas Square Dance wall hanging and DH really likes it.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Quilt Room SLOB, that's me

I'm a SLOB.

What a wreck my quilting room has become .... I don't put things away, I don't throw things out, I have too many projects going and more .... you know what I'm talking about. So ....

Quilting Room is CLOSED until it gets clean up ........ ugh

My cutting table .........
Under my sewing table

Under my cutting table

Under the side of my cutting table ....

My closet which is 14 ft x 8 ft x 42 inches.

Half is fabric ..........

Half is books, magazines and other

Christmas fabric not put away in the closet

Side of sewing table

Fabric that won't fit in the closet. Plus I have fabric in 2 bedroom closets upstairs.

Love seat with finished charity quilts, quilt tops and units to make into top. Oh and Christmas gifts not wrapped yet.

Where GC have toys. The desk where homework is done by GS. AND Christmas gifts hiding in plain site.

My portable like desk and boxes of stuff from the last time I cleaned up the room that needed to be sorted.

And PRINCE .... projects started, projects to do and he's become a hanger of sorts.

I am a SLOB.

Twisted Turning Twenty part 5

I'm participating in Donna's In The Attic Blog sew along. We're making the Twisted Turning Twenty quilt with 12 fat quarters (6 light, 6 dark). Quilt is from the Original Turning Twenty Book by Tricia Cribbs .Every Monday Donna gives us our instructions.

My quilt top is finished.

I really wanted to have a narrow dark border then a 5" border but alas none of my stash worked nor did the two (2) fabrics I purchased. So I had to go with the pattern suggestion and add the outer rectangles edge.

DH (my quilt consultant) preferred the dark rectangles next to the dark block and light to light block. In the book it was suggested to place light rectangle to dark and dark to light.

What do you think ........ I think he did GOOD. In fact, he told me he likes this quilt more than any other one I've made since I started quilting six (6) years ago when I took early retirement from GE Plastics. I love all the fabric prints and colors together.

THANK YOU Sweetheart, I couldn't have done it without YOU.

Our Tree is Up

GC came over last night to help decorate our tree. They always do a wonderful job.



Our tree is covered with handmade ornaments, dating back to the late 1960's.

GC painting ornaments.


My cross stitching days

AND light blub (snowman) redo days and sewing ornaments

My ceramic days and children macaroni days

Christmas Mouses

They are the BEST decorators in the world.

MERRY CHRISTMAS