PC Quilter Working

I would like to let you know that I had a happy week quilting. I did not accomplish all my goals but I did complete a baby quilt top for a friend at work. I plan on quilting it this week.
I have completed all 56 of the pink and white nine patch squares. Now I have to cut them up.
I completed 10 Stash Pot Pie blocks. I need to sew them into a row.
I completed 7 Happy Houses.
But most of all the PC Quilter for my HQ16 is working. You will not believe how I have been trying to make it work. I decided to call my technical adviser (son #1) for help. He came over, sat down, touched a key and said "you need new batteries for your keyboard". How was I suppose to know I had a wireless keyboard and it required batteries? Duh.
Now I know you are wondering how I got the computer in the first place not to know it was wireless. To make long story short I traded it with my daughter. She go my laptop and I got her PC. My daughter and son sat it up. It has a 19-inch monitor that is mounted on the wall (put up by son #1) and is not internet accessible (my preference) but it has wireless capability to have internet access (if I knew how to use it).
So this week I am going to practice my quilting.
I will post photos tomorrow. My camera is charging.

To Do List

6-7-09

Work on the tutorial for Sunshine and Shadow

7 Nine Patch and Sixteen Patch Blocks

10 Stash Pot Pie Blocks

Cut up some of Pink and White Disappearing Nine Patches

Quilt 2 small quilts

I will also post my treasures I got in the mail this week. I received three packages.

Blog more later.

Jeri

Goodmorning Monday

This is the day I have been waiting for for a week. My on-call is over. No more 5am wake-ups. No more 3am calls. No more worrying if 11p-7a staff will call out. It is over for seven weeks.

If I was with you I would kiss the ground you walk on. Jump up and down and shout praises. Make snow angels in the sand (it does not snow here). I think I could even fly without wings. My headache is over.

I must clarify something. I get up at 5am everyday but not to answer the phone. I get up to start my day quilting. I quilt every morning quilting for one hour (more if I can slow down time-LOL). I never could get up and start getting ready for school or work. I have to ease into it.

I have been nosing around in other blogs and you do not know how much talent I see out there. Quilters are very talented people with vary vivid imaginations. Some of the color combinations I never would have imagined in my wildest dreams. Keep up the good work.

I was over at Nadine's blog at Friendship Threads nosing around. She has an antique Trip Around the World I would love to make. You "need" to go see it. I love antique quilts and Amish quilts. This one is beautiful. I am going to add it to my ever growing Quilt Wish List.

Now down to the business of the day-My To Do List.

To Do List

6/1/09

3 Block of the Month Blocks

20 Happy Houses (no sides)

15 Disappearing Nine Patch Blocks (make 2x6 blocks)

30 Strips on the Straggler Calender Quilt (I have 70 strips cut)

7 Nine Patch and Sixteen Patch Blocks

One day for the PC Quilter (it is not up and going)

I know this sounds like a lot but most of what I am doing is sewing things together I have already started. I will pin for a day or two and then I have a pile of items to be stitched next to my sewing machine and I sew away. Easy as pie.

Plus, some time the first part of this month I need to make a baby quilt for a co-worker. I have a cute simple pattern my quilting group makes for the hospital nursery. Very easy.

I feel obligated to take something to eat to work today. An off-call celebration. I need to stop at Dunkin Donuts and buy two dozen donuts. Talk to you later.

Keep quilting.

Jeri

Stash Pot Pie Progress

There was not much sewing in my house this week. I worked overtime this week. I will be working overtime next week for turnover on the first of the month.
I did accomplish half of my goals. I completed the Disappearing Nine Patches plus I did extra.
I completed the required number of blocks for the Stash Pot Pie. I am being to like this quilt.

My Stash Pot Pie Pie Quilt is coming along quite nicely. I have been piecing the blocks together each week. Below is seven rows of the Stash Pot Pie. I need three more rows. The quilt should measure approx. 90x100 inches. They are 10-inch blocks. I love the yellow and gold highlights in the quilt.

I promised you photos of my trip to Lancaster, Pa. I was looking through my photos when I saw the photos I took at The History Center Chester County Historical Society. They have all types of antiques (furniture, household items, quilts, etc.). I did not notice the sign not to take pictures until after I had taken three photos.

Below is my favorite quilt. If I get a chance I would like to make this quilt. I love red and to me this is what a quilt should be.

I also liked the quilts in the two photos below. I think the half square triangle is very interesting. My camera (or any camera for that matter) does not do the quilts justice. You have to see them. They are beautiful. It inspires you to go the extra mile. To take that chance and be creative.

I just love red in a quilt.

My To Do List will be short this week. I am on call and may have to go in to work if someone calls out and I cannot find a replacement. Every night I dread the 11p-7a shift. I cannot stay awake after 4am.

So here is what I want to accomplish this week.

To Do List

5/24/09

14 Nine and Sixteen Patch Blocks
14 Happy Houses

Read another chapter of PC Quilter

I hope I can accomplish this. I am behind in the nine patches and I need to have some Happy Houses made before my swap blocks get here.

Happy quilting.

Jeri

A Long Week

I had a long week at work and did not get to blog until this am. I will try to be on time next week. Also, I think I am going to have a shorter list this week. I want to inventory my sewing room.
Let us start with my list and what I accomplished. I was suppose to make 20 pink and white 9 patch blocks for my Disappearing Nine Patch. I made 6 blocks. I stopped making them after making the fourth one to get a handle on what I need instead of just sewing willy nilly. I knew I needed a total of 56 blocks to make this quilt.

So, I decided to make the side rows of the pink panels to see the direction my quilt was going. So I made 40 of the side rows. I am very pleased with these.

My "thorn in my side" Stash Pot Pie quilt blocks is turning into my favorite blocks. I had planned on making 15 blocks. I think I made about 24 blocks (some I just finished off and made into 9 block rows).

These are the blocks I just loved making. I used no color scheme. I just picked two colors and went for it. I love them. I made more than my goal. I have more strips cut out. I can make a 16-patch block in less than 10 minutes. My system is so cool. I love it.

I made 30 strips for my calender quilt. I also cut the sashing and sewed it into one long strip waiting to be cut into the columns. Which I will start next week.

This broke my heart when I realized my week was over and I had only made one Happy House (the bottom one). So to make it not feel so lonely I put some other Happy Houses in the pictures with it.

My BOM was done and mailed. She should have them by now. I am keeping the one on the right top row. I ran out of the blue I used in the other two.

I did not get to quilt the I Spy quilt or make any of the gray 9-patch blocks. I still have next week.
I hope you enjoyed my show and tell. I will post my "To Do List" tonight. I am going to spend Monday night cutting and getting things ready to sew.
More show and tell later.

Jeri

I know I promised to make a sidebar with all my UFOs and WIP on it, but I cannot. I just cannot show you my weaknesses. I have taken a lot of classes and not finished them. Example, last year I went to the Jacksonville, Fl quilt show and took a class on making a miniature quilt. I knew when I was in the class I would not finish it. It was not what I was interested in. It was not me. Do not get me wrong I enjoyed the class, had a lot of fun and learned a lot of things but it was not me. Maybe ten years down the road I will be. But not today.
So I decided to make a To Do List every Monday and see how much of it I finish by Saturday. On Sunday I will post my progress with pictures and start my To Do List for the next week.
Okay, so here we go. Please be aware I work full-time and this list will not always be completed but I will try my best. Hopefully, this will keep me off so many interesting bunny trails I seem to wonder down.

To Do List

5/4/09

7 Happy House Blocks-finish them off

20 Pink and White Disappearing Nine Patch Blocks

15 Stash Pot Pie Blocks

Sew two rows of the Stash Pot Pie together

Sew and trim another month of the Calender Quilt together

Measure and cut the sashing for the Calender Quilt

5 Blocks for Gray Quilt

8 Blocks for Crazy Mama Quilts 9 Patch Quilt Along

8 Sixteen Patch Blocks

3 Blocks for my Block of the Month group

(1 for me, 2 to mail)

Quilt I Spy Quilt (its on the frame and waiting)

Cross you fingers and say a prayer for me. I know it seems like a lot but most of the blocks are almost completed. The colors are chosen and cut. Just waiting to be sewn.

Will let you know my progress on Saturday.

Jeri