Another Stack-n-Whack

 I am so excited to share my new sewing machine.

Get a load of this Juki TL 2010Q

It's a straight stitch semi industrial.

1800spm

I love it

 I ordered a set of led lights from Amazon

Definately makes a difference

And this is the first thing I've pieced on it

I pieced this a few weeks ago

It is huge 

and I didn't even put the last row on

I made this stack-n-whack for my daughter's birthday

My grandson picked out the fabric back in January

and asked me to make it for her

 

 144 squares

So I stopped at a twin size

 Below is the fabric I used.

Above is a close up of some of the blocks

I just love how they are all different

A change, A mistake and A finsih

 

 

 

 

The more I looked at this the more I thought it was a little too crowded.

So I spent 2 hours ripping out the butterfly border and putting it back together.

I do like the effect it has now.

And all that trouble I went through to find more butterfly fabric.

Oh well - we know it won't go to waste.

 

I did manage to put together some stack n whacks.

This is a good example of a not so good repeat.

It doesn't look so bad but it should look much better.

 

 I finally got the truck quilt out of the frame.

I really had a hard time deciding how I wanted to quilt this.

In the long run I just used straight lines.

I thought the thread was a mistake -

should have used a monafilament instead.

The thread I used takes away from the pattern a little.

Oh well it's done. One down One to go.

Problem is I pieced 2 of these - for my 2 grandsons that live here.

I ended up making them another one and now I need to sell these.

 

 

 

Unplanned Stack

I had some left over fabric from a stack-n-whack and I needed to make a baby quilt for Christmas so I figured it would be perfect.

But things got out of hand - as usual.

Since I don't have a design wall I just sat on the floor and started playing with a bunch of different pieces...and I came up with this

 

I started on a small scale trying a few different things ...

I have it put together to this point but need to decide what I want to do from here.

I have a few ideas but will have to put it aside for awhile and get some other things done.

I am really impressed with how well it has all gone together so far (notice I said so far).

I think these are the best stacks I've ever done - all the points and seams are perfect.

Still need a baby quilt done for Christmas.

 

UFO Almost Done

I've had so much work to do lately that I haven't posted much.

I decided I was going to get this stack-n-whack put together before I worked on anything else.

I had all the stars sewn onto the black background and it was a matter of how did I want them placed.

 

I tried it like this but it looked to busy...........

 

Then  rearranged it for this..........

It didn't do anything for me either

 

And I settled for this..... 

Now I need to add the last 2 borders and it is ready to go.

Hopefully I will get it quilted sooner than later.

I also started another design set.

 

A UFO

I decided to work on an old UFO.

I really need to make a better effort to get some of these unfinished projects done.

This is a stack-n-whack that I put together a little differently.

I didn't think about having to applique them when I made them.

Applique isn't my favorite thing to do.

I haven't decided what I'm going to do with them once they are appliqued.

I really liked the look of the black background over the white.

But I still want to do something to make the hexagons stand out.

I have a couple of ideas and hopefully I'll try them out this weekend. 

Hopefully this won't end up back in the UFO pile.

 

Finally some finished

I finished the fish quilt with the stack-n-whacks.

It turned out pretty good.

I just love stack-n-whacks.

I also finished quilting this green quilt for a friend of mine.

It is a lap quilt and very light.

She is interested in selling it too. So if anyone is interested!!



 

 

Weekend Finishes

I feel like the weekend just flew by and I didn't get anything done.

But I did - it just wasn't everything I wanted to get done.

I finished the fish quilt top and got it in the frame.

I'm not as crazy about it as I thought I would be.

No quilting yet - it's just waiting.

I moved this cabinet in and started putting quilting thread on it.

Never can have enough storage space.

And I made this container for my red sticks.

I know it doesn't look like much but I cut, sanded, painted and put it together.

Normally I would have gotten my husband to cut the wood on the table saw but he is temporally banned from using it. So I had to use the jig saw and that's like using a pair of scissors - not a perfect straight line. But that's ok it will serve it's purpose.

 

Stack-n-Whack

I had such a productive weekend. I like it when I can get something done - although my house didn't get cleaned - I'll work on that this week after work.

Anyway I started with this piece of fabric and got it tacked for a stack-n-whack.

 I only had 6 repeats so it didn't take that long. 

I cut off one strip and made these samples to see if they would work for something I have in mind.

I'm not sure if they are what I'm wanting for this project but they will work nicely on another. 

So I had this other piece that I had started tacking a while back and I decided to finished it to see what it would look like. It took a little longer to tack - it was 8 repeats. I did manage to get 4 more of my Christmas blocks done while I was tacking (multi-tasking). 

I cut a strip off and made these with the second piece.

 I really like these only they are bigger than I wanted. 

I also like the shape better. Only thing is these will have to be appliqued but that's not a big deal. 

I do like Stack-n-Whacks.