9-patch sew along and overall progress

Well, I just counted and I stand at 36 blocks. Due to the fact, that I am making four squares right now, I have been trying to make two a day. Though I must admit that I am not someone who sits down and does a little each day. It works much better for me to sit down and do a massive session to let me get ahead for the days when I can't do anything or focus on other projects.

I want to share photos of them, as I really love some of the blocks and would love to hear thoughts on some of the others as I just am not sure about them. If they are really unsuccessful is it better to hide in a massive project, on the back, or to deconstruct and try something else. Unfortunately, my computer is crashing every time I try to upload my photos so it has to wait until I can borrow someones, perhaps this weekend.


UPDATE: I just finished up the ones for today so I am now at 38. Enough for 19 days so I am good for another two days.

I have been keeping busy with my Grandmother's Flower Garden quilt. I have finished two flowers with the third row of green. I several more that are the simple flowers with just the petals and center. I finally found a yellow that works really well for the center. YAY. I am still trying to figure out if I want a cream/white/none for the path between the flowers.

Mod Sampler Quilt along progress

I have decided to use a natural muslin for the sashing and can not wait to finish up the quilt. However, my sewing machine decided to act up and well it has taken until now to get it working again.

I really like how the blocks have turned out. I am really looking forward the finished quilt. I picked up orange and red flannel solid for the back. It will be very cool. I even have variegated thread in both orange and red for the stippling.

One A Day Quilt Along

I'm joining Crazy Mom Quilts' One a Day Quilt Along. I am really excited, I love the quilt on witch it is based. Though I am running a little late on getting started, have to wait for the semester to finish up.

My mom is interested in making her own version of this quilt as well. Since, she doesn't have a blog I will share her progress on mine. So you get to see two versions for the price of one.

Now, because I plan on using the scraps left over from my Grandma's Flower Garden Quilt for this project the majority of my blocks will actually be four square patches. I am not sure if I want to make the entire thing with four squares or if I want to do rows of nines and rows of fours. I will have to see how it goes as the time progresses.

When making my Grandma's Flower Garden Quilt, I get two charm packs and cut each charm into four 2.5" squares. I use six of the 2.5 squares for the petals. Its nice to now have a project for the other two squares.

To compensate for the overall size, since the quilt along quilt is made of nine patches, I plan on making two four patch squares a day once I am able to catch up.

Quilting on a quilt along

I am quilting along with Oh, Franson to make her very cool mod sampler. I wanted to make a rainbow quilt, but wound up working with my fabric stash to make a red and orange quilt. I have finally finished all the blocks and was ready to sash, when my mother decided to interject. Apparently my sense of style is quite questionable and the fabric I chose for the sashing is not right. Okay, so after that wonderfully affirming discussion I have agreed to wait until I find something that works a little better or am sufficiently far from home that she can't throw a fit.