A Lovely Year of Finishes - August 2015 Edition

I am linking up with Sew Bitter Sweet Designs for August's A Lovely Year of Finishes.  I have this beautiful Irish Chain quilt top that I have to totally deconstruct and put back together.

It has been made by at least 3 people.  Parts (mostly the 2" squares) are hand pieced, with 1/16" seams, some parts by a sewing machine with awful tension problems and one sewing machine that had great tension.  It currently is 68x62...it will be interesting to see what size it ends up with 1/4" seams!  I'm getting to spend quality time with my seam ripper this month!! 

About 25-30 places where it was hand pieced were coming apart and many other places were fraying really badly.

I want to have this quilt used when I am finished with it and I'm afraid it would fall apart with the first wash.

A Lovely Year of Finishes July Goal Accomplished!

No internet at home is a real pain...and so is Windows 8 - I can't find any pictures I load onto the computer!!  So bumming internet in town, using my old computer with Windows 7 (I understand it and can find what I am looking for!)

So, I did finish my blocks for my step-son's wedding autograph quilt and this is the layout that his fiance liked the best:

So, once again I am linking up with Sew BitterSweet Designs, declaring my July goal MET!!

New goal is to have this baby quilted, labeled and bound by the end of January, 2016.  I am linking up with Pat Sloan and her UFO Busting Plan!

A Lovely Year of Finishes, July Goal

Another wedding is in the future for my family - my step-son is marrying a lovely young lady in October and she requested a wall hanging with signature blocks, so I need get all the blocks finished.  I am linking up with Sew BitterSweet Designs with this as my July goal!  I love the way it makes me get a move on and I'm not trying to finish something the night before!!

This is what I am making for her - dark blue and light pink are her colors!

I am really looking forward to seeing how this quilt turns out...definitely different from my daughter's wedding autograph quilt, even though I am using Majestic Mountain blocks again!

A Lovely Year of Finishes - June 2016 Finish!

Whew, I made it!!  I am linking up with Melissa at Sew Bitter Sweet Designs with a finish for June.  Even though I helped my daughter get her home ready for an overseas move (can you say Oahu!!) where the Army is sending her for the next three years, ran home for a week the went back to her house (only 5.5 hours away from me now) and got her, along with her cat and dog, to drive them to Reno, Nevada, where I'll be putting them on a plane (along with her hubby) on July 6.  I will miss her so much - I have enjoyed getting to pop over all the time!  I did get her Autograph Quilt from her wedding last August quilted, labeled and bound...ready for Hawaii!!!

I have better pictures, but right now I'm hating Windows 8 - I haven't a clue how to get pictures where I want them and how to retrieve them or edit them!  She took this picture of the quilt on her blow-up bed :)  I love that she is already using it!!

Did you have a finish this month?

FREE Hexie Template

I am NOT a fan of hand work (it hurts!), but I need to do some and decided hexies will work the best.  I didn't want to have to spend a bundle on hexie papers, so I did a little research (so easy to Google!) and found hexies that can be cut with a rotary cutter (yep, I'm gonna figure out how to do all the cutting with my rotary cutter), thanks to Sew Quickly.  If you are interested, hop on over and download the free templates to your computer...you never know when you are going to need them!!!  No pictures yet, but now you'll just have to wonder why I would need hexies!!

A Lovely Year of Finishes - June 2015

Well, I tried to put this on my list for a finish last November...failed miserably!!  However, I am under the gun with this quilt now since my daughter and her hubby are moving to Hawaii on July 7...do you think that it motivation enough to get this baby quilted, labeled and bound before they leave?  I obviously work better under pressure, so here goes!

I am linking up with Melissa at Sew Bitter Sweet Designs for the A Lovely Year of Finishes -- June Goal Party with my daughter's autograph quilt from her wedding last August.

I WILL get this quilt finished...I don't want to have to mail it to her!!! 

How about you...are you up for finishing a UFO or WIP??

Texas Teardrops - A Lovely Year of Finishes May 2015

Whew, I made it!  Between my computer dying and thunder storms that dumped a bunch of rain and took out the power, I got Texas Teardrops pieced!  I just love this quilt!!!  I am linking up with Sew Bitter Sweet Designs again...for a finish of my declared goal!!  So excited!!

Now to declare a goal for June...I have a perfect choice or two!!  I love this challenge - it really keeps me accountable to keep me on track...have you joined in yet?

*EDIT*  If you are interested in obtaining a copy of the pattern for Texas Teardrops, it can be found here.  Thanks, Dani, for asking about it and I'm sorry I forgot!!