Stories from the Sewing Room

I feel like I didn't accomplish much this month, but I did make pretty good progress on my PHD, finishing two UFO projects and completing two things I started this year. 

Linking with Ms. P. Designs PHD program

This month I completed my RSC quilt.

I also completed one clothing item, two if you count the shirt I made for my daughter. 

You can read more about my shirt one post back on the October OMG Finish Link Up. It's not as cute or well-fitting as my daughter's is. 

I made some burp cloths for a friend. Free tutorial here. 

And I finished the pumpkin pillow that I originally made for the fair before setting it aside due to the not-great quilting. 

I have to finish the Batesville BOM quilt, which dates to 2007. I need to figure out how to finish it. I'm not going to use the directions I bought for it because my units didn't come out the same size as the instructions and it would take a lot of reworking to get it to fit. So I need to come up with a different plan.

I also have to finish Bedford Tiles, which I started this year. This one needs sashing and borders.

I'm getting there. I also have quilting planned for one of my other UFOs that's not on my list; I just need some time on the longarm. 

I've finished a few more quilts for others. The first one belongs to Ann. She appliquéd a bunch of Mickey and Minnie heads for this quilt. She requested Cakewalk 2 for the quilting. It doesn't show very much even though I did a fairly small scale. I attached her binding to the front of her quilt before sending it back to her.

Then I quilted In the Swirls on a baby quilt Linda's mom made for Linda's fourth grandchild, who was born on my son's birthday last week. Linda's mom hand-pieces her quilts!

Next up was Shirley's quilt, quilted with Moons and Stars. This one was pretty big!

I then quilted Kapari on Deb's quilt. Deb alternates between machine- and hand-piecing her quilts. This one was done by hand. Things were going along and then my power flashed, went off, then flashed again and went to brown-out and then flashed and remained on. Ugh. Luckily I was not actively quilting when the power blipped, but it did blow a fuse on my Lucey. The IntelliQuilter was fine other than it didn't remember where in the pattern it was. 

Next I quilted Ann K.'s dog quilts. This first one has a semi-custom design. I used my IQ to edit a couple of patterns I purchased and combine them into one. 

Out in the yard, we've harvested the pumpkins. One was bad, so it went into the compost pile. Another was fed to the chickens. Two are on the front porch. I weeded the side garden by myself. There were a lot of thistles to remove. Not fun because of all the pokies. One garden down, two to go. Too bad one is an absolute beast. 

We hadn't seen many birds at all for a week or so. Suddenly there were many again, mostly the usual suspects. Unfortunately, the juncos have returned. My only objection to them is that they are winter birds in my yard. I'm not ready for winter.

I am going to my small guild's retreat on Friday. I don't know what on earth I'm going to sew because the two projects I have left aren't really retreat-friendly. I have to go to the dentist tomorrow and we have a robotics event at IU this weekend. It seems like whenever I have plans, they are all bunched up at once.

Before you go, I wanted to share my son's sculpture class project. He got a low A on it, but I think it deserved higher. I may be biased, but I thought it was cute, especially for a high school boy's project. It was all sewn by hand. 

I'll be back Friday with the November OMG link up.

Linking with Quiltery, My Quilt Infatuation, and Alycia Quilts.