Sacramento MQG Sew Day

A couple of weekends ago the Sacramento Modern Quilt Guild had its' second sew day . It was a lot of fun. We only had 4 people show up, but it was fun to sew and have others there for support. I really enjoyed seeing everyone's progress and getting sometime away from the house just to work on quilting.

I continued to work on my posh quilt. I have almost all the blocks done.

However, I messed up on my fabric cutting and I am going to have to cross my fingers and hope that I have enough fabric left over. You would think I would be able to count, but I guess not!

If there is enough fabric, then I am hoping to have the top done and my quilting challenge for February done before our next meeting. Which is really soon, like next weekend. Our February challenge is to make a doll quilt and of course I am starting at the last possible minute. So typical of me.

I have a feeling I won't get both of those done. I do have this somewhat important thing to do this week. As a teacher they kind of expect you to do report cards. I don't think I could get away with giving all my students Bs (proficient - My district doesn't use the regular A through F scale.)

I am so excited to see everyone at the SMQG meeting next weekend. I really enjoy our quilt guild meetings, as there is always a lot of inspiration.

- Jenn

Work In Progress Week #6

So it has been my week off. You would think that would mean that I have had a lot of time to work on my projects. HA! Not, so much so. I have done a lot of shopping. I was going to make my sister-in-law travel bags for our cruise in April and work on cleaning up the house. However, finding just the right fabric didn't seemed to cause some difficulties and the bag... oh the bag. The bag is why I am up this late. Anyhow, on to the week in review. Sorry no new pictures, just too late!

Completed Projects:

Scrappy Bee block

New Projects:

A Twist on Tradition Bee Block (Still just looking at the fabric and directions for that one)

Paris Bag from hell

Ongoing Projects:

I am still working on the Posh Quilt. I have all the A blocks done and 1/2 of the B blocks. I worked on these during the Sacramento Modern Quilt Guild sew day. I have new pictures, but they are on my camera and it is about midnight, so you will just have to wait.  

Hexagon Christmas Table Runner/Hexagon Christmas Pillows

My mom gave me a new thimble for these. I also worked on them at the end of last week. I have less than two flowers to go.  

Completed tops awaiting quilting:
Loves Road

I didn't do anything with these:
Halloween Quilt
Peace Purse

UFOs -
Scrappy Bear

This week's stats:

New projects: 2
Completed projects : 1

Currently in progress - 8

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Work In Progress Week #5

Completed Projects:
Two Blocks for the Sacramento Modern Quilt Guild January Challenge.

This one is more traditional-ish,  And I know it is missing contrast in the pinwheel. My original plan was the green, but I decided against it because I wanted the challenge fabric to stand out. Looking at it now, I am not so happy with that choice. Oh well.

The second one was more improvisation.

New Projects:

Scrappy Bee block
A Twist on Tradition Bee Block


Ongoing Projects:
I started working on the Posh Quilt again. I have 12 out of 18 blocks done for block A.

I still have this huge stack left for block A and block B

Hexagon Christmas Table Runner/Hexagon Christmas Pillows
I worked on getting some more hexagons together.
 Completed tops awaiting quilting:
Loves Road

I didn't do anything with these:
Halloween Quilt
Peace Purse

UFOs -
Scrappy Bear

This week's stats:

New projects: 2
Completed projects : 1

Currently in progress - 8

I finally started working on two of my quilts I had in progress. Pretty good for not really doing much.

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Sacramento Modern Quilt Guild Feb Meeting

Yesterday we had the February meeting of the Sacramento Modern Quilt Guild. Just a few of us were able to make it this time. No one had recently finish projects to share. For me I had just given away my last two projects (Circle Quilt and Peaceful Green Baby Quilt).

However, all of us did remember to bring our completed blocks for the January Challenge. Each of us were given a fat 1/8th of fabric and asked to create a 10 1/2 X 10 1/2 block using the fabric. Here are the ones that arrived at this meeting. Hopefully some more will come in at next sew day or next months  meeting.

It was great seeing everyone and I am looking forward to seeing everyone at our sew day on the 20th.