It’s Share-It Tuesday! What have you been working on?

Not much stitching going on here this week, but I did manage to finish six applique posy needle cases. One I will mail to my swap partner later today and a couple others to friends.

What about you?? What have you been working on?

It’s Share-It Tuesday! What have you been working on?

Not much stitching time here the past week. I have been working on six applique posy needle cases. One will go to my swap partner next week and a couple others to friends. I’ll keep a couple here for emergency quilting gifts. Fabric (except the felt) is my own hand dyed.

Reminder for those participating in the swap, the mail date for international shipments is today. The mail date for domestic shipments (including Canada/USA) is next Tuesday. I know many of you have already sent your swap package and emailed me, thanks!! Check out the Flickr group for this swap.

What about you?? What have you been working on?

I hope you enjoyed last week’s Share-It Tuesday!. I really enjoyed seeing what you have been working on.

Here’s what I accomplished the past week. Scroll down to share what you’ve been working on too.

Block 7 of Rachel’s Pinwheel Sampler Quilt.

Block 8 for this sampler quilt was our choice. I chose Mosaic 2.

Yippee!! The blocks are all done for the Pinwheel Sampler. I also stitched the top and bottom borders and the sashing cornerstones. Now to it put together… soon! Previous blocks are here and here.

For Bradie’s Summer Star Sampler, here are Blocks 7 and 8.

And Blocks 9 and 10.

Fabric is Arabella by Pat Sloan. See the previous blocks.

That’s it for me. What about you??

Thank you to dear friends that have sent or given me such lovely gifts lately. You are all wonderful and I treasure your gifts every day I see or use them.

Anita from the Netherlands sent me this lovely embroidery. It just arrived in my mail one day totally unexpected. Thanks Anita!

In late May, I finally had the pleasure of meeting Upstate Lisa. She’s from Ottawa but now lives in upper New York. She gave me this lovely travel wallet to take with me to Spring Market in Minneapolis. It was perfect as it held my travel receipts and passport. Thanks Lisa!

My friend Sandie gave me this cute memo holder. The Bird of Paradise was the theme for her daughter’s wedding. Thanks Sandie!

Earlier this week, this lovely needle case for the applique swap arrived from Berit in Norway. She also included a birthday calendar of trolls. It’s super cute. Thanks Berit!

I also met with my Dealer this week, my Aurifil threads dealer that is, Bytowne Threads. Aren’t these colours just fabulous? Can’t wait to start using them.

Last week’s Share-It Tuesday! was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed seeing what many of you have been working on. This might just become a regular feature here at the Quilting Gallery.

A few weeks ago, I wanted a quick and easy project to work on. I created this Blue and Yellow Fun quilt. It’s a disappearing nine-patch. I adore this pattern as it is charm or fat quarter friendly. Here’s another one I made for a friend’s wedding.

I started with 12 fat quarters, six blue and six yellow. The fabric is Califon by Mark Lipinski and had been in my stash for a year calling to me to be used! From each fat quarter, I cut 12-5″ squares. I then made 16 nine patches, alternating yellow and blue fabrics. The large nine patches were then cross-cut into 7″ pieces for 63 segments. Put them on the design wall and played until I had a design I liked.

The border fabrics came from my stash too. A 1″ orange border, a 1/4″ flange on top, followed by a 5″ outer border. The total size of the quilt is 58″ x 72″. The quilt top has moved to the pile of quilts waiting to be quilted this Fall. Here’s a close-up of a corner of the quilt top. The colours are more accurate in this photo than the one above.

So, what have you been working on?

I thought I’d try something new here at the Quilting Gallery, Share-It Tuesdays! I’d love to see what you’ve been working on lately. Share your recent quilting-related projects by adding a link to your blog post below.

Over the weekend, I got caught up on Bradie’s Summer Star Sampler quilt and got back to working on Rachel’s Pinwheel Sampler quilt. This quilt got put on hold a couple of months ago, but I’d really like to finish it this summer.

Here’s my Block 6:

See blocks 1 to 5 here.

I also cut out Blocks 7 and 8 as well as the sashing, cornerstones, scrappy binding, and top/bottom border fabrics.

I was inspired by this quilt here, to add top and bottom borders of squares. The quilt should finish around 56″x68″.

So, what have you been working on?