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April One Monthly Goal Finish
I finished my April One Monthly Goal: Cheddarback last night. It was a fun block of the month/sew along. Part of the fun was how challenging some of the blocks were to accomplish. I rearranged the...
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May One Monthly Goal
I originally wrote this post at the end of March before the final clues to Cheddarback were released, so this quilt was set aside. It's been waiting all month for me to put it on the HQ16 and get it...
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All New!
In the last two weeks I have started a couple of new projects. One of them is this Wild Goose Chase kit that came from the stash of a quilt camp friend, Kitty.In the pattern, there were pages upon...
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All New--part 2
When Di Ford passed away recently, it reminded me of all the quilts I've been wanting to make from her first book Primarily Quilts. I have a small stash of her fabrics that I've been collecting to make...
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One Monthly Goal May finish
I had a lot of inquiries about the fabric I used for the Panama Pyramid alternate triangles.This is the last of the fabric piece and luckily most of the info part of the selvage is intact. I really...
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June One Monthly Goal
Since this has been hanging around on my design wall for a few weeks, I guess it's about time to get it quilted. Once I got the borders on, I immediately made the binding (cheddar, of course!) and...
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Testing....
I’ve never done a post from my phone, but since Blogger is forcing a new “phone friendly” platform onto us, I decided to give it a try. And since I’m doing a test post, this is a test block I just made...
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A Little Update
There have been so many things that I've been longing to do, but told myself these Afternoon Delight double nine patches had to be finished first. It was hard, but I did it--yay! Now I can putter...
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Update to the Update
I'm much happier with the center of my star now that I've reverted it to the solid log cabin blocks. I also made some courthouse step blocks and added them to the top and bottom of the star to get a...
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June One Monthly Goal Finish
Just finished just my One Monthly Goal for June this morning: Covid Chaos. The orange thread doesn't look too obnoxious--lol!I remembered to add a label. Last month I think I was late doing that. I...
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July One Monthly Goal
I'm pretty excited to get my Broken Star finished, so it will be my July One Monthly Goal. I plan to add a narrow sashing between the top and bottom rows (not shown in this photo) and also a small...
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Happy Fourth!
I did a little patriotic stitching last week. This project been bookmarked in a magazine for years (Quilting Ideas Spring 2001!). In my defense, it's paper pieced, so that was a huge roadblock for me....
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Block Parade
Since I have finished all the pieced Afternoon Delight blocks, this is all I have to show for July's block of the month. As you can see, I'm still focusing on adding more green and yellow fabrics.And...
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The Parade Continues.....
Are you feeling the Sweet William block parade fatigue? I know I am, so here are all the rest of the blocks in one fell swoop. I think I managed not to repeat any of the previously shown blocks. Now...
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July One Monthly Goal Finish
My July One Monthly Goal was to complete the Broken Star quilt. You can see I did an edge to edge design--Amoebas Gone Wild. I originally began quilting this with straight lines, but when I was almost...
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August One Monthly Goal
My One Monthly Goal for August is to complete the applique blocks for this months Afternoon Delight BOM. I have five days to get them done. I'm going easy on myself since after the sixth I will be "out...
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Reading and reading and....
It's only been a week since my surgery, and I am already feeling reader's fatigue. Even though I can't do any stitching, my Lap App has come in pretty handy. I'm using a strip of tee shirt sleeve...
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August One Monthly Goal Complete
Before this happened........my August Afternoon Delight applique blocks were finished. They were my One Monthly Goal for August and, I admit, not a very lofty goal. I didn't want to get too stressed...
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September One Monthly Goal
The night before my wrist surgery I was looking for something to occupy myself and ended up marking all of the squares and rectangles for Butter Butterscotch by Linda Koenig.Because of the screws in...
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Biding Time...
I've been looking for things I can do with my right hand (and a little help from the fingers on my left hand) and decided I could prep the September Afternoon Delight blocks for applique. Hopefully...
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A Little Update
On September 28th, Mr. Moosebay insisted on taking me to the ER. A week later, I woke to find that my entire colon had been removed, I had lost 20 pounds, was now diabetic, and had an ileostomy . They...
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Oops...
I want to thank everyone that took the time to comment or write me after my last post. It's so uplifting to have so much encouragement and good wishes. Thank you!This is the extent of my work in the...
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It's a Wrap...
It was a slow process, but I finally finished the final twelve blocks for Afternoon Delight. My hope was to get them done before the end of year so I'm very happy and relieved that it happened.I...
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A Surprise Finish
I didn't expect to have a finished quilt already this year. I have been half-heartedly piecing log cabins from these strips I cut last fall. And I put together these four patches that had been sewn...
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End of an Almost Era?
It's been almost ten years since I did my first blog post (August 9 2012). I am told that if you subscribe to Moosebay Muses by email, the Feedburner platform is going away and you won't receive the...
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