Blocks A Plenty

1- Here's my Bloggers BOM for October:

 2- Skill Builder: I had 2 blocks to do to catch up.  The first one was #14- Crazy Quilt Block: My favorite part of doing this block was trying out a lot of cool stitches on my machine.  I think this would be a really cool technique (sewing onto a fabric base) to make a t-shirt quilt or for baby clothing.  I think I may venture out with this later on with my kid's clothing......I just need to get a little braver first.

 

The second block was #15- Diamond Dash: Well, let me give you a little background.  I have always been super scared about paper piecing quilts - I've never done it.  Then this block shows up that uses paper piecing.  I consider putting it off....

Meanwhile, I decide I want to be apart of the '12 Days of Christmas' Sampler Quilt Along.  I've been really excited about making a Christmas quilt, and then.....I see the first block - a paper pieced truck.  Seriously?!  I'm not going to lie - my heart sank.  I knew that if I'm going to try the Christmas stuff that I'm going to have to suck it up and do the SBS #15. 

 Eh....I made a stupid mistake - I was thinking the seem allowance was there for the triangles not the actual block, so my triangles weren't big enough.  Oops.  The block still came together, but it wasn't the greatest.  I'm glad I tried paper piecing, but it didn't give me the confidence boost I needed to paper piece the truck.  We'll see.  I'm still debating what I'll do.

3- I made a Ticker Tape Doll Quilt for my niece (blogged about here).

4- I pulled out an old project (it's actually one of the very first things I started working on 3 years ago).  When I showed my husband what I was going to work on, he said, "Hallelujah!  I never thought I'd see this day!"  He's been trying to get me to finish some of my old projects (without much success - I might add) for a long time.  My mom wanted a Christmas table runner, but at the time I didn't even know how to make one.  I've made a couple now, so I'm going to finally get this done before Christmas.

 I kind of cringe to see some of the seams not lining up, but it's kind of nice to see how far I've come in the last 3 years of quilting.  I sewed the 3 blocks together this week, and now I need to get it layered together and quilted this week.

Stats for the Week:

New projects - 1
Completed projects - 1
Projects In Progress - 3
Projects on Hold- 2

Check out the other WIP at Freshly Pieced!