Design Wall Monday

That new project I just started? I finished the first block:

Good thing it is only a tablerunner; this one is going to take a while!

Head on over to Judy's blog to see how everyone else is doing.

Sometimes you just need a new project

I have plenty of half-finished projects that I could be finishing, but I felt the sudden need to run to the quilt shop yesterday to buy the makings of a new project.

The purple on the left is wool and I will be hand-appliqueing it on the cream fabric. I am on my way today to the Sewing Expo in Novi, Michigan and thought this would make a fun travel project.

I am using the project from Patchwork Posse's winter tablerunner. It seemed fitting since the sweltering weather smacked directly into "too cold" here. What happened to autumn?

Stop Drop and Roll, part 9

After a long break, welcome to part 9 of the Stop, Drop and Roll Quilt Along! I am hosting this for the Old Red Barn Co. Flickr group.

Week 1: We made our blocks.
Week 2: We assembled our quilt tops.
Week 3: We basted our quilts.
Week 4: We practiced some straight line quilting patterns.

Week 5: We practiced some C curve quilting patterns.

Week 6: We practiced some loopy quilting patterns.

Week 7: We practiced some S curve quilting patterns.

Week 8: We practiced some spiral based quilting patterns.

This week, I am finally quilting the quilt!

The machine:
I used my Janome 6600. I used the darning foot on the machine and I dropped my feed dogs.

The thread:
For the top thread, I used Tutti from WonderFil, color TU01 Sunny.
For the bobbin thread, I used Konfetti. by WonderFil, color KT403 Yellow.

Today I started the quilting!

One block down, 35 to go!