Independence Month Check Up.

Well July was set to be my Independence Month with no goals.  Then I did come up with one item that would be a goal  that I could link up to "One Monthly Goal"  So, I just listed a bunch of stuff I wanted to play with.  No commitment to what I'd get done or if I'd even really get anything done on it.  Anyway this what the month yielded.  
Here is my quilt top that was my "One Monthly Goal"  and one that I took to the retreat. 

 Color me Silly - 

No you are not seeing double - There are two tops.  Originally when I started to make this I wanted to increase it's size and make it a king size quilt for us.  Long story and many years later I decided against it and wanted to just finish the top.  However, when I was done there were a lot of extra cut pieces.  My oldest daughter loves it, so I thought I'd make her a throw.  Well.... there were so many extra pieces I made another complete top - AND.... I still have some pieces.  I even have backing fabric for both. I usually never make a 2nd of a pattern. And I don't make two quilts with the same exact fabric.  Guess this will be a first.

Another retreat project was Savannah Flair.  I had all the blocks done, I just needed to assemble and put the border on.    

It was supposed to have a couple more borders, but I just couldn't get anything to work so i put a small black border on and it will work great because I want to make this into a wall hanging.  

This next one - was my 3rd quilt I took to the Retreat and it was a supposed to be a fast fun quilt.  

"Melody" - 

I had all these strip quilts lined up.... Hmmm not so sure.  Actually I will still do them but unlike cooking from scratch where you can add a little of this and little of that - strip quilts and log cabin quilts are not forgiving of minor discrepancies. It took me way too long here at home after the retreat to fix it.  I will be doing my next one differently.   *smile* 

I finally got June's Bag Lady done... 

And here is my July one -  Not done but got a start on it. 

I did work a little on "Simple Joy" 

I thought I would get more done on this one but I didn't.  

I have to say - it was very freeing to tell myself that all my stuff on my list were want to's not goals.  And I have to say it ended up being a productive month.  I completed 4 quilt tops a couple of small gifts and some embroidery.  Not too bad.  So what's next?  I'll see you in my next post.

Blessings,  Lynn 

Color Me Silly Twins

Well that was a fast week. and I'm still a little tired.  But it's a good tired.  I have lots to tell and not sure if I want to cram it all in one post or break it up but I'll figure it out.  First up I want to talk about my "Color Me Silly" Quilt top.  After all, it is and was my only goal this whole month - the rest of the month is supposed to be "Free" to work on what ever strikes my fancy.  Go ahead say it "Yeah well how's that working for you?"  On Paper it's working fine.  On paper it just says: "If I want to" - in my brain - well lets just say I'm a work in progress. 
Okay enough of that, I want to show you how I did with Color Me Silly.  
Ta-Done! (The top anyway) 

I've really had to work with the pictures to try and get the colors.  It keeps wanting to photograph blue.  

It's really some very pretty colors of purple. You might be able to see it if you click on it to make it bigger.

So I originally had Ideas of making it a king size, because I thought it would be for our bed.  Well for some reason at the time  - (this was several years ago) I could not get the border to line up with the addition of blocks I had used for the enlargement.  Hence why it was put in a pile of UFO's to sit for several years.  

I came across it a couple of months ago and wanted to finish it.  So I took it to the retreat and here it is.  

Now, as Paul Harvey would say - "the rest of the story" -Since I had all the extra blocks cut out I told my oldest daughter (my biggest fan) that maybe I could make her a lap quilt out of the left overs.  So I started making extra blocks with the left overs.  I kept going and going and going.... I have enough to make another whole top. So my Color Me silly will have a twin.  Now the difference being that my sewing now verses my sewing 6 years ago has improved so one will be a little improved from the other.  And as I'm  thinking now - the older one will give me quilting practice for the newer one.  

Thanks for reading my rambling - *smile*.  

I am going to link this up to One Monthly Goal over at Elm Street Quilts.  

I posted this quilt as my goal for July At Elm Street Quilts here.  (#46)

I'm sure I'll be posting more pictures of the twin once I have it together.  And luck have it I also have backing for both.... What was I thinking?

Have a wonderful day - Blessings,

Lynn 

First Annual CRQ Retreat

I have to say this was a great retreat! This was the first retreat for the CRQ guild, and it was wonderful.  Everyone seemed to be happy and in a good mood. We visited and socialized but I still got a lot done.   First up was my Savannah Flair quilt.  Top is done.

Next was Color Me Silly again, top is done.  I will post more about this later. 

Then I worked on this one 

The top is "Almost" Done. Sewing strips together can be a challenge.  I need to adjust a row then put the rest of the borders on. *smile*. 

Then while we were finishing up for the day and waiting for one of the husbands I did a little hand stitching on the Simply Joy quilt I wanted to start.  

Before I sign off though - I wanted to show what some of them were doing with a pattern that was offered. I don't normally do the retreat projects but this looks really fun so I may have to give it a try.  This was two different peoples starts to the pattern.

Well that's how the retreat went - almost 3 quilt tops - pretty good for a 2 1/2 day retreat.  Hope you have a great day!  

Blessings,

Lynn 

Color Me Silly

Well old habits die hard.  *Grin* Only a day or two after I declared I was not going to make any goals for the month of July.  I was just going to work on whatever I want to. Well - I'm going to make a goal.  I have a UFO that has been nagging me and I didn't even list it as one of the things I wanted to play with this month.  Notice the name of this quilt - really appropriate don't you think?  

So I pulled it out today and figured out where I was on it.  And now I want to play with it.  I have it all cut out, 1/2 of the blocks made and one side of the borders made. 
Please excuse the threads..... I'm a quilter.  

So here's where the goal part comes in.  I want to finish this top this month.  And I am going to link this up to "One Monthly Goal".  Over at Elm Street Quilts. 

Please leave a comment or a "Hi" and then go back to Elm Street Quilts and visit some of the other quilters that link up.  
Have a great day!
Lynn