Colorful Twisting Turning Twenty

Phyllis Oneal has been quilting most of my recent quilts for me.  She does a great job.  We are keeping busy, indeed, during this time of social distancing and staying at home due to the Corona Virus.  This is the third Twisting Turning Twenty I have made.  I did not put the outer border on it, as I believe I did not cut one when I cut all the blocks, which was a few years back.  It makes it a few inches smaller than the Purple TTT.  I took it to the garden at work, this morning, and pinned it to the chicken wire around a fruit tree to get a nice photo.  The weather is so beautiful today and the garden is a lovely place to visit during times like these.  Also, happy Earth Day.  I hear Earth Day is fifty years old today.

This is the back of the colorful twisting turning twenty quilt.  Shannan gave me the blue piece that has little white chicks on it, and I scrounged through my colorful stash (and was brave) and decided to use the psychedelic fabric I have been hording for awhile.  I used no new fabrics on this quilt.

Purple Twisting Turning Twenty

Greetings!  During this unique time of anxiousness, I am endeavoring to keep my blog postings a little fresh.  I have two good friends, at work, who wanted face masks.  I made my first two face masks for them.  Then they agreed to hold up my quilt, so I could take a photo of it.  I definitely had their arm muscles taxed for a couple of minutes, since I am fussy about my quilt photos.  Sandy and Deb did a great job!  Thank you!

This is my purple twisting turning twenty quilt.  It is my 4th UFO I have completed this year.  I am east bound and down on these UFOs.  In fact, if I keep it up, I may run out of check marks!

Happy 2020 List of UFOs!

Happy 2020!  We made it into another year.  My quilt group is doing a 2020 UFO Completion Challenge.  We have to submit a list, then have them all done by December 2020, to be in a drawing for cash.  I really believe I can do one a month, however, I have other projects that I will be doing in between these nine.  Following are the 9 UFO's I have submitted for the challenge:
#1 and #2 are Twisting Turning Twenty quilts
#3 Rocket Ships
#4 Poker Run by Buggy Barn
#5 Phyllis' Phorty
#6 Ohio Star quilt I started in 2001      #8 Spumoni Quilt
#7 16 Patch Bandana quilt                   #9 Flannel Frog quilt

There are two cut out quilts here; one is multicolored and the other is mainly purple and white.  I would say I started these about five years ago. What happened?

I started this rock ships quilt about four years ago, as a project I could do while visiting my mother.  Of course, when I took them with me she had put her sewing machine in the closet with her bed in front of it.  I thought I could spend more time with her if I had something to do, plus it would engage her a little more.  Oh well.

I bought a Buggy Barn quilt book, approximately 7 to 8 years ago, so I could do the Poker Run quilt. It all seemed so simple on the surface of it.  Fortunately, two years ago, one of the Buggy Barn people came to the Quilt Crossing, in Boise.  She had a class, where we could bring whatever Buggy Barn quilt we were working on and she would help us with the process.  It was invaluable, and I did get all the horse blocks completed and squared up. Then back it went, into the UFO pile!  This is the year, I finally get it done! Yes!  My backing, barns, fences, and sky fabrics are all in that pile. 

My friend, Phyllis, did some cleaning out of her stash and UFO's a couple years ago (coulda been four years ago?), and I happily took these wonderful blocks from her.  Guess what?  I am actually going to do something with them, finally.

I took a beginning quilt class at the Quilt Crossing, in 2001, with my friend, Elverta.  It was in the little strip mall on the corner of Liberty Street and Fairview, in Boise.  The classroom was upstairs; narrow steep stairs. Sewing machines up!  Elverta had a great big quilt top done by the end of the class.  She is an overachiever.  This is what I had at the end of the class. I was just not happy with getting these corner stones and sashing to work.  I threw up my hands and decided I would quilt other things until I could get back to this bit of frustration.  I know I will be ripping out a good bit of this, pressing it, and redoing it.  I want to start it soon, because one of our quilt group members is new to quilting and she is taking this same class in January/February.  I can't let her beat me!  But it will probably not happen, because I have my Aunt's florescent quilt to get finished first (one of those not on the list).

This one just needs a couple borders added then finished up.  I have lovely fabric for the back! I can hardly wait! 

This is the Spumoni Quilt. I started it with leftovers from the original Spumoni Quilt. I got the top finished, but never quilted it. I still have the backing fabric with it in my UFO pile.  It will be wonderful when completed.

#9 is the flannel frog quilt, I started in 2011.  I used the scraps that were left over from the quilt top to make a kitty quilt that my kitty has enjoyed for a very long time.  

As I said, I am excited about starting on these projects and getting them finished!  It is going to be an interesting year, as right now I am working on an art quilt.  I am determined to get it finished this month.  I guess I better get into the quilt room and get started!

Wonky Flowers!!

Way back in March, when my life was completely frazzled, I took time to be good to myself, and I attended our Spring retreat in Eagle.  I planned on working on my purple Twisting Turning Twenty, but once again I was thwarted by the group learning of a new stack n' whack block.  It is called Wonky Flowers.   Well, okay, I will give it a try, but then I am back to my purple project.  Well, that did not work so well.  I ended up deciding I needed to complete this new project, so I could return to working on my old projects, of which I have 30 on a list from 2015.  I have not had time to update my list for 2016, not to mention it was packed in a box somewhere until May.  Below is my first quilt photo, taken out-of-doors at our new house. 


The fabrics are those I have collected with cupcake, baking themes,
and polka dots. Quilted by Phyllis Oneal.

Twisting Turning Twenty

I finished my 'Twisting Turning Twenty" quilt in June, but I see I never posted a photo of it for all to see.  I apologize for my oversight. I learned a lot about color tones and saturation from making this quilt. I have another all cut out and ready to be assembled, but there are at least four others in the queue ahead of it.  That is how it goes. 

Been quilting at the monastery again!

I had sew much fun at the retreat this week. I really did not want to stop quilting and pack up the rig to come home!  I worked on my Twisting Turning Twenty and I got the top all finished. Ta-Da! I will post a photo of the quilt top soon.  I have to get ready for work tomorrow. Blah!