Block Three of the Project of Doom

Here's block three...

Block three

Block Two of the Project of Doom

I completely forgot that I was posting these here.  I'm already working on block four and block five will be released in the morning.  I better get my butt in gear.

Block Two

Block One of the Project of Doom

I love paper piecing.  I do not do it nearly enough to be really good at it but this project should absolutely resolve that issue.

I am not a Harry Potter fan but I am not opposed to little guy either.  I think it was a combination of things really.  My son was too old to just sit and let me read to him but he wasn't old enough to take the books and read them himself.  And then when the movies came out we were seriously watching every single penny and movies were never in our budget.  Now he is almost seventeen and Harry Potter is sooo not cool.  I may actually go online and see if there is a way to watch all the movies just so I can get a better feel for this project, we'll see.

Anyway, I have always had a love of books and libraries.  I spent many, many, many days as a kid at our local library.  I even picked the house we purchased a few years ago because of the built in bookcases in the formal living room.  So, this project is right up my alley in that vein.  I was not happy last night when I was finishing this block as I thought it was much too busy.  But a quick text to Shirley for some constructive criticism proved to be just the ticket.  She gave me some sound advice, which I followed, and now I am very happy with the finished product. 

So without further a due (Insert drum roll here) I present block number one in the 2015 Project of Doom.



Paper Pieced Block Number One
 

January 2015 Goal

Hellloooo 2015!!  I am so happy to see you.

I love how we all think that turning a page on a calendar gives us a fresh start.  Does it really?  I mean is there any difference in what you were doing a week ago compared to today?

Hell yes there is!  There is, for whatever reason, a brand new sense of newness or fresh hope or whatever you would like to call it.  It may all just be a mind game that we all play but if so, I'm ready to roll the dice and take my turn.

I went to UT recently with some friends to visit quilt shops and we had a wonderful time and got a lot of inspiration from everything we saw.

I purchased a package of interfacing that was cut into four pieces perfect for place settings and they even came with quilt as you go pattern.  So, I have cut all my fabrics and started my setting of four.

My goal for January 2015 is to complete the set of four placemats.

 

2015 Here I Come

I have so many projects planned for 2015 it isn't even funny.  I found some amazing train fabric and I am going to design a wall hanging for my Uncle Jim.  I found some beautiful Christmas fabric on sale Friday and I purchased a lot of it.  I plan on making a place setting of eight dinner napkins.  I'll make more if I have enough fabric.  I have at least fifteen paper embroidered patterns that I have picked out to create for friends this year.  I am part of a wool applique group at out The Christmas Goose Quilt Shoppe here in Las Vegas and I still have ten squares to finish from, "Summertime."

 

These are just the things I can come up with off the top of my head this afternoon.  I've been in my sewing room all morning and I'm finding more and more things I want to get started on.  Don't even get me started on all the things I have to finish....the pair of socks I'm making for Abby's father.  The Featherweight Top Down Cardigan I've been knitting for myself for months and months.

I also plan on completing these wonderful paper pieced squares.  If you do not already subscribe to Jennifer Ofenstein's blog I suggest you do so.  The purchase price for this monthly pattern was insanely affordable and beautiful.  Just go to www.sewhooked.com.

I have also joined Fandom in Stitches, The Project of Doom.   It is a Harry Potter Bookcase  Quilt Along.  I am not a Harry Potter fan but I'm not a hater, either:  I just never read the books for saw the movies.  I do, however, love the paper pieced bookcase quilt.

So, as you can see I have lots of plans for this year and I intend to try to keep current with all these projects through, "A Lovely Year of Finishes."

The End of 2014

 

I have been very busy over the past few months.  I made a Valor quilt for my brother who is a USMC veteran who served in the Gulf War in 1991.  I finished a pair of socks for my sister-in-law that were started by her mother before she passed away in July 2013.  I also had some of the sweaters her mother was working on completed by a local finisher.  They came out beautiful and all were given to Abby for Christmas this year.

Front of Sean Michael's Valor Quilt

 

Back of Valor Quilt

Laurel's Socks




 The bear below is wearing one of the sweaters Laurel started and I had finished for her by a wonderful finisher here in Las Vegas.



Laurel's Bear Cub

 I also designed and made the quilt below for my boss.  Her father was a minister and she is a very active member of her church and sings in the choir.


Denise's Christmas 2014 Quilt



 

Holy Purse Strings Batman!!

I have been working on this purse for so long now I honestly don't know for sure when I even started it.  The purse is finished now and it turned out lovely.