Design Wall Monday - July 2, 2012

I loved seeing all of your comments from yesterday's post about my Stash Report adventures!  You are such great friends, and I love the way you all rallied around and helped me feel good about my stash numbers :*)  I've decided from now on I'm going to name it the "Stash Enhancement Report" =^..^=

I’m really not one to worry about adding too much fabric to my stash.  The way I look at it, I need fabric to quilt, right?  And I’d much rather buy it when I can find it at really good prices, than to have to search for it later and pay huge prices, right?  I call it “smart planning” – anyway, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it! =^..^= 

So what’s on my Design Wall this week?  Still working on my current UFO Challenge project, Vintage Valentines.  This week I worked on the huge center medallion.

Those pieces kind of look like a cat, don't they?  LOL!!!  I was really kind of dreading this one because of the size.  But as I was putting together the other blocks I realized that I needed this one done early so the other blocks would work well around it and not fight with it. 

So I bit the bullet and opened up the folder to get the pieces for this center block.  Uh oh!  I hadn’t cut out the fusible tracings yet!!!  

Darn!  I thought I had already done that for all the blocks!  And then I looked and realized that none of the TBD blocks had been cut out yet!  That meant that blocks 7-12 and the center medallion had only been traced to fusible, but not yet cut out ready to fuse to the fabrics!  Ugh!!!  LOTS of work yet to be done – work I thought I had already done!!!  Oh well….  Guess what I did while I was watching Tiger win the AT&T National?  =^..^= 

Pieces all prepped for one block

So now you know why I only got one block done this week.  :*)  Here is the Center Medallion block, all fused and ready to applique down the pieces. 

Whew!  It was a big job, but I think I’m happy with it.  I'm still not real sure about that green and white check for the leaves and stems, but I think once I applique them down with a buttonhole stitch in dark thread they’ll stand out enough to work out okay.  The original had this fabric here, so I'm giving it a trial run.

If not, I can always change the fabrics out for something I like better later.  This is what all the finished blocks look like so far on the Design Wall.  

Lookin' good!!!

It feels really good to be getting some of these UFO projects completed!  I have had to carry some of them out into several months, but I don’t really mind that at all.  It has really helped me to be able to stay focused and get each one done.  So far this year, I have completed piecing 3 UFO’s and quilted 6 flimsy UFO’s!  And I’m now half-way through with Vintage Valentines, so I’m VERY happy with those numbers!

…. Now DON'T FORGET to come by tomorrow to see my block for the Red White & Blue Blog Hop!  I just can’t wait to show you!!!  =^..^=   Here's one more little peek.....

These are the blogs that are participating today – go give them some love if you have time!

July 2nd

Sharon P

Snoodles

The Raspberry Rabbits

KrisD

Quilts From My Crayon Box

Elaine

And to see what others are creating on their Design Walls, go HERE to Patchwork Times.

Hugs & Blessings,

Teresa

=^..^=

Also linking up with:

Can I Get a Whoop Whoop at Confessions of a Fabric Addict

Manic Monday at Sew Happy Geek
Tuesday Linky Party at Quilting by the River
WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced
WOW at Esther's Blog
Applique Thursday at A Quilting Reader's Garden