15 minute challenge...week 10&11 (a few days late)

So I finally got Goldie back...and got a bit of stitching done...so it's time to recap what I've done over the past two weeks and link up at Life in Pieces...I won't be breaking it down by day...let's just say some days I sewed, some days I didn't!  But what I can do...is share some pics!

1.  Pieced together the Christmas quilt top. (Pictures are here, no need to post the same pic multiple times!)

2.  Got the September block done for the FQS 2012 Designer Mystery BOM.

and all 4 of the completed blocks together:

3.  Got the May and June blocks done for the HST BOM over at In Color Order.  Well what I really did was get May done, and June HSTs done...finished putting the June block together today!  (counts towards my week 12 15 mins a day!)

and just because...here is a pic of all 6 of my HST BOM blocks:

and now...I still have almost 6 hours before my Longhorns play...so time do some more sewing!

FNSI...the results!

Hope you are all having a great weekend!  I only got a little bit of sewing done on Friday as part of Friday Night Sew In...we had a big day ahead on Saturday so I couldn't stay up as late as I normally would have tried!  Anyways...here is what I was able to get accomplished:

1: purchased fabric earlier in the day to go with my Christmas quilt:

the black and green are from Share the Joy by Deb Strain, the cream is from Christmas Spirit by Holly Taylor.

2: pieced together my disappearing 9-patch blocks for my Christmas quilt (which I am now thinking I might want to make a few more 9-patches to increase the overall size...I don't want it to be ALL borders!):

The fabric is Countdown to Christmas by Sweetwater, and I have a couple of fat quarters from this line that I may go ahead and cut into charms and piece a few more blocks.

3: cut all the fabric and did a tiny bit of piecing (1/2 the red blocks) for the September block in the FQS 2012 Mystery BOM. (the rest of the sewing on this block is what I did on Saturday night).

and that's a wrap!

15 minute challenge...week 5

This should totally be week 9 or 10...but life is what happens when you'd rather be sewing!  So, I'll keep it as week 5!

Tuesday - Friday: nothing (again...life)

but then I jumped full in!

Saturday: block 2 of the FQS 2012 Designer Mystery BOM, bound this quilt, and got the urge to finish up a UFO, so I pieced the back and started quilting this quilt:

it's a very random, completely "go with the wind" FMQ...Girl LOVES it!  Now all I have left is to bind!

Sunday: finished block 3 of the FQS Designer Mystery BOM!

Monday: started the sashing on my Terrain Swoon!  (bout time!)

Feeling so good to be back in the sewing swing of things!  One thing I did this weekend that I found very helpful...I have a short attention span, and I hate rethreading my machine (not that it's difficult, just puts a stop to things!)...so I kept sewing on something that went with whatever thread was already in my machine...kept me interested because I'd finish up a piece of one thing (BOM), and then move to a different project (Terrain Swoon) because the thread matched!

I'm linking up at Life in Pieces!  Have a great day!

a finish and a little BOM!

Woohoo!  Got a lot of sewing accomplished over the weekend!  Sharing just a bit with you today, and the rest tomorrow!

First up, got block 2 done (finally) of the 2012 Designer Mystery BOM by Fat Quarter Shop:

I like the block...not my fave...but I do like it!

and then, because it arrived on Friday...I got block 3 done!

this is my fave block so far!

and because I FINALLY...and I mean FINALLY got this quilt bound...I have a FINISH!!

and the back

and now I'm done...for today!

because I can...

...I started a new quilt this weekend...I threw caution to the wind and chose ignore all of those unfinished pieces stacked all over the place...and started a new one of these kinda quilts.  It started with this:

which became this:

and I totally screwed up at one point and had to cut and re-do one piece (got the wrong side sewn to the right side and well...gotta fix those things; and it's hard to actually tell in this pic...which is why I think it was hard for me to realize I was sewing the two parts together wrong in the first place!):

and is slowly...but surely becoming something like this:

a few more steps and the top will be done!

now the truth is...back around Mother's Day my Mom came to visit and I told her to pick from my stash of Jelly Rolls and Fat Quarters some fabric she liked and I would make her a quilt similar to the ones for my nieces.  So she picked the above fabric...and there it sat...until Saturday...when she was on her way for another visit!  So like any good child (who tends to procrastinate, bite off more than she can chew, and is easily bored with one thing and must quickly move to another) would do, I got some sewing done before she arrived so I could show her that I had been diligently working on that which I had promised her.  Yeah, I'm awesome, I know!  LOL!  I'm calling this one the California Race (you know...California Girl fabric...Jelly Roll Race style...I'm so creative!)

Have a great week!  See you tomorrow!

15 minute challenge...week 1

Well, I didn't sew every day...and not even the majority of the days...but I did sew at least two of the days! I am linking up over at Life in Pieces.

Wednesday: One block for the T-shirt Quilt (right at about 15 minutes)

Saturday: Block 1 of the FQS 2012 Designer Mystery BOM (much longer than 15 minutes; would have been a bit shorter but I screwed up a few pieces and had to start over)

Now...what did I do the other days of the week?  Worked.  A lot.  On night shift.  But that's not much of an excuse, considering I had ample opportunity when I was home to take just a few minutes to sit down and sew something.  So hopefully I get a little more done this week.

Off to chat with my machine for a few!