UFO #4 Complete

I have completed UFO #4 as of this evening.  Below is the best pictures I could get for the evening.  This first is almost the whole wall hanging in one picture.  Below that are the close ups of the different type of quilting I did on this project.  I combined both straight line quilting and some free motion quilting.

This shows some straight line quilting I did in the two inner borders, and then some free motion meandering quilting on the outer border.

In the white space around the trees, I used a loop d' loop meandering.  and if you look real close, I did some free hand stars in the blue above the snowmen.

This picture shows the inner shadowing quilting I did on the trees.

I did some intense straight line quilting (every 1/4") around the stars.  The the center star section, I quilted from side to side, and the two outside star sections, I quilted top to bottom.  Gave it some visual context.

I am delighted to have another UFO project completed, quilted and binding.  I am planning to get some more finished tops quilted this summer.  It is a goal,  something I will work hard on.  

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Quilting progress

Today was another busy day, finishing up the berries, because once they are frozen from being spread out on cookie sheets, I then had to get them all put into quart bags for use throught the year. I also had to do some paperwork (like inventory) before this weekend's trade show for my Husband's business.

After all this, I was able to work on the quilting on the UFO #4 project.  I know I've said this before, but quilting the quilt takes forever, or at least it feels that way.

This is a glimpse of the top of the wall hanging, where I am doing some intense straight line quilting around the stars only on the blue background.

Here, I did some internal shadow quilting on the tree design portion of the wallhanging.  I am pondering on what more quilting I can do within the trees.  Pondering requires sleep.

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More Berries...

It is berry season up here in the great Northwest.  Today I picked up a full crate of blackberries and raspberries, and two crates of strawberries.  All of the berries, with the exception of 6 pints, are going into the freezer as whole fruit.  The six pints of strawberries are sliced and going into the dehydrator as of just a few moments ago.

As you can see, half of the above flat is in the dehydrator below. Smile.

While I am waiting for the fruit to get frozen enough to put into freezer bags, I am working on my UFO #4 (read more here about it if you are interested)  project by getting it quilted.  I am just doing some straight line quilting, mostly stitch in the ditch work.

Some spaces, like the center of the stars, I am quilting an "X", and will do some shadowing inside the trees, but nothing to fancy, as it is a simple kind of wall hanging that calls for some simple quilting.

 Later this evening it will be back to the berry harvest as I will be picking blueberries then freezing and drying them tomorrow morning.

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UFO #4 Top Completed

Here is the completed top for the 4th quarter BOM that I have posted about the last few days.  Thimbleberries never disappoints me.  In the design, the fabric coordination, and how well the whole pattern goes together.   I especially like the triangles in the second border.  I haven't ever done this on an inside border and I really like the look.

This is a closeup of the complete appliquéd snowmen.  They are so stinking cute!!!

Lynette Jensen of Thimbleberries uses lots of different types of tree patterns in her designs, and this one is no exception of her unique design.  

And finally, a close up of that inner pieced border I talked about earlier in this post.

As soon as I have completed the quilting on the table topper, I will be machine quilting this wall hanging and the UFO #3 fall wall hanging.  I will be nice to have completed projects on my 2014 list, and not just tops done.

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Progress of UFO #4

I spent some time today working on this next UFO project #4.  Remember, I stated that the yearly four projects were sent out each quarter, and each quarter had three sections to complete the four wall hangings.

This is sections one:

Then this is section two:

I did get started on section three, but it really isn't a section.  The third month of this wall hanging is the borders, with one of the borders having a design sewn in the middle of the areas of the strips.  I also have to still do the machine blanket stitch around the family of snowmen.  

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UFO Project #4

This is a really old Thimbleberries Quilt Club project that I have been working on for the last year.  I have the first wall hanging completed (including the quilting and the binding) and it is hung on a wall outside our bedroom.  Not a day goes by, that I don't stop and look at it and feel the quilting.  That's just a fact of how much I like quilts!  More about this one, Window Box, can be found here.  Then, recently, the end of 2013, I dragged out this quilt club collection and made the next one in the series,  called Garden Fare can be found here, and then the third one in the series, called Autumn Fare, can be found here.  I still have both hand quilting on Garden Fare, and machine quilting on Autumn Fare to get done, but I decided to get out the forth project, Winter Scape, and get started working on it.  

Each project came quarterly, with three parts to each wall hanging.  Last night, I cut out part one of this one, and will be working on completing it over the next two to three weeks.  Stay tuned.

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