Sunny Lanes Top is Finished

My top for Sunny Lanes is finished. Oh, I'm so happy!!!  I love the colors. I love how it fits the bed.

Love, Love, Love.

This is my hubbie's family antique bed. It is in our guest room along with other old stuff. I started gathering fabric for this bed in reds and golds then Regina picked our pattern of Sunny Lanes to do together. The pattern reminded of me of old scrappy quilts and decided to do it for the guest room.

Now for a name. I was thinking along the lines of Cozy ...  Warm...  Splender... Slumber... Cinnamon Toast.. I don't know.  What do you think?

~Shellie

Reenie and I have also been working on our 30's quilt; Jitterbug. Here are a few of the blocks.

We hope to finish them (we each are doing one) this week.  I may fix some flying geese and finish the blocks but we still have sashing to do then sewherup' .....  quite a bit of work left.

We'll geterdone'.

When did this get squeezed in???

I'm not sure how these blocks came into play but, I got them up on my design wall. I think I was feeling guilty of having a free fabric and pattern  not finished. (kinda free/I spent plenty on the shop hop)

The pattern I was given at the end of my Western New York Shop Hop was "Hoppin' and a Rollin'".
I gathered 4 jelly roll strips at each of the 12 shops; 48 strips.

Wow! did I get some awful fabric in the rolls. Thankfully I only needed 36 strips for the blocks. The rest are used for the border; we'll see if I use them. I think they will go in the scrap bin. I also got 4 strips of the same fabric. How did that happen? I can only use one strip for 4 blocks but the rest can go in the border.

This quilt worked up really quick and easy. I needed something brainless and stress free to do. I wanted to sew not think, just stay busy. I seem to need this every time I am sewing rows together in finishing a quilt top. I get very frustrated and stressed.  I am sewing together now Sunny Lanes. I am trying to size it to the old antique full size bed in the guest room. I needed 5x6 block setting for the full but the bed will only need a 4x4 setting. Now I am at the border stage and I' m on pins and needles hoping it is what I invision.

Ugh, Anguish! PAUUUUUUUUUUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEE...  I will sew it up tomorrow and see if it looks right on the bed.

Crossing fingers. With a smile for the design wall.
Shellie

Sunny Lanes Progress

It is about time!!!!  I am finally doing things right. Here are 10 of my blocks for the Sunny Lanes quilt. They are on my new Design Wall which I thought I posted about already. (I do not know where my head has been...)

I love the way they are turning out.  I believe 20 more to go. I have 9 sets ready to go and then I have to sort and arrange the remaining units that are all over my sewing studio.

See, I have been making boo boos left and right.  To fix it, I cleaned up the studio. I have been in sync since.
=)   

I have also finished a pin wheel block. Cut out another and sewing the binding to a mini wall hanging that I will show here when finished. It is for a friend's birthday, Megan, who I sub for in the library.

It's a beautiful day out, Enjoy!!!

~Shellie

Sunny Lanes update

Regina and I got together last Thursday and I haven't had time to update due to the Legacy competition Madison was in over the weekend.  The first competition of the year always kicks us in the tail. Our studio, Expressions of Dance by Lisa, did well. We got a platinum (modern), 2 elite golds (lyrical and jazz), gold (tap) and Madi got a gold on her tap solo.

On our sew night, we put our units together making up (for my full) 60 light to light fabric and 180 dark to light fabric.  I have quit a bit of work left to do. As I found out looking through the units, I turned some. Regina said all night long...  " I usually turn these".  Now I see what she meant. So I will have to go through and unsew and resew the turned units then do catch up with sewing the 180 amount and iron.....

bottom unit is turned

As always, Regina comes bearing gifties for me. This time she made a turtle wristlet lanyard. I love it!!

Thank you !!

Tonight is a sew night also.  So I better get on the catching up part....

~Shellie

Sunny Lanes Night 2

What a great night!!!  I think Regina and I both needed a few hours of sewing from the week we have had.... "Sewing Mends All".

Ok....  tonight was Half Square Triangles.  Our job in between week 1 to week 2 is to prepare and finish for our Wednesday night sewing. Week 1 was 4 patches. We had to sew up one side and down the other, then cut, then iron. (I still have some ironing to do.)

Week 2 we had to prepare the hst. Draw line down center and match up light and dark square. We even got to cut last night. So now it is back to ironing.

Regina'sblock                                                                  My block


Next week we are to sew a two block unit together. I have 30 sunny lane blocks so I will sew 180 of unit one which is dark to dark as on the bottom right of my block above and 60 dark (4patch square to light half triangle) units.

It's coming along nicely.


~Shellie

ps. Regina started the night with a little present. First, we both love orange. Second, I love thimbles. Isn't it cute.  Love it. Thanks Regina......<3

Sunny Lanes Night 1

http://www.patspeth.com/Quilts/sunny-lanes.html

Regina picked out Sunny Lanes Quilt Pattern for us to do a quilt along. Tonight was our first get together. We were able to get the first two passes complete on the half deck of 5" sqs. (I have another pass to go)

We will finish the 4 patches up and get together next week for the hst.

I surprised Regina with a Peanut butter pie.....  Just look at that face!!!

~Shellie