November's block of the month

I got up at 6:30AM on Saturday to finish this one before my class. It was pretty easy and went together smoothly.

We were told in our class that Floyd & Lizzie's won't be doing block of the month next year. I was pretty bummed until I talked to a girl at work who asked if maybe I'd be interested in teaching my own for co-workers. I have to work out a few details, but I'm looking forward to that. 

October's block of the month

I'm not a fan of appliqué, but I guess this one wasn't too bad. It took longer than it needed to because I forgot to take a picture of the example and had to decipher how it went together from a crappy black and white photo.

It's a good thing that we don't have downstairs neighbors because they would hate us. My craft room is right under the kitchen and while I was in there working John fed the dogs their dinner which is quite the commotion. It sounded like the ceiling was going to crash down on me and I seriously looked up to check for cracks.

Winston alone sounds like a giant walking...BOOM, BOOM, BOOM! He's never going to be light on his feet.

October's block of the month

Another block down. I love when they come together easy.

August's block of the month

I've procrastinated all my quilt blocks, but this one took the cake. I had to wake up at 7AM the Saturday off my class to finish the block by 10AM, luckily it went together really smoothly.

The only flying geese triangle ruler I have was too big for this block and since I procrastinated I didn't have time to go buy the correct size so I just made my own template out of freezer paper. It worked wonderfully and I'm pretty proud of myself. I don't think I could have made it without my other ruler and instructions as guides, but I still made it.

I watched more Daria while sewing, I'm almost done with the seasons so I'll have to think of something else to watch soon.
This isn't my sewn block, (I never got around to taking a picture of it) this is the demonstration one in class, but it's the correct block.

July's block

I told myself that I wouldn't procrastinate with this one since I wanted to hand sew on the appliques, but guess what I still did...
It was a super easy block, the hardest part was sewing on the appliques and even that was a breeze. Too bad my sewing machine thew a temper tantrum and broke at the end.

I'm very excited for August's block and since I'm taking Wednesday and Thursdays off of work for some R & R. I'm going to work on that block and hem the plethora of skinny pants I've bought. This is, if I can fix my sewing machine by then.
I also might start a quilt that I want to make just because, it'll be super little girly so I'll probably keep it for myself until someone close to me has a baby girl.

June's block of the month

The cutting was really easy with the flying geese (the triangle pieces) ruler that my mom bought me but I had to unpick the sewing so many times I lost count. Finally I just unpicked a whole row, moved some pieces around and sewed it back together, it finally went together smoothly. More Daria was watched while doing so.

May's block of the month

This block kicked my butt, mostly because I stupidly started sewing without checking measurements and cutting. It then required John's math skills to help me figure out how much to cut off with out ruining the block. I had to do so much un-picking and the block took a lot longer than it should have. It is my least favorite block so far and I'll probably re-do it before I put it in the final quilt.

I also just realized that I wasn't paying attention while putting the blue and brown squares in and one is facing the wrong way, I'll have to fix that before the class tonight. I'll really read the instructions next time :)

April's block of the month

The class showed us a cool way to sew all the triangles so this block went together quickly and easily. No un-picking for me!

I watched parts of the Daria season that my sister got me for Christmas, made my sewing go by quickly.  

March's block of the month

2 down, 10 more to go. This one was a tad bit harder than the last, but not too bad. I did have to re-do a couple seams since the corners weren't matching up like I like, but such is the way of triangles. I watched She's The Man while sewing, remember "chew like you have a secret".