A Churn Dash Day

Last week I had a morning set out to make my guild's Block of the Month (a churn dash variation called Paths and Stiles):

That same day I saw Beth's churn dashes in plaid  over at  Love Laugh Quilt, and I couldn't help making a few for her project too:

Ready for the show

 My half log cabin quilt is done, and just needs a hanging sleeve before it goes into our guild show in 2 weeks. I named it "Hawaiian Memories" because it was made from leftovers of all the benefit quilts we made from donated Hawaiian fabric. This is also a benefit quilt, so I will be saying aloha and happy travels to it....

Another one done and ready to go into the show. I made this to test out my basketweave pattern for the February benefit workshop. It was hard to limit myself to only 5 fabrics, but it certainly came together faster than my usual scrappy mess.

Melissa and I laid out scrappy trips blocks at the September benefit workshop.  It was her great idea to turn the blocks so the lines of black squares made a much more interesting pattern. You can see what it looks like all sewn up over at her blog Scrappy Stitches. 

Miscellaneous

Summer is almost over...

more of those 1/4 log cabin blocks finished

trying out a twisty pattern

a cool brick wall 

And the best part of my summer:
having fun with my PH sister at Vogue Fabrics!

Finished!

seeing the light of day at last!  

the back is nice too

the best part is getting something done

thinking about stripes and scraps

A reminder to myself:
My goal this year is to COMPLETE projects.

Some projects are currently a collection of fabrics in a box or bag. 
I have been collecting stripes, with the idea of using them in a simple project like this or this from Red Pepper Quilts.

Some projects are just a bag of scraps waiting to be used. 
Check out this tutorial: monochromatic improv log cabin
and then take a look at this scrappy inspiration from Lori:

and from Jane Norberg:

 Lots of ideas....

saturday

Added to the Hawaiian scrap quilt:

(thinking of 3.5" white borders to finish this off)

Made blocks for Kevin the Quilter's QOV block drive:

2 BOMs for RSQ meeting Tuesday done:

Progress!

More blocks

scrappy half log cabin blocks