Freeze Frame - Quiltathon complete :)

Freeze Frame (69" x 86")

This morning, the final two hour clues (#11 & #12) were completed;  a load of nested borders!  But they didn't get the best of me :)

Angela's Rainbow Scrap Challenge this month is "teal."  I don't have any scrap teals, but I did burn through over a yard-n-a-half of teal yardage with all of these borders.

I would LOVE to load it on the frame right away;  I am absoLUTEly in love with this one!  I haven't sewed with fun, bright, jewel-toned fabrics in such a long time;  I loved every time I had to press the borders because I was able to look at the border blocks.  Really "happy" fabrics!

Anyway---yes, I would love to load it on the frame, but I still have Star Harbor loaded, and I don't think it will see much (any?) action today.  The tomatoes and chickens are screaming my name for the afternoon.  I'm in charge of making chicken stock---for the first time.

I hope your Saturday is amazing!  The weather here is GORGEOUS!!!!  Sunny and LOW LOW LOW humidity.

If you missed my 1000th post, consider taking a moment to read it?  I don't think you'll be too disappointed.

QAT - hours 9 & 10

Hour #9 (FINALLY!)

The girls had fun laying out the 34 blocks around the quilt center for hour #10.

Hour #10 completed

Hours 11 and 12 are the last two and involve borders.  After almost 11 straight hours of quilting....I don't think I have it in me to push a couple of more...with BORDERS!  Nu-uh :)

And look who has decided to take over the corner of the sewing room completely now :)  She designed  a quilt on paper and I have given her permission to use some of my stash (**jaw dropping!**)  Who does she think I am???  The stash-fairy??? 

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We'll see how long this spurt lasts :)

Hmmm.....what to do now?  I haven't turned Olympics on yet; I suppose that's always an option.

QAT: Hours 5, 6, 7, 8

Hour #5: center unit with 1st border

Hour #6:  Yeah, yeah, I know!  It doesn't look like much, BUT we ALL know how long borders can take (regardless of their sizes!)  (Although, this clue didn't quite take me a whole hour) :)

Moving into Hour #7, blocks for the outside, I started cutting up some of the fabric I had set aside.  ...

HMPF!  I don't like signs!!!!! and I REFUSE to take this as a sign!

:p

HOW MANY BLOCKS do we need for that outside anyway?!?!?!  34!  That's how many!  Was Judy distracted by Vince when she wrote this clue? 8-)  There is NO WAY to make 34 blocks (WITH CUTTING) in one hour!  

I have been cutting for WELL over an hour; close to 3(?) (with a few interruptions). Therefore....I went back to read Hour #7...

HA!  Only 10 required for this hour. LOL.  That makes more sense :)

So, Hours #7 (10 blocks) and #8 (12 blocks) have been cutting, cutting, cutting for me with no sewing of the 34 blocks.  By the end of her Hour #9 step, all 34 blocks are to be completed.  I'll be there soon :0)

Paul just left (4:00PM) for another side-job, taking Cassie with him, so I should have a couple more hours for my sewing.  Candace and Caitlyn have finished their chores, so they are relaxing with a movie.

Happy Friday.

Stay tuned!

Oh, have you checked out my 1000th Post?  I'm sure you won't regret it if you do :D

Quiltathon Friday [with updates]

With Judy's announcement that she was a new Grandmother the other day, I figured she was going to reschedule her August Quiltathon that was meant for this weekend.  Therefore, yesterday, once I hit the quilt room, I didn't check back in with her at all.

Well.....that lady!  She still has full intentions of hosting her quiltathon.    Her first post about the QAT is here, listing the fabric requirements: Judy's August Quiltathon; and her second post is here, listing the unit sizes for the blocks.   When I read about it last night, I was ALL SET to spend today quilting away with her QAT!

But first, I wanted to take a few minutes to tidy up the scrap collection pile, and cut some of these down to 2" at the same time :) {{See the copy of the directions on the left?  I'm running out of printer ink :\ }}

And, OF COURSE, as I was tidying......something ELSE jumped out at me!........

And my August 2012 QAT took a detour-----all the way back to 2009/2010!

These fabrics have been sitting since 6/28/10 with all the intensions of being made into Judy's Freeze Frame pattern that she offered out to us in 2009 as a Quilt for an Hour pattern.

 See!  6/28/10!  LOL;  All tidy together, all printed out....

SO, I was off!

Hour #1.  

I pulled the 3.5" squares from the scrap drawer.  Some of the 2.5" borders were from the 2.5" strip drawer, but four of them needed to be cut from the fabrics I set aside.

Hour #2

ALL of these 1.5" units were pulled from the 1.5" strip drawer!  No repeats in this quilt YET!  And I've barely cut into the fabrics I originally set aside for the quilt.  My goal---BRIGHT and FUN colors!

I'm using white as the light background;  and black for the dark background (different from my original plan.)  I WANTED to make a black quilt, and had full intentions of using black with Judy's August 2012 QAT......so I'm sticking with the black plan :)

Stay tuned for more Hourly steps.  Lunch is over.  Cassie chose Pizza Bagels----YUM!  Great choice Cass!

Happy Friday!

{{1:00 PM update}}

Hour #3

Hour #4