oh, Fransson Paintbox Quilt Along Week 4

I thought I was moving along on these blocks, but someone in the group has already finished all 80 blocks, this makes 32 blocks done for me.









There have been posts on several blogs about a quilt along of snowball and nine patches, here's an example from Quilterscache. I like this one, and think that I may do something like it with my leaders and enders, unless I get a better idea from Bonnie's new book. I'm not going to join, as I have too many projects going already, but it gives me something to think about.

oh, Fransson Paintbox Quilt Along Week 3

It's really week 2, but I'm ahead for the first time in my quilting life, lol.








See, more leaders and enders, too.












I have to confess that I should be doing MacKenzie's monkey quilt instead, but I have to watch the videos to refresh on my basting boards, and this was fairly mindless.

Housecleaning Day?

Today was supposed to be housecleaning day, but DH isn't feeling well, and I got sewing this morning and didn't stop. I guess the dust will still be there tomorrow.

I started out by cutting out my next 8 Paintbox Quilt-Along blocks, and then decided to cut 2 1/2 by 2 1/2 inch squares to sew together in Leaders and Enders. I used some today, and as you can see, I still have quite a few left in my basket for next time.
Here is my sewn together patches from today, a good start for something I think, but not sure what. Yesterday, I ordered Bonnie Hunter's new book "Leaders and Enders" and hopefully there is an idea for them in there.












Now, I am a little ahead on the quilt-along, I have the second weeks blocks done.
Next project is to hopefully finish the Monkey Quilt. MacKenzie and her parents are out of town now visiting her family, and it would be nice to have it done when they get back.

oh, Fransson Paintbox Quilt Along Week 1

I've been a sewing fool the last day or two, and have gotten my first Paintbox blocks done. I'm pretty pleased with them, and hope to keep up. I discovered that I was cutting threads like mad, and I had a lightbulb moment. This is why people do Bonnie Hunter's leaders and enders. I remembered some half done leftover 4 patches, dug them out of my closet, and now have a nice little stack done and pressed.

oh, Fransson Paintbox Quilt Along

I've been corrupted, but by generosity and sweetness. I used to do one project at a time, and finish it. Now I belong to Yahoo quilting groups and blog, and I constantly see beautiful things, and I think I want to make that, too. I already have about 11 tops that need to be quilted, 9 are priorities, and I have several tops in progress, so what did I do, I started Amy's 2010 BOM, and now I couldn't help myself, I have also begun oh,
Fransson's Paintbox Quilt Along. My Iowa (Carolina) Christmas is at the stage of looking like 5 giant tablerunners, and yet, it is temporarily put aside while I do this week's 8 Paintbox blocks. Yesterday, I drove 50 miles to a quilt shop where they sell Fairy Frost, as I love the shinyness and have been coveting it. I don't think that the love of shiny objects is necessarily a character strength, but what can I do. Most people will be using jelly rolls for their solids, but I got 21 fat quarters, and plan on using them. I am hoping to get all the hopefully coordinating prints from my small stash and scraps, and the second picture is of my first week's choices. The bottom right is light yellow and black, and it matches the light yellow fairy frost perfectly to my eye, but doesn't show up well in the picture. I hesitated to blog about this, as I fear I may tempt others who have been similarly corrupted, but I had to share.

Here is a link to the Flickr group photos: