Are you getting tired of Dutch Breakfast Club?

I finished squareing up the HST in red and sewed the final pinwheels together Sunday evening. The next challenge is to sew the sides to the newest pinwheels. After that is completed I will sew the dark HST and med light HST to the rectangles. Once that is completed I will sew the top, center and bottom strips into blocks. I believe that I have in excess of 25 blocks to sew. At a finished size that will be 40" by 40".

There are still additional fabric to sew more HST and rectangles. That will determine the size of the final project. A lap quilt needs 56 blocks to finish up a 56 by 64 lap quilt. I definitely have enough fabric for that. A standard / queen size quilt needs 192 blocks to finish up at 88 by 104. I think that the queen size is beyond my current stash. However, I bought the red and background fabrics within the last 8 weeks and it should sill be available at my LQS.

All depends on my desire for a new quilt in the master bedroom. Also, it would be the 2nd quilt on my new quilting frame. I have no intention of it being the first!

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More Dutch Breakfast Club

Friday I finally finished the half square triangles in red. I started sewing them together and then realized that I had sewn the wrong side together. There were almost 20 HST to unstitch but I got it done. After I finished the HST in red I sewed them together to create a pin wheel. A little more unstitching and I finished up with 12 center pin wheels.

Then I started sewing the top row together. I pieced all the light blue HST to a background rectangle. The I pieced all the medium dark blue HST to the other side. I chain pieced them all.

Next was to chain piece the background rectangle to the pin wheel of red HST on both sides. I got all the pin wheels that were done fastened to the background rectangles before bedtime.

This morning I made 50 more red HST for pin wheels. At the rate I am going this is going to be a queen sized quilt top. I would love to have the top totally pieced before the next meeting of the Breakfast Club in May.

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Dutch Breakfast Club update

Well I am getting there. Only a few red and pale blue half square triangles to square up and on to the blocks.

Last night was a brief time working on my quilt. DH bought Avatar yesterday and we watched it. I could see this one over and over. What a great movie with a good plot.

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Dutch Breakfast Club Quilt

Last evening I spent 2 hours sewing half square triangles for this quilt. Then I squared up each one. I still have 24 red hst to square up and I will start making the blocks. Hopefully that will be my goal for this evening.

It seems that every time I plan something there is an interruption or change in plans. What can I say. Life is a whirlwind and I am caught up in it.

I am waiting for my BOM for the Civil War Tribute quilt. I will sew it the weekend after it arrives.

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Dutch Breakfast Club

We had a blast Saturday morning. As we sew together each month we get to know each other better. We talk about everything under the sun. It is so wonderful to have quilters as friends.

Breakfast was brought in by Carol F. and enjoyed by all. She made a sourdough, egg, cheese and Italian sausage casserole. WOW. It was great.

Then we got down to business. We had a show and tell for two of our members who had finished the tops of the Mexican Fiesta Eggs Breakfast Club. One quilt top was in muted pinks, greens and yellows of the tropics. It was beautiful. The other quilt top was a black background with brown and blue for the blocks. It was very Amish and the blocks floated on the fabric. WOW. Beautiful quilt tops.

I continued to work on my half square triangles and started putting the center of my blocks together. At 12:30 I had to clean up for the next class coming in.

During the evening at home I continued sewing and cutting half square triangles. I have enough fabric for about 80 full blocks but I think I will go with 56 blocks to make a twin size quilt top.

Since Monday is Wash Day I will be washing laundry tonight after work and continuing my homework from Breakfast Club this evening after work.

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Friday Night Sew In

I had homework to do for my Saturday morning Breakfast Club. I made 80 half square triangles out of 4 different colors.

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Dutch Breakfast Club

Yesterday evening I started cutting out fabric for this project. I have 100 half square triangles to sew and cut. Then I will be ready to start putting the blocks together.

Fortunately tonight is Friday Night Sew In. I have another excuse to sit downstairs in my sewing room that is becoming a Studio. I am sure that DH will have something to say about this. I cannot blame him. This will be three nights in a row that I have not joined him in the living room to watch TV.

This is the most straight forward of the Breakfast Club patterns. The last one was a total disappointment. It is almost impossible to square up the blocks to meet my absurdly logical requirements. That one is going on the back burner for some time to come.

Tomorrow is Breakfast Club and I am looking forward to seeing my fellow quilters. It is nice to talk and sew together.

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More progress on Studio Makeover

Wednesday is the night DH watches his "Ghost Hunters" programs. So...I went down to the family room to sew. Oops. I forgot that I had laid out four boxes to go through for the keep, recycle and shred process. I finished all four boxes. By then it was time to go to bed and I never got my sewing done. Drat!

Tonight I am going to go down to the working studio and cut fabric for the "Breakfast Club" Danish pattern. I need to get all the fabric cut and the half square triangles sewn. Then on Saturday I can start putting all the blocks together. How exciting!

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Pictures of my first set of pillowcases

You may remember my discussing the Million Pillowcase Challenge. I have uploaded the photos from my camera of my first six pillowcases.

No Studio Makeover progress to provide

I have been in a reading mood all week long and have not worked in my Studio at all. Hopefully this weekend will give me the energy to continue on it.

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Studio Makeover

Great progress was made on Sunday. All of my quilting magazines have been organized into individual magazine holders and placed in the largest of my bookcases in the new Studio. I labeled the front of each holder with the names of the magazines so I can go to exactly which publications I want to look at. Next will be putting them in chronological order and creating an Excel spreadsheet so I know what I have in my library of quilt magazines. I am so excited!

I also took out two boxes of recycled paper to the curb for pick up this morning. I have a third, but I ran out of energy. I will be the 1st box for next weeks recycling.

My LQS has a Weekly "Sew:cial every Thursday from 6:30 to 9:30. I think I will start going once a month to check it out and see if it is worth the $12.50 fee. Another LQS has a monthly sew-in on the 2nd Saturday of each month and it is only $5.00 plus you can purchase $5.00 or more in the store and get a credit of $5.00 off your purchase. Now that I call a friendly LQS benefit.

I still haven't pulled out my sewing machine to start working on my 1 at a time list. It will have to wait a little longer until I get more of the studio in order.

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Studio Makeover

Isn't it funny when you put something off for so long and then find it to be quite simple? Last evening I put in two hours on my studio makeover while watching a movie that DH didn't want to watch. What a lesson. Every time he puts something on that I don't want to watch I have an excuse to work on my studio. How enlightening!

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LQS 1 Year Anniversary

Seams Sew Easy in Fairfield, OH celebrated its fist anniversary today. This is the shop that also participates in the Million Pillowcase Challenge. To help them celebrate I purchased the fabric for 6 more pillowcases. If I get them done before the end of April I will have two more chances in the prize drawing.

It was quite a celebration with a CAKE that was beyond description and of course made of CHOCOLATE! I wish I had time to get a piece but I had to get back to work.

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Million Pillowcase Challenge

Yesterday after work I dropped off my six pillowcases. I am now entered into a drawing twice (once for each three pillowcases) for a prize. What is the prize? I don't know.

My LQS is having their 1st anniversary celebration this weekend starting with a grand opening today at noon. I am fortunate that I work less than 1/2 mile from them so I will be doing their celebration during my lunch hour. I cannot wait. Only one hour to go.

Last night I worked more on the Studio Makeover. There is so much stored paper that needs to be separated into recycle, keep or shred. I have all the documents from the five years my DH and I ran a trucking firm. We went out of business in 1999 so I figure that if the IRS or the NTB would want anything they would have contacted us by now. All of that will be shredded.

Then I will start a very big fire. I am burning all the shredded documents a little at a time. Sure hope we have a cool evening ahead for the great bon fire. DH is afraid I will start a chimney fire. He wants to clean the chimney first. DUH. I will take a mirror and look up the chimney first to make sure that there is no tar on the sides of it. If is clear I will fire up with no fears. I have lived with wood burning fireplaces since I was 5 and I will not admit how many years between then and now.

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