Design Wall Monday

 I finished that last bottom border and am very happy with the way things came out. I still haven't put a dent in that giant bag of scraps but I'll get there.

This quilt has been a long time coming. It's from a challenge my "wacky" girlfriends and I came up with. We got this hair-brained idea to do a Row Robin. We each had to come up with our own personal themes, some guidelines and background fabric color choices. I chose beige to white background and my theme was "VINES." I, also threw in the vertical directions just to make things interesting. I made the first row with the hummingbirds which I love and then the other ladies made rows for me as I made rows for them. Once the challenge year was over, we all received our rows. It has taken me 6 months to find just the right fabric to sew between the rows. I designed my own sun rays at the time of the quilt and squared it off using a technique my aunt taught me years ago. I'm thinking about doing a green strip at the bottom but will probably go with the brown fabric.

What do you think???

Finally, this is the center block that will be sewn into my calendar quilt. It still needs so work, maybe some leaves..... something will come to me.... you know how that is!
As for Stash Busting
I used up 4 yards of strips and piano keys
2 1/2 yards of fabric for the strips for the Row Robin quilt
and 1 yard for miscellaneous purposes.... is that similar to medicinal purposes, I wonder?  LOL
Total this week = 7 1/2 yards

Pop over to Judy's to see what others are up to on Design Wall Monday!

Relax

Therapeutic folding was very much needing after my traumatic experience with the frog.  Just thinking about the little varmit (that's Texas talk for unsavory critter) makes me shiver.  So I'm out in the "sewing studio" folding and refolding fabric to my heart's content.
I'm finding some fabrics that I didn't know I had.... imagine that! Those are going on top so I can find them and use them up. Also refolding helps to keep the fabrics fresh in my mind and creases from being permanent, if you know what I mean.
I pulled out one of my long tables to help with the folding and then I neatly place the folded fabrics back on the shelves.
Ah, I'm feeling much better!

Design Wall Monday & Stash Report

Last year (2011) I made a calendar quilt which I shared with everyone as a BOM. It was fun and I got in some practice with the hand embroidery. This year I'm working with different "fonts". And in the end, I'll have another quilt. So my Design Wall Monday include these two blocks.
Next, I'm also working on seat covers for my dining chair. I machined embroidered 6 boots last week and posted about that. Now, I've added a great border around the blocks and cut them into the shape of the seat.

I'm thinking that I'll use a backing and batting to quilt the boots and the backing will be something to compliment the boot fabric so I can reverse the seat covers every now and again.
If you'd like to see what others are doing, pop over to Judy's and take a look or if you'd like to sign up for Design Wall Monday, Judy has a linky for that.
As for Stash Report:
I have use 3 1/2 yards from my "cowboy" stash towards the chair covers and 4 yards from my tone-on-tone fabrics for the Font calendar blocks.