Monday, January 10, 2011

Design Wall Monday

I've been busy working on various projects this week, not all of them quilt related.  The biggest job was to put away Christmas decorations and clean up all the pine needles.  I decided not to keep snowman related projects out this year.  I went straight to decorating for Valentines Day.  In doing that, I realized I need to make a lot more quilts in order to decorate more than my living room. 

I worked on another huge project that is quilt related but involves computer work.  I realized last week that I had a total of 230+ labels on my blog.  Labels are the quick links visitors can use to search particular topics.  That was a long list.  So, I've been editing posts and trying like mad to reduce the number of labels on my blog.  In order to delete labels, I must remove them from the posts.  This task will take me a while to complete.  I'm motivated to compact them and now have 112 labels.  I don't know what is a good number of labels to have, but I know 230 isn't.

Last week I made drunkard's path block #8.

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I have this week's blocks done too.  I haven't blogged on the two 100 blocks ones yet.  I recently found out that Quiltmaker is going to write something about the challenge on their Quilty Pleasures blog News (their e-mail newsletter.) and I want to add the link to this week's post.  Here is the link:  Quilty News. So hopefully by Tuesday, I'll blog about the blocks.  Here is the link to this weeks blocks:  100 Blocks

Then I had to make a decision on a project for the Scrap Quilting Club this month.  This is my cutting made from a jelly roll.  The project doesn't have any borders but I plan to add two to mine to make it twin size.  This will be a family member's quilt, probably my mother.  She decided to go to a twin bed and I think she needs a Christmas quilt this year.

I worked a little on two challenge projects this week.  Those are to be a surprise reveal so can't show any photos of them.

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14 comments:

  1. Very nice block, those curves scare me to try.

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  2. Love you curves....I have the die for my Go~ but haven't used it yet.

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  3. Looking forward to seeing some Valentines projects :)

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  4. Love that stripe fabric you're working with.

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  5. Your Drunkard's path is so happy and bright. Love it. You are further along than I; I have not put away my decorations yet :(

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  6. I like the block.

    I understand the label issue - I dealt with the same thing and have been working hard not to add a new one. My advice is to make the labels so that you can locate the posts you need to refer to...I'm always putting links to pages I want to find later, so that's important to me. Good luck with the process.

    Liz

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  7. Oh, the labels thing! I need to go back and put labels on my earliest posts. It is a big job you're doing with cleaning up--I agree, 230 is a big number of labels to deal with!

    Lots of pretty fabric finding its way into quilts at your house...

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  8. Quiltmaker is writing about you! That is so cool! You'll be famous! LOL. I didn't even know about labels when I started blogging a year ago. It was more than halfway through the year, before I caught on to it, and then went through all my posts adding labels. Never occurred to me to count how many there are though. I have one called "stuff" that has everything in it that doesn't really fit into any category. I love your blocks, each and every one of them.

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  9. Look forward to checking back about the Quiltmaker post! Exciting!

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  10. Your blocks always look so nice.

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  11. I love your Drunkards Path block. Any day now I'll work up the courage to try that one out. Congratulations on getting posted in Quitly Pleasures. How exciting!

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  12. WOW!!!!!!!! I like it. Love the colors.

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  13. Love the drunkard's path blocks. Valentine's day? I need to bind my quilt so I can get it out this year!

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  14. The colors in the drunkard's path blocks are wonderful. I love curved piecing.

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