The theme for February was blue and Neon/Anything bright.
While I was digging in the blue bin, I pulled out a little strip of a sparkly blue with neon bright dragonfly's on it. My brain said - that'd be perfect for the challenge this month, so I hung it over the rungs on the wall and it sat. I had some time this week and took a look at it. Hmmm. Maybe 16 inches long and not too wide. 2 inches at the biggest point. Let's pull some brights - neon means highlighter colors in my head. Yellow, green, orange. All three colors are in the blue print. I cut a few strips about 5 inches long and sewed them together. I pulled a blue flowered print for the back and did a little walking foot quilting. I cheated and pulled the backing to the front and tacked it down with a zig zag stitch. With a matching color, that might be an option for a binding in the future. It was fun to give it a try.
Note to self, when done with this stitch, after changing back to the 1/4 foot.... remember to switch to a straight stitch so the needle doesn't break, and need to get dug out of the bobbin area of the machine with a pipe cleaner. Scared me to death hearing that snap.
Linking up with TheJoyfulQuilter for the TSC.
I had prepped some yellow hexagons for QAYG last week and stitched them up since March is all about yellow. I need to hand quilt 3 of these still. Maybe Sunday when I am back home. Linking up with the
RSC on Saturday.
Friday night, I headed to a local high school to watch my daughter and her symphonic band perform at their Music Performance Assessment. They did a great job, despite arriving a little late due to traffic. I got there expecting to hear them, but got to hear their middle school band play first. considering they are 2+3 years in they sounded great. I listened to the high school and then parents could go into the room for their sight reading assessment. They had 2 pieces to play with a 3 minute then 5 minute time before playing each piece. I always struggled with sight reading music, but these kids sounded awesome!
Saturday is a busy day. Emily is headed to Fleming Island for a Winter Guard Competition (2 hours away) and will be gone all day with the squad. Greg gets to shuttle her to school and do the pick up late Saturday night.
Aidan and I are headed the other direction to St. Pete for the weekend to watch Indy Cars go around the track. They threw in a Paddock Pass when I renewed the tickets from last year and Aidan is excited to go see them race. I finally booked a hotel for us for Saturday night, since I forgot to do it when I got the tickets in November. Crazy prices for hotels and with the taxes sometimes more than the hotel price for the night getting close to $500-$1000 dollars! For a place to sleep. Crazy. I found something under $300 total with a breakfast and free parking. Less than last year's hotel so I'm calling it a win. Lets hope the great ratings are correct. (St. Pete is a good 2 hours away without any traffic.)
9 comments:
You and the family are certainly staying busy! Enjoy each and every minute of it. They kiddos grow up so fast. Your Tablescraps challenge quilt is adorable! I love the neon dragonflies- how cute!
Have fun at the race--hope your "digs" are as advertised for you!!
Busy busy times for your family, Deb; enjoy these days while they last....
That snapping sound must have really sent you a jolt!! Yikes!!
Your yellow hexies are really pretty..I don't do much in yellows for some reason--will have to check out my stash of those...
hugs, Julierose
Saturdays are busy when you have teens. I know St Petersburg was hit by the hurricanes. I wonder if that impacted the hotel prices. I can’t believe $300-$1000 a night! Yikes!
I love that dragonfly fabric! Your mini quilt was a fun way to use some of it. I still remember those days of sightreading music from high school and college days - it's quite the experience. Glad Emily's band did so well! Have a great time at the Indycar race!
Glad to hear you are having fun and adventures in and out of the house--safe travels to the race and home--lovely yellow hexies--and I do love me a nice piece of fabric with dragonflies on it!!
hugs, di
those are high prices for hotels and I thought Paducah Kentucky was high for the quilt show- they doubled the prices on those rooms easily. Teenage years go by quickly enjoy while you can though!
Highlighter color look just right for the NEON theme for February's TABLE SCRAPS Challenge, Deb, especially since you pulled them from that sweet dragonfly print! Safe travels and I hope the weather was good for the race. Best of luck to Em and the Guard!
Always a relief when no harm comes to the machine or yourself when the needle breaks. Glad you are OK. They dragonfly fabric was begging to be used. Excellent solution for building it out to viable project.
Oh those band competitions are so stressful for both the musicians and the parents! Gives me reminiscent butterflies all over again! Lol! Love those hexies. I'm thinking about digging into the stash and making the yellow grandmother flower centers from hexies. I've always wanted to do one of those. Perfect month to start them. What will you be doing with yours?
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