Little House Sew along block 9

 This is my version of the block. The medium purple is my green. 

I looked at the original quilt and swapped two blocks to alternate the log cabin strips so two same fabrics were not touching. The middle and the one on the right of it.

A fun squishy in the mail. Thank you Melva. I do love blue!

Linking up with block 9 of little house sew along.

Little House block 8

 I think this one took longer to pick fabrics than to sew it up! I debated on making the heart light but went with the purples.  This heart was fun to stitch. I could see this as a future Rainbow Scrap Challenge block =). 

Eight blocks down, one to go!

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Linking up with Melva and Block 8 of the Little House Sew Along.

Little house sew along

 Melva released the latest block today and after a trip to visit my FIL and then a visit to his house to check on the handyman and pay him, and a lunch date with hubby at Millers Ale House, I got home a little before 2PM. Doggie, kitty and chicken tending and some pool checking and I got a little time to check blogs. I forgot today was a release day but I was looking forward to this block. I had fun picking fabrics and sewing this one up. All 7 blocks are put back onto the shelf with the box of the jelly roll I am using. Linking up with Melva and her fun sew along.

This photo is sideways, but I needed something as a leader and ender and had cleared off the house block things when I pinned the quilt last Thursday. I cut some 'ends' of the purple and creams and made some 2.5 inch four patches. Then I dug into a bin and found these extra's from cutting out Brimfield parts from a charm pack. I'm trimming them to 2.5 inch hst's and will just sew them into sets of 4. No plan, but making use of extra bits. 

I'll move onto cutting some more Bear Paw parts to add more of those blocks for Aidan's graduation quilt... which is coming up way too quickly!

Greg and Emily finished off the Cat run on Sunday and other than me and Aidan grabbing the cats (while the dog is shut in a room) and placing them onto the run... the promptly run right back into the master. We will see how long it takes them to try it out.  We did have one fail, one shelf needed some help to keep it into the wall. Turns out the bit above the slider is solid concrete! Em had fun drilling through that! Greg did a little modification with suggestions from Aidan and it appears to be holding up better. Once the cats start using it, we will see how it goes. I need to rehang my quilts and the hangers that were taken down to put these up.

Pink Chickens for the RSC

I made a couple of pink chickens this week. I had made 2 pink ones a couple of years ago and decided to add a couple to the collection. I have 4 purple and blue ones so will work away at adding other colors of chickens to the mix this year. Linking up with the RSC on Saturday morning.

I had some yellow hexagons prepped and got them stitched up and quilted this week. I need to make a set of 4 pink ones to stitch this month.

I saw another Little House block was released on Thursday, so I grabbed some pretty purples and made the 6 inch block. I will be adding some log cabin strips to surround it this weekend for that sew along over at Melva Loves Scraps. 

I saw there is a local quilt show on Saturday, so I plan on heading to see that and oooh and awww over quilts, vendors booths and raffles! The boy is having a long day and enjoying Grad Bash at Universal on Friday evening with lots of other high school seniors around Florida. He should get back to school around 4AM... and has the car there so can get himself home. The girl was home with an ear ache and all stuffed up and slept until after 10. She will be helping her Dad build some cat walks in the house this weekend so the cats can venture into the living room and kitchen area up high in the recessed walls. We will see if they venture out. They do not mix well with the dog..... they run and he chases.

Good news, we put my FIL's house on the market last month and it is under contract for a 30 day closing! Fingers crossed all goes smoothly with the buyer.

 

Little house sew along

 I got some sewing time in on Saturday and was able to pick fabrics and sew up block 5 of the sew along. When it was done, I realized that my middle block is not matching what was presented... but I'm leaving it. I guess I tend to just put my rail fence blocks in this design, despite it not being correct! 

Linking up with Melva and the others following along with the Little House Sew Along.

Here are the first four blocks. 

Little House Sew Along from Melva Loves Scraps

 I managed to sew up blocks 3+4 today. The basket and the shoo fly blocks. Looking at the photo, I wish I would have done a second lighter purple on the basket instead of a medium, but it is done so it's staying! 

Here are my four blocks so far. I believe there will be nine in total. We will see how long the jelly roll lasts! My blocks are a little bigger and finish at 18.5 inches. 

Linking up with the Sew Along as I wait for the next block release.

Little House Sew Along

 I chose to do the two color block this week of the Indian Star block and love how it turned out! I just hope I have enough fabrics from my jelly roll for all 9 of the blocks. We will see. I might have to see if I can find another one or something comparable, just in case.  My blocks are finishing a bit bigger at 18inches, since I am using 2.5 inch strips to make the log cabin part. The inner block is still the 6 inch finished. 

Linking up to the sewing along with Melva Loves Scraps.

I'm having a lot of fun with these and remembering good times reading the Little House on the Prairie books when I was growing up. 

A new sew along start

 Little House Sew Along 2026 by Melva Love Scraps started a couple of weeks ago. I ran across it and then was thinking what colorways to use. I've got a few 2.5 inch jelly rolls and decided the purple one would be great for this project. I'm going to 'modify' stuff so I don't have to trim things up so my blocks will be a wee bit bigger. 

The purples are much more vibrant in person.

The first block is a maple leaf block with the surrounding log cabin strips around it. I might add the stem, I might not. We will see. 

Linking up to the sew along before the next clue drops tomorrow!