Such big plans.....

I had such big plans for getting a bunch of quilting done today. Not going to happen.

Emily was up at 4AM - had to go potty (she had already gone and needed help wiping) and then said her belly hurt. Since I am so stuffed up still I am sleeping in the sewing room - she climbed in with me. Bad choice on my part - she is a wiggler and I don't think I got more than 30 minutes of sleep when the other one came in at 6:30 - WIDE awake and ready for the day.
We had a delivery scheduled today and they were to call between 7:30-8:30 with a time estimate. Didn't call until 9:40 saying between 1-5. Grandma came and got the kids for the double kid Saturday (I have a wonderful MIL!) I headed out to pick up some much needed cat food (completely out - oops!) and a few other things and back home for lunch. Had to clear out the fridge for the delivery and while doing that they arrived - early. All set up and the fridge is refilled and I am so happy with my Christmas present. Yes, it does not take much to make me happy. I'll fill the freezer later - that all fit in the other one in the play room. This is my first fridge with water/ice in the door. I think it will come in real handy down here in Florida. The kids drink tons of water and Emily likes hers with ice so now they should be able to fill up their cups themselves. I've run though the gallon or two of water already so just need to dump the first batch or two of ice and then we'll be all set to use it.

I am exhausted so I'm going to curl up on the couch with Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone and some hand quilting and relax for the rest of the afternoon until the kiddo's arrive home.

I did make a bunch of progress this week though. I have the two pinwheel tops completed and ready to get pinned once I feel like pressing the backing fabric.

I have both bindings made for those quilts. This one is the same as the outer border and the other one is very scrappy with some of every color in the binding. The hope was to get both pinned and one quilted today. Maybe one will get quilted tomorrow before or after the dance recital in the afternoon. We'll see. I'm taking the day off so it is possible I can sneak away and sew for an hour or two in the morning while Daddy entertains the kids.
Movie time for me. Hope you all have a relaxing weekend.

Sufferage block - Everybody's Favorite

Just under the wire again this week with my block. This one is called Everybody's Favorite and went together very easily.

 Emily wanted to have her picture taken too so this is a shot of all my blocks so far.

It seems that a bunch of us skipped the Kansas Sunflower block with this BOW challenge. I'm issuing a challenge to get that block done by Christmas. Anyone else up for the challenge?

Easy Street progress - step 1

I've been busy sewing away in the sewing room and have made a bunch of progress this week. Most importantly, I started the Easy Street mystery over at Quiltville.com. My color choices for this mystery are blue, green, maroon, brown and creams/white. The first step was for oodles of four patches in brown and creams. I have 122 made and need 70 more. I doubt I will get to them this week but at least I have some made before the next step is released on Friday. Oh, I made one of the bindings for the pinwheel too.

I would have made more this afternoon but I scheduled a trip to the doctor. I've had a terrible head cold for 2-3 weeks (yup, I did teach my kids to share - darn it!) and it has morphed into a sinus infection on Sunday/Monday. I've tried the home remedies - the sinus wash- for the last five days and after starting to feel a little better yesterday it is back to painful in the teeth again so it is time to visit the doctor. I did find some kleenex that have a cooling effect this morning. Ohhhh, I LOVE them. I think I will be getting another box or two this afternoon since I'm sure my first one will be gone by then. As I told my kids - at least I am set for the holiday - I'm going to be rudolph for a bit.

Quilt Square block for November

I almost forgot to do my QSAB this month! These are little quilt squares by Lori Smith and this one is from her pattern Quilt Squares #6. This one went together very easily but it does have tons of little parts and pieces. 95 pieces to be exact. This block will finish as 12 inches. I think I am going to like quilting this one with just straight lines through the squares. Now to go find a plaid back and some leftover batting and this will be ready to put into the sewing bag for hand quilting.

Tiny Tuesday - Sunbeam

I looked at the next one in line and ..... it would just take too long to do today. I had printed out some of the new ones and really liked #130 - Sunbeam. I machine pieced this and then hand appliqued it onto the background while waiting to pick up Aidan at school. I think it came out pretty cute!

Slow stitch Sunday

I have to say I am really enjoying all the hand stitching I have been doing this year. This week I finished off the hand quilting on one of my Quilt Square Along blocks. I need to prep a few more as I am down to just one block ready for quilting right now.

Head on over to Quilter Kathy's and see what other hand work is going on around the world.

RSC progress

Instead of working on my Birds in the Air blocks I decided I really needed to work on getting those pinwheel quilts into a top. So, instead of playing with fabrics and starting the mystery on Friday I spent some time in the sewing room making these into tops.

The first pinwheel is the really scrappy one with the pieced border. I had to get a wee bit creative on the final border to get them to fit. I still need to sew the top and bottom border on.

The second pinwheel has the sashing and cornerstones attached. The sashing is from the leftover backing fabric from the red irish chain quilt. It was the stonehenge line cream fabric. I am thinking a small yellow/cream inner border and then if I can find enough of the cornerstone fabric (in the stash or at Joann's tomorrow) I will finish it off with that.

I have not been out shopping - I never do go near a store on Black Friday - but really do need some backing and I'm too lazy to piece two of them for these quilts. I'll just buy some and hopefully spend some time on Sunday evening pinning these two for quilting sometime next week.

I need to get a baby quilt started and completed sometime in the next little bit too. I have the fabrics - she wanted bubble gum pink and lime green and loves monkeys. I found a green monkey print for the back. Limey butterfly's and pink dots and I am throwing in some cream with pink flowers. I was thinking double irish chain but may just do some nine patches and spools....... This will be for one of Aidan's teachers who is expecting a little girl in January. I was thinking to give it to her on the 14th on their last day of school in December but it may wait until January and give me a little bit more time. She is due later in the month so I should be ok.

I've already been thinking of the challenge for next year and have some notes in my projects tab. I have really enjoyed doing hand work this year with my midget blocks and quilting my little quilt squares that I decided to do some applique next year for the challenge. I am planning to do the Orange Peel block - but I am cheating and doing it the easy way. Just applique the peel onto a colored fabric square. Anyone want to join me? I am still deciding if I want the colors to be the background or the peels.... thoughts?

Head on over to SoScrappy on Saturday and see what other Rainbow Scrap Goodness is going on.