Monday questions.... Easy Street

I pulled out Easy Street this afternoon and auditioned some fabrics for borders. This top has decided it wants to get completed sometime soon. The quilt is together  at this point and is about 83x83. I want it a bit bigger for my bed.
I was thinking an inner border of the light tan print with the maroon for the outer border. Another option is brown and then maroon.

There is always the choice of tan or brown for the inner border and green for the outer border.

Mom likes the tan with green. I think maybe the brown for the binding. Which way would you go?

Happy Easter!

I'm a little late for posting for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge this weekend. This week to wrap up I have orange peels to show. I have five left to do and will work on those later this afternoon when things quiet down and most of the company has left for the day. I just need to cut out some more background prints first.
It was a busy orange month with some snail's trail blocks, 64 patch square and orange peels.

I finally finished the Halloween top and should be able to get it quilted and bound for Halloween this year.

I never got to my crumb blocks as those scraps are somewhere in the closet that is my parents room while they are here. Maybe I can sew those up next week after they head home to Vermont.
I am hooking up with SoScrappy for her RSC Challenge on Saturday and Kathy with Kathy Quilts for slow stitching Sunday. Head on over and take a look at what others are working on for this Holiday weekend.

Never too late for a Midget block....

I am a bit late for posting my Midget block this week. I finally was able to grab a bit of time on Friday afternoon after mopping floors to paper piece the middle part of this block together. I removed two of the lines on each of the four parts to make it a bit easier to sew. I then hand pieced the brown parts along the outside of the block while the kids were playing next to me on the computer. Nice and easy and most important - it's done!

This is #83 - Evening Star.

Grandmothers Choice on Grammy's machine!

I have not done much with my singer machine since the hubby got it all oiled up and working for me back in November. Something about threading and figuring out the bobbin...... Well, Mom is here this week and I conned convinced her to play with it and get it running for me! She got it threaded and then has the tension all adjusted for the top and bottom. While doing this, both my kids were watching her as she explained she used to sew on this machine when she was in 4-H years and years ago! I was surprised at how quiet it is when it sews. I had heard that it made clacking sounds when sewing. I could easily be doing this in the front room and no one would be bothered in the living room with the noise.
I thought it was fitting to try and sew this week's grandmothers choice block on my grandmothers machine!

Here she is in all her glory.

Last night we just did a basic meal and since I had some broccoli hanging around that needed to be used I came up with this little salad. Broccoli florets, some crumbled cooked bacon, sliced black olives, cucumber quarters and some chopped red pepper. I just drizzled some ranch dressing over it and it tasted pretty good.

A busy spring break week.....

Life has been a wee bit hectic at my house. The kids are on spring break and I've been fiddling with a bank change at work... boy is that a total pain in the behind! One last thing to get fixed and I think I can close that old account next week after the last two bills pay from there.
Mom and Dad are back for the week and I've been scheduling things for the kids. Tuesday.... we attempted to go bowling but the lanes were all full. We'll try again on Friday after I do some costume work with the girls for Emmy's dance recital in April. We ended up at IHop for lunch instead and both kids demolished a funny face pancake for lunch.
Yesterday we hit the Citrus County Fair in Inverness with Grandma H, my parents and the kids. The carnival rides were not open during the day but there were plenty of animals to look at and pet, horses to ride and cows to milk (not a real one).

There was a building of trains set up and running that entertained the kids and adults. I also got to see a few quilts hanging up.

Of course - Emmy saw a cow outside of the barn with all the cows, a big black one. She really wanted to pet it. I asked - the adult there said - 'It's a 1400 pound heifer, but if you pick her up I'll hold the cow and try to keep her still. So.... Emmy got to pet the pretty black cow. She also was petting a pig, rabbits and the horses she rode. Did I mention my girl loves cows? That was her request for a birthday present. Daddy - get me an ambulance, grandma is getting her a princess clock and Mommy has to get her a cow!

They also played with a two person band that was playing around the fair. They had a box of instruments for kids to play along with them. Mine joined right in!


Today, I was thinking of taking them to a farm but I think we need a stay at home day today. Maybe I can find some sewing time..... I need to make a Midget block and my GC block for the week.

Slow stitching Sunday....

Today Mom and Dad are coming back for the week so I think I will be unstitching my pineapple blossom quilt today! I seem to have sewn one of the inner borders on wrong so I need to do a bunch of frogging so I can get to it and put it on correctly.

Wish me luck. It is a very windy and rainy day today with two very cranky kids. Sounds like a good day to cuddle on the couch and chat. The hubby has the big green egg fired up with some ribs on slow cooking. I can't wait for dinner! I have one of these french loaves left from Friday. It was soooooo good.

If I get through the frogging, there are always orange peels waiting in the bag for some hand stitching.

Head on over to Kathy Quilts and see some other hand work in progress this week.

Another Saturday in Orange

This week I was able to finish the orange/black block and a few of the orange peels.

All my blocks so far.

Why I tend to wait until the 20th plus day of the month to do these when I have them all prepped at the beginning I'll never know. I guess it is just the procrastinator in me! The rest should be done by next Saturday as my parents are coming back for the week and heading home on April 1 after celebrating Easter and an early Birthday for Emily. I think the sewing machine will be left out of their room so I can sew a bit while they are here. Now to pick up the room and get it ready for company again tomorrow.

Head on over to SoScrappy's blog and see what others are working on in the orange colorway this week. I am so glad I have another week... I still have some crumbs to make!