Heading to Magic Kingdom today with the kids.....

I'll have a RSC and Slow stitching post tomorrow if I survive the day with the kids!

Kaleidoscope progress.

I managed to sew the little triangle onto all the Kaleidoscope triangles this morning quickly between running errands. Now I just need to press all these and then sew the Aqua triangle on to make some pairs before I figure out the final setting. I think I may wait for Mom to get down next week and have her help figure out the final layout before I put it all together.

I work tomorrow and since tomorrow is the last day for one of the staff at Emily's PreK, I had to get a little gift for her and say our goodbye's today. She is the glue that holds that place together and the first person I talked to when I was dropping the registration off for Aidan. I am going to miss Tammy and chatting every morning.

After picking up Em, we headed to her friend Mackenzie's house for a play date. The girls had a great time. The Mom's got to chat and I seem to have played a lot of toss with their little dog Daisy who decided to be a lap dog for a bit and was sitting on my lap to be petted. Now to get homework done, some laundry done and then it will be time for soccer practice and bowling for me.

A rainy Wednesday....

 I missed Tiny Tuesday so in the 15 minutes I had this morning I whipped up this block from The Civil War Diary book. It is called 'My Greatest Trial' and was a fairly easy block to piece.

A shot of all of them so far this year.

Miss Em in the car line waiting for brother on Monday. Tuesday we had a play date at the park after school, and the loose front top tooth for Aidan was kindly pulled by his friend Trey's Mom. The tooth fairy had to scrounge around a bit for payment but she arrived and traded tooth number 4 for a little $. Now Emmy wants to know when her teeth will fall out so the Tooth Fairy can visit her! 

Design Floor Monday.....

The Kaleidoscope quilt so far for the graduation girl this year. I think I need to cut out a few more specific purples and then blues for the corners. I knew I only cut 120 of the colors for a reason!
Progress on this is good though. I should be able to start sewing my twosie units together today after I get back from the gym.

Slow stitching Sunday....

After all day in the sewing room yesterday and making such great progress, tonight it will be time to slow down and enjoy some nice slow stitches before the busy week starts again tomorrow.
I have one side left of my Easy Street quilt to get the binding sewn down until I can call it completed. I attempted to work on it last night...... but could only go so far and Maxie would not let me move the quilt so I had to stop. Tonight it will get finished even if she has to get up and move a few times for me!

Now to go prep 25 more orange peels to finish the border on this one sometime soon. That will be the waiting in the car line project for this week.

Head on over to Kathy's Quilts and see what other slow stitching projects are being worked on today.

Progress report....

All the hugs and kisses blocks were trimmed and laid out. Good thing I was paying attention and was thinking having the O's on the outer corners seemed wrong. Can you figure it out?

The bottom square of an X was framed in light instead of a color. I ripped it out and framed it with orange and all is right with the world now. These are ready to sew together before anyone comes home and messes it up!

I also got 12 of the nine patch pink blocks completed. I think these will work into a cute little baby girl quilt. I need to figure out size and then what I will do with them. Hopefully Erin will like what I come up with.

After trimming all those X and O's - I cut 148 corner triangles for the Kaleidoscope graduation quilt. I'll try and play with that tomorrow and come up with a layout so I can start sewing that one together next week. The aqua fabric is the 'solid' or background fabric.

Ok - back to the sewing room for me but I'm making great progress in there. Hopefully the going out to dinner will happen around here or Grandma's house so I don't have to drive to The Villages. It would take a good 30-45 minutes out of my sewing time =) Now to get those X and O blocks all sewn together......

Pretty in Pink....

I swapped work days with Greg so I could have some quality me time in the sewing room today to get some things moved forward and done. So far it has been almost two hours of pure fun!

I have to thank Moneik for sending me some wonderful pink fabrics to play with this month.

They have been put right to use today to make some churn dash blocks. I needed 6 of them for my 12 this month but was so cutting happy I have 7!

I guess it can go in the sampler. I have five blocks for the RSC Sampler completed in pink and it looks like there will be one more released sometime this week to finish up the pinks.

I also cut some 2.5 inch squares and made a 16 patch block...which will turn into a star block like last year. I loved how it came out and since it was gifted to Papa Andy I think I'll make another one this year. I also did a couple of nine patches using 2.5 inch strips.  I also have plans to squeeze one more new block in over the next few hours and a few more of the nine patches.

I'd love to have all my Kaleidoscope quilt cut out to play with on the floor to figure out how I want it to look for tomorrow. I need to cut 120 or 148 of my 45 degree angle triangles so I can do that. I have all the other shapes cut out and ready to play.

The plans are also to trim up all the Hugs and Kisses blocks and start putting that together. I think  I have enough peels for the border I am thinking of, so hopefully I'll have most of that together later tonight too. I'm thinking instead of cooking dinner (much needed sewing time) I'll head out to dinner with hubby tonight before picking up the kids from Grandma. Don't worry Mom - I'll have my sewing room turned into a guest room for March 3rd when you arrive!

Head on over to check out all the other scrappy pink projects being linked up today for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.