RSC - Finishing off orange

September went by much too quickly for me so I am doing a recap of the orange I was finally able to sew up this week. All three of the sampler blocks were finished off along with a twinkle star and the black and blue dresden plate.

I made the orange dresden plate and the 16 patch on Tuesday. Oops, forgot to get a shot of the 16 patch... but I might need to rob it of some blocks .... see the next sentence!

The trip block is still in progress but is past the halfway point - I seem to have gotten the count wrong on the going down totals and need to squeeze another round out of my fabrics.... which are sorely lacking in orange. I also need to figure out 4 more of that really light orange.... Oops! They might be stolen from the 16 patch or the twinkle star block as nothing I have is even close to that shade.

Head on over Saturday morning to see what others RSC Challengers are finishing off in orange and starting in browns. I can't wait to put the orange away and start in on brown... I love the calming contrast it gives to the rainbow block quilts. There is also something fun about playing with fabric that has such great names as chocolate and java!

Today (Friday) will find me playing in the dirt with a tiller! I am finally home and the housework is going to have to wait as I really need to finish the garden prep and plant the fall garden. With any luck I can get the last half tilled, weeds pulled and prepped and planted so I can pop the fence up on Sunday (enlisting the help of the rest of the family whether they want to or not on Sunday!). Tomorrow might be a work day but will be a travel to the girl scout store to pick up some things for Monday as well. 8:20 AM... too soon to start the tiller so I'll make some phone calls and then move outside to play with some brown.... dirt that is! At least the corn is up and the zucchini and cucumber plants are looking healthy. =)

A baby girl quilt from scraps.....

Well, its the last day of September and I have not done anything with the UFO project I had hoped to finish off. Instead.... I had these nine patches in pink sitting in a pile with some 6.5 inch cream squares. The last two days I worked on getting them into rows and then sewed the rows together yesterday. I also pulled a butterfly pink print to add as a border. This little top is 36 or 37 inches square and should be pretty easy to finish off. I have a need for a pink baby quilt next month and I think this will be perfect. I think it will be easy walking foot quilting in the nine patches and might get some hand quilted hearts in the open squares and machine quilted hearts in the border. 

Off to work for me today and the kids have a half day of school so Grandma is picking up and entertaining them this afternoon. Maybe I can get a few stitches in today at work? Either way we are cooking lunch on the big green egg. I have some chicken that needs to get cooked and will bring salad things to go with it. Have a great day.

Tiny Tuesday....

Wow - three posts in three days!
On my lazy Sunday I was able to add the last few petals onto the daisy flower while the kids were in the pool before dinner. I just need to cut some more yellow sashing for the last few of these blocks and add them on. I think next week will be a recap post to see where I am on these. I've started the next block for next week - rainy car line pickup gives me a solid 30 minutes to stitch and it looks like a rainy pick up line today. =)

Catch up Monday.

I decided to sew a bit this morning before I did the necessary paperwork (girl scouts and the business). I finished cutting some orange squares and made the twinkle star block. I cut the flying geese and sewed them up to finish off the two sampler blocks and made the third sampler block as well. I also had dresden twosies on the ironing board (for about 3 weeks!) in blue and black so those got sewn together in between sewing other things this morning. Not too shabby for a couple of hours in the sewing room.

This morning I also cleaned out the fridge a bit and used up the last of the ham, some onion and pepper along with some eggs. I found some flour tortilla in the pantry that needed using and made my version of McDonalds breakfast burrito - 5 of them are in the freezer. They will just need a little microwave warm up and breakfast is ready in under 2 minutes!

Hmmmm 11AM. I suppose I should grab a shower and do some paperwork and then pop out and get some milk. Maybe if I hurry I can get a little more sewing time in today before a rainy day pickup of the kids. (Extra hand work time as I'll need to get there early for a one line pick up instead of two lines.)

This was my view yesterday afternoon while doing some slow stitching....I do love candles burning in the fall. I just have about 8 more white squares to add to the trip block so I guess I need to prep more orange squares for that as well. The daisy also got finished off yesterday all set for a post tomorrow. The house smelled heavenly with the pumpkin spice candles and the pumpkin pudding we decided to make yesterday afternoon after our movie. If only we had cooler temps and changing leaves down here in florida... it might feel like fall.

Slow stitching Sunday....

Sometimes when life gets way too busy.. your body decides to take over and give you a day off! Today was to be a day off for both Greg and I so we could take his Dad out for his birthday (turned 80 last Tuesday)..... then last night my manager was diagnosed with pneumonia (I sent her from work to the quick care yesterday just after noon) so I was back working today. Woke up this morning feeling off..... some power zero helped but my wonderful hubby went in to work for me. I am having a semi lazy day (I do have the 6 and 7 year old home with me after all) and plan to do some slow stitching to relax and recoup after a very hectic last few weeks. The kids are currently busy coloring Halloween things to hang around the house.

I'll add some stitches to my orange trip around the world block.

Maybe a few more daisy petals will be added to my midget appliqué?

Who know, maybe even the hugs and kisses quilt will come out to play and get a few quilting stitches put into the border to get that started again.

I think it will be a movie afternoon with a few board games thrown in. This is the current smile for Ms. Emily - with 5 teeth lost in the last month.

Head on over to Kathy's Quilts to see what other slow stitching is happening today.

I did get a little fun in on Friday after school with the kids. We went to Sholom Park  for a play date and it was beautiful!

Feeding the coy fish.

The girls walking hand in hand. Michaela and Emily with Thomas on the side.

Michaela really likes Aidan =)

Emily with her Penny the Pig from Girl scouts.

Aidan is in the play room practicing his guitar with the music on, Emily is hanging up the bats she just colored and I think it is time to find a movie and add a round of orange to my trip block.

How about a midget Thursday?

I started the stem and leaves yesterday at work and got the stars done at bowling this morning. At least I got a little progress on these midget blocks.

Star Flower.

On another note - Miss Emily lost her 5th tooth in 5 weeks! Poor thing is a gummy fool =) Three lost on top and two on the bottom. She won't be biting into any corn or apples this fall!

Monday... already?

Where did  the weekend go? Oh yeah - working at the store for the fall sale. Hopefully Greg is feeling better today - he got the crud and was no energy all weekend.... which means I get to play with the zero turn lawn mower later today. First up is a quick shower and then a walk with my friend Deb. It has been since the first week of school since we were able to walk. Lots to catch up on.

I just have a little more prep work to do for my girl scout meeting tonight which should be done before I pick up the kids from school today. Neither slept well last night so hopefully they are not bears tonight - just me until after scouts as Greg has to close today.
I am just happy I had prepped so much hand work for my trip to VT - I have plenty to work on Tuesday and Wednesday as I am working at the store with Greg. After a sale it tends to be slow.... so I plan on relaxing with some hand work both days. Probably just jinxed it and we'll have lots of customers browsing as they come down for the winter.

I'll work on some of this... my orange trip around the world block. I hope to get to the white row this week.

and this - some of my midget appliqué blocks. I hope to get 2 done this week. Now which two? The daisy I think and then we'll see - maybe the star flower?

Fingers crossed I can also pin my 16 patch star quilt later this week and start the machine quilting this weekend.... and then there is the poor garden that has been neglected the last 3 weeks of hectic life. The good news.... corn is up and the zucchini actually has flowers starting and the cucumbers plants are looking good. Now to get them to continue growing and produce some fruits without the bunny eating them. Hopefully the beans will get planted this week too and I need to get a few tomato plants to pop into the ground as well. The fence will be put up Sunday... before those new things grow too much. Yes, strange growing seasons down here in Florida but we will be in the 80's through December and frosts don't tend to happen until January. This is before the weeding =).

Just wanted to wish my hubby Greg a very Happy Anniversary. Thanks for putting up with me for 9 years now =) I'm looking forward to a lot more years together.