I won!

Wooo Hooo! I just checked my e-mail and I was one of the lucky winners of Pat Sloan's new book 'Focus on the Center'! A big Thank you to Bonnie Hunter for posting about it and sharing the link and Pat Sloan for the chance to win her new book!

Yellow Saturday

Today is the first saturday in May and the color for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge is Yellow. I got a little time in the sewing room this week and pulled the yellow out of the closet. I was able to sew these three pinwheel blocks and they look like this.

This is the whole group of the pinwheel blocks I have so far. I think this is going to make a really cute quilt or two at the end of the year.

Go on over to SoScrappy's blog and see what others have come up with for the yellow challenge this month. 

Starburst is quilted!

My wonderful MIL took the kids for the day today so I finally got a chance to sew. Of course - it was a very early leave morning as we followed Daddy to work and drove him from the car place to the store so they could work on the car today. At 123,000 miles it needed some work before he travels a bit over the next few weeks. Then it was another 50 minutes to Grandma's house to drop the kiddo's off and then another 40 minutes home. Lots of driving but very worth it. When I got home I chopped up some veggies to get them out of the fridge and pulled one of the ham hunks from Easter out of the freezer. Some pasta got boiled up and I made a cold pasta salad with ham, broccoli , tomato, cucumber, onion and olives and then I also made a batch of french lentil soup with the rest of the ham that I pulled out this morning. Once that was all set in the crock pot... I pulled a quick lunch together with some leftover spaghetti squash, tomato, feta cheese, roasted peppers, onion and kalmata olives. Yummy. I have a little bit left over so lunch tomorrow is all set for me too! Then it was off to the sewing room.

I got 2.5 hours in the sewing room today. I pinned the Starburst quilt and then was able to quilt it up. This is the star struck pattern from Bonnie Hunter over at Quiltville.  I just did some meander with loops and there was a lot of cursing muttering with skipped stitches and breaks but I got it done. Note to self - make sure you have some of the good quality thread the next time you quilt. I already had made the scrappy binding so I stitched that onto the top and it is all set for some hand sewing the binding down this evening. I tried something new and cut a 10 inch square, folded it in half and stitched it to the back while I was putting the binding on. This will be the label. 

I am debating on writing the hidden words on the label... I think I'll just let her find them and see how she does. I have a Mindy, SHS (Spaulding High School), 2012, A G cleff and some music notes. I was going to add an M for McDonalds and Ben &Jerry's but with the above muttering I decided to nix those from the quilting. Those were her jobs during high school. She will be working at Ben & Jerry's again this summer at their main plant in Waterbury,VT. So, if you are in the area and go for a tour check and see if your tour guide is named Mindy. It might be her!

Garden Beauty

#39 is Garden Beauty. This one is hand applique and I was able to get it done here and there over the last week. I only had to redo one of the blue ones since I had it tilted a bit too much on the first try. Looks like it is back to tiny triangles paper pieced next week.

This is also the reveal for the Quilt Square Quilt Along over at Jo's Country Junction.

 I didn't quite get the Anvil one completed but it is two thirds there. I should be able to finish this one up sometime this week. I did get the nine patch completed and have the applique one pieced I just need to pull the applique fabrics and prep those for some hand work this month. Go on over and see what blocks everyone else selected for the finish up month. We start on the next batch of patterns today!

Scrappy Neutral Saturday

Well, not too much progress this month but I did get a few of the birds in the air blocks done. I paired them with blue and got these little guys on Thursday.

I started the second block of the QSA and have all the parts pieced for the outside and the applique drawn onto the background. I just need to pick the fabrics and prep them for some applique, then I can get that one finished up.

I also have the third block for the Quilt Square along to do and have it at this point so far.

I have two of the nine anvil blocks completed and the others are all pulled for fabrics. I just need some time in the sewing room to finish this up. Hopefully this afternoon I can spend some time in there and work on finishing this little guy up.

As for us, I think I am going to grab a shower and then take the kids to a Butterfly festival the next town over and see what that is like. Hopefully we can spend a couple of hours there before it gets too hot and humid, tire them out and then they'll take naps this afternoon. A girl can dream.....

Go on over to SoScrappy and see what everyone else has been working on for this neutral Saturday.

#37 Imperial fan

Finished! I modified it a bit and removed the outer circle... because the fans did not line up to the edge like the pattern thinks they should have. Oh well. It is done and came out pretty cute! I did have to make the middle circle a wee bit bigger to cover the edges of the fans.

Sow along 7-10

I was able to get the next four done for the Sow along over at Randy's blog.
They are churn dash, broken dishes,  a basket and friendship star. That brings me to ten blocks completed out of 24. Baby steps....

Today was also our HIPPY day. Ms. P comes over on Mondays and works with me on the HIPPY lessons for the week for each of the kids. They love doing it so far and this is our second week of lessons. Last week I had to cancel since I had the flu. We got little shapes - 4 colors for each shape - circle, square, triangle, rectangle and stars. Since they needed something to be held in.... Mommy had to whip up a couple of little bags for them. One for each child's shapes. Aidan chose the bumblebee fabric so I guess Emily will get the trains. I just measured a 6x10 piece of fabric. Created a channel at the top where I put a piece of yarn through at the end using a safety pin. Then sewed the sides together and got these little bags.

Did anyone else notice that the editor changed suddenly on Saturday. I can't say I like the new one but I can figure it out. It would have been nice to have been informed of the forced change. Ok, my complaining is done. Better get working on stitching down the inner circle for my Midget block for tomorrow. Have a great day!