Easy Street Progress....

I think I have all of step 5 done now. Here are my 64 blue and maroon - tall geese.

Here is the start of step 6. I still have a bunch more of these to make and then 19 green squares cut into 4 triangles each. If I can get the kids settled without too much trouble tonight I think I can finish off this step today.

All my steps so far are in this blue bin.

I can't wait to start putting this mystery together.

#20 - Woman's Suffrage block

The block for week 20 is called Memory Wreath.
This was very simple to put together.

I've been trying a few new things in the kitchen - mostly to try and save time in meal prep. I also found I love potatoes but they just don't last down here in the very warm and humid Florida weather. I've been baking them in the oven while I am cooking something else. ( the half of the bag that I didn't use for mashed potatoes or potato salad.). Then I just store them in the crisper and pull them out when I want some quick hash browns in the mornings with eggs (dice with skins on and add onion, pepper or whatever is in the veggie bin), or quick twice baked potato or potato skins in the evenings. 

Is there some time saving thing you do in the kitchen that you would care to share with me?

Thanks for stopping by.

Tiny Tuesday

Today I made #73  Dogwood. I decided to add some blue to the midget blocks today. The picture shows pink but I think I have a bit too much red and pink in my quilt blocks so far so the next few will be adding blue, brown, green and purple. =)

Quilting for a slow stitch Sunday...

In order to get some slow stitching this week I had to work on a UFO. Yup, I finally pulled the scrappy log cabin that has been pinned and waiting patiently in the closet for quilting. Note to self, if there is no deadline the quilting seems to go easier with much less thread breaks!
I had already prepped the binding whenever I finished this top so after it was quilted and trimmed I attached the binding. Now I have some hand stitching for this evening and I'll be able to cross a UFO off my list for 2013 this week.

Now some people have dogs or cats that come running when you lay out a quilt or blocks for a picture. Me, I have a 3 year old daughter! She ran up, sat at the end and said 'Cheese, applebees.' I have no clue where she got the applebee's part but she has been adding that to cheese for the last 6 months.

This is the cat - same room - saying 'just leave me alone, I'm trying to sleep here!'

 

Hooking up to Quilter Kathy's Slow Stitch Sunday. Head on over and see what others are working on this week.

RSC in pink...

I got a little bit of sewing time yesterday and was able to iron some of my pink bits and came up with these three 6 inch blocks. I don't have a plan for these right now but can see making some crumb blocks each month and then turning them into something in December.

Yesterday was the hubby's birthday and my niece's birthday. One is in college and one had the option of having the day off from work or working. He chose to go to work (slow at the store vs. a full day with 2 active kids.....yup, he is a smart guy!) I took the kids shopping Thursday and they picked things for him but I wanted to wait and wrap them today. They decided to hide his presents so he would not find them until his birthday. It seems they didn't think he needed wrapping and just pulled out his presents from hiding and gave them to him in the morning while I was in the shower. Then they joined hands (they are 4 and 3 remember) and sang him 'Happy Birthday'. It was so darn cute!
The only thing left to do is make some low carb chocolate chip cookies (yes, they do exist) so we have something to put a candle in later tonight. His birthday meal of brats, coleslaw and a low carb pasta salad (Dreamfields) will make my life easy and him happy.

I think I need to pull a UFO for next week... and that pink scrappy X quilt needs quilting. Lets see if I can get two for the price of one! UFO and RSC. I do love that my manager gave me Sunday off again this week. I plan to sew!

Head on over to SoScrappy and see what other pink goodness is being worked on this week. There were lots of new people linked up - so fun to see.

Old Maid's Ramble - BOW

Maybe it was just me but I think the directions were a bit off on this one when putting it together. I just looked at the shading and figured it out.... after picking out the middle geese so it would work. You need two of each shading for the side parts not 4 of the same.
Other than that... this one went together quickly during nap time. It was so nice to sew after 5 days away from the sewing machine. This is another one that would be an awesome scrap quilt.

Here are 18 of my 19 Woman's Suffrage blocks. I still need to redo the outer part of the Kansas Sunflower block. 

BOW - Mother's Choice

While I was away I was able to work on this hand pieced Mother's Choice block from Barbara Brackman's BOW this year. It went together very easily. I think this one is really pretty with all the light and dark colors. The points are not perfect but I'm calling it done. I could actually see this one as a little wall hanging in blue and yellow with maybe 4 of these and then some pieced borders.......