RSC in green

 

I got some time in the sewing room this week! Shocking, I know!  I pulled one of my green 16 patch blocks and turned it into a star to go with the pink and blue. 

I had cut a few extra of the snowflake background triangles last month, so the hard part was pulling some dark greens for the kite part. After that one was together I still had a few more extra parts, so I pulled some bright greens for the kites. I pulled out another offcut of the snowflake fabric and cut out some more triangles. I do love how easily these blocks go together. They finish at 8 inches. I use the Accuquilt 8 inch cube for these.

Saturday, I'm starting off the kids spring break by being in the woods with a handful of the girl scouts from Emily's troop. We are just doing the day but it will be a long one. I'll link up to the RSC sometime on Saturday.

Frosty #10 is Completed

 I had 2 car wait times on the kids today so got a good chunk of stitching time in while I waited. I traced off the last 3 Frosty's this morning and one of them is already completed!

Well shoot -- I missed the bottom of the o in snow on the sign! I'll fix that, I'm just too lazy to take another photo!

Completed Frosty #9

 

You know how as you get closer to the end of a project it is all in, lets get it done? Well, I'm feeling that way with the Frosty's. This one got finished last night and I just printed off the final 3 this morning so I can trace them for stitching. 

Frosty #9

This guy is going along nicely with his stitching. I should be able to get more stitches added at late school pick up today with the kids. 

 

Slow stitching Sunday.

 I'm happy to report I have been making some progress on Frosty McChill! Out of the 12 blocks Melisa was so kind to share with us, I have eight completed. I am starting to think of how these will be finished off and put into a quilt. I still need to trim them to size, but I am thinking a scrappy blue look of squares surrounding each with a fun sashing in between? I have a few other ideas in my head so we will see which one wins in the end!

I finished the 8th one on Saturday watching the F1 qualifying. 

I'll be linking up with the Slow Sunday Stitchers. It is an early start to the morning with a 8-10 cookie booth across town. I know the boys will be watching the F1 race when we get home. I was thinking of a visit to Grandma's this afternoon, since we have not seen her in a while, but Emily was tapped to feed Noelle the cow who is back at the school. I'll bet she is lonely as all the other animals are gone now that the youth fair is over. I do plan to get a few stitches into Frosty #9 at some point today.

 

Finishing off pink.

I was a little late in finishing playing with my pink this year. I was off yesterday and got a couple of hours in the sewing room to see what needed to get worked on. Turns out - I still needed to make some split 9 patches in pink for February. My supply of pink is very limited, but I was able to make up these blocks to add to the collection.

 I'll link up on Saturday with the RSC where people will be pulling out the green to play with for the month of March. I am excited! I have 2 light green blocks to make for the garden path collection and then I can assemble that into a quilt top. That will be my goal this month - to get that 2021 collection of blocks into a completed quilt.

Peanut the cat thinks the blocks will require moving around once I make the 2 light green ones. I'm sure he will be happy to assist in that process!

I headed off to the middle school midafternoon to be a chaperone for the advanced band heading to the MPA (music performance assessment) at one of the local high schools. There were a few middle school bands playing last night followed by a few high school bands. We got day 1 of the 3-day assessment. The kids did a great job and when the

teacher checked with the judges; they had assessed them at superior across the board! They performed 3 prepared songs on stage for 3 judges, then headed to the sightreading room across campus. They have it very secure and no phones while in that room. They saw 2 pieces of music and were given 3 minutes of review with the director before they performed the first one. The second piece they got 5 minutes to review before they performed it. The hardest part was not clapping after in the sightreading room since they did such a great job! This was a photo of them on the stage. We got home around 10PM and the girl was very sleepy this morning. I admit, I was as well. 

I think this finishes up the crazy month of February for the girl - with FFA (horse evaluation one weekend, cow another weekend), Band - lots of 3:45-5:30 after school practices the last few weeks and then the performance last Tuesday and the main event last night. Add in some girl scout cookie booths and riding of horses, working with Noelle the cow and feeding animals.... and normal schoolwork and it has been a busy time in my house shuttling kids here and there.

 

Frosty Wednesday

This is the 7th Frosty McChill in the series of 12 by Melisa at Pinker n Punkin Quilting and Stitching. I just need to finish off his face and I think there might be another snowflake or two to stitch. Progress.

 

I got him finished!