Crumb quilt FINISHED!!!

Today is the second reveal of the Crumb Along that Jo hosted over at Jo's Country Junction. I wrote about my finished crumb quilt here and you can also see it in my header.
Emily loves her quilt and it now lives on her bed. I just need to make a label and attach it. Go on over to Jo's and see how the other crumb quilts turned out. The first reveal can be seen here.

I did the alphabet around the three sides and then put Emily at the bottom of the quilt. It was a lot of fun to do and who knows... there may be another crumb quilt in my future.

Tiny Tuesday - a Midget Block!

#25 - Guiding Star. This is another paper pieced block.



Here are all 25 of my blocks so far. I am learning a lot from these little midget blocks - paper piecing, applique and am working on hand quilting on my little quilt squares this year. I hope to be able to eventually hand quilt this one once it is finished.... but that will be quite a few years into the future!

January Log Cabin

The sewing machine is home, all cleaned and working so smoothly. I don't know why I waited so long to take it in for cleaning. While the sewing machine was away... I did some hand work and got this little square quilt all finished. I did two lines on each log except the outermost ones and finished it with a coordinating purple fabric from the bundle of fabric I'm using for these little quilts this year. I love how it came out... and thank goodness it is the end of the month or I just might have made another one to hand quilt a sampler quilt with the quilt as you go method. I still might..... but I'll wait and see how the next month goes with our pool store opening this week first.

Go on over to Jo's Country Junction, grab a cup of liquid of your choice and see what everyone did for their Log Cabin block this month. It is just amazing how different this can look in so many colorways. Thanks Jo for hosting this. I look forward to seeing which block we do for February!

Come back tomorrow for another linky party with Jo - the final reveal of the crumb along quilts from last fall. I get to join in as mine is finished and on Emily's bed. You can see it in the header. I can't wait for tomorrow....

Last Scrappy Red Saturday...

This last Red saturday I decided to cut up a bunch of 2 inch red squares. The thought process is to cut some of the 2 inch squares each month of every color and come December I'll have lots of squares to start a Leader/Ender project for next year of a scrappy single irish chain quilt or two.

So far this month I made a couple of scrappy pinwheels.


Some birds in the air blocks. I really love these and can't wait to see how a bunch of colors will look together.



Some heart placemats.



2 inch squares for next years scrappy irish chain quilt.


Go on over to SoScrappy and see what everyone else is up to in their sewing rooms. I can't wait to see what next month's color will be. I hope to be able to keep up with the challenge this year but with my oldest leaving nap stage (When will I be able to sew now?) and long days with the store opening next weekend we will have to wait and see.

Now... just waiting for a phone call telling me I can go pick up my sewing machine from it's cleaning. It has been gone since Wednesday and I'm getting antsy to SEW something!
Happy Stitching.

Tiny Tuesday....

This is #23 - Valentine and went together much better than the last one.

I did find something helpful that I want to pass along. I don't have a 'window box' or 'light box' but do have this little neck light and a clear sewing table. I combined the two and came up with my own 'light box' to trace the pattern onto the background fabric so I could applique this block. Just put the light below the sewing table, put the pattern and then the fabric on top and turn on the light. You can easily see where to trace the design and know where to put your applique.

One placemat done....

I was able to get two of them quilted in the ditch and binding made and put on before they woke up from naps..... I also got one binding completed last night before the snuggling of runny nose kids got in the way of Mommy doing hand work. Yup, the little one has a head cold. A 2 year old with a head cold means lots of 'no, use a Kleenex to wipe your nose not (fill in the blank here with - your shirt, arm, mommy's shirt, the pillow, the quilt, the sofa, your brother, etc.)'. I also forgot to put the humidifier into her room before bedtime and then forgot to put the vics onto her chest until around 11. As you can imagine..... it was a sleepless night until around 2 when everyone finally settled down. We did put off her 'reward' dinner on Saturday night since she did not wake up well from her nap. We will try and do her rib dinner tomorrow night with Papa for her becoming a big girl and being potty trained! She did go out to lunch today with Grandma, Daddy and her brother today to celebrate (Mommy was not hungry and decided to run errands without the kids in tow). She ate well so hopefully we can go out tomorrow night for her special dinner.

Scrappy Saturday - Red

I am stealing a couple of ideas for this week. Cathy T had made these cute little hearts on her scrappy Saturday and is making a quilt out of them. I confess, I had hearts written down for one week and was thinking of using squares.....but could not picture it in my head on how it would work... until I saw these. The other 'steal' is from Ellen who mentioned she is doing place mats for her challenge and had a great one last week. I am combining these two ideas and came up with these pretty place mat tops.

Sorry it is on it's side.... I'm not sure why blogger keeps doing that to my pictures. These are just 3 red 2.5 inch squares and one white square sewn into a four patch. Then I cut two 3.5 inch squares for each heart and cut them in half on the diagonal and sewed them to the sides so they could be on point. It did take me a while to make these... about 2-3 hours but is was a nice relaxing afternoon without kids on a rainy day.
I hope to get them finished later today. We use place mats every day since I don't want to cover up my beautiful wood table and little kids do tend to make a mess. These will be just the thing and leaving them on the table will be an extra Valentines decoration in the dining room! Thanks ladies for the inspiration and great ideas. Go on over to SoScrappy's blog and see what others are doing on their scrappy Saturday.

Oh - while sewing these on Wednesday afternoon my machine was making some funny noises...... so I took out the bobbin case and this is what I pulled out of it.

Yuck. It is running a little better now but I think it is time to bring it for a cleaning.... it has been a couple of years since the last cleaning and I am not too good on clearing out the fuzz. So, when was the last time you cleaned out your machine, put on a new needle and changed the rotary cutting blade? I've done all three in the last week and boy, does it make a difference!
Happy Sewing everyone.