Hand Pieced Quilt Along..... Block #2

I was able to stitch block #2 last night as the kids were working on their science projects. One is due Friday... one on Monday. Someone is just like his Mom and procrastinates..... then got frustrated when word would not do what he wanted. He has one more day to finish up his board... and hopefully we are both still alive when it is done!

Block #2

I am going to make 2 of each block so the little quilt will be a little bit bigger! 

Linking up with Elm street Quilts and Simple.Handmade. Everyday. 

Tiny Tuesday

I got an umbrella done today! This is the last one in red. I was planning to take a photo of all 5 for the month of January..... but..... did I mention I picked up the sewing area since the AC guy came today to clean.... and for the life of me I can't figure out where the first 2 ended up? I'll find them.... eventually!

Looks like the color selected for February is yellow! I get to sew some yellow umbrella's next.

Slow Sunday....

 Well, not really.

There will be some breaks from cleaning (something about the AC guy coming for the twice a year cleaning on Tuesday... so I should clean up the sewing area/office so he can get into the closet where the unit is in the garage. Including finishing putting away xmas stuff boxes and all the **** all over the place that gets shoved in there. Sigh....

I will piece the backing for Aidan's quilt as well today and cut his batting. He gets to pin it this week.

I already logged into work once and moved something to production. I should also log in and finish getting something tested so I can promote that to test.... the joys of programming with the flexibility to work when I can. I am making up some time since Monday was a holiday, the kids had early release on Wednesday and Friday I was in and out with a Mammogram in the morning (all is well!) and kid pick up in the afternoon. Still 4 hours short for my 20 hour week.....

Excuse the foot!

There is always some hand work by my recliner to pick up in the little bits of time. I currently have the purple hexagon flowers out for basting.... and have been plugging away at them 1-2 at a time here and there. The following color sets are all basted and ready for their color month to arrive when they will get hand appliquéd to the black background.... pink, orange, yellow, bright greens. A little bit of time here and there (and that 20 minutes of car line time 5 days a week!) is getting them prepped. Left to do - about half the purples, light blues, dark blue, teals, brown and dark green.

Not too bad! I do wonder what color will be hand appliquéd to the black in February..... but I'll have to wait for Angela to announce it later this week.

For the hand pieced quilt along.... I made my blue and white block this week.

I found one of my girls liked hand piecing the flag for France at girl scouts  (my one who doesn't like to try anything and changed her mine and really liked it!). I sent the hand pieced quilt along link to her family and asked if she wanted to do it I'd be happy to cut things out for her from my stash. She accepted - so I need to cut some white, black and blue fabrics and fill a little hand stitching holder I have with what she needs to hand off to her tomorrow night. Emily decided to do it too... and has been picking pinks and teals....we will see what she decides to stitch. I pulled some shades of pink while clearing off the  floor (who knew - it is a beige carpet in there!).  I suppose that since the lunch break is over (I made corn chowder with 2 leftover corn on the cobbs from dinner last night) it is time to head back in and finish picking up/sorting and vacuuming the garage area a.k.a my office and sewing area. Well, maybe I'll stitch a purple hexagon or two first.... and run out and pick up photo's for the kids science project due in the next week.

Linking up with Kathy and the other slow stitchers. I promise... I will be sitting and stitching something by this evening. I'll need to rest and relaxing with my feet up and a needle in my hand!

Umbrella Thursday?

It was raining this morning as the cool front went through. Good thing I finished this umbrella last night!

This one is for you Mom! I might cut out and add the circular emblem from this fabric onto the red umbrella part.... maybe.

I also got another 8 yellow hexagon flowers basted last night. I'll have to restock the baggie with purples or blues for today. I have awards ceremonies at school for both kids this morning and then will arrive to bowling a little bit late today...but should be able to bowl game 2+3. Plenty of time to baste a few more of these guys.

Well, they are tiny....

Instead of working on the umbrella last night I basted 11 orange hexagon flowers. I have 8 of the bright greens basted and all 21 pinks I did over the weekend. Anyone else get that urge to just continue on with one project and get it moving? I have yellow in the baggie next to the chair for tonight. Then... all the blues - light, dark, teals and dark green and browns. Hey, they might all be basted (or most of them) by the end of the month at the rate I am going on them! It will make it that much easier when their colors come up in the RSC Challenge....... or you know... for me to just go ahead and applique them to the black background!

I decided to join the Hand Pieced Quilt along over at Elm Street Quilts and Simple. Handmade. Everyday. I was thinking a gray background.... but there was not enough contrast so went with white on white and that part will probably be scrappy..... just like the pulling random blues from the stash for the colors. 

It is slightly off the 6.5 inches so I'll have to fix that bottom right corner and get him all happy.

Now.... to resist the urge to pull the leftover Kansas Troubles Fabrics from the bottom drawer and make a few blocks in those fabrics...... 

This one will be one 6.5 inch block a week for 9 weeks released each Monday. It does make a small quilt..... so I might need to add blocks. We will see. 

Tiny Tuesday will become Oops Wednesday.....

Cause I don't have an umbrella done this week! I will work on it tonight for a post tomorrow.... after I take the girl to horses of course.

Dinner is easy - corned beef with carrot, potato, onion and some cabbage in the crock pot with an Irish soda bread in the oven right now. I hope there is some left when I get home!

I did do some sewing on Monday I can show. Aidan's quilt is now a top! The pattern is from Kim Diehl's book and is called Twilight Hopscotch. It measures 60x60. He also picked out a backing fabric - a blueish teal polka dot. Hopefully we can get it pinned this weekend.

Sunday.... a change of plans....

 Well, I had great ideas but ended up lazing away in the recliner after making a batch of beef barley soup and popovers for lunch. I got a nice stack of pink hexagon flowers basted so they will be ready when their color is called for the RSC Challenge.

I managed to get all 21 of the pink flowers basted today. It seems I have various numbers of colors.... based on what ever fabrics/scraps I had in my stash at the time. It should make a nice big quilt.

The unpicking on Aidan's quilt got done too.... those are the other half of what I showed earlier.

I just reminded the boys about the lunar eclipse tonight. They are setting up the telescope out back for it as it is a nice and clear and chilly night in Florida. Good thing no school tomorrow - they will miss a bit of sleep to watch a bit of it tonight.