QOV Block Drive

Please visit Kevin HERE for all the information.  BUT, this is such a simple block that quilters of all experience levels can complete at least 5 in an hour.  5 blocks with an hours worth of your time for a very worthy cause.

This is definitely marked on my sewing 'to-do' list for this weekend.

Sewingly Yours,
Sharon 

Baby Steps

Yes, those same minis from the backs, but the bindings are done and labels on two - one is just signed and dated.

You get a peek at one of them - my little little dollie with her quilt.  You will have to wait for her to arrive at her new home before you get to see the front of the doll quilt.  This is going out in the morning mail - before the snow hits us.

I get a lot of people ask if I sleep - I do and most days I even take a nap with my furries.  Monday I just did a little organizing while my SIL came to sew.  She finished up the last border on her quilt and then we did some cleaning and spring decor in the home shop.  I took my nap with the fuzzballs, and then I started to cut up one of my scrap baskets.  These are for the leader/ender challenge  - lozenges - with Bonnie Hunter @Quiltville.  The rest of the scraps got cut down into useable pre-cuts.  ONE basket down - baby steps as there are 5 more to go.  But there was NO SEWING done on Monday.

Well, baby steps.  I sewed, but handwork - just one of the little hexies for my Something New & Book It project.  I pulled some possible fabrics from that scrap basket that might work for this, too.  I put one of the templates in the photo so you can see just how tiny these are.  I had these already (from eons ago) and they are just a smidge smaller than the one in the book, but I'm using these to give me a little more 'fiddle' room when I lay them out on the center.

And I pulled some of my scrap units - I had the baggies of HSTs out too but haven't found what grabs me yet for the next round of the Relaxing Round Robin.  This will be my project today - if I can make my mind up on what I want to use.  Baby Steps - it is a long month after all.

Sewingly Yours,
Sharon

Slow Stitching Sunday

I missed a couple of Sunday's - forgot to slow down.  So I am joining Kathy's Quilts for a day in the chair.

I have three minis that need their bindings done and labels attached.  I can only show them from the backs as two are swaps and I don't want to spoil the surprise - sorry girls.

And there should be time to prep one or two tiny hexie flowers for my 'Let's Book It' project

Why don't you pull up a chair and slow down.

Sewingly Yours,

Sharon

March Goals

Good thing March is a long month and you never know what Old Man Winter and Mother Nature will throw at us - so I have a lot planned to keep me busy.  For my Something Old I will use the 'Count Down to Christmas' quilt along with Temecula Quilt Co.  I put all my blocks into rows and then struggled with the flimsie and then it got tucked away while I waited for the border fabric to arrive.  THEN forgot about it!!  So the border is cut and ready and I do have an extra wide backing on the shelf that will play with this.  Hopefully I can have this ready for my long armer next week.  

I had three books that I really wanted to make something from, but this time I want to challenge myself and chose this one.  Another book I could make every project - why did it sit on the shelf??

I told you I would surprise you.  I don't think I have made a hexie in three years and these are tiny!  But I like minis and I do have some special civil war print scraps that should work nicely for this.  This will  be my Something New and Let's Book It project. And I can use the Hexie making as part of Slow Stitching Sunday.

My NewFO project will have to stay under wraps as I will use one of my swap (have two) pieces for this and both of my partners read my blog.

I get lots of 'get your free magazine' ads in the mail and sometimes they have a free pattern insert.  This was from QuiltMakers.com and it caught my eye for all those 2.5" squares I have.  Patches and Pinwheels just have to grab you and I worked up a lot of this as leader/enders.  Even if I just get the pinwheel blocks done for March, I will be happy with the progress on this project.

The next step of the Relaxing Round Robin is to add a round using triangles.  I have some baggies of HSTs and I am going to make them work for this. Why make more when all these cuties are waiting to play?

And I have four (I know there is another hiding) cross stitch pieces that need fabric framing.  If I get just one done this month, I will be happy - and will use it as my Handmade Christmas  project.

The Rainbow Scrap Challenge colour this month is Teal/Aqua and I do have a little more than last year (I think) - if not I may need to pick up some FQs to play with.

I don't want some of my 'waiting to quilt' items sitting too long either and will have to be aware to try and get at least one if not two of those done.  And I know my Goodnight Irene is waiting for borders and quilting (have the backing) - that one is going to be passed on to my long armer I think - just can't do it all.

So my March is full, how about yours?

Sewingly Yours,
Sharon