Sew Day!

Because of the Chill Index, we don't have school today, so I get a sew day!  More progress made on Snapshot last night.  Took a little over a half an hour to pin all my blocks, but they are ready to sew.

My hope today is to get this sewing done, more pinning and to cut the sashing needed from this fabric.  I love this.  Just cracks me up.

From TImeless Treasures, dated 2006.

Have a great day!

Pin TIme

I finished cutting the black strips for Snapshot and did the sub cutting.  I also did a little pin time with the smallest squares.  Pinned the little strip to the side of each block so that tonight I can sit down and sew these.  Yay!

Don't let the smallness of the blocks confuse you, there are 60 of this little guys.

Evenings

In the evening, while watching TV or a movie, I have been working on some chemo caps for my sister.  I have 2 finished and another almost to the finish line.

The color of the top one looks off, it's really a grey, made with "Simply Soft" yarn by Caron.  The bottom one is more of my sister's style, variegated shades of purple.  It's "Mega Brushed" yarn by Premier Yarns.  I picked it up at Hancock Fabrics.  Hope she likes them.  I want to see which yarn she likes better and then I can make some more for her.

For Patti

This is for Patti!

 This is the pattern I fell in love with.  Enough so that I started pulling fabric from my stash.  It's called Snapshot and was designed by Gudrun Erla.  The quilt was in the Fall 2012 issue of Easy Quilts.

As I'm pulling the stash fabrics, I'm feeling odd.  Some of these fabrics have lived with me for a long time.  I'm equating it to my Retirement fund.  I have been buying/collecting fabric for some time (20 years) for my retirement.  I'm not retired yet, but I won't be penalized for early withdrawal.  After saving for so many years, it's odd to switch the mindset to use it mode.  But I am!  It's just as fun as saving/collecting mode!

What's Up With This?

I know, what's up with this?  Just 2 string blocks?  What have you been doing????

OK, I went shopping for a new winter coat, no luck. I have something in mind, but there just isn't much to choose from at the local stores. So not sure what I am going to do.  My coat still works, the zipper broke but it can snap shut, so that's what I've been doing.

And STARTITIS hit me big time!!  I saw a pattern in a magazine and fell in love,  So in love that I pulled fabrics and started cutting it.  Not even on my list of things to make.  Which reminds me, I set up a big UFO/Project list.  And as I was thinking about it, I don't even have finish Celtic Solstice or make Grand Illusion on the list.   Again, what's up with this?

So today is going to be a 15 minute kind of day, 15 minutes sewing, 15 minutes putting away Christmas decorations, 15 minutes cutting projects and 15 minutes cleaning.   We will see how it works out.

Gift Of Fabric

Quilts From The Bluffs receives gifts of fabric and scraps, which is so generous of people.  I took these bags home to help sort and get ready for use.  ( I now have renewed respect for our Leader, Jeanine.  It's a lot of work to sort all that out.)

There were 2 bags of strings, scrap and some larger pieces.  The larger pieces were sorted out one evening at Charmed For Charity and cut into 5 inch squares.  The 2 bags of strings and scraps came home with me.  Plus, we had 2 bags of Christmas fabric.  I sorted out the large pieces of Christmas fabric as we can use those for backing for the Charmed For Charity quilts.

On January 23, 2015, from 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm we are starting a Quilt Marathon,  It will continue the next day, January 24 from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.  Food will be provide for all that come out to help. We will be making the charm quilts using 99 five inch squares.  They go together fast, so we're hoping to get a jump start on quilts for 2015.  Last year we delivered a total of 401 quilts.  Jeanine is hoping we can make the 500 mark this year.  That would be amazing.  So come on out and help.  We'd love to see you!

More Strings

Finished 5 more string blocks!

I now have a total of 31 blocks and I need 42 blocks in all.  Only 11 more to make!