trying to get caught up

Here are the 9 patches I worked on yesterday. I got 16 finished and am still way behind. I have a total of 21 or 22. It's better but not caught up yet. I'll get there. I'm stippling the red, black, grey and white quilt too.

I have been having to clean my sewing room because my cat left me some surpises in my scrap bins! This is a wad of scraps that I had to wash and then throw out because they were sooooo tangled that I didn't even feel like bothering. Needless to say it has been a crazy morning in our household with the pets we own. If you don't own any pets I would suggest that you keep it that way!!!:) I do love my animals it's just they are a pain sometimes!!! Have a fantastic day!

a tote....finally

About 8 months ago I made this quilt for one of my sister-in-laws (I have 4). I didn't make her a bag to go with it though. (which was my thing at the time.) A quilt in a bag.:) So she and I had a joke about it and today I made her one.

I used scraps from her fabric so in case she wanted to carry the quilt in it she could. She thinks I'm crazy to think that she would ever put the quilt on the ground. She says it's way to nice. Bless her for saying that. Now I don't have to send it because my mother-in-law will deliver it for me. Tomorrow they leave. I'm very sad to have them go but we will see them in August.:)

I finally have my last quilt laid out!!!!!! I have one pinned and ready to go but that graduation isn't until the end of June so I put it on hold to do the ones that are coming up. I hope to finish this one and the other one by the end of this month. Unless I sub a lot I should be able to do it no problem. I am participating in the spring to finish even though I don't have the little button on my sidebar thing and even though the person doing it doesn't know it. I'm just trying to finish all the projects I have started before starting a new one.

I feel like it's been sooooo long since my last post so I sure did talk(write) a lot. Hope you have a GREAT day. It sure is pretty here. Hope it's nice by you!:)

number two

Here is graduation quilt #2 done. It's definately not my favorite but I think he will love it. It's memories so it's different for everyone. I'm not athletic AT ALL so I won't even own a jersey.:)

I boxed in the squares and then did stippling on the outer edge. This didn't take as long to quilt as I thought it would. His open house is the end of the month so I needed to get it done.

This is my hubby slaving away at mother's day.:) I LOVED the apron look on him! He loved wearing it because he didn't get messy.

I also wanted to thank you guys for ALL your nice comments. They keep me going!! Plus, thank you everyone for your opinions on my weird or good post. The comments HELP. Gives me things to think about and things to try. I just LOVE hearing from you. I'm doing a little sewing here and there with my in-laws in town but not a ton. I'm having a BLAST with my mother-in-law though!! We are shopping our little hearts out.:) Hope you have a great day!

and the winner is...

The winner of the giveaway this time is Betsy. :) Thank you so much everyone for all your comments. I love hearing from you!!! Hope you have a GREAT weekend.

cool breeze and a giveaway

Cool breeze is done!!! Not any to soon either. I have guests coming in town tomorrow for over a week!:) (my in-laws) I LOVE THEM!!!! I forgot to say that this is a queen size. That was asked and I thought I would update my post. I'm so bad about sizes. I think this is 97x97? I think.

Here is the back of cool breeze. I'm not a big fan of it but it works and I was able to use a lot of fabric.

Here is a bit of the binding. I just LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this quilt!!! I wish I was better at taking pictures so that you could actually see how great this quilt is!!!

This was my 51st quilt so I thought "Why not do another giveaway?"

I have 3 fat quarters of the Denise Schmitz. I'm not sure what to do with these colors so I hope whoever wins these will share what they do with them.
Just leave me a comment and let me know that you would like to be entered and I will pick a winner on Friday night and post it Saturday morning. I hope you have a FANTASTIC day!!!

weird or good???

This weekend I tried a new block with different colors and I can't tell if I like them or not. Are they good or strange???

I don't really know what made me think to put a little square in the middle of strips.

If you have any feedback let me know.l Even if you don't like them let me know I'm curious.

I just finished the hockey jersey quilt so I will post a few pictures this week.:) Have a great day!

my 9 patches and a gift from my boy:)

Do you ever have computer issues???? I did today and so this post is a HUGE victory!!;) My laptop is messed up and having big problems. Maybe I need a mac. I think their commercials are VERY funny so I would be tempted. Someone just told me they bought a mac because of those and they LOVE it!!! My brother-in-law swears by them. Oh well.
So anyway I've joined the band wagon and am doing the 9 patch quilt along with amandajean. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the orange one and am pretty happy with the other ones. Can you tell that I was working on an oh cherrry oh quilt???:)

I was doing a lot of running yesterday and the boys went to a friends house down the street and there was a garage sale. I came home to find this on the table with this note. I just LOVE that kid!!! He spent his 50 cents on me!! And he is always looking for money to spend on a new toy so I felt VERY loved and thought about. We are going to play after school!!:) Good times, good times! I do love games and he knows that! What a sweet heart! Have a fantastic weekend.