officially on a quilting break

yesterday and today i made 26 more of my string quilt blocks. it was actually very relaxing and fun but i'm taking tomorrow off and we leave sunday after church.

i now have 51 blocks. i want it 8 rows by 10 rows. we'll see. that would make a VERY LARGE quilt! i love big quilts though so we'll see. it was looking large when i laid it out 7 rows by 7 full rows and two left over. i really LOVE this quilt and the way it's coming together. i can't wait to sew the rows together. but that's for a later date. i'm not going to take the whole vacation off of blogging but i am taking a few days off! have a GREAT couple of days.

a few car projects

Here are three quilts ready to be bound in the car. :) I can't wait. I really want to start them now but I'm holding out. Two are baby quilts and one is a lap size. I will show the finished projects while on vacation!:)

This is Ruby helping me email this morning. I just think she is so very cute!!

Apparently, she wanted to pose. :) I don't know what I'm going to do without her for almost two weeks. My sister is going to take her and they are excited. She will be treated like a queen! Very fun for her. Hope you have a good rest of the day!

panic moment!!!

I was quilting the blue and green quilt and RAN OUT OF THREAD!!!! I was in a panic. Luckily amandajean came to the rescue. It pays to shop with a friend!:) THANK YOU amandajean!!! I finished it and will bind it in the car! This is the last of my quilts before I go. I think this will be for a different nephew and his wife who are going to have a baby in Sept. I was going to give them the zigzag but if I remember correctly this is more the color scheme they were going with. I like it. Hope you have a GREAT day!

staying on task

i have to stay on task so that i can get everything done by sunday when we leave for vacation. this quilt is for my nephew and his soon to be wife. i hope they like it. as you can see it's pinned and ready to go. i'm going to start that today.

just thought you'd like to know that pete doesn't seemed to stressed today!:) i just LOVED it!!! he likes my 9 patch also!:)

good times

i made sure that i had this to bind in the car on our trip. i thought it will take awhile (not that it didn't) but the trip was 4 hours and it didn't take me the whole time. i guess when that's all you have to do it goes quick!! i wasn't sure about this quilt at first but now that it's completely done i like it!!!

i just went with a plain backing and an happy i did. i'm kind of over the parchment color but there are times when i like it. like now!:)

this is the reason i made it. for the end of our bed. kind of brings some contrast with the parchment. i'm good with that.

here are the men in my life!!! i just love them. we had a very nice weekend. it was a beautiful wedding.

before we left town we went to a delicious pizza place!!!!!! we all really liked it which is a challenge in our household.:) anyone else have those problems with kids???

they also go to go cart. the younger on is driving. scary!!! he did fine after totally driving into the tire side part. they got YELLED at and my husband and i kind of started to laugh because we thought "he's only 8 and he only ran into something once!"
last but not least i spotted a quilt shop on the way up and got to stop on the way back! they had some nice fabric BUT i didn't buy any!!! can you believe it???? i am really trying to save my money for the fabric shack next week!!!!!!! i CAN'T WAIT!!!!!! hope you have a great day!!!

weekend getaway

I just wanted to post before I left for the weekend. Plus tI want to let you know who the winner of my little giveaway is. It's Leslie!!!! She has been a follower for awhile and always has such sweet encouraging things to say so I'm happy for you Leslie!!! These are my new 9 patches. I'm going a different direction this time. I don't want to do sashing so I'm doing to kinds of 9 patches so that they can lay right next to eachother. I'm liking it.

It is also different for me becsause it was scraps from this quilt and so I just cut them all up and am ready to keep making them as I feel. I don't think I can get 70 out of the scraps but I'm going to work with what I have and if it's a lap size that's fine because I'm working on the binding to the stacked coins quilt that goes on the end of my bed.

This is a project I'm going to try to get done before we leave for vacation on the 2nd. We have a nephew that's getting married and I thought I'd whip them up a quilt. This quilt is very easy so I thought I'd at least try!:) Have a great weekend. We will be at a wedding and I think since it's going to rain here the indoor waterpark will be very FUN!!!:)

do you ever wonder...

how certain patterns even get made? i do. i have been wanting to do this quilt for about 6 months and when i read the pattern i felt like they made it more difficult than it needed to be!! so i just found the measurements and went from there. i REALLY LOVE this quilt!!! it is the wee play line. i will be making this quilt AGAIN!!!

here is a pile of scraps from my wee play quilt and was wondering if anyone wanted to do a giveaway? if you would like this little pile of scraps please leave a comment and let me know. i will pick a winner friday morning before i go out of town.

this is my last old wip!!!!!!! hip hip hooray!!!!!! now i only have new starts!!!! one i can't wait to show when i get a few more done!! i have to finish this one before july is done. that was my goal and i want to keep it!