Today's Sewing~

Well, it will take longer than today to do all of these, but this is what I am playing with today~ I dug thru the stash and found an odd assortment :-) of fabrics for the next batch of HST's for the blocks I am exchanging with Bingo~Bonnie. LOL, it is getting hard to find scrap pieces I haven't already used~ that is why you see leopard print! :-)) **giggle** Hopefully they will be ok in the next blocks. ;-) This will morph into 240 HST's!Hope you are having a happy day!
Until next time~
Happy Stitchin'! ;-)

What Is On Your Design Wall?

... or table, ...or in my case, ~floor? :-) I was able to sneak in a bit of sewing over the weekend and got some of the borders on Cobble Stones. :-) I just have the last top and bottom border to add~ hopefully today! ;-) As much as I have loved sewing this top together, I am anxious for it to be off of the floor. ;-)) LOL

I also made 3 more of the Piece and Goodwill blocks (from Nov/Dec Quiltmaker magazine)~ or as I am going to call my quilt 'With A Little Help From My Friends', because they generously shared green scraps with me. :-) I discovered a big hole in my stash for light greens! :-o I have no idea how that happened!~ but now that it is mostly ;-) organized, I do have a better idea of where I am lacking. When the opportunity for 'shop therapy' arises, I'll know what is needed. ;-) LOL

Go to Judy L's Patchwork Times blog and check out all the inspiration on design walls around the world!

Until next time~
Happy Stitchin'!

Progress!

Yay! I have been keeping my nose to my sewing machine and finally~ I have the first border on Cobblestones! :-) Hopefully tomorrow I will be able to sneak in a little sewing time and work on border 2. It isn't cut out yet, so back to work with me! :-) Sorry it's tipped. :-/ I tried a few tricks to get it to display right and apparently I don't know the right tricks! :-(

Until next time~

Happy Stitchin'!!

CGandGQC February Goals~

Notice our new name and logo? Kelly designed a new one for us this year. :-) Thanks Kelly!

Like so many other club members, I cannot believe it is already February! I guess time really does fly when we are having fun! LOL :-) Since I only have 25 days let to this month, my goals are going to be short ones. ;-)


1. I need to get Cobble Stones together! I'm working on it. I will spare you another photo, just check Monday's post. ;-)

2. It is time to pull out the MyBlue Heaven blocks I am exchanging with Bingo~Bonnie and get some more made up. It takes a lot of HST's to put these blocks together, so that is where I will start. We are going to exchange 16 blocks for our last exchange, so I should start working on them. ;-) I don't plan to get all 16 done this month~ just a huge pile of HST's! :-)



3. Since I only gave myself a 'half check' for cleaning up my disaster last month. ;-) (Well, I altered the plan mid-month, I hadn't originally planned to move furniture!) This month I will finish the task. LOL ;-)

Not included on the list, but other things I will do this month are the February Schnibbles pattern, the Thimbleberries Sew Day, and getting the next BOM ready for the HGTV quilters~ and I'm going to an Expo! :-) It is entirely possible that I've forgotten something that I will also cram in~ LOL! :-))

Guess I'd better get busy!
Until next time~
Happy Stitchin' to You! ;-)

BOM fun~

This year I joined my girlfriend in hosting a BOM on the HGTV Quilters message board. We have a little fun with the gals and have a guessing game to guess what block we picked for the month. The blocks for this year are all stars and can come from anywhere on the web. Marcia Hohn at QuiltersCache is very gracious in allowing us to pick and post blocks from her fantastic site. The good thing about getting to help in the hostess department is that I get my blocks done! :-) LOL We are doing both a 12 inch block and a 4 inch block and one of my jobs is to figure out the 4 inch block ~ I love EQ6! :-)

Here are January's blocks...


and February's blocks....
The multi-colored paisley fabric is my focus fabric and I'll pull all the coordinating fabrics from the colors in that fabric. So it will be a 'controlled scrappy' quilt. :-)

For the girls who are from HGTV and following my blog~ sorry, I won't reveal any secrets here. :-)) I don't even know March's block yet, so there is no chance of that happening! LOL ;-)

Until next time~
Happy Stitchin'!

Design Wall Monday~

Happy February 1st!~ Didn't January just kind of blink by?! Or was I sleeping too much? LOL :-)

My design wall floor :-)) hasn't changed much since last week~ well, it really has, but you probably don't notice it. I have been fiddling with these blocks all week! Every time I look at them, I see 2 of the same print side by side, or too many greens in a row, or the browns aren't spaced out enough! Argh! Just now I noticed 2 of the same print on the bottom row. :-o I think I am just going to start sewing and whatever ends up next to each other is just the way it will be! At the rate I'm going, I will never get it together. LOL ;-) Hopefully next week you will see this top together and something else on the wall er, I mean floor? :-/
Whoops~ apparently blogger is tired of my blocks too! They turned my photo! ;-)
For some great design walls, check out Judy L's blog~

And until next time~
Happy Stitchin'!!

CGQC January Finishes~

I purposely didn't give my self a lot of goals for January as I had other things I needed to work on. So lets review my goals~

1. I need to finish up the 12 blocks in Christmas fabrics that my friend and I decided last year to exchange for Christmas.

~check~ Yep, I did it! These are the blocks I sent to my friend, and below are the blocks I received. I have a plan for my blocks already. ;-)

2. I want to work on my Fig Tree Club quilt called Cobble Stones. Last month I got it all cut out and part of the blocks sewn. I'd like to get them all sewn. ;-)

~check~ Blocks are all finished and sashings are in-progress. ;-) I have played with them on the floor for a week now and hopefully will have decided on their layout soon. :-))

3. And the biggie~ the 'necessary evil' ~~ clean up my disaster!

~half check~ LOL In the process of cleaning up, I decided to rearrange the furniture! :-o So everything is rearranged and I am putting things back in place. Maybe there will be a few pics by mid-February. ;-)

I also managed to~
~~get my Thimbleberries bag and table runner together.
~~Get my January Schnibble together during the Valentine's Sewing Day. :-)
~~And spend a day cutting pieces for 'Piece & Goodwill'.

So I would say I had a very good month! :-)

I also want to thank SewCalGal for the wonderful Virtual Christmas Quilt Show she did in December. The inspiration was awesome! I happened to win a thumb drive and it arrived this week. It is sure going to come in handy for organizing my photo's on the computer! Thank you SewCalGal and AllBrands! :-)

Until next time~
Happy Stitchin'!