Design Wall Monday~

I worked on lots of things last week in little fits and spurts. :-) One was getting this table runner together. I have 2 seams left and then the trimming. :-) Sorry the photo is bad~ it is sunny today!! Yay! :-)) It is going to look great on my dining room table! :-) The pattern is 'Whimsy Diamonds Table Topper' and is the second project in this year's Fig Tree Club. (link in sidebar)

For lots of inspiring design walls check out the Mr Linky at Judy L's~

And don't forget to check for the new block in the Jelly Roll Sampler Quilt Along at Moose on the Porch. (link in sidebar)

Until next time~
Happy stitchin'!

My Crazy Brain!

There is a reason my blog name fits me so well! :-) Yep, just 'call me crazy'! :-)
My brain is a little backward... LOL. I am generally left-handed, which means I am right-brained. But I've trained myself to do a lot of things right handed... and I read patterns and follow directions with my left-brain (the right-handed way). But sometimes! Oh sometimes I confuse myself!! I was working on my Fig Tree Club Project for this quarter, which is a fun table topper.. using~ diamonds! :-) I've had a lot of diamonds in my sewing lately, but the vintage sheet top I made up as I went along~ no directions to follow. This time, I thought I'd follow the directions *grin* but my right-brain jumped in to confuse me!! :-o I cut all my angles the opposite way! Makes no difference in the finished topper, but it sure threw me for a loop this morning! Trying to marry the photo with my cutting and thinking I'd really messed up this time! Nope I didn't~ I'm just a little backward. :-)) LOL Fits me. Oh~ notice the striped sheet? It really helped when lining up the diamonds. Try it if you are working on a diamond project. ;-)
I also did a little PhotoShop playing~ I like looking at my things in greyscale before I start sewing, just to make sure I like my layout. :-) Looks good to me~ I'm off to sew!
Hope you are having a great day!
Take some time to play!! ;-)

Happy Wednesday!

I'm still sewing here! :-) I just finished all the HGTV BOM blocks for the rest of the year. I wish I could show you!~ but you will have to wait until December to see them all. I'll continue to show you the new one each month though. ;-)

Once the blocks were finished, it was time for a little spring cleaning. :-/ Yes I know~ yuk! But it is a necessary evil. At least for me. LOL ;-) And I've got this to entice me to hurry up and get it finished~
The second Fig Tree Club project! This time it is a table runner that will look great on my dining room table! :-) I can't wait to dig into it~ notice I had to open it up and touch the fabrics. ;-) Back to work with me so I can play sooner! LOL

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'!!

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'!!

Design Wall Monday~

I'm a little slow in posting this morning, but I am still here! :-) Be sure to go check out all the wonderful design walls in blogland from Judy L's blog! :-) The inspiration is just what I needed on this Monday morning! ;-)

Today I have the Fig Tree Club blocks, Cobble Stones, on my floor ~ um, I mean design wall. ;-) I am determined to get this top together so I can go quilting! :-)


I'll be working on the sashings until Wednesday, when it will be time to pull out the Thimbleberries for a little fun! Come and join us!

~Sewing~Sewing~Sewing~

I love to sew! The Fig Tree blocks are coming along and all the pinwheels are together! :-) I don't really have a plan for them yet, but I will! :-) All the cutting, trimming etc is finally looking like something. ;-) Am I impatient? No~ just anxious to get thru the mindless parts to get to the fun stuff! ;-) LOL Here is a photo of all the pinwheels and the blocks~ ready to start making the sashings. :-)

Thank you for your interest in our Thimbleberries Sew Day! I am really looking forward to playing in my Thimbleberries fabrics! Oh, I know I could play in them any day, but to be playing with my blogging friends will be so much more fun! :-) Just to clarify~ you don't have to finish anything on Wednesday. We don't have any deadlines or anything. Just make a post on that day and let us know what you are working on~ show us your Thimbleberries love! :-) And then be sure to come back and tell one of us that you posted so you will be in the little giveaway. ;-)

Tomorrow is the Valentine's Sewing Party, so I'll be back then!
Happy Stitchin'!

O's!

I am slowly making headway on Cobble Stones~ whoohoo! I am having as much fun with the cut off HST's though~ This is a shot of trimming them up. I am lucky, I can use my rotary cutter in either hand. So I lined up a bunch of them and trimmed both sides. Look at that pile of 'match sticks'! Trimming all those HST's took a while. ;-)) Do you see the orange line on my ruler? I love this stuff! It is like tape, but with nothing sticky on it. The little dispenser with the different colors was given to me by a friend. I use it to mark the line on my ruler so I don't have to look at the measurements every time. I also use it on my sewing table when I am sewing down the centers of squares~ no marking, and it peels right off. It's just plastic. :-)


This is the pile of 'O' blocks and all the HST's ready to be sewn into pinwheels. I have a few O's left to make. I pressed until my iron ran out of water and then sewed. :-) Yes, I press with steam~ but I 'press', no ironing, pushing, sliding etc. I don't distort any seams and I like the little bit of steam. ;-) It works for me. :-)

Hope you are finding time to sew today too!
I'm going to go fill my iron and press these blocks and the few left to sew.
Until next time~
Happy Stitchin'!!

Design Wall Monday

I'm trimming off the HST's for my Fig Tree Club 'Cobble Stones' blocks. It takes a while to do all the trimming, but is going to be worth it when I have all those little HST's to play with! My friend gave me the Eleanor Burns ruler for my birthday and it will make short work of trimming the cut-off's to a consistent size. :-) It's going to be a struggle to put those cuties aside and finish the Cobble Stones blocks! LOL ;-)

I've also picked my project for the Valentine's Sewing Party that Kelly & Joan are having this Saturday. I purchased these strips last year when a friend organized a 'buy-in'. We bought yardage of the fabrics in the line and she cut them into 5 inch strips~ I should have plenty for sweet little Schnibbles 'Madeline'. :-)

Check out all the fabulous projects quilters are working on today by visiting Judy L's blog! :-)

Until next time~
Happy stitchin'!

My Quiltathon Weekend~

Even though I feel like I accomplished a lot~ it doesn't look like much. LOL Oh well, the sewing was fun!

First I got my 3 blocks together for 'Piece & Goodwill' (Nov/Dec issue of Quiltmaker magazine) that Shannon and I are working on. It was a lot harder than I thought because you need 8 light greens/block! :-o And for some reason, my stash is very light on light greens. :-) A few friends have volunteered to help me out with some scraps, so I will work more on these next month. ;-)

Then I moved to my Fig Tree Club 'Cobble Stones' kit. I decided I wanted to save all those little HST's on the corners, so it is taking me 3 times longer than it would if I would just follow the directions. :-) I'm sewing extra seams, so when I cut them off, I'll have lots of fun little HST's. :-) I'm thinking a mini in the making. :-) But it is slow-going right now. Last night I drew lines to follow thinking that might speed up sewing on them. ;-) I'll let you know how it goes. :-)

Now hop over to Judy L's little Mr Linky and be inspired by the works of quilters all over blogland! :-)

Until next time~
Happy Stitchin'!

Happy Friday!

It's another crazy week, but I do have some things to show for it~ and after the mailman delivers a certain box to TX, I'll have more. ;-) ;-)

Between the baking and candy making, I played a little more with my new ruler and got a good portion of this cut out~~


Do you know what it is? My Fig Tree Club quilt! Cobble Stones! Whoohoo! I am going to 'reward' myself with some sewing time this weekend. ;-)

I almost have the binding on 'bears' and I packed up this quilt to send to my DS. It is a One Block Wonder lap quilt that I finished at the very end of last year. The tiger print that is used for the blocks is on the back. Sorry the photo is kind of blotchy~ we had sunshine!! :-))

That's all for now~ must get back to work~ :-))

Have a happy Friday and until next time~
Happy Stitchin'!

~Mail!~

I joined the Fig Tree Club at The Quilt Shoppe ~~ Julie at jaybird quilts sent me! :-)) and I am so glad she did! It was just the little nudge I needed as I'd been debating about it for a while. Thanks Julie! :-) ~~ Anyway!~ my pkg arrived!! :-) Oh I just want to shove everything aside and play in these fabrics! I should have taken a photo of how nicely it was wrapped, but I was too excited to stop my fingers! LOL They sent along the issue of Fresh Vintage and I have read it from cover to cover~ three times already! :-) So many cute patterns/ideas in it! I'm in love! :-))
In other news~ I stitched on Mr Turkey's feathers last night~ I'm making progress! :-)

And as I was hopping around blogland I saw this post by Rachel at p.s. i quilt. I never thought of plate racks for displaying quilts, but isn't it cool?! How do you display your quilts? My friend was asking me that question just this weekend! I have them on the beds, of course, on the back on the couch, folded at the end of the loveseat, on the tables and hanging from curtain rods. I have this little rod in the hall. It is adjustable~ I can pull out the end to hang a full quilt. Or use the little clips to hang a few... I think I need to dress it up with some ivy or garland! It looks so bare! :-o So tell me~ where do you display your quilts? That's it for now~ I'm off to sew today! I need to finish a few things before I cut into my lovely new fabrics! ;-)

Until next time~
Happy Stitchin'!!