HST's!!

I have been sewing HST's a lot lately! And I still have more to do! :-o  Thank goodness for Triangulations~ otherwise I might be crazy! LOL ;-)

The plaid and stripe HST's are for a recycled shirt swap project I am doing with my friend Bingo~Bonnie. We are each making a bunch of blocks and then exchanging, so our quilts will have lots of variety.  Bonnie sent me a box of shirt sleeves from her thrifting and they have worked wonderfully with my collection. :-) Thanks Bonnie!!

The red/white HST's are going into 6 inch blocks for a siggy swap we are doing at retreat in September. I have over 60 to make, so thought I should get busy. ;-)

This is the result of my weekend sewing~ I had 2 other blocks and 1/3 of the feathered star done after FNSI, and I kept sewing to get some what caught up in the Just Takes 2 quilt along.  I haven't done the 2 blocks that came out on the 15th~ I am seriously thinking about doing something other than a hand sewn compass star. ;-) And I don't have the honey bee applique block finished yet. ...one of these days I'll feel like it though. ;-)

If you visit my Mom's blog~ Granny Quilts;  then you know that she had knee surgery on Tuesday. It went very well.  :-)  She is still in the hospital~ hoping to go home tomorrow.   :-)

That's all for today~
Hope you are having a great Thursday!
Until tomorrow~ (when I will be revealing a little project I've had the pleasure of working on) ;-) ;-)

Happy Stitchin'!!

Where Have I Been?

I can't believe I haven't posted in 2 weeks!! :-o Where have I been? If you saw me, would you tell me... I have no clue how time could have flown by so fast!! LOL :-D

Seriously~ I've been here and there, shopping, cooking, sewing, you know.. all the things we do and try to fit into a day! :-) DS is home for Spring Break, so yes there has been more cooking~ he has two hollow legs! :-)

And sewing? Oh yes, I've been doing lots of that! Unfortunately, I can't show you the 28 blocks I made for the three row robins I am working on. But I did finish them and get them mailed off. And I can't show you the birthday gift I made for my Mom (hi Mom! :-))  And I forgot to take a photo of the postcard I made for friend's friend~ it went into the mail too fast. ;-)

I can show you two more Just Takes 2 blocks~

For some reason I had a hard time with the house. :-/ The fan went together like a piece of cake! Go figure. I have the next bunch of blocks all cut out and waiting by my sewing machine for my next 'buckle in and sew' day.  Maybe Friday? There is going to be a Friday Night Sew-In going on. ;-)

And I can show you the new project I am starting. :-)) Ok, ok... it is a long term project. I'll bet you were thinking~ uh-oh, here she goes again! ;-)  I'm going to be working on an exchange again with my friend Bingo~Bonnie.  We just love all the plaid quilts in Bonnie Hunter's Scraps and Shirttails book 2, so we are going to make and exchange blocks for a quilt in the book. No hurry, no worries. Just for fun. :-) I would love to make my DS's plaid quilts.  I cut out a bunch of rectangles today and matched them up with Triangulations pages to start my 'homework'.... making loads of HST's. ;-)

So there you have it~ my not-so-exciting life! ;-)  I just received 2 more row robins I need to get to work on... and I need to work on my April BOM. See? Always something! :-)

Hope you are finding some sewing time too!
Until next time~
Happy Stitchin'!

Catching Up~

I am slowly but surely catching up with the 'Just Takes 2' quilt along. (see the link in my sidebar). I just have to finish the fan block and the house block and I'll be caught up~

I thought I'd read somewhere to sew the flying geese to the block, but I went and looked and couldn't find it~ maybe i dreamed it? Maybe I'll be frog stitching when it comes time to put this all together? ;-) LOL Now that wouldn't surprise me! :-))

Today the 4th installment came out~

I have everything printed and ready to go. I print the paper piecing pages on dollar store scribble pad paper. It works great. Rips off nicely and is a lot less pricey than 'paper piecing paper'... which seems very similar to this pad of paper. ;-) I do have to cut the sheets down a little, but I think for the price, it is worth it.

Hope you are busy sewing and having a productive week!
Until next time~
Happy stitching!!