My Blocks Are Back!

Remember when I was busy making all those Swoon blocks for a swap?

You can see them HERE

My blocks arrived last week and I have been admiring them. :-)

I arranged them in two's (we each made two blocks for each other)

and have been enjoying walking past them! LOL

I requested a red solid 'house' part, a low volume background, and quilter's choice of any bright fabric for the star.  It looks like lots of swappers liked blue! :-)  We had one swapper drop out, but she has promised to mail us blocks.  I have requested that she just send me the fabrics she planned to use, but sigh I have no idea if she will because she is not answering emails. :-(

So, I need to make 2 more~ any suggestions for the star?

Once I get them made, I will re-arrange them all. :-) I really love the blocks and can't wait to get this one together!  And if the missing blocks, or fabrics show up before I'm done, I will use those and make pillows from any extra's I made.  That's my plan! :-)

Until next time~

Happy Stitchin'!

Done is Good!!

I've gotten a little behind in my BOM's and things, so when I finished 

my swoon blocks for Bea's swap, I was feeling pretty good!

Done is good! :-)

There are two blocks in every stack, so you only get to see one. ;-)

We had requests for Christmas & Halloween, patriotic to cerise!

Do you know what color that is? 

LOL I had to look it up. ;-) But I also discovered, after asking at 3 quilt shops,

that not many people do! I was told anything from green to a cherry red. 

Its not.

I also finished 8 other blocks, but I can't show them.

They are for a surprise! :-)

Thanks for all your comments about flying geese!  I love the look of geese, but haven't

really found one method I would do as a hands down favorite...

maybe it will be a mix of methods depending on how

many geese need to fly. ;-)

Until next time~

Happy stitchin'!!

Swooning~~~

I've been busy making swoon blocks for Bea's swap (see right side button). ;-)

It is especially fun to know we have swappers from the UK and Australia! I love to see fabrics

from different parts of the country~ and world! :-)

I finished these two blocks last week, along with a few more.

Today I was working on a bunch of HST's for the next bunch of blocks.

I love to use Triangulations whenever making HST's because of the accuracy~ and no little trimming of small bits off of the sides~ they come out perfect every time!

I print them on Scribble pad pages, and cut them down to however many I need for each block. 

This time there was no waste~ as the smaller parts were used for another part of the block. :-)

I don't mind pulling off the papers in the evening while watching TV~

it makes me feel like I've really accomplished something. LOL

And once I have all the little parts for the blocks assembled, assembly line fashion~ the blocks go together really fast!

Thanks for stopping by~

I hope you are having some fun sewing too! :-)

Zippity Do Da!

Ok, so I couldn't think of a title for this post. :-) LOL

I have no idea how it can be the end of July already!

Life has been busy! We took full advantage of raspberry season, and I made jam,

froze some for smoothies, had them over ice cream~ yum!

And just kept myself busy in the kitchen!  :-)

I did manage to get behind my sewing machine a bit too.  I an in beaquilter's

Swoon block swap and got my first block made!

This participant requested Halloween~

We are making 2 blocks for each swapper since we have a small group.  I requested red with cheery colors and a low volume background~ I can't wait to see what my blocks will be like!! :-)

Wait! There's more.....