A Little Late to the Party~

But I'm there!! :-)  Kelly at Charming Chatter and Carol at Brown Quilts are co-hosting a Quilt Along.  Kelly's quilt is wall hanging size, and Carol's is full size. I agonized over which to make, what to make it from etc and finally yesterday decided I needed to get to work!

I cut.. and cut... and cut!  I am using my vintage sheet stash and making the larger version of  Simple Things.
This is over 300 2.5 inch squares!  I'm ready for step 2. :-))


I also finished up my Birdie Stitches (from Little Miss Shabby) block for June.  I just had to change 'birdie' to 'Sandie' ;-) lol

Now I am off to sew on another project I am behind with! More about that soon!
Have a happy Monday!
And until next time~
Happy Stitchin'!

Quilt Along Progress~

I got to work on my Between Charming Friends Quilt Along blocks a bit today. I'm cutting up the strips for the 16 patches and have a pile of 4 patches ready for borders. My outside border fabric arrived today, so hopefully I can work more in the AM. :-) I know, I'm a little behind, but I am slowly making progress. ;-) I'm making the larger size, lap quilt, using an Odyssea jelly roll. ;-)

BTW~ what is your favorite color? I'll tell you why I'm asking tomorrow. ;-)

Until next time~
Happy stitchin'!

Thank You Friends!

Barb's giveaway is over for me... and to be honest, I'm glad. It was stressful! I know Barb didn't intend that and I did enjoy trying to write a poem and playing along at first. This morning I woke up to find out a lot of stuff was going on that wasn't in the spirit of the giveaway and I tried to not feel like public enemy #1 but it was hard.

My friends on the message board I frequent, my Mom, my friends in blogland, my relatives who all pitched in to find votes for me were so awesome! I feel very blessed. I am very blessed! :-) And that is the best feeling in all the world! Thank you all from the very bottom of my heart!! I'll get a GO someday and when I do, it will remind me of my many friends. And that's what this is all supposed to be about, isn't it? :-))

I also want to thank Mandy~ a new blog reader to me who gave me the best idea for my Odyssea jelly roll! Thank you Mandy! I went and dug around in my stash and came up with this light gray~ you are so right! It will work wonderfully with Odyssea. :-) Hopefully next week I can get down to some serious sewing! :-))

I hope y'all are having a great weekend!
Until next time,
Happy Stitchin'! ;-)

Sewing and Stress!

Wow! Barb's poll for the GO has really stressed me! :-o I'm ahead, I'm behind, ahead again, behind again! I'm almost afraid to check it!! LOL Thank you all for your help and votes!! :-) Although I don't do facebook, a few of my friends have taken up the challenge and have been posting for votes for me, and my Mom emailed her quilt group to vote! LOL Thanks ladies!! I really appreciate all the support! I'm still keeping my fingers-crossed, but it is really stress-producing! :-o

So to keep myself busy today, hubby took me out for lunch. :-) And then I came home and sewed. I made this bag from a purchased pattern (Simplicity?) It really isn't quite this bright! ;-)I wanted a bag big enough to hold my camera and a bottle of water for my trip to Sisters, Oregon next month for the Outdoor Quilt Show (I'll be there with a group of friends on a bus trip). I think it is going to work just fine~ I tested it with the can of spray starch. LOLThen I started searching stash for something to use for the Between Charming Friends Quilt Along. I am going to use Darlene's pattern (of Quilting Daze) for the lap quilt. Thanks Darlene! :-) I decided to use my Odyssea Jelly Roll I won in a giveaway a few months back. But what to use for background? What do you think of this? I'm really not sure if I should use the dots or go with something more like a Kona solid.
Thank you again for all your votes! Please continue to spread the word! I would so love to win that GO cutter! The more I study the dies, the more I know I'd give it a good workout! I could bust stash left and right! No poems today, just gratitude. :-)

Until next time~
Happy stitchin'!