Help Me Celebrate

Greetings Everyone!!

I was looking over my blog the other day and discovered that I'm 9 post shy of 1600 posts. OMG! I can't believe it. I've been blogging since 2007 & through many ups and downs in my farm-girl live, I've enjoyed every minute of getting to know many of my fellow bloggers.
So I decided to do a count down & some give-aways to build up to the number 1600.  I'm giving away a fat quart (the winner choses the color) each post until 1600. All you need to do to participate is to leave a comment and in said comment mention your favorite color starting with this post. I'll gladly send to my international friends as well.
Now, onto my next Veteran s quilt. 

I made this HST quilt last year & it just sat on a shelf collecting dust bunnies.

I'll be placing a close up of an eagle at the top. I really like it so far but I'll need to add more details.

Stay tuned for more FQ give aways toward my 1600 posts!

Finally, here's one of my grandbabies. I can't believe they were able to snap a photo with the hat still on her head. She's a firecracker!!!

Monday, Monday

This is what I've been working on & finally finished.

Make sure to pop over to Judy's to see what everyone else is up to.

This quilt is a hodge-podge if UFO blocks & 2 1/2 inch squares. I add the bottom row made of vines, leaves and a few flowers.  I love the way this all came together. I'll be donating it to the helping hands group as a raffle quilt or sorts.

I'm not quite back to life but I'm getting there. 

Hope everyone has a great week.

Monday, Monday

Many thanks to Judy for hosting Design Wall Monday. Make sure to pop over and take a look at what others are up to.
   Here's what on my design wall/floor. This quilt will be a large one. I haven't made on this big is a couple of years. The blocks I'm using come from my UFO box. I'm adding the 2 1/2 inch squares all over the place as fillers. This quilt will go to the helping hands group then quilted as a donation/raffle quilt to help raise funds for supplies for the group.
This will be a queen size quilt.

January First

The pinwheel blocks have been in my UFO box for "years" and I've looked at them every once and awhile but yesterday I decided to do something with them. I pulled two fabrics to add to the mix and here's the results.

This quilt top measures 52 by 62 and will be a donation quilt top to a great bunch of ladies who help the elderly.

Old Blocks-New Project

I've had these little 3 inches blocks for a couple of years with not real idea of what I wanted to do with them. I've pulled them out many times but couldn't make up my mind that spoke to me ........ until Autumn finally arrived the other day.

 

 

 

I thought I'd do a giant pumpkin, so this is the design I chose and sketched out.

I chose fabrics from my stash for the pumpkin and shadows areas.

You can't see it very well but the background fabric is a speckled beige.

I made the stem curly which adds interest. Now for the leaf.

I'm liking it....now all I need to do is stitch it down and quilt it.

Measures roughly 18 inches square.
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On another note......Needled Mom has graciously offered her winning of "The Sun Needs a Cool Sip"
 mug rug
to be offered for another chance. Thank you Mary!!
The next name from Random was
Texas Jenny Wren!!
Congratulations Jenny. Just leave a comment and we'll talk via email.

Happy Surprise

Look at what I found while searching for spools of thread! 

The first is a variation of Jacob's Ladder that a group of us made at a retreat to trade. It was fun but intense.  I'm thinking of making a table topper out of these four.

Next, there this Stack and.....I forget exactly which method I used.  But I do remember that I had to buy a fabric whose design repeated about every 8 to 12 inches.  I've got lots of these so I'll sew them together for a small throw.  I think I need to go looking for thread more often.

Through It All & Other Things

Today is my brother's birthday or was. Brother David, that was my nickname for him, was ill all of his life but most of the time you'd never know it.  Not the outside world anyway.  He was a fighter from beginning to end, eighteen months behind me and we fought like cats and dogs as siblings often do. 

Several bloggers with young children had commented about the fighting and their worries of when it would let up.........I laughed and shared me experiences with my brother, the fights, the words, everything but through it all we loved each other and would never allow another to speak ill of the other.....

I miss my brother whose be gone for many years now.  I still laugh at things he'd said or done and all the fun we had fishing and doing chores.

Happy Birthday, Brother David!  I know he's absent from the body.....present with the Lord!

On another note, it's the day before Super Bowl....what to do, what to do.....well, I was digging through my fabric and found this little UFO that I was going to do something with but as things happen, it got pushed to the side and now I have no clue as to what I was going to do.........oh me!

Lookie at what I've gone and purchased to add to my scissor collection.  Isn't she cute and stylish. Perfect for my small scissor clippings.

Here's my BOM blocks to share so far.  Check out my sidebar to get instructions to the "Lazy Hearts" blocks.

Sawing Logs

Did I say sawing, I meant sewing logs!

Some of you might remember the center of this quilt. It's a spin-off of the one I entered in our state's Ag department block contest. I added the frog and a second dragonfly.  Anyway, these types of blocks usually wind up in my UFO box but I decided to use this one along with the log cabin blocks I've been working on. 

In this next photo, I've sewn on another top and bottom rows.  If I add another 16 blocks, the quilt will be square again. It measures roughly 36 1/2" by 48 1/2".  My question is.....should I stop with this size or add the 16 side blocks???

Here's a sneak peek of what it could look like....but do not allow this to influence your opinion.