August is gone!

Wow! The summer sure did fly by quickly! The kids are back at school and it's been rather cold here in the evenings...... I sure hope that doesn't mean winter will come early!!!

I didn't get a lot done this week on the scrap project.... I did 4 star blocks for the star quilt...... decided to do a few more birds and a few less grass blocks for the crazy bird quilt.......and decided that the beach house quilt is gonna look weird with assorted skys here and there... but I'm makin' it anyway! lol

I did two paper pieced quilt labels from scraps left over from a table topper and a wallhanging I made this week..... they can be seen on my flickr site and the labels are posted below. I'll be teaching a paper piecing class in october on these lables... so for now they are samples....and after the class they will be added to the table topper and wallhanging which should be quilted and bound by then.....

Hubby and I were gone all day saturday again.... up to chicago to the Field Museum so I didn't get anything done yesterday....... next weekend... weather permitting we'll be gone to Indianapolis to the zoo....... so I'll need to get busy during the week to get more things accomplished...

Oh.... and if you look at the calendar you'll see that Christmas is quickly approaching.... will you be ready??

Lish

Parts is Parts

Had a bout with some stomach flu this week so I really didn't get as much accomplished as I would have liked.......but I did do more **parts** for the scrap quilts.

I did the last bird ( I think) and the last 3 egg blocks for the crazy bird quilt... now I need to concentrate on grass blocks... I think I need to lay it out to see exactly what I need to do yet... I might do more birds and less grass depending how it looks...... I also have a frog that will go in there somewhere... just because.......

I added 10 more wonky stars to the star quilt......... I'm at almost 1/2 way on those blocks... I'll cut more squares this week... I have two more pieces of lights that I can use for the corner blocks and there's another piece or two of whites that I can use for the star blocks and there is an abundance of stuff to use for the star points and centers......

Pictures posted below..... have a great week and hopefully next week will be more productive........

Lish

Wotta Week!!

Last Sunday my computer crashed....... apparently just because it felt like it...... I spent several days getting it up and running and getting the bare bones programs on it... It was quite frustrating....and I've decided that I'm only going to put on what I actually use! Fortunatley I had just done a back up on July 15th so there was very little lost and I've been able to redownload most of that..... I lost a lot of emails and that upsets me... but it is what it is!

On to fun stuff... this week I did a bunch of scrappy projects. In fact, everything I did this week came from the scrap bag! I finished the surf blocks for the Beach Cottage Quilt so all of those blocks are done now... just a matter of putting it together. I realize now that I probably should have put the rows together as I went along.... there is sky strips between the house and cabanas but I used up all the sky stuff....so the strips between the houses will be a different color blue sky.... no worries... it's a scrappy quilt...and it's for me.....so it'll be fine!

I did a few more grass blocks for the Crazy bird quilt... I need one more bird block, 3 more egg blocks and 14 more grass blocks....... hmmmmmmm that's a lot of grass! I might have to recount on that........

I also started a wonky star quilt..... I'll need 36 wonky stars for a lap size quilt... I have 4 completed... I really enjoy these and they'll make a nice lap quilt... once again... for ME!!!

I'm finally starting to see a dent in the scrap bag! I also made 5 lazy girl pouches and 5 mini electronics cases from the scrap bag! Both of these projects use small pieces and the way they are made allows for using different fabrics inside and out.... Pictures of all are below

Hopefully this week will be better ... have a great week

Lish

Finally it's hot!

Yesterday and today are the first days in the 90's that we've had since May!! It's been a amazingly cool summer.... nites in the 50's even! Along with the heat comes the humidity too! This weekend is the first that I've had to turn on the air conditioning....... mainly to get the humidity out..... but my sewing room is nice and cool.......it's in the basement... and there's a big fan......and it's wonderful!

This week I finished up the last two beach houses for the beach cottage scrap quilt. I made the 3 sun blocks also...... this week I'll work on the water and waves... I need 7 of them......then I can start cutting the rest of the pieces and getting my rows in order. I plan to do some embroidery on some of the houses... maybe put a name on the bank....and the Chocklit shop.... a flower or two here and there.... just some ideas floating around at the moment......

I also made my first scrappy wonky stars! I'm in a stash busting swap and this months swapee wanted wonky stars........ so off I went to quiltville.com to check them out.... I made two in a matter of minutes.......and then I took the fabric she sent... and began making stars... she sent 4 5"charms so I cut them into 4 pieces and used them for the centers of the stars... I'll be sending her 16 6 1/2" stars for her swap quilt! All but the centers on these came from the scrap bag! I think I'm beginning to see a small dent in the bag finally!! This scrap bag reminds me of a box of chinese food... I keep taking stuff out.. but it just nevers seems to be getting less! lol

Below are this weeks pictures........havea great week!!

July is gone!!!

Can you believe it?? July is gone! I'm not sure where it went either. This summer has been very cool.... very few days in the 90's. School starts here in about 2 weeks and in 3 weeks the kids will be back at the college......before you know it.... it'll be christmas and we'll be complaining about the cold...... or lack thereof if the winter is like summer has been.....

I added 2 more beach houses to the beach house scrap quilt... just 2 more houses to go.... then the next row is the sun and sky....... and then the water and waves...... I'm excited!! I'm hoping to complete the other two houses this week and maybe start the sun row. I need to work more on the crazy bird quilt.... maybe next week :-)

I completed a few xmas projects this week..... two knitting needle cases.... a set of bunny bowling....and a scrappy 4 patch. It's an adaptation of Eleanor Burns Rudolphs 4 patch. I didn't use as many different fabrics as she did in the original but it looks really nice. It's now on the ready for quilting/binding pile. That stuff gets worked on later in fall....... all the quilting is done at one time and then all the binding will be done at one time....... easier for me to do it that way.

I'm attaching the pictures of the beach houses and the ornaments..... I'm planing on several more ornaments from the scrap bag...and I picked up a pattern today for a scrappy patchwork backpack.... might have to do one of those for me!!

Have a great week!

A wonderfully scrappy week

The hubster was gone all week. Now that should mean that I got lots and lots of stuff done...uh huh........well I had errands to run and things to do and places to go ....so I got some stuff done... but not as much as I would have hoped......

On the scrap front I did two more palm tree blocks... I think that's all of those that I need....... I did 4 more beach houses.... a bank, a sewing shop, a candy shop and a balloon store...... I have quite an eclectic scrap bag! I also did 3 Snap Happy Bags......

I also used mostly scraps for the Bad Sue Mini for my swap....... all but the back and borders were from the scrap bag....

I have a new perspective on these scraps.........I'm simply amazed at what I can do with these small pieces of fabric....... I'm pretty sure that once I'm done with the crazy bird quilt and the beach quilt that I'll have enough in the bag for at least two more tops...... Ive been putting the tiny scraps that are left over into bags.... now I"m not one of those people who does the crumb quilts.....so when I get thru this bag of scraps... I'll donate the bags of itty bitty scraps to someone who does do them.......

I'll have pictures of this weeks other projects up on flickr in a litte bit..... I did 2 mug aprons from full fat quarters this week......you'll find the Bad Sue mini over there as well

Have a wonderful week

Lish

A little bit more scrappy this week

Another week of summer has gone by.... but this week didn't seem very summery at all. The highs were in the low to middle 70's... little or no humidity and a a beautiful breeze... it was a very wonderfully weird weather week! Today it's been raining off and on and a bit dreary but the temp is still only 71 at 5 in the afternoon......

I worked on quite a few things this week...... I did a backup and cleanup on the computer... gathered files and burned them to a DVD.... cleaned out the temp files and basically dejunked everything.......

I worked on the borders for a Round Robin that I'm doing ( you can see that on my flickr site). I have one more border to make and then it will be ready to send off to the next participant in the group and I drew up my plans for my Bad Sue mini due the end of the month. We're doing sunbonnet sue... but she has to be doing something bad... lol this is going to be a lot of fun!

On the scrap front I did 3 crazy bird blocks and 3 grass blocks for the bird quilt and I also got several sock sacks done. Two from scraps and a pretty blue one from some fat quarters I found in the back of the stash and two more that were from scrap pieces but weren't in the scrap bag... not sure how to count that!.....

It was a pretty productive week. I also did another 25" charm pack star...this one was from the crazy 8 charm pack. I did the snowman wall hanging last week from the same pack... it came out pretty nice...... it will become a christmas table mat... not sure yet for who.... ( I gotta say that cuz the intended recipient sometimes reads the blog)

I also bought a new cutting mat... mine had grooves in from cutting in the same area over and over.... I couldn't turn it cuz there weren't any inch numbers across the other end......so I went to joann's armed with a 50% off coupon.... they had 3 kinds of mats... fiskars... the standard green one and the standard blue one... all three were the same price.... I wanted the 24 x 36 size mat.....

Well the fiskars was by far the winner...... it had inch numbers along the top and bottom and both sides so if one end got grooved... you could spin it and you'd have basically a new mat.... that's 2 for 1.... great deal.... but there's more! This mat also has another complete gridded and numbered mat on the other side too! So now that's like getting 4 mats in one!! One side is a lite florescent green and the other is a lite florescent yellow.... very easy on the eyes!! So I got the equivalent of 4 mats for 24.00.... I also found a 5" charm ruler! it has a center mark for doing fussy cut charms as well as lines for 2 1/2" rectangles and squares... there are pics of these on the flickr site.... It was a wonderful week!!!

Below are this weeks scrappy pictures...... have a great week and enjoy the summer

Lish