It's a slow weekend

Memorial Day Weekend... as close as we'll come to 'celebrating' will be when we go to the local minor league baseball game tomorrow afternoon.... and then we'll be celebrating our oldest son's and oldest GREAT grandson's birthdays.  Hubby and I bought tickets for all of us ( ten in all).  It doesn't look like oldest grandson will be here to go with us so I told granddaughter that the great grandson can invite a friend.  I just wish grandson would be here... we don't know how much longer my husband will be able to do things like this and I know he'd like to spend some time with him.

As for quilting... a little got done today... well, not actual quilting, but I did applique' two blocks...

 I'd have to count again, but I think these are blocks 4 and 5 out of 16.  I'm just doing them when the mood strikes me and just grabbing scraps from here and there to make the flowers and stems/leaves.

Last night I traced all the pieces I need for a new wall hanging that I want to do... I splurged and ordered the fabric kit that goes with it instead of trying to find fabrics close to what I need; it really wasn't that expensive and I think it will be worth every penny.  Now, I need to get out some of my 'vinyl' (clear plastic) and trace the master layout pattern... that's what I was stalling on doing today... it's a lot more tracing than I felt like doing today. 

I was hoping that I'd feel like working with Mo'e today so I could get a little bit more, if not all, of that quilt done.  I didn't feel up to it, though.  Doing the two blocks I did was about all the ambition I could work up.  Maybe on Monday I can 'gitter done' and move on to loading something else.

Oh yeah, and silly me went and bought/ordered the Dazzling Dogs patterns from www.amybradleydesigns.com... like I need more patterns!  lol   but they were marked down to $1.00 each ( there are 12) and if you put in the code at checkout, you got them for half price.  Five were instant downloads and the other seven will arrive in the mail later this week.  I'll be able to use up more scraps making these blocks and putting them into a quilt or two.  This was after I went and placed two orders at Missouri Star Quilt Company and another one at Amazon ( for quilting supplies, of course).  That's it!  I'm not ordering anything else for the rest of this month - and maybe the first two weeks of June.

Ok, that's it for me tonight...  take care all... enjoy your weekend and remember our veterans, please.

ttyl

p.s.  I forgot about the yardage I ordered from www.ericas.com... they are going out of business (after 44 years) and you can get some pretty darned good deals.  This time I gray fabric.. I can never get enough of the stuff. :)