It's a TA-DAAAA moment

Second day in a row that I've been like a busy lil bee... first off, I had to go to Walmart for a little bit of groceries and to search for buttons for my puppy/kitty quilt... I didn't find black fusible crystals.. did find a pkg that had teeny tiny black and white mixture of crystals - not what I was looking for.  Did find cream/tan buttons for the toes, though... probably bigger than what I really needed but there wasn't anything smaller unless you went micro and I already have those here and they're too small.  Oh, and I found my pkg of black crystals that were 'hiding' in my sewing room - not fusible and pretty darned tiny :(.

After that quick trip, I started in on the final block for the Summer Quilt Along...  I love it!!

   I still have two sashing strips to cut out, but otherwise it's all ready to put together....

Then it was back to the puppy/kitten quilt...  last night I had these done but didn't share the pics for some reason --?? --

I like the way they turned out, although they are far from perfect... you'd have to get pretty close to see where things went wrong.  These were made with 1/4" wide bias tape strips that didn't quite want to curve exactly how I was trying to get them to.  It was something I hadn't tried before ... Kind of a pain, but I survived and so did the quilt borders...  Once that was done, I had to applique' puppy and kitty feet ( minus toes) onto the opposite end of each border piece.

Today, I stitched the toes on and used some small black beads that I had here for the eyes.

It was while I was sewing the eyes on that I noticed this....

another piece that almost got past me without being appliqued - thank goodness I caught it.  Yes, I did look it over to check for missing applique' earlier, but I missed this one when doing so.  I guess it's a good thing that I recognize that this happens to me almost every time I applique' and am learning to check and recheck - it doesn't mean that they'll all be found before I start quilting, but I'm getting a little better  :)

Ok, so here's the completed quilt top.....

You really need to see it in person,.. the background is a soft yellow - not pale or white in any way shape or form.  I'm not sure how I'm going to quilt it yet... label is made but need to find something for the backing.

Speaking of backing... I received my order for 10 yards of baseball print fabric today.  Going to use it when I start making hubby's t shirt quilts for the kids/grandkids.

Ok  that's it for today....

take care

ttyl  :)