Just a bit

Thanks to some medical issues not related to that nasty COVID-19 that's crippling our country, I haven't felt much like doing anything.  Back and leg pains have made it almost impossible to sleep through the night (or any of the daytime either).

I have managed to make this two hot pads... from fabrics left over from the Amish with a Twist 3 that I finished last year and oldest daughter has already put dibs on.  There was quite a bit of fabric left over and I wanted to try this paper pieced pattern... started the first one Sunday afternoon and finished it last night.  The second one, I made this afternoon.  I even HAND STITCHED the binding to the backs AND hand stitched the label, too.  I wasn't going to put a label on it, but since it has metal in the batting, I thought I'd better add a reminder that it's not to used in the microwave.

If I'm feeling up to it tomorrow, I think I'll make matching bowl cozies to go with these.  Well, the colors will match... Thought about making placemats with flying geese down one side, but that would involve more math than I'm up to right now... maybe later.

Ok, that's it for me.

take care....

STAY SAFE...

ttyl....

Short but kinda sweet

I've finished another quilt!  That's FOUR in five days!  I might have been able to have finished it yesterday but I was kinda worn and sore from the previous three days so decided to take it a little slower.. until this morning.

This is the backing.... it has the names of an assortment of animals, including turtles so with that and the color, it seemed perfect.-- that and the fact that I had enough of the fabric, too. lol

Tomorrow, I think I'll take a break from quilting and make some attempts to clean my kitchen.. maybe.  :)

take care...
Stay Safe....
ttyl.....

Three for three

I haven't posted in over a week because I wasn't doing much in the way of quilting.  I think I've made up for it now.  Three quilts completed since Friday.

Now that I look at the photo of the flamingo quilt I finished Friday, maybe I should try and take another pic.  Hubby held this one up in the house for me since the weather outside was not very Spring-like.

Since Mo'e was behaving so nicely, I decided to try another quilt... this time a table topper that I made using up some 'not so pretty to me' fat quarters I had received from Quilt in a Day's fq club.


I just stitched in the ditch for the stripes, but then wondered what to put in the remaining spaces... thought about it and thought about it... decided that I just wanted to get it done and on to another project, so I just did meandering... and I'm happy with it.

So, then, yesterday afternoon, I pulled this off the 'rack of shame' / waiting their turn to be quilted...

Finished it off about an hour ago.... the weather is BEAUTIUL so I took it out onto our porch for it's photo op.
This is the back

and this is the top

Even hubby likes it.

And, since I was already out taking photos, I remembered that I didn't have a finished photo of Lew the Ewe.... I do now.

and here's his back....

and here's proof of how beautiful it is out and that Spring is at least close to being here....
..........well, there was a pic... hmmm... brb......

Ok there it is..........  a little bit of our 'front' yard, filling up with dandelions.  YAY!

That's it for now...  I have a new quilt in mind and might start playing with it to see how it goes.. a panel with other fabric for sashing and maybe borders.  What goes onto Mo'e next is still up in the air.

Hope everyone is staying safe and that the virus hasn't hit your or your loved ones.

take care...
ttyl........
stay safe......

Ok, heres a little better pic of the top and then one with the back folded over so that you can see the marching flamingoes.

Wow! It's Wednesday already...

I don't know where Tuesday went... I THOUGHT I did some sewing, but if I did, I failed to take photos and haven't the foggiest memory of what I worked on.  I do remember searching for a specific fat quarter bundle - to no avail.  But when I went searching again this morning, I happened upon some half square triangle blocks that I have no memory of making.  I recognize the fabrics - just don't remember putting them into these blocks.  There was also about a 2 yd length of the solid 'tan' fabric with them.

Since I wasn't having any luck finding the MIA fq bundle, I decided I'd just go ahead and see what I could do with these newly 'rediscovered' blocks.

This is what I ended up with......  it's smallish... about 40" x 40".. enough for a lap or baby quilt.

While I am working on these blocks and talking on the phone with my friend in New Hampshire, I'm telling her about the missing fq bundle and how I have searched all over the house for it... and what caused me to go looking for it.  It's a red and off white print bundle with a 2/3 yd panel and it's been around my sewing room getting pushed aside for the longest time.  I did take one fat quarter out to use as backing for one of my Project Quilting, but had no idea where the rest went.

The reason I was 'hell bent' on finding this particular bundle is because I realized yesterday that I have the same identical bundle in black and off white print - along with the 2/3 yd panel.  I figured if I could find the red one, I could cut out the blocks from both panels and make them into a quilt top....
Anyway, as I am telling all this to my friend, I was telling her that I was going to look into my big tub of red and pink fabrics ( anything more than a fq  but less than a yard goes in there) again.  I had looked in it yesterday, but, just in case, I'd look again.  After moving several fabrics around, lo and behold, I found the red bundle... all together ( except the fq I used) in a ziplock bag.

I finished my conversation with my friend and then finished the pinwheel quilt top, made binding and a label to go with it.  By then it was dinner time, so that's all that was done today.  Will I get the red and black quilt top done tomorrow?  Probably not ( grocery shopping in the morning), but both sets are in a ziplock bag together and sitting right next to my machine so that when I'm ready, I can get started. 

All the searching I did yesterday and this morning taught me that I have wayyyyyyyy too much fabric ( said no quilter) and I really have to step up my game and get more quilts finished.  Silly thing is, more fabric arrived in the mail yesterday and today... and I have a kit that should be arriving any day now.  The fabrics were 'stash enhancers' and on sale... the kit was from Connecting Threads and was just too good a deal to turn down... lap size quilt, I think, for less than $40 and that includes the pattern.

Anyway... time to call it a night here.......

take care....
STAY SAFE....
ttyl

Lost Track of Days

we've been 'quarantined'... not sure it's made me any more productive, but I have been busy.

I started this quilt on Friday after receiving the second panel in the mail on Thursday.  The original panel was cut off for some reason and I couldn't really use four of the animals.  Once the second panel arrived, I was able to cut all the blocks and then decide how I wanted to use them...  finished the top on Saturday.

Then, went on to finishing these guys up.  I had cut the parts out and had them fused down, but didn't do much in the way of appliquing them down since it was almost dinner time.

Sunday (yesterday), I pulled this out of a pile of 'want to do someday's... searched through my scraps and found everything I needed for the top ... will look for backing and batting later... think I have enough for the binding, but we'll have to wait and see.

Here's the first star block done... I couldn't believe how easy it was once I figured out the directions, which were easy but still needed focusing on.

And, here's the top completed.... just in time to fix dinner.

Not too bad considering that I spent the latter part of the morning and an hour or so of the early afternoon making these masks.  They go together pretty quickly but I was in no rush so probably took longer than actually needed.
 Bottom two are for hubby and the adult son of one of our neighbors.  The orange one is for me and the multi colored one I'm going to offer to another neighbor.  There's an opening in the back so that a filter of some sort can be inserted - I just don't have any at the moment. 

And that's it for now.  The flamingo quilt is still on Mo'e patiently waiting for me to work on it. 

take care...
STAY SAFE..
ttyl.......