Catching Up: Part Two

I have been enjoying all the photos of Spring flowers showing up on blogs lately. We actually have a bit of green on our birch trees. It will still be a while before we see any flowers blooming though. We do have about 19 hours of daylight now!

Also in the photo my little Jeep I drive in the summer.

I finally quilted my Dancing Stars top. I am embarrassed to say how long it has been in the 'to be quilted' pile. And there are still several waiting their turn.

Dancing Stars, finished at 60" X 80".

Another baby quilt in the works. This one is for our neighbors first grandchild. I don't have a pattern, just making simple blocks from these fabrics. Yes, it is a boy. So interesting that we know the gender of babies way ahead of time now, not at all like when I was having my children.

I really need to sit down and seriously consider my quilting list. I have several long term projects going, and I would like to make bed size (queen) quilts for more of my adult grandchildren, and lots of other projects I want to make. I need to make some kind of plan for tackling all of this. But thinking about all this left me  feeling stressed, so I decided to take a break and just play with my scraps for while. Quilting is supposed to be fun after all!

 With that in mind I joined in Bonnie Hunter's informal sew along with her Diamond Tile blocks. You can read more about it HERE on her blog. I  watched an archived Quilt Cam episode that really helped with the pressing of this block. You can see it HERE.

I think that dark one on the top right may have to go.

And I have been playing with my little bitty scraps making Pineapple Crazy blocks. So much fun! I have 24 - 5 1/2" blocks done. I think I will start sewing these together instead of waiting until I have made all 224 of them. Did I just say 224! Well, at least I have a start.

24 - 5 1/2" Pineapple Crazy blocks done. 

Happy Quilting, Rebecca

Catching Up: Part One

So, I haven't been blogging , but I have been sewing!   (This ended up being a very long post so I decided to divide up in to a couple of post, so look for the second part soon.)

I wanted to get a head start on items for our guild's silent auction this summer. This little quilt finished at 15" X 21". It is from a Waltzing With Bears pattern, Quilt with a Happy Heart. Their's was done in wool,  I did it with cotton and needle turn applique.

I am working on this one too. I have the embroidery done, but am having a terrible time choosing fabric for the cat.

Embroidery done, but what color to make the cat!

I made a baby quilt for our vet's daughter. She had a little girl in January. She was his assistant for many years. I used some cute princess panels. They are so cute a got two more to make my youngest granddaughter a quilt with them for her first birthday in July.

The center is the panel and then I fussy cut fabric from the same line for the rectangle blocks on the sides.

The back, had to add fabric to make it wide enough.

This is what the back panel says, you can see the words better on this internet image.

We are starting on next winter's firewood supply. Since wood is our only source of heat and since we have such long winters here, this is a very essential part of our life.

We found a new supplier, The Firewood Boys, they brought us a truck load the other day. We will still have to cut this up and stack it.

This truck is called a "self loader", he has a grapple hook at the end of the boom to unload the logs.

And our regular wood guy delivered a load of cut wood. Just have to get this in the basement and stacked.

Happy Quilting, Rebecca!