Something was missing......

My quilters palette blocks were laid out.

I arranged them...

But, something was missing?

I knew it was not purple, because that is not a color I enjoy.

It was ORANGE!!

So, I made two orange blocks and now I like how it looks.

Next white Kona sashing.

I also felt guilty because the Civil War Binder kept staring at me, so I did make a few of those too.

I know, I picked easy ones! but hey, they all have to get done right?

Happy sewing

 

♫ ♫ Hooray for Hollywood ♫ ♪

This post is for my own silly enjoyment! No need for you to even read! I sing, a lot, out loud, all the time! So, this is just plain old fun! (for me at least!)

 ♪ ♫ Tonight Tonight, will be a special night

Tonight I will embroider and watch the Oscars ♫ ♫

♫ ♫" Hi Joanie"

      " Hi Janie"

"What the story moringglory What the tale, nightingale?

"Did you hear the Oscars are on tonight?"  ♪ ♫

♫ ♪ ♫ Hello Billy,

Well Hello Billy

 It so nice to have you back where you belong.

You're looking great Billy

I cant' wait Billy

'till your singing and dancing on our

favorite show 

I will be sitting Billy

maybe knitting Billy

but I will stop

and give you my attention

Soooooo,

Have some fun Billy

Give us the old razzmatazz Billy

Billy, will never go away again ♪ ♪

Enjoy the Show!!!!!

A Few Things....

Just a few things to show you today.

Yes, I did a little shopping.

This is my new favorite fabric. Half Moon Modern.

You can get it here at Quilt Taffy.

Also, I am just a little obsessed with Kei Kerchief Girls! I check just about everyday and when I see them, I buy them.

I have some fun plans for this new baby! I will show you later.

Not sure about you but I seem to have trouble with light. Yes, I can never have enough! These darn old eyes of mine!!

For years, I used this type of light. It worked for me but it radiates a lot of heat.

Then I tried this light..

Kept hitting my head (how silly am I)

Now, (yes Elaine, I took your advice)  I have this light. Bright, does not radiate heat, and I do not hit my head!!  All good things.

Have you noticed less comments being left for your post. Google has changed it's Word Verification, to not one but two scrambled words. I will admit that on some of the blogs I visit I have tried up to three times to leave a comment. I cannot read the letters so hence I cannot leave a comment. Many of us do not even know it has been changed. If you want to check go to.....

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Show word verification for comments?

Mine is clicked, NO.

Also YOU MUST scroll down and click SAVE.

Have a wonderful weekend, snow here, perfect for sledding and snowmen building!

Are you Playing?

Yes, You bet I am!!

 Clover and Violet are having a new Stitch and Quilt Along.

 I missed their first one and was so sad.

BUT...

I am not missing this one, no, I am not!

It is called The Garden Steps Stitch and Quilt Along. The block will be a variation of the courthouse steps block. I like the block that was chosen as the middle leaves a very nice spot to stitch.

Today's post was about gathering your supplies.

I will be making the lap size quilt. this will require 12 fat quarters
and a color for the middle.

Look at the sample block!! Oh My!!

I have chosen Kona White for my middle square.

Then I picked (all from my stash,yippee!) my fabrics.

 I will be using red and aqua, with a touch of pink.

 

For the stitching they will be using Finca Perle Cotton size 8. Which you may recall I sold in my store. I adore this thread and just happen to have a few colors laying around the house!  I have not chosen my colors yet, as I want to see the stitchery first.

I am so excited to be able to play along.

Here is a link to all the information, fabrics, threads and anything else you may wish to know.

I hope you decide to join!

Happy Sewing,

Pinned and Pink

I have been busy the last few days.

I have pinned (no, not pinterest) my Sparkle Quilt.

She is ready to be hand quilted.

You will not see her for a few months!

I also made three pink blocks for my quilter's palette quilt.

PINK

I was able to add more pink scraps to my vase!

Here are my quilters palette blocks.

A rainbow of color.

I plan on making a large block for the back. I am going to do a row of each color for one larger block.

Sashing, white Kona. I like cornerstones but with my eyes they NEVER match, so I will not be adding that part.  I also need to decide if I want a border or want it to flow? What do you think?

Well, I am off to try to make a wonky tree for my swap. It is a paper pieced pattern that I drew.
We shall see!!

Happy Sewing!

Aqua and Flimsy.....

Well, I set out to accomplish quite a bit this week. However, yes, it is true, I did not get it all finished.

I discovered something I should have never found...

PINTEREST!!

Yes, I have been turned to the dark fun side!

BUT this is what I have accomplished.

AQUA

Three blocks for my quilters palette quilt.

Flimsy...

I did finish my string quilt top. I was very lucky to notice a seam loose when I held it up to the light! I mean, there is nothing worse than having a quilt sandwiched and ready to quilt and discovering a missed seam!

Future plans...

Sandwich string quilt...

Sandwich Sparkle Plenty...
(After I fix the corners that are making me crazy. Thought I could let it go, Noooo)

AND, oh yes, cutting the color I have been saving for last!

PINK!!!

Happy Sewing!

 

Green and......

GREEN
Green went super fast!! I guess I did not have that much green in my stash, so cutting was a breeze.

Now, blue/aqua.  This will take a while as I have a lot of this color.
I think I will make three of these blocks.

In the meantime I have pulled out a few UFOs.

My string quilt!

I would love to get this done for the summer. What a perfect quilt for the grandbabies to play on as we watch Maggie play softball.

I also took out my Civil War blocks.

 I sooo need to work on these; at least once in a while!!

So, this is what the up-coming week has in store for me.

I hope you accomplish a lot too!

Happy Sewing!

Black...

Well, I finished up my BLACK blocks for my quilters palette quilt.

Next up...

GREEN

I also made a pillowcase for Little T.  As I was blog reading I commented on Robins blog about how cute I thought her dinosaur fabric was and if she knew the company who made the fabric. Lo and behold it arrived at my home!!

Thank you so much Robin!!

Now, I know I saw a pillowcase tutorial somewhere...

Oh yes!!  on

SEW WE QUILT
I clicked on the tutorial page..

found Pillowcase... and made this!

My goodness they have so many wonderful tutorials..

Take a peek!!

Sew We Quilt Tuts

Happy Sewing!!

PS... really, I have been doing this for years now and you would think I would get it right. I have a font color I love to use FF0099, notice how some of my links are pink and some are not! AArrgg!!! I have tried linking, then add the color. I have tried change the color then link. I even change it in the HTML!

I just do not get it, do you?