FriendShip Block reveal

Wow, did the time fly with this swap! Here we are at out last month.  Maria and I started a month later than the other members so we did double

duty this month.

MAY

JUNE

Once we have received all our blocks we will be able to make a twin quilt!

This has been so much fun.  I have a great partner and made some great new friends. 

I cannot wait to make this quilt. 

I sure hope there will be another swap soon!

Has this ever happened to you?

Seriously I feel as if I've wasted two whole days.

I am trying to paper piece some farmer wife blocks.

Yesterday I spent hours sewing the paper pieced pieces, but then had no idea how to assemble them! I mean how to you attach that little pink square!

Sorry the pictures are on my old mat!  I do have nicer ones, LOL!

Now in the garbage!

Today I spent four hours trying to make this one block; seriously four hours, I have such a headache.  No matter what I did they did not turn out. I even tried to make then HST's individually. 

 Still did not work!

Once again in the garbage!

Have you ever had days like this? One step forward two steps back?

Now on a lighter note!  My friendship blocks for this month turned out great. Maria and I choose.....

Blue

Red

Yellow

Navy

Light Green

Yellow

We only have two months left May and June.

Are May colors are......

Light Green

blue

Dark green

Navy

Red

light green

I am going to be sad when the swap is over it has been so much fun and I have met some wonderful ladies. I think our quilt will be amazing!

Have a wonderful weekend I hope you do something you love

2014!!!

Well, all the wrapping paper is picked up, the ornaments and lights have been taken off the tree. The needles are now in the vacuum cleaner. The village is taken down, boxed and put away for next year.

All the Christmas cookies have been eaten. And the Christmas quilts put away safely until next year.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Holiday Season and that everyone brought in the new year with love and joy.

My wish for you for 2014 is to look around and see what you have and what you love and to savor and enjoy every minute. 

Not much sewing got done over the past few weeks. I did however get a chance to finish my December blocks for the friendship swap.

I just love how all of these are going to look together.

January colors are:

2 blocks

Dark Green 

Red

Yellow  

2 blocks

Navy 

Red 

Blue

Huge winter storm here so we are just staying put, a good day for sewing!

Happy New Year

Friendship x and + Swap

I hope everyone had a lovely Thanksgiving.

Just got home from 7 hours of Black Friday Shopping!  I am pooped!!  But so well worth the day! Great deals and a lot of fun.

As I mentioned in a previous post I am involved in The x and + Friendship Block Swap.

My partner choose. red, light green, and blue for this month's blocks. We make 4 twin blocks . I keep four, I send my partner four.

Here are the four I will be sending to the UK!

This month it is my turn to pick the colors from our palette.

I choose; Navy, Yellow, and Blue.

Here is a peek at some of my fabrics.

Just a reminder, you can join anytime!  Come take a peek at the flickr page to see other blocks from different color palettes.

Happy Sewing, have a wonderful weekend and do something you love.

Friendship Swap

I have begun making blocks for the Friendship Swap I have joined. If you missed my post about the swap you can find it 

HERE.

you never know, you might what to join!

For the month of November, Maria choose

red, blue, light green

Here I some fabrics I am going to use...

As you can see, slim pickings on the light green. Some shopping is in order!

And I can only show you one block for now.

We have a revel day at the end of each month.

Happy Sewing!

One Little Click!

One little click!

Wow, what one little click can do!  I was on pinterest just looking, nothing special just browsing, when I can across a picture I just loved. For the life of me I have no idea which one!  But I clicked on the owner and was cyber swooshed to Susan's blog Patchworknplay What a great blog! I started to follow her through Feedly.  I noticed in one post that she and her friend Carla from Lollyquiltz  (another fun blog) were holding a friendship swap.....

Hmm....what could that be?

I'll tell you!  Super fun!  Each month you make eight blocks.

4 different blocks, twice. Twins!  You keep one set of four and send the other set to your partner.

This is the block we are making. It is a + and X Friendship Block.  The pattern is from Amy Badskirt. Tutorial found HERE

My partner is a lovely blogger named Maria from the UK. This is her fun blog. She Love To Sew.

    

You and your partner pick a color palette together. 

This is the palette we choose with some modifications. For us there was a few too many blues and we wanted to go outside our box and stretch our comfort zone. We choose our palette from Design Seeds (amazing site) 

Our colors are:

blue 

red

light green

mid tone green

yellow

WAIT FOR IT!!

Navy!!

I cannot wait to make my first eight blocks.

But first a trip to the store.

Navy!  I have none but I know there are some beauties out there just waiting for me!

 Not too late to join, here is the LINK.

So... from one little click, three new super great blogs, three new super bloggers and a swap!!

Wow, now that is what I call fun!