Happy Valentine's Day!

Hope you all have a wonderful day.

Remember these?

Well, I fixed them.

So he is getting a mug rug from me for Valentine's day.

 

Hugs,

Terri

 

The Latest POD Block #6

Week 6 paper pieced block for the Project of Doom - a book case quilt based on Harry Potter books and artifacts.  I think the left hand "book" looks very magical, the next one is about dragons...

and the picture frame is (on my quilt) a miniature of the Mirror of Erised.  Nobody is looking into it right now, so it has a swirly non-thought going on. I  like it.

 

We had a lovely lunch with our married grandgirl. Thanks for hanging with us, Honey. And it was a beautiful sunny day... so rare here in the winter.

 

See you tomorrow for some linky fun.

 

Hugs,

Terri

Design Wall Sweet 16

I have a few of the blocks up on the portable design wall.

I have more blocks. Just haven't had the time.... Had to watch Downton Abbey and Alaska, the Last Frontier last night. I might have to make more blocks... we'll see.

Back to the arranging.

Hugs,

Terri

Sweet 16 coming together...

I've made some 16 patches and some kisses and the next step is to sew them together to make a Good Night Irene for the up coming Hands to Help Charity Challenge... see the button on the right.

I may have to make more - I only have in the teens of each kind. I haven't bothered to figure out how many are necessary for any particular size, yet. I do have a bunch of strips left...
So no slow sewing here today. I'm hoping to make that machine hum - later. Right now, coffee and reading blogs.

Have an exciting week.

Hugs,

Terri

Pink Butterflies? - and Miracles!

Why not Pink Butterflies?

The one on the left is a fairy frost fabric. Not really sparkly, but shiny, and so pretty.

And here is my back saving miracle. I found 50+  white on white squares that are 5" that I think I can use for the snowball part of the snowball and 9 patch sew along. I don't remember cutting them so it was a long time ago when I thought about making another snowball quilt. The corners would be greens and reds. I remember planning that much.  Then I also found these, seen below.

4.5" blocks that go perfect for my Xs part of the Goodnight Irene for H2H. (I sewed corners on one side already.) Somebody up there is helping me, I think. My Angel would like the quilt to get finished on time and sent to Happy Chemo.

 

Hey, the sun did come out today!  It's been raining for days... so DREARY.

 

Sew have a lovely weekend. I'm working with precuts!

 

Hugs,

Terri

Since Last Time...

I finished the bow ties... These are the last of 16.
I made them for the Bitty Block Adventure from the Quilty Pleasures blog - run by employees of the QuiltMaker Magazine.   I really enjoyed making them. This month's block is really involved... a basket. I don't even know how many to make. I think I'll make a paper pieced pattern and make them that way. I'll be more accurate. These are supposed to be 3.5" and some are only 3.25". Oh, dear!

I love containers. This is a box from Christmas cards a few years ago. Just couldn't throw it away. Inside I keep my

clips that I found a new use for....(I know the grammar is bad, or is that badly? Lol) Anyway, I used them to clip all the tiny pieces I cut for the Bow Ties. Each block had its own clip. (Without the clip I kept losing the little 1 1/4" knot parts. I hate when that happens.

Now for the true confessions part of the blog:

Someone was making hearts yesterday, so last night I tried it. Nooooo I wasn't making two. I put the bottom on the wrong side. Guess I'll make second halves now. (Maybe I need to have an affair? I'll have two valentine hearts... what to do with the second one?)

 

And this is my finished Project of Doom block #5. We are making a Harry Potter bookcase. The book at the extreme right is the Invisible Book of Invisibility. Once the whole quilt is put together you'll see this one as background. The gold band gives it away. I might change the second book, since it has the same bottom band as the print of the book next to it. I thought I was coordinating the two books. It looks a bit like it is levitating. If I can find a book on the list with levitation in the title I'll leave it the way it is. (That blue print is left over from a skirt I made for my SIL.)

 

Hubby planted out the Christmas tree today. It's been getting lots of new growth on it indoors. I took pictures, but none of them turned out... they're all fuzzy.  That's the way things are here....FUZZY.

 

Tomorrow we get to take our old married Grandgirl out to lunch. We are looking forward to that!

 

Happy Hump Day,

Hugs,

Terri

 

Sweet 16 Start and Pink!

First I want you to know I'm linked up to the Sweet 16 QAL. The button is on the side bar.

I'm writing this during the Super Bowl.... I am in the room, but only to see the ads. Aren't they great? My favorite is the doggie and his horsey friends for Budweiser. Made me cry.

Now on the quilting front, I started to make the Sweet 16 blocks for the QAL seen on my side bar.  I start with strings of 2.5" wide sewn together dark (or bright) to light and dark to light... At first I didn't like the strips together... my color choices just didn't excite me. Now that they are cross cut and rearranged together, I like 'em... so I made more.

 First 4 blocks. I like them now.
(Please excuse the poor staging, but I don't have any space in the sewing studio... Ones on the right are on my tiny ironing board that stands atop of my cutting board. I've figured out how to use the cutting board without moving the ironing board. It takes me a while... learning curve, you know.)

The next 5 strip sets are made, and just hanging out waiting for cross cutting and resewing.
(That reminds me of some friends from high school who got married... anyway, he wonders why she cuts up perfectly good fabric and resews it to make a quilt. Why doesn't she just use the whole cloth. Duh! It's art, Randal.)
Anyway, the February colors has been named and it is

That's Carnation Pink, Tickle Me Pink on the right, and at the bottom, Salmon - the only 3 pinks in my box of 64 Crayola brand crayons. I tried other colors that looked pink to me, but they turned out to be in the purple family. Anyway, I've got plenty of pink fabrics, as you well know. I used some of them in my grandgirl's baby quilt... if you haven't and want to, see it HERE.

Figuring that pink would be the color for February, I made this pink butterfly to represent myself on the label of my grandgirl's baby quilt and kept a single picture for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. Now I realize there's no way to group it with other pink butterflies. Oh well. I'll make some anyway. They make me happy. 

 

So now that I've rambled on, and on, I'll leave you with a wish for a wonderful week of sewing.

Hugs,

Terri