Scraps are so much fun!!

In-between making pieces and parts for the Quiltville Mystery quilt, I pulled out some plaids and started piecing Log Cabin blocks.  These are just so much fun for me!

I have had a squirrel nibbling at my brain for a little while, and I decided to make some of these blocks.  I think they are great fun too.  Corn and beans blocks; a public domain pattern.  Scraps make me so, so happy, especially gifted scraps!!  Why are new to me fabrics just so much fun?

 I finished the applique on this little quilt.  Just describes the week, don't you think so?

Have a great day, each of you!

Julie

Happy New Year!!!

A super fun thing happened to me!!  A dear friend, our Angie, is planning a Christmas themed quilt.  Did I perhaps have some Christmas fabrics to share?  Why, I sure do!!  You know I save all scraps, including these.    On the way to you now, Angie!   This is the best part of my idea, Circle of Friends.  If you need something...ask.  If I need something, I will. Between us, we can use our stashes and enjoy our friends, too!  Win, win!  

I sorted out all my big pieces of fabric into color groups and folded them on this shelf.  I love this and feel so happy about it.

Someone I know just turned two!  This is my darling granddaughter.  Happy two, dear!!!  Her theme was a Bluie theme, with donuts for fun.

I found these little fleece blankets at Walmart for...wait for it...THREE dollars each!  I bought a bunch for hospice patients.  A pretty blanket would not be amiss!

I have some tiny zinnias popping up, in the middle of winter.  Determined little things!

A little kitty cat picture...on the circular thinking quilt, done a few years back.  He is growing so fast!

This is clue six of the mystery quilt.  

I just loved sewing this clue!! Clue seven is up, too, which I am kind of procrastinating on, waiting for more information.  Ha!!

I sewed a few little coin purses to gift my nurse friends at work.  Just right for a few bucks and a driver's license, so we do not have to carry purses into the hospital.

Happy New Year!!  Hoping this year will be the best one yet!!!
 

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to all!!  Of course, my main quilting mission at this time every year is Bonnie Hunter's mystery quilt. Annie, Cheryl, Kathy are some of the quilters I know are working on this quilt...are you working on this quilt as well?   I am on track to finish strong! Each bin is a clue.  These are saline syringe cartons from the hospital, which are thrown away each day.  Why not recycle them?  I have yet to finish the fifth clue, but I do have my fabric at the ready.  Just need that ever-elusive thing...time!  Lucky the kitty is helping with inspection. Quality control, you see!

I finished another pink block for Block heads five.  Great fun! 

After all this quilting...we just MUST rest!!!

My iris is blooming in December.  Hmmmm.  why???

I have been playing with plaid log cabin blocks.  Stay tuned!  They are such great fun!!!  I did have a picture but darling kitty helped with the touch screen...and poof!!  Picture deleted!!!  Next time, hopefully, I will have a quilt made of them.  

Hope you have a wonderful day.  I am working a 12-hour shift in hospice today.  Hope all goes really well.

Julie

 

Mystery quilt, clue number three

OH, for the glory of a day off work!!!  About is my starting point, clue three of the mystery quilt.  All the clues are here:

Quiltville's Quips & Snips!!: Indigo Way Mystery!

All of clue three is cut out and ready to go.  Here are my first four sets.  It is great fun and not too late to join in!!

I finished another block for Lisa Bongean of Primitive Gathering's quilt along.  The patterns are only free for a month.  I have it on my calendar to print the pattern out each month.  

This block holds a secret, though.  Under one of those pink flowers is a pin, that held the vine in place.  It is totally sewn in, now!!  I will wiggle it out, one way or another.

 Here is a picture of Lucky, our kitty, who grows about 2 inches in length per day.  Exaggerating?  Maybe a little bit...but wow, is he ever growing fast!!  He was 4 ounces when we found him.  6.5 pounds today, and 4.5 months old.  He is purring in my lap as I type.  He is the softest thing.

Have a great day, each of you!

Julie

Mystery quilt!!!!!

I have had this small quilt out for fall.  I loved making it about 15 years ago.  It is so soft and worn !

I am working on the Quiltville mystery quilt!!!  I am working with yellow fabrics, so of course I save the trimmings and make a scrap heart; these are fun!!  The link is below for the mystery quilt.  Plenty of time to jump right in there...I know Kathy is making it...who else is joining in?  

Kathy's Quilts (kathysquilts.blogspot.com)

Quiltville's Quips & Snips!!: Indigo Way Mystery!

Hope all is well with each of you!

Julie

 

Slow stitching Sunday

 Lucky the kitty enjoys quilting.  A lot!  Here he is just coming out from under the quilt.  Thus the rumple you see.  I finished this binding, which is my slow stitching for the week.  I am linking to Kathy’s blog, here.

Kathy's Quilts (kathysquilts.blogspot.com)

Lucky loves his kitty tower and plays on it a lot,  but will pose for an action shot.

He also enjoys working with hexagons.

This quilt is the summer mystery from Kathy’s blog; from her quilt guild mystery offering.  Unbeknownst to her, Kathy inspired Annie and I to make a quilt like hers! Mine is some different, because I ran out of pink.    It was finished quickly and on the way to the quilters.  The lady I am using to quilt things for me is a childhood friend, Paula.  I am delighted to get closer to her again after 45 years!  We were in 4-h together.  She has a brand new computerized amazing quilting machine, which she acquired when she retired.

Hope each of you is doing fantastic!!

November!

 

Ok, well I am starting another mystery, prior to quiltville’s  mystery!  It is great fun so far!

These are my moda blockheads blocks so far.

A little appliqué never hurt anything…

And I have doubled the number of my autumnal Jacob’s ladder blocks!

Hurrah!  Hope each of you is having a marvelous day!