Getting A Few Things Done!

I am trying to catch up. It is a bit tough since I have been overtaken by my RA. It does not like this weather, the cold and rainy. Plus after working so hard on those quilts and other projects I guess I was flying and so now I am crashing.

These flowers are for my October partner in the The Inchy Hexagon Flower Swap. 

These two following blocks is for Block Swap Adventures. 

October partner:

 One of my November:

So I finally got around to drawing names for the give away for Leafs me happy blog hop. The winner of the random drawing is Heleen Groot. Go check out her blog! Then the winner of the followers drawing is April. Go check out her blog! Ladies send me your snail mail addresses and I will mail off your packages after Thanksgiving. I will be busy with family starting this Saturday until next Sunday.

Sorry Gone So Long, Maniac Monday

I have not posted on my blog in just over three weeks. I feel so bad but sometimes life just calls for all of my attention. We all need to have the ability to step back from our hobbies and give our families and our lives all of ourselves. That is what I have had to do. Now that I am done with the two Hope House quilts that I personally made and making sure my quilt group PQA is done with their Hope House quilts I can get back to my blog. I do not have a total yet of all of the quilts that the PQA members made on their own to donate but together we added 9 more to the list. Tonight when I dropped off the 5 I was in charge of the sweet lady that is over this quilt donation had a count of 96 quilts. There are still quilts coming in. The organization asked for 70 quilts. We will be able to give them a bunch of extras. It is so cool. Bellow are a few pictures of some of the quilts.

This quilt and the following quilt are the ones that PQA worked on together. We each made 9 blocks, a mix of girl and boy blocks. Each quilt has a matching pillowcase. 

This is the boy quilt:

This is the girl quilt:

The members of PQA got together a while back and had a a cut/swap day. We each brought new or old fabric and cut the same size blocks. Then we swapped blocks and made plus sign quilts to donate. Of this pattern the group made 7 quilts with matching pillowcase. Because each of the quilts were similar I only took a picture of this quilt. 

Then on top of all of that I donated two of my own. I had started out with other fabric and a harder pattern. As time counted down I let myself off the hook and just did huge 12.5 inch blocks. I love the look of these two quilts they are so cute. 

Here is a boy quilt:

Here is a girl quilt:

So because I have been so busy with this huge project and other things in my life I have been very bad about doing my other quilty responsibilities  I am so sorry to all of those that I owe cute quilty things too I will be starting on those today. So here is my November list of things to get caught up on. 

November

Ongoing Projects

Swaps

Block Swap Adventure~Nov

The Inchy Hexagon Flower Swap~Oct & Nov

Let's Bee Together~Nov

Parma Quilter's Anonymous

PQA Block Swap~Nov

Count Your Blessings~Oct & Nov

Saturday Sampler

Stitching Month by Month~Sept, Oct, and Nov

BOM's

Designer Mystery BOM 2012~July, Aug, Sept, Oct, and Nov

Monthly 

Schnibbles~Apr, Aug, Oct, and Nov

Count On It~Sept, Oct and Nov

Hello Sun QA~Sept, Oct, and Nov

New Projects

Designing

It's A Mini Quilt Along #2 and #3

Piecing

Quilts for Kids x 2

Flimsy

Tetris Quilt

It's A Mini Quilt Along #1

Quilting

Two Quilts for my Sister-in-law

Bound

Finished
Hope House Quilts for PQA X 2
Hope House Quilts personal X 2

Back Burner
Double Delight Mystery Quilt~Moved to the Back Burner

All of you that followed along with the Leafs me happy Blog Hop a MONTH ago. (I know I am so bad.)

Tomorrow I will finally getting around to the give away. I have put together two little boxes of fabric. I will pick one winner out of all of the people who commented and then one winner from those who are followers.  

I am also part of a new blog hop that is starting very soon. I love this pillow. I can't wait to get started on it. 

Thank you to everybody who is my friend and comes to hang out even when I am not here. Have a good day!!

TTFN

Just a Bunch of Stuff

Wow what a busy time I have had. I have a new calling in my church and it has kept me VERY busy. Also the quilt group I started got together today and tied 5 of the 9 quilts we made for a local home for troubled people. We have until November 11 to get them tied and bound. We will be going early December and handing them in. I can't wait to see all of the kids and adults getting quilts. How fun will that be. 

I have gotten a few fun packages and have not posted anything yet. So here goes..

My September flowers for The Inchy Hexagon Flower Swap. They are so pretty.

Then my October flowers. I love these ones also.

Everybody has wanting to see a better picture of my Tree for Feafs me happy Blog Hop.  I love this block. I had so much fun cutting out all the leaves and playing with the placement. After things get back to "normal" around here I will quilt this and make it into a wall hanging. Below is a close up.

These following blocks are for Let's Bee Together. It was a really fun way to make these blocks. She is going to square them up after we send them to her. 

This block is for my partner for Block Swap Adventure. She asked for any star block in red, white, and blue. This was a fun block to make. I hope she likes it. 

I hope you all have a great day. I am still working on all those wonderful comments!!

TTFN

Maniac Monday

Another Monday come and gone and I am just now getting to posting. It is ok. I have a lot on my plate right now.

These are flowers that I sent off to my September partner for The Inchy Hexagon Flower Swap. I hope that she likes them. She asked for pastels and I thought these colors looked good together. 

I am part of a Quilt Along making mini quilts out of this book Simply Charming Mini's. This is the first mini we were to make. I have not finished it yet but I will soon. It is only 13" X 13" very small. I love it!!

So I am just going to jump in with the old list from September and the new list from October.

September List

Ongoing Projects

Swaps

Block Swap Adventure~Done

The Inchy Hexagon Flower Swap~Done

Let's Bee Together~Done

Parma Quilter's Anonymous

PQA Block Swap~Done

Count Your Blessings~Done

Double Delight Mystery Quilt~

Saturday Sampler

Paper Pieced (All)~Moved to the Back Burner

Stitching Month by Month~May~Done, July~Done, and August~Done, September

BOM's

Designer Mystery BOM 2012~July, August, and September

Monthly 

Schnibbles~April, August, and September~Done

Count On It~

Hello Sun QA~

New Projects

Designing

Piecing

Quilts for Kids x 2

Hope House Quilts X 2

Flimsy

Tetris Quilt

Hope House Quilt X 2

It's A Mini Quilt Along #1

Quilting

Two Quilts for my Sister-in-law

Bound

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October

Ongoing Projects

Swaps

Block Swap Adventure~Done

The Inchy Hexagon Flower Swap~

Let's Bee Together~Done

Parma Quilter's Anonymous

PQA Block Swap~

Count Your Blessings~

Double Delight Mystery Quilt~

Saturday Sampler

Stitching Month by Month~September and October

BOM's

Designer Mystery BOM 2012~July, August, September, October

Monthly 

Schnibbles~April, August and October

Count On It~September and October

Hello Sun QA~September and October

New Projects

Designing

It's A Mini Quilt Along #2

Piecing

Quilts for Kids x 2

Hope House Quilts X 2

Flimsy

Tetris Quilt

Hope House Quilt X 2

It's A Mini Quilt Along #1

Quilting

Two Quilts for my Sister-in-law

Bound

I will be back soon with the winner of my Leafs me happy Blog Hop. I am going through the comments. If I have not responded I will be soon. Have a good night everyone!!

TTFN

Maniac Monday

I forgot to post this two weeks ago. So here it is, LOL!

 Here is a fun picture of my baby, LOL! 

Well this is the week. I take my daughter to college on Wednesday then come home without her on Thursday. She will be there until December 15th. I will be strong but on the way home I WILL CRY!!! We had her 18th birthday yesterday and it was a blast!! My husband was murdered and my daughter-in-law was the murderer. We did a Murder Mystery Party, no she really did not kill him, HA HA! We had so much fun. I need to get a few things worked on tomorrow. We will have our PQA meeting tomorrow and it will be DD#1 last one until next year.  That sounds weird. 

Here is Augusts list:

Ongoing Projects

Swaps

Block Swap Adventure~Done

The Inchy Hexagon Flower Swap~Done

Let's Bee Together~Done

Parma Quilter's Anonymous

PQA Block Swap~

Count Your Blessings~

Double Delight Mystery Quilt~Most of Steps 1 & 2

Saturday Sampler

Paper Pieced (All)~Waiting to buy some extra white.

Stitching Month by Month - May, June~Done, July, and August

BOM's

Designer Mystery BOM 2012~July and August

Monthly 

Schnibbles - April, May~Done, July~Done, and August

Count On It - July~Done and August~Done

Hello Sun QA - April~Done, May~Done, June~Done, July~Done, and August~Done

New Projects

Designing

Piecing

Quilts for Kids x2

Quilts for Kids x2

Hope House Quilts X 4

Tetris Quilt

Flimsy

Quilting

Two Quilts for my Sister-in-law

Bound

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Here is Septembers list:

Ongoing Projects

Swaps

Block Swap Adventure~

The Inchy Hexagon Flower Swap~

Let's Bee Together~

Parma Quilter's Anonymous

PQA Block Swap~

Count Your Blessings~

Double Delight Mystery Quilt~

Saturday Sampler

Paper Pieced (All)~

Stitching Month by Month~May, July, and August, September

BOM's

Designer Mystery BOM 2012~July, August, and September

Monthly 

Schnibbles~April, August, and September

Count On It~

Hello Sun QA~

New Projects

Designing

Piecing

Quilts for Kids x2

Quilts for Kids x2

Hope House Quilts X 4

Tetris Quilt

Flimsy

Quilting

Two Quilts for my Sister-in-law

Bound

Don't forget to check out the following Blog Hops. I am going to be part of both of them. They should be great fun. I have a few new followers. I am so excited!! I am at 101 followers now. I will be picking up some stuff while on my road trip in a few day and I will be having a Followers Give Away when I get back.

TTFN

I am Blog Hopping

Corrie over at Quilt Taffy is in charge of a Blog Hop that I am participating in. Dots on Dots Blog Hop. She has the schedule up now. Go over and take a look and then come back on my day, September 20 to see what I make. There might even be a give away!?

Then in October I have decided to join up with the Leafs Me Happy Blog Hop. I love fall. It is my favorite season. Cherry from Cherry Blossoms Quilting Studio will be in charge. I can't wait until October!