A Few Flowers and Let's Bee Together 2011 Quilt Top Finish

How is your day going? Mine is going well. It is cool and rainy outside. Perfect sewing weather.

There have been little hexie flowers driving back and forth from my side of the state to my daughter side. Here are a few flowers my DD#1 sent to me.

 These are the ones I sent her.

I sat down today and got my Let's Bee Together 2011 quilt top done. I love how it turned out. I am glad that it came together the way I saw it in my head. 

Two brown blocks.

 All the pieces laid out on my table. 

 Finished top!! I love it. So bright and cheery. I new I would need to place the yellow blocks as for from the yellow set in triangles as possible. I think the placement is great!

When we are all finished with our H2H quilts, we were entered into a give away over at Confection of a Fabric Addict. I won a $25.00 gift certificate from Fabric 'n Quilts. Yesterday I received my order. I only ordered it Friday. What great service! I ordered 1 yard cuts. Kona Baby Pink, Bella Pistachio, Kona Peach, 

and Kona Baby Blue. Also as an added treat 2 Moda Candy packs of Marmalade by Bonnie and Camille. Love this fabric. I am on my way to play with these little squares right now!!

TTFN

Maniac Monday

As I was going through my past blog posts it occurred to me that my post are VERY long. Yuck!! I know for me if I have 45 blogs to read then when I come across one with a lot of words I sometimes just skip over them. So in the interest of saving you time I have move my MONDO HUGE UFO list to it's own page. I will make changes there every week and show pictures here. 

Back in 2011 on Let's Bee Together I sent out a bunch of fabric for these blocks to be made for me. I used 30's fabrics and Kona White. I received back all but one block. I got the box out (while I had 30's on the brain) and took stock of what I needed. I had to make the block that I was missing but using what little fabric I had left. I did not have enough so I made a block with some solid that matched. 

I made two blocks.

 And  two pink blocks.

Here they are all together.

Now how do I set them. I have 16 blocks total. I decided I did not want to make too many more blocks so I decided on making the blocks on point so then I would only need two more blocks. This is what I am thinking:

I bought a brown set of 30's fabric and will be working on the last two blocks and sewing it all together into a top this week.

Here is the fabric I will be using for the set in triangle for the top. I love this buttery yellow, it matches the teddy bear in the brown fabric. The orange fabric is a bonus piece. I did not want it but the lady cut it and I was not paying attention to stop her. Oh well. Then some other fabrics that found their way home with me. 

Next I found and dragged this bad boy out, It was from way back in May of 2011. I had finished it but then could not figure out what was wrong with it. I did not want to take the time to figure it out. Well I did the the other day. The bottom row needed to be moved to become the top row. 

That was a lot of unpicking. Now it is all resewn back to the way it is supposed to look. Now I can move that down my list. 

TTFN

Let's Bee Together

One of the things I dropped out of was Let's Bee Together, well to be fair it did not start back up again. It was a fun group with a few hiccups. I was a part of it for both years it ran. For 2012 December was my year. I sent out late but I am ok with how long it is getting stuff back. December is a hard month to get extra stuff done. I sent out 4-4 1/2 inch square pieces of paper and strips of fabric in matching colors. I asked everybody to sew the strips onto the paper from corner to corner. Here are the blocks I have received so far.

From Christina:

From Linda:

From Erin:

From Ann:

From Charlene:

From Carolyn:

From Bailey:

All I am missing now is blocks from Sara, Robyn, Toni dropped out so I did not send anything to her, and Melinda. I can't wait to see this quilt finished. I will need to make a bunch more blocks. I will put this on a back burner for a while. I want to finish a few other things first. I hope everybody's day is a good one!!  

I've Been Gone a Long Time...

It has been over a month since I posted last. So many things have happened. My daughter came home from college and will be home until April 22nd. We have been having a lot of fun hanging out. We had a great Christmas and New Years Eve Party. I found out that I am going to be an aunt again. The little boy I watch during the day is going to be a big brother. We are all so excited. It has been fun watching my daughter-in-law grow with my first grandchild. We found out she is going to have a little girl!! I have picked up a small job making Stoma Covers. Here is a link to a website that sells them but these are not the ones I make. Then I decided that I was not going to take on very many more new projects plus I dropped a few things. I want to focus on finishing things this year. For the last two years I have been a part of a lot of fun things but so many of my beginning projects got pushed to the back. So for this post I am just going to hit a few highlights then come back and post all the goodies. I have been busy sewing but I have a lot more I want to do. So let's begin...

In PQA, my little quilt group, we had a 12 days of Christmas swap. My partner and friend did a wonderful thing. Each of the 12 days was a step to a Christmas Tablerunner. I LOVED making it!! Here is step one.

I finished my December hexies but missed the boat for getting on the list for January. 

December was my month for Let's Bee Together. I got my packages out late. I have been receiving my blocks back and they sure are fun.

One of the tops I finished this month was a Quilt Along I was doing with PQA. Here is the finished center block. I can't wait to show you the top.

For 2012 in PQA we swapped blocks. Each member picked a block and each month we swapped partners. Here are my blocks with a few extras. I finished this quilt top also. I love it. It will be going on my bed when it is quilted. 

In 2011 the females in my family got together and watched all the Twilight movies that were out before going to the theater and watching part one of Breaking Dawn. While we here all together we tie dyed shirts, sweatshirts and I did 2 yards of Kona White. My sister-in-law loves all things "Flower Power". So I took that material and made a quilt for her. I love it and best of all she loves it. She uses it ALL the time. I never took a picture so over Christmas I got one. That peace sign in the middle it one piece of fabric. It sure was fun trying to get that cut out and having it look ok. 

Way back in oh I don't know 2007 or so I started to dabble in quilting but never got serious. I had a pattern for a Trip Around the World quilt. I did not know any different and I had my serger out so I used that. When I got this out of the closet I only had to add the borders. Why did I put this away? Ha Ha!! This is another finished top for me. I love this one too. 

So that is just a few of the things I have been up to. I have not stopped reading every body's blogs and can't wait to get back into blogging myself. 

What have I been up to...

This is Jayden, he is my nephew. He is eating his 1st birthday cupcake.

 It is almost the end of the year and I feel changes coming on. I have had a very full year and I feel the need to lessen my schedule. With this little guy that I am taking care of turning into a walking toddler I need more free time to be able to take care of him the way he deserves. I can't be stressed out over to many things all month long. So as I go through these next few weeks of streamlining my quilting time I have decided to take a blogging break even though I might drop by here once or twice. I will be back after the first of the new year with a new routine. I can't wait. I am excited. 

I have been trying to get a few things taken care of in my life. Swaps being the biggest. The number of swaps that I am a part of will be one of the things I cut out of my life. I have loved every minute of my swaps that I have been a part of over the last two years. The one swap that I am going to stay with is The Inchy Hexagon Swap. I do not have near enough flowers for my quilt yet, LOL!! Here are the flowers for my November partner. She asked for purple/red color flowers. I hope these work for her. 

The next swap I am in is Block Swap Adventure. I have loved this swap. I have had many wonderful partners and one very rude woman that I am learning to forget. I have made many different blocks that I might not have tried on my own. This is one of the swaps I am dropping out of. I know that it is only one block a month but it is one day a month that I am focused on making something for someone else. 

This block was so fun. It is for my November partner. It is so bright!

These blocks are from the same swap from my partner for November. She did not know which one to send to me so she sent me all three. I love them!!!

The next swap is Let's Bee Together. It works different then most groups. There are 12 swappers. We each take a month and send out fabric to the other 11 people. They make blocks for you and send them back that same month. I have had a great time in this group but this is another group I am not signing up with again. I have my blocks from last year that I have done nothing with and my month for this year is this month. Again I know that it is only one block a month but then with the month that I send out packages to everybody it is all the planning and cutting. I know! I sound like I am whining! 

This block is for our leader. She is great for all that she has done. I can't wait to see the quilt that this block goes into. 

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