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

Leafs me happy Blog Hop

Hello everybody. I hope everybody has been having fun during this blog hop. I am LOVING IT!! I have been having trouble with my Internet all weekend so everything I am doing including posting right now I am doing from my iPhone. You know if one piece of technology will not work try another piece! LOL!

So here we are at the beginning of a new week. Don't forget to hop over to all of the other blogs involved today!! Here are the names:

Feathered Nest Studio

Grandmama's Stories

From This to That

Little Man Hen

Quilt Monster in my Closet 

Kathy @ That Other Blog

in stitches & seams

Buzzing and Bumbling

Nunu's Quilt World~that is me!!

Quilts And Dogs

Briarside Lane

I am sorry but I am not able to add links from here, or at lease I do not know how to do it. Don't forget if you go to www.cherryblossomsquiltingstudio.comand click on her side bar you will find the schedule and links to these blogs. 

I knew as soon as I saw the above picture advertising the hop I wanted to do exactly that picture with my own spin on it. I love fall and falling leaves so it is a perfect fit. I went to a LQS and found a piece of fall fabric covered in leaves. I took a piece of Heat and Bond and ironed it on the back. Then I sat and cut out individual leaves. It took a while. I freehand drew a tree trunk and ironed it to the fabric block. Then I ironed all the leaves where I wanted them. At the bottom there is a piece of the leaf fabric that I trimmed into a pile.

Here is my my 12.5 inch unfinished block. I call it "LEAF ME IN A PILE". 

I wish I had time to finish the block but my son and his wife moved in this weekend. No rest for the mommy! So maybe sometime this week I will get to it. 

I also have a giveaway. I have a stack of 5 inch squares made up out of my fall stash fabric. I have no picture to show you right now and it is hard to enter a give away when you have no idea what you are entering for. But you will like it and I will add a few extras. I am hoping to have my Internet up tomorrow or the next day so as soon as posting is easier for me I will post pictures. If you want to be entered into the give away post a comment telling me which piece of technology is your favorite. Is it your cell phone, tv, computer, ATM machine? For an extra entry post a second comment telling me you are a new or existing follower. 

Thank you for stopping by and go play in the leaves, have some apple cider and hug a kid. 

Sent from my iPhone

Just Trying

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Sent from my iPhone

Late Maniac Monday

I am a few days late with Maniac Monday but I  wanted to post anyway. I have had a good week and have gotten a few things done. 

But first I wanted to thank everyone who stopped by my blog for the dots on dots Blog Hop. The turn out for me was so much greater than I could ever have hoped for. I had 80+ comments and a few people even decided they liked what I do and became followers. THANK YOU!! 

This is the block I made for my September partner for Block Swap Adventure. She asked for 30's or 40's fabrics in an older style star. I love the way this block turned out. 

For Parma Quilters Anonymous, a quilt group I started in my home town, we are doing a little quilt along. These are August and September blocks. I made three of the September blocks. I can't wait to put this quilt together. It will finish to look like this one.

For Saturday Sampler at my LQS this is my August stitchery. I love the ants. Someone's husband said they look like tiny cows. HA HA

I finished my September Schnibbles before the end of the month. I used a left over Halloween charm pack. This pattern is a new pattern by the creator of Schnibbles. It only uses the new "Candy" 2 1/2 inch squares Moda is coming out with. So fun!!

This is one of the two Plus Sign quilts I am making for a charity my church is giving to for Christmas. It is huge, my husband had a hard time holding the quilt and he is 6' 3"! 

I also recovered my mini ironing board. This was getting bad and the insulation was showing through. 

Before

After

I also made a pillow to go with my daughter's Senior quilt. 

Then this morning I redid my wreathe that is hanging on my front door. I love Fall so this needed to be all orange and yellow and red. I have discovered an cool cheap trick. I used orange and red Loofah's to cover the wreathe and as a bow. Very cheep and easy to work with. I hope this helps get everybody in a festive Fall mood.

So for my list I got a few more things knocked off!

Ongoing Projects

Swaps

Block Swap Adventure~Done

The Inchy Hexagon Flower Swap~

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)~

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 x2

Hope House Quilts X 3

Flimsy

Tetris Quilt
Hope House Quilt X 1

Quilting

Two Quilts for my Sister-in-law

Bound

dots on dots Blog Hop

I am so thankful to be a part of this blog hop. Thank you Madame Samm over at Sew We Quilt for being such a great inspiration to so many. Thank you also to Corrie over at Quilt Taffy for hosting this hop. We thank both of you for bring us all together in our love of dots. 

Right after I signed up to be a part of this blog hop I started thinking about what I wanted to make. It took me about 5 minutes. HA HA! I love dots, I love hexies, and I love rainbows. I put all three together and came up with this beauty. I wished I had taken a picture of all the hexies stacked up. I made 42 hexies. I then hand sew them all together in rows. I pinned them down and machine sewed them to a piece of white Kona. 

I then auditioned all kinds of dot fabric for the binding. I had four pieces out until I decided on a piece of black with dots. Here it is all bound. I love how the black corrals them all together. 

This is the back. I added corner hanging triangles so that I can put it on my wall. I even had fun drawing on the back to add a label. 

Thank you for stopping by. Please take some time to stop by the other blogs on today's hop. You will love everybody's creations. If you have missed any of the blogs go back and take a look. Also there is one more day left so don't forget about hopping tomorrow. 

September 20th

Cherry's Prairie Primitives

Quilts From My Crayon Box

Sparrow in Flight

The Slow Quilter
Petit Design Co.

Geta Grama

Quilted Delights

Di of Snippets 'n' Scraps

Nunu's Quilt World

September 21st
Bejeweled Quilts by Barb

Cate's Linens

From This to That

suemacseeds

Marcia's Crafty Sewing and Quilting

Ellie Quilter
Rosemary B- that other blog
Nati's little things
Madame Samm

TTFN

Maniac Monday

I have not done much for two weeks. The first week after taking DD#1 to college was hard. The second week was better. I feel much better now. I feel like I can get a lot done today. 

Here are months May and July of my Saturday Sampler Stitcheries I have been doing. They are so fun. The pattern says to make them into little pillows. I am not sure If that is what I am going to do are make them into a little quilt. 

These two blocks are from my partner from Block Swap Adventure. They are both so great. I sweet Fall one and then a very pretty bright one. Thank you!!

I made two of these blocks for my Let's Bee Together partner. They are so pretty. I love that fabric. 

Before my DD#1 left for college we went to a near by river and took some family pictures. Here is DS and his wife. They have been married for over 1 year now. 

 Here is my husband, DD#1, DD#2 and me. 

Here is a fun picture of me and Jayden, the little guy I am watching for my brother and sister-in-law. He is a sweety!!

 Last week was Homecoming Week in my small town. We go TDed. I hate that!! Here is our front yard. You know I don't mind all the paper on the ground, it is so much easier to clean up then the stuff in the tree. She that piece there in that tree, my husband can't even reach it. Now we get to watch it fall apart all winter long. Darn those high schoolers!!!

Ongoing Projects

Swaps

Block Swap Adventure~

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

Paper Pieced (All)~

Stitching Month by Month~May~Done, July~Done, 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

Hope House Quilts X 4

Flimsy

Tetris Quilt

Quilting

Two Quilts for my Sister-in-law

Bound

Please don't forget about this block hop. It is so fun. My day is coming up on the 20th and I can't wait to show you what I made. 

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