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

Tetris Quilt Top Finish

 I am so happy to have this top finished. I LOVE IT!! I will be working on getting it quilted tonight and tomorrow. I am not sure what I want to do with it. I might just keep it for the house. I used 1/4" Grosgrain Ribbon to outline all of the blocks. Below is a picture of the glue I used to attached the ribbon. It was SO easy. I am linking up to be included in the end of the Tetris Quilt Along. Thank you Melissa from Happy Quilting for hosting another great quilt along. I can't wait for the next one. 

A Few Things...

I have been really busy lately. It is hard to get my DD#1 ready for college. Also we are having her big 18th birthday/college send off party tomorrow. We are doing a murder mystery, it will take about 4 hours with games, a who-dun-it? game, appetizers, dinner, and cake and ice cream. Plus a guest list over 20 adults (and all the little kids) and we are all dressing up like pirates, go check it out here. It will be a ball but it is a lot of work! Good thing 18th birthdays only come once. We did a similar thing for her big brother two years ago. 

I got two more quilts cut out for the Hope House. I will be starting on these soon. They are going to be made with a block out of Quiltmakers 100 Block magazines. 

The yellow one will look like this:

The red/black one will look like this:

Here is my August Schnibble. It actually got mostly sewn together. I just had to many irons in the fire and this one got put out. Darn. I will finish this one soon! 

At the beginning of the month I won a book on a Blog Hop. It is Simply Charming Minis. It is such a fun book. All of the quilts are little. They are between the sizes of 13" to 21". She is going to a Mini Quilt Along. I love it!! I told myself that I would only join if I won a book so I guess I will be joining. I can't wait!

 My main focus right now has been this little guy. I starting watching him in January when his mom went back to work. I watched his two big sisters before him. They are both in all day school and ride the bus home. The red spots on him are mosquito bite. Darn little bugs. He is so big and so happy. Now we have moved on to food and only one bottle a day. He still nurses a little in the evening. 

One of the things that pushed the Schnibble's quilt out of the fire was this beauty. I was asked my a church member if I would put together this quilt for a woman who just lost her mom. They were working on these chicken scratchings together when she passed. I hope she loves it. 

I received my August block for Block Swap Adventures. I LOVE IT!! the blue looks just like the sky.  

Even my post is all over the place. I take DD#1 to college on Wednesday and I return home without her on Thursday. I will be sad. I am now. I know it is all for the good but she is one of my best friends. My other daughter being my other best friend of course. But DD#1 sews and quilts with me. Oh well, it is only three months. She will be home in December then will go back for her second semester in April to June. Crazy I know. Well have a good weekend and Labor Day. I will see you on Monday!!

TTFN

Flowers and a Puppy

Today has been a great day. 5 ladies from my Parma Quilters Anonymous quilt group got together to cut out fabric for a Plus Sign Quilt Along that we are doing. My church is making and donating 68 quilts to Hope House near were I live. As a group we are donating 9 quilts. Here are our fabrics cut out. As you can see there are a lot of older '80s and '90s fabrics also some newer fabric.

These flowers are from my August partner for The Inchy Hexagon Flower Swap.

These are the flowers I am sending to a different partner. I love them. She asked for '30s fabrics. My next hexie quilt will need to be made with these fabrics.

Now for the puppy. We have had Chompy for over a year. He is my BABY!! I love him. I can not tell you how happy he makes me. The other day my daughters, dogs, and the little guy I babysit went to town. DD#1 and I went into a LQS and when we came back out I opened the back door to get the human baby into his car seat and my doggie baby jumped out of the car!! On a busy street! WITH A TRUCK COMING!! Luckily Chompy got scared and ducked under the car and ran to the back then jumped into my arms when I went to get him. Oh my goodness he scared the you know what out of me. So lesson learned!! So anyway...I thought I would show a picture of my baby as a baby and now. Oh and he is sleeping with my husband. Love both of them.

TTFN

Tetris Quilt Along Week #6

I am sad that the Tetris Quilt Along is finished. I have had fun looking forward to Tuesday mornings. A new block a new game!! I have my flimsy all sewn together. I can't wait to get to the next step! I am going to by black 1/4 inch ribbon to outline each 4 piece block. I was going to sew the ribbon on but now I think I am just going to glue them on. 

Block #6

 Blocks # 4, 5, and 6 sewn together.

All 6 blocks together. Can I say how big this quilt is. IT IS HUGE!! I am standing on a chair holding my hands out as far and as wide as I can. 54 X 81 I think I am going to donate it to the charity I am working on right now. Hope House, a place for kids and young adults. This would be perfect. 

Here are a few blocks I have made for my swaps. 

Block Swap Adventures

Let"s Bee Together

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!

Tetris Quilt Along Week #5

Well another wonderful block. I am so happy with the way this has turned out! One more week and then it will become a quilt top. Today I made my block #5 and then I sewed blocks 4 and 5 together. I decided not to use the whites that came in our Tetris Charm Swap. Most of them had color on them and I wanted white on white. I cut some blocks from my stash and added them into my kit for this project. 

 Andee over at The Modern Diary posted a picture that I new I needed to have. Back in December we where Santa Sack Swap2 partners. I made her a sewing machine cover. She says then when she takes it off her machine her doggie Bug likes to sleep on it. For me that is an honor. I have pets and I am a total animal lover. So for Bug to feel that the cover is worthy of a nap that makes me feel so good. Sleep on little doggie sleep on!!!

I thought I would add a photo of the sunsets we have been having. Around were we live we have been having big forest fires and our air is filled with smoke. So when the sun is setting there is an amazing red, orange, yellow glow. So sad and pretty at the same time. 

TTFN

Tetris Quilt Along Week 4

I forgot to add my pattern for my week three. Here it is.

Here is the pattern for week 4.

Here it is all sewn up!

Here is weeks 1,2, and 3 all sewn together. I love it. It is going to be a huge quilt!! 

I have a niece, the big sister to the little guy I watch, that has started quilting. She got a sewing machine at Christmas and planned a quilt to make for her sister. Here is her flimsy. She hand embroidered all the monkey faces in the centers and sewed each block by herself, with help when she needed it. She then sewed all the sashing by herself as well. She did a wonderful job. Each block is about 18.5" so it is a large quilt. I am so proud of her. She has started on a second quilt for herself with frogs in the centers. Oh and she is only 10 years old!! Looks like I have a sewing partner even after DD#1 goes off to school!

TTFN

Maniac Monday

It has been a hard few weeks.First my mother-in-law passed away. It is never easy to watch a loved one loss a family member. My husband now has lost both of his parents. He is only 41. So he is a little lost right now. Then 12 days after he lost her my grandmother passed a away. My mom's mom. Now I have watched my husband loss his mom and my mom loss her mom. It is a little too much. I am sad. I have had depression for a lot of years. I have been on medication for about 5 years. I can feel that old black cloud moving in again. I am trying not to let it. Chin up and all that stuff. I will get better, I KNOW IT!! School starts soon for my youngest and I will start watching that sweet little guy again. He will brighten my day!! DD#2 goes off to college in a month. Big changes, I think that is part of it also. OK moving on!!

In all of this trouble I have been sewing a little. Here is my August Hello Sun QA block. I just love these sunny smiley guys. So cute!!

I have finished my August Let's Bee Together block. I will be sending it out to my partner this week. I love it. The colors are so bright and fun. 

I have been doing a little sew for just me. I did this sewing bag out of my new roll of Marmalade. Love the colors of this fabric. Here are a few pictures of the bag, a few extra pouches I made, and most of my goodies in them, also a needle book with hexies! I am going to make a box bag for my pedal soon. Now when I go to someone else's house to sew I will have everything all together. 

Now for my lists:

July

Swaps

Block Swap Adventure X 1~Done

Parma Quilter's Anonymous

PQA Block Swap x 1~Done

Count Your Blessings~Done

Double Delight Mystery Quilt

Hope House Blocks X 9~Done

Saturday Sampler

Paper Pieced (All)

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

BOM's

Designer Mystery BOM 2012~July

Monthly 

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

Count On It - July~Done and August~Done

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

New Projects

Designing

Hope House Quilts X 2~Done

Designer Mystery BOM 2011

Piecing

Quilts for Kids x2

Flimsy

Quilting

Two Quilts for my Sister-in-law

Bound

My August list:

Swaps

Block Swap Adventure X 1 - August

Parma Quilter's Anonymous

PQA Block Swap x 1 -  August

Count Your Blessings -  August

Double Delight Mystery Quilt - All Steps

Saturday Sampler

Paper Pieced - All 

Stitching Month by Month - May, July and August

BOM's

Designer Mystery BOM 2012~July and August

Monthly 

Schnibbles - April and August

Count On It - September

Hello Sun QA - August~Done

New Projects

Designing

Designer Mystery BOM 2011

Piecing

Quilts for Kids x2

Hope House Quilts X 3

Flimsy

Quilting

Two Quilts for my Sister-in-law

Bound

Tetris Week 3

Here is my Tetris  QA week #3 block. This one was fun. Lots of the same blocks. I love it. I can't wait to finish this one. I am thinking about outlining the blocks with black ribbon or black bias tape. I want each block to stand out. I am going to join the first three blocks together tomorrow.