Friday Night To Do List

The Friday night Sew In is tonight. I have made a beef stew and all my children are relatively happy (They are teenagers after all) I have made my list and checked it twice...

1) Quilt Candle Mat then Bind
2) Finish Step 3 of the Roll Roll Cotton Boll
3) Finish step 4 of the Roll Roll Cotton Boll (This looks really easy)
4) Quilt and bind my Nov/Dec doll quilt for the Quilting Board swap
5) quilt and bind one more seat cover for inlaws

I am going to start working on these as soon as the dinner dishes are done. Maybe my DH will decide to do this for me.

Now let's get sewing :)

FNS Results

Well the Friday Night Sew In was a success. First I finished te Sew Bee It Bee Blocks. We were asked to make a favorite block or two with some 1930's fabric. I have really enjoyed the Wonky Houses that I have seen on a bunch of blogs. My house did not get wonky but i like it. And I made a simple star block. Then I started the Fresh Comfort 2 Bee blocks. We were sent a bunch of strips of vintage sheets and told to make a string block using the Kona white for the center. These turned out pretty nice.

Next I worked on my Little A's block swap. September was a block that embodies the word "simple" and my partner requested teal as her color. I thought this block looked fairly simple eventhough it really wasn't.

For October the word was "spooky" and my swap partners color is Black. All I could think of was ghosts. So that is what I tried to make.

The last thing on my list was to finish the first clue in the Bonnie Hunter Mystery "Roll Roll cotton Boll" . There is sure a lot of pink in this picture but the first step is complete.

Now it is 12:33 and technically Saturday morning so I will try to get a couple hours sleep before my children get me up.

I hope everyone had a successful night I will be surfing blogs tommorrow to see how everyone did.

Friday Night Sew-In

It's tonight. The Friday night Sew In. Here is the list of things I am hoping to get done:

1) My Fresh Comfort Bee Block
2)My Sew Bee It Bee Block
3)The first clue of the Roll Roll Cotton Boll Mystery
4)My Little A's Block swap (Sept Oct and Nov) I really need to get these done

This is a lot to get done but I may stay up really late and get it all done.

To those of you sewing along, enjoy. For those of you just blog hopping, enjoy. :)

Is October really over?

The month started off great. This is the "doll quilt" that I received for the month of September It is huge(18 x 28). The swap guidelines say 24 x 24 at the largest. I love it. It is currently on my wall. Later in the month I got this doll quilt. I asked for something modern. She took some black and white fabrics and colored in small areas with fabric markers. It is such a great idea and I love it. it looks like a modern painting.

My sisters and i get together each year to celebrate our birthdays. this year we decided to have a craft weekend. We actually did it on a Thursday Friday so our husbands just had to get kids to school. I was organizing my projects for weeks before we got together. I didn't get as mouch done as i was hoping because I kept gabbing. I really hope we do it again next year.

Here is a picture of the "doll quilt" (candlemat) that I sent to my partner for September. I tried a paperpiecing pattern. The pieces were small and I really need to keep practicing.

Other things have been happening around here. My oldest turned 18 this month. I got one year older this month. My in-laws are settling in to their new home just two blocks from our house. It is a small transition but I love having them near so that we can check on them.

Christmas Craft Inspiration

Has everyone seen this magazine?.... I have new inspiration for the Holidays. I don't know how to put the link on the picture so here is the link. I have already made a couple of the toilet paper roll elves and have pulled out my felt to make a garland with the younger kids in sunday school. Enjoy!

Seacoast Shop Hop

My Mom and i did the Seacoast Shop Hop today. It was fun to spend the time with my mom and getting to look at fabric was great too. During this Shop Hop you get a charm when you pay for your "Passport"($14) and then as each shop stamps your "Passport" they give you a charm. At the last store (there were only 5 stores) they give you a bracelet. Isn't this great. I will wear it proudly. Blogger would not let me post all the pictures of my stuff but I did not get too much. The first shop we went to was Garrisin Hill Quilt Shop. They had a great variety of fabrics. Then we went to Little Lamb Quilt Shop. they had the Kona colors I needed. Then we went to Checkerberries. They had a lot of Civil war fabrics. i found a cute pattern. I will stitch it and then show it. Then we headed for Massachusettes to The quilted Acorn. This shop has mainly civil war fabrics and tole painting supplies. The final shop for the hop was Knight's Quilt shop in Cape Neddick Maine. i have been to Knight's before and saved it for last because i really liked it the last time i was there. They have a great selection a bunch of cutting tables and a couple of registers. I found a really cute giraffe print for a binding and some great novelty fat quarters. i usually check out their scrap bags but they only had one and it was all flannels. oh well I'll just have to come back again.

I had a really great day. I hope everyone has a great weekend.

Another Friday night Sew In

I can't believe it is September 18th already. Last night I was having so much fun sewing i forgot to sign up on Handmade Heidi's blog. I got a lot of sewing done. First I finally put together some of my Boomerang blocks. It was hard to put together blocks that were made with many different colors but I think they look pretty good together. Then I have been trying to figure out a way to make my Modern Siggy Swap 2 blocks look like the quilt in my head. It finally came to me and I have pieced the top.

I love it. I used only fabric from my stash and made little 16 patches. I like the way the colors flow around the top.

I hope everyone had great successes last night I am off to check out all the blogs.