Finished!

24 x 26 inches

13,14,15

Yea for a flimsy!

The little grand isn't a little baby anymore....how can this be...

Cool...just like her dad!

Eleven, Twelve

Nine, Ten

Happy Mother's Day!

Seven, Eight

Five, Six

Three, Four

One, Two

Well one side of the family has left the 'burgh

 and this week my sister and family are in town! 

My niece walking Annie

and trying on all of Meg's and my high heels.
We painted our nails too!

 It's a whirlwind.

I get a little cranky and overwhelmed to be walking past my quilt room day after day and not having time to sew a seam.

So between Tuesday and yesterday I got in a pretty good 'sewing fix'.

The signature quilt is as together as I can get it-still need 2 blocks signed.  I took it down so I would just have the medallion blocks up. The fabrics of the 2 quilts beside each other on the DW clashed so badly it was distracting to me hurt my eyes.

The medallion blocks are pieced and arranged and now I am going back to add the corner triangles to form diamonds when sewn together. You can see a diamond down on the lower right. I'm using the same fabric for all the diamonds.

I finally finished this pillow from my Metro Rings sample block.

20' x 20"

Oh and I forgot to show Happy Jack!  He's all sewn together and now hanging in the closet.  I will have to have a free day to 'twister him up'.  

Another picnic weekend coming up and a couple long bike rides planned; if the weather cooperates.  

Lotsa quilting coming in too-so Aster Manor, which has been loaded since the 17th needs to have some major attention. I'm going to do that today, before work at 3 and after I take the car in for inspection...

fun times, fun times...

life is good!

just wanted to show the DW real quick.  Happy Jack is waiting patiently to be sewn into rows.

The guild BOM is still being scrutinized.  I did find a leftover Bl-a-Day block that worked so I stuck it in (12 inch star block bottom left).  The layout will definitely change...

I did start sewing the leftover blocks, yardage and FQ chunks from Curve It Up for the backing.  

I am itching to start on either of these.  

But so far I'm showing great restraint.

Tonight I sewed on the final curved borders on my quilt top.

I'm hoping tomorrow to start piecing the backing from all the leftover chunks of fabric I have and a couple blocks that didn't make it into the front.

After taking this down, I started organizing all the fabrics I got on the Shop Hop last week.  There was stuff piled everywhere. Once I got things under control, I pulled out my Christmas BOM blocks from the guild.  Our show is the end of Oct. and the ladies who organized the BOM are hoping we get our tops done and entered in the show as a separate display.  I sorta got tired of working on them so this is all I have.

first layout

second layout

3rd

I had to dig through my scraps and found a couple 3.5 inch strips that I pieced to get the last  few plain blocks with the background! whew.

This is going to sit for a day or two.

One of the patterns I bought on Shop Hop was Happy Jack.

I started cutting out 3.5 inch squares for it.

too cute.