Block a days & Jelly Roll #6

I have been sewing away on my block a days and this bunch is from 5/21-31!  I'm 2 weeks ahead and feel good about this with vacation and shop hop in June.  I'm still using the CW fabrics for 12" blocks. The last 2 blocks in the 2nd row however, are 8" blocks, the star one is a signature block that I will use for the label (yes I made it in place of a dumb one). The spools block I may add strips to and bring it up to 12". The 3 in the bottom row are 10" blocks and I've been trying to remember to use a jelly roll and charm pack of Aster Manor I have when I make a 10" block.

Yesterday was the posting of the 6th block in the Jelly Roll Sampler Quilt Along and I pieced it tonight; so quick and easy it's delightful!

The colors are a bit bright, it's much softer in "real life". 

Design Wall Monday (Week 19)

The One Block Wonder #2 will be on the wall until I have all the rows together. I will do that this week in between all the other stuff that is going on.

Over the weekend I finished the binding on the Many Thanks quilt.

 It needs a label--and I can make one now using EQ6!  woo-woo! 
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One Block Wonder #2

This is the finally arrangement for the OBW quilt, the 2 cubes in the top right stick out more in the photo than in "real life". I played around with having the cubes stick out in the border, but after much back and forth and messing around I really felt it distracted from the body of the quilt.  The colors in the picture are not true and look drab in the photo, they are not and I almost left the cubes out as well.  Now the nerve-wracking part of sewing the rows together without getting any of the hexi's out of order, my technique is slower than what the book says and the class instructor taught, but it works for me (so far).

Playing with cubes

After dinner I made a few cube blocks for the 2nd OBW.  It's slow going as there are a lot more pieces in each hexagon!  But they aren't difficult at all. There are several different variations. I'm going to try them all and see what works/I like best. 

One Block Wonder #2

The first layout. 

I haven't played with them yet and I don't have any left over. 

 I'm going to get the 2nd book One Block Wonder Encore out and look through it again (while watching the Pens game).  I want to put a few cube blocks in this quilt.

I see where I can do some tweeking, but overall I'm "having a heart-attack" happy with it!!

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I did a hand stand today! 

Actually I did 2 pretty good ones after about 7 or 8 crappy ones.  I was out in the yard with the dogs playing around and all of a sudden I thought, "I wonder if I can still do a hand stand?" 

I can. 

I'm feeling muscles now that I forgot were in there but that's about it.

I told Paul when he got home from work and he looked at me kinda funny and said something about wondering what the neighbors would think if they saw me out in the yard- alone doing handstands. 

Cracked me up! 

Block a days

I cut all the pieces last night, this morning I started bright and early. 

5/11-5/18 The top 6 are 12" blocks in CW repro fabric. The bottom 2 are 10".

After the picture I was putting them away and just for fun put up all the 12" CW blocks I have (15 so far)

Design Wall Monday (Week 18)

Here is the wall:

At the top are my 9-patch/snowball "leader-enders", I just love sticking them up there as I make them.

The 4 blue blocks on the left are the first Snowbound BOM (button on the side of page). They are this year's BOM from BunnyHill Designs.  I'm trying to use a Blush charm pack for the appliques plus a few green blender type charms from a different line.

The center 12 blocks are BunnyHill Design's 2009's BOM A Tisket A Tasket.  I used  Civil war repo charm and a few other fabrics.  I am loving this quilt.  The embroidery needs done on all the blocks in both BOM's but that should get done in the evenings watching tv or sitting on the porch. Porch sitting is one of my favorite good weather sports. 

4 lonely crumb blocks, and 2 finished FFF stitchey's that are up there while I decide how I want to finish them and on the cutting table my Bl-a-days, which have pretty much become a regular "habit" and I've thought a couple times about what will I do next year when this project is through...oh yeah, I'll be making a gazillion quilts with all these blocks, silly me.

I do think though that in a day or so everything will be off the design wall because of these:

The last 10 sets of triangles for the 2nd OBW! shivers of excitement...

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And finally, I came up to get the camera to take the pictures for this post and this is what I found.

What is wrong with the 2 matching dog beds right there that they had to walk by to jump up onto the sofa?

They are the best "bad-dogs" I know!

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