Fireworks

Can you believe it I finished a quilt!?

I love it.

This project took me months to finish, of course I have been playing around with other things too.

It's already on the sofa getting use.

I finished two sets of Coral of the Sea.  They were birthday gifts for nieces who turned four recently.

I am behind on my Snippets blocks.  I hope to catch up soon.

But right now I am working on a Stars and Stripes quilt.  I'm planning to get this done before the fourth..... We will see!

Oh!  I almost forgot!

I signed up for a Dwell block swap too... I'm easily distracted can you tell!

Nothing Gets Finished

I've been working here and there...

But nothing has been completed.

I've been on time with my Snippets QA blocks

 And I started a new quilt.  

I'm hosting a year of Charm School quilts on FB and this moth was the Chandelier quilt.

I'm using Gooseberry

I nearly have my top done.

Eventually I will finish something....

There Has Been Sewing

I have been sewing!  Here and there.  On this and that.

I'm happy to not be on any deadlines. Sewing for myself, with fabrics that I love.

In fact I recently succumbed to the IG peer pressure of the Snippets QA

Sure it took me months to hunt these charms packs down, but why shouldn't a crack them open and sew them up!  Right?  Everyone else was doing it.  I'm glad I did, but I will tell you after I had taken them all out of their wrappers I did let out a shriek that had my hubby asking what happened.  

I got this week's blocks done.  They are fun.  Way less annoying than I had imagined.  Maybe because it's just four per week. 

I'm plugging away here and there on my April Showers quilt blocks.  I like this pace.

I do have a secret sewing finish to share! 

The online group I am apart of made a baby quilt for another impending bundle of joy.  (I think this is the twelfth group baby quilt and there are two others due this summer!  This group is FERTILE.  Actually between the eleven active mommas in the group we there are 24 kids!) Anyhow!  

I volunteered to assemble and finish this quilt and I just love it.  She wasn't planning to find out what she is having, so we planned low volume/ BLACK and then a mint sashing!  It's fantastic!  However when I had all but four blocks in my possession we found out she was having a boy!  So I made my low volume hedgehog light blue. 

I picked a Cotton and Steel low volume print for the backing and I just love how simple it is.  

A Fast Make

The Friday before we left for spring break these blocks arrived.

I was so excited and so deeply in love with them I just started right in sewing!

I had five days.

I totally banged it out!

I hit a jackpot at my LQS finding a bolt of this April Showers dot for the backing.

I am so happy I decided to try this block exchange.  

I was so nervous, but it was so fun to get these blocks and start playing with them! 

This quilt is well loved!  

It has been on the sofa since it was finished.  

All humans and animals love it up regularly.

I just finished a secret sewing project, and as soon as it is shipped and received I will share.  

Lots of Little Things

I've been MIA lately eh?  

Things took an interesting turn right after my last post.

I was getting ready for Hawaii and was antsy, so I started finishing up stuff.  

I finished the snowflake mini.

Whipped up a scrappy mug rug.

Finished up this Rose mini quilt.

Finished this I-spy.

And I whipped these travel pouches up for our trip.  

And I'll share the most exciting part soon.  

Sewing Other Things

I haven't been finishing things, but I have lots going on in different stages.

I have started my April Showers quilt cutting.  I am using the Fireworks pattern.

I made a snowflake block recently.  

I plan to finish it up soon and will use it on my dining table next January.  

The I-spy I have been working on is quilted, and the binding is ready to be sewn closed.  I am waiting for my neighbor to finish the binding on her first quilt, because she borrowed my green thread.  

I made these paper pieced roses yesterday.  

It is a mini quilt that will be a bingo prize for my virtual quilt group.

I want to get these things finished up before we leave for Hawaii next week.  

Well, maybe not the entire April Showers quilt, but perhaps the cutting is a good goal.

  

Cotton Blossoms

This past weekend I was able to finish my Cotton Blossoms quilt.

I went a little wild on the quilting, just kind of making it up as I went.... I think it is alright.

I found a suitable backing in the bargain room at my local quilt shop. 

I think it was a Sandy Gervais print.

I'm happy to have another older line I was missing now part of my Bonnie and Camille quilt collection!

After finishing the cotton blossoms quilt I got to work on the I-spy quilt I wanted to make.

I need to find a backing.