Sewing Pretty Things

I've been sewing lots of things lately.  Just whatever I happen to feel in the mood for. 

At my leisure. 

I did have a self imposed deadline for my Stars and Stripes, the fourth of course.  

 

Oddly enough when it came to basting it, I thought about going batting-less.... after much debate I ended up going with a layer of flannel instead of batting.  I love how thin it feels.  One day I'll make a summer quilt without batting... one day. 

Closing the binding was a race to finish on the 3rd, but I managed to get it done just in time.

The hubs had shoulder surgery in May, and cannot raise his arm up yet, so my quilt photos are going to suffer for awhile.... but oh well.

I made my test block for the Summer 2017 Bonnie and Camille Dwell Swap.

I have most parts of the butterflies cut and ready to mass produce.  I need to make 24 paper pieced butterflies.... It was possibly a bad idea. Luckily I had to order the white solid approved for the block, so I have time until it arrives.

I got my Chandelier quilt top done.  It is from Vanessa Goertzen's book Charm School.

This pattern is too, it is called Railroad Crossing.

Call me crazy but I am going to collect tops for a bit, then maybe this winter I will finish them up....This is my third project from Charm School, this one is called Scrap-Happy.  I broke open FOURTEEN beloved candy packs for this pattern.  

I am just starting with the chain piecing.

And as if I don't have enough going on (notice I haven't mentioned my Snippets, because I have not made any progress on it)

I've decided to make a second Fancy Forest!  In Bonnie and Camille!

I pulled my fabric groups for it and ordered my background..... So after I get my Dwell houses made, and catch up on my Snippets, and get the Scrap-Happy quilt assembled, and quilt and finish the Railroad Crossing, and then quilt and finish my Snippets...... I can start this Fancy Forest.  

**Insert all the crazy face emoji here**

Also, we are getting ready to finish the process to be certified as foster parents... so sewing time might come to a screeching halt soon anyhow. We will see!

-Happy Sewing to you!  

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.