AZ Blankets 4 Kids Day!

 Today was AZ Blankets for Kids Sew Day.  This time we met really close to the college I work at.  Samantha made this modern looking quilt.  And I made this cute one.

 Later I made this one which was cuter in person.  I messed up on the bottom two rows but they told me to just leave it, it looks okay...lol.  Hard to see too but one of those brownish looking fabrics had tiny purple stuff on it and it was cuter in person.

 Here is Christine (Samantha's mom and my co-worker) with her cute top!

 I did a binding too but decided to go back to piecing next time.  My featherweight isn't the best at the binding...the 99 is so much better but of course that is left at home because it is so heavy!

 I got a kick out of this picture of Samantha and I ironing, lol.

 Here is our whole group.  Barb, Christine, BJ, Limbania, Ann, Samantha and a spot for me.  We had a lot of fun!  You can see Kelli in the background too.  Laura was there for most of the day and a few of the gals from the Grand Illusion mystery kick off too--Karen and another gal I already forgot the name of!

Ann brought me a huge bag of scraps!  I spent a good hour sorting and playing in them after I came home and worked out.

 Here is the string pile I came up with.

 Here are a bunch of strips that went right into the right bin tonight.

 Lots of colorful scraps for the Wild and Goosey and future paper piecing projects.

 Lots of neutrals for same.

 I made my Wild and Goosey block (started it last night) and put some of Ann's fabric in it!

 I also finished up this charity quilt for Nimble Thimbles tonight.  It was a kit, not real tickled with the fabric and such but I did what I could with what they gave me, lol.

 I then did my Nimble Thimbles Block Party block.  They gave us the center fabric and told us to add two fabrics to it and make the block.  Then at the next meeting we will draw and someone will win a set of the blocks.  The block is called Friend's Star and the directions on Quilter's Cache left plenty to be desired.  Suffice it to say I wound up doing my own thing and using the picture more than anything.  That said, the block looks good.  The center fabric is actually purple but this picture shows it pinky/red.  Weird.

 I also got the corners on the eye spy quilt blocks that have been waiting patiently for me to get to them.  I had to cut out more corners and now they are made.  Have to find the pattern (it was around here awhile ago) so I can remember how to lay things out...may have to just find the previous one on the blog.
Off to bed, I have been sewing all day and my shoulders are killing me!  More tomorrow, I am sure!

Productive Sewing Saturday!

I finally got the center together for My Blue/Purple Heaven!  It is 7x9.  I need to get borders on it next!  I am really happy with how it looks and Lexi loves it too!

 Kathy whipped up this little quilt for AZ Quilts for Kids.  She brought home a few kits again and this is the first.  Cannot go wrong with all that purple!

 I decided I should try to get back on doing a few Wild and Goosey blocks each month so that I can continue to make progress on that quilt.  I have tons of little scraps to choose from...the cut off parts from the lozenges fit many of these spots perfectly, so each month I am getting more colors to pic from!

 Yesterday we picked up the 35th Ave. Traditions BOM.  Last night while watching movies (Diary of Anne Frank--Kathy had never seen it! and some shipwreck documentaries) I cut and sewed my block.  Not much contrast in some of it, but it is what it is!

And to round out my productive sewing day I also made quite a few green lozenges.  I have lots more green to go!
Well, I have already biked for thirty minutes and am ready to get back to sewing.  This week I lost 2.8 pounds for a total of 30 lost!  Trying to take it day by day, lately it seems harder than it was!

Catching Up!

 I had a great mail day on Thursday when this book came in the mail.  I am already almost half way through it and really enjoying it!

Found out about an estate sale that included every kind of crafty stuff you can imagine (times ten) where the prices were out of this world and went nuts on Friday after work.  Looks like a mess here...

 Lots of rulers to add to our collection.

 I decided to change the way I was folding the fabric on my shelves because much of the shelf was wasted with it folded into forths.  Now it is folded in half and in rainbow order!

 

 This is the pile of backings I have now amassed.  I was really down to nothing in that department and am so tired of spending so much cash for a backing when I need one.  If it was a big chunk and I liked it, it came home for a backing!

 This morning, Kathy and I met up with my friend and co-worker Christine and her daughter Samantha.  Christines' mom came too.  It was a Arizona Blankets for Kids sewing bee!  My friend Kelli from PHXMQG is on the board and had encouraged me to go and Samantha really wanted to do some charity sewing...she made her first quilt top!

 Here are Samantha and Christine just as she is getting started.

 Here I am with my quilt top.

 Christine and her mom also got into tying and trimming some fleece blankets while we sewed.

 She learned how to web her quilt and she didn't mess it up once!  (I messed mine up before I started webbing it, lol!)

 They had stacks and stacks of quilts..I think all told we made about 200 is what I heard.  There were 72 people there and everyone had some kind of job!

 It was a lot of fun and we all plan to go back!

 Kathy and I decided to go back to the estate sale so I could look for purples and novelty fabrics.  There was two whole rooms I really hadn't even been through yesterday!  Here is the stack of purples I found.  Lots of smaller pieces which is great for scrap quilting, so my purple is replenished!  I even found a purple chunk for a backing!

 Not the best picture, but this is the stack of novelty fabric I found--in a zillion different boxes and bags..quite an upper body workout and my hands are SO dry from touching so much fabric!

 Found this cute fabric and several pieces with words on them too!  I also found a bunch of white on whites so I am set on that for awhile!

 I am happy to say that both yesterday and today after getting home from the sale, I folded, organized, cut and reorganized everything so that almost ever piece of about seven garbage bags of fabric is put away!  The little chunks are under the ironing board by color and the bigger chunks are folded and put away here, with whites in a large tote and backings stacked up!

 

 The only actual sewing I did tonight was in finally quilting and binding this Maverick Stars baby quilt for Shiny's baby Jayden!  He is over a month old and I will be sending this home to Wisconsin for him on Monday!