Weekend Sewing

 At my last Nimble Thimbles meeting I picked up a charity quilt kit with cute robots...I did not like anything else in the kit to go with the robots so I used my own fabrics to make the robots complete.

Then the leftovers had people..some talking on the phone, so I pulled my phone fabric and some others that would match and made another charity quilt.  I will return the not so cute squares for them to add to another kit.  While I was at it, I was then motivated to cut two more for my future baby quilts. One out of robots and one out of cowboy fabric.

 Meanwhile, I sent a suitcase back to Wisconsin with six quilt gifts in it.Brayden appears to have liked his Packer quilt and promptly ran around like it was a cape!

Barb gave me some bunnies on thimble shapes that she had leftover from a huge project she was doing.  I decided to make two tableunners for Easter to give as Christmas gifts to my mom and sister this year.  

 Kathy was sewing too and is finally working on the sashing (she is now up to borders) on her QOV from 35th Ave. last year.  We were watching Orange is the New Black and so after I cut our 35th Ave BOM for June for this year,

I decided to cut out and start sewing another Packer quilt from Amy's pattern.  I can never have too many Packer quilts.

March on Green Bay Packers!

 Last night I dug through my hst's (I have zillions!) and did not find one that would work for this block!  Wrong sizes, wrong colors, etc.  So eventually I made my own (took less time than the search, haha!) and so here is Bouncing Betty.  Linking up with Angela for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge!  While digging I found a leftover Orca Bay block that is the same size as these, so I threw it in the pile--may as well use it!

 I subcut my shirtings/whites and made four patches so I could whip these blocks up.

 It went together really fast and I have an extra block, extra parts and more than enough shirtings/whites left to make another one.  I am pretty sure one of my nephews will wind up with this quilt, so I should make another one so they have a matched pair.

 I had to see how it was looking.  I did not fussy cut the squares in the middle but I like how you get glimpses of Packer stuff!

 Amy's Passions has the tutorial for this quick quilt--she calls it "March" since hers was all green.  I shall call mine March on Green Bay Packers!  I am pretty sure I will add a yellow scrappy thinner border and then some Packer wider fabric on the outside...thinking on that still.  Thanks again to Tamara over at Bunbear Quilts for thinking of me and sending me Packer scraps and blocks--all these centers came from her gift!

 And while we are on the topic of GB Packers, my daughter surprised me with a belated bday gift of a Packer banner and a Melissa Etheridge coffee mug.  I love the thin lip of it and it has a cool design.  Hannah got to see Melissa in concert this past summer, one day I hope to see her too!  Already hung the banner in our Packer room!

  

 While I am on bday gifts, my best friend Monica in Wisconsin sent me all these goodies!  She says that these two air fresheners together are her favorite.  I hung one of each from my quilting studio fan and it smells fresh and clean in here!  One can never go wrong sending me books and coffee and I love trying out her favorite scent!

 A few days ago a coworker (Del) surprised me with gifts too.  It was completely unexpected, she is really a great gal who makes work go faster and a lot more fun.  She gave me some teas to try and a Starbucks card--cannot go wrong with that.

Last night I finished reading "A Sliver of Light" which was quite informative about prison in the Middle East and today I am listening to "China Girls" by Lisa See while I sew.  Kathy is off working, so I am going to go get some healthy spaghetti sauce going and work out before heading back up here to sew some more!
Lost 4.8 pounds this week for a total of 54.8!  Made up for last week's one pound gain!

Green (Bay Packers!)

 I wasn't too sure I was going to like this ticker tape block for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge Sampler, but it was kind of fun and definitely different.

 So far five green blocks.

 Then since I needed a project I immediately decided to "just start" on the March quilt that I had cut parts for yesterday.

 Eventually I sewed all the yellow and white four patches and all the green and white hsts.

 And then I snipped and ironed.

 So I thought why not just do one block.

 Which led to making all ten of these blocks!  Only ten of the alternate to go!

So then I sewed up all the shirting/white strips for the four patches in the other block (and wondered how exactly I have SO many yellow/white four patches left over--no worries they will get used, I just cannot count!) and here is my stopping place.  By the way this quilt is from a tutorial over at Amy's Passions from March of 2009!  I have always wanted to do it, and once it occurred to me I could change up the colors (and do it scrappy too) so that it would be a Packer quilt (have a whole list of folks who want one of those) I finally got to it.  Some things just have to hang out for five years I guess!

And the best thing is I can count this as some GREEN sewing!

Prepping for the Next Quilt Camp!

 I am planning to go to quilt camp again this Fall (though I haven't actually signed up yet!) and I got to thinking I should start deciding what I want to bring.  I haven't gone in a long while and I don't have near as many working in progress as I used to that I can bring with me.
First up is a paper pieced pattern of the Arizona flag that we got at shop hop last year.  I now have scraps all ready to go for two of them.

 I prepped up Piney Flats (a mini Bonnie Hunter) because I love those minis!  I am using leftover nine patches from Carolina Crossroads and Puddle Jump Mystery, but the rest is just cut and ready to sew.

 Several years ago Amy posted this pattern from a calendar picture that inspired her.  I was doing too much other stuff at the time and always wanted to get to it!  So finally I got to working cutting this one out.  I decided to do the four patches in yellow so this will be a Packer quilt.  I have no shortage of folks wanting one of those!

I have a few other things ready for cutting--pretty sure I will be all set by the time camp comes around!