Chunk Churn Dash, Easy Breezy and a Whole Lot of Other Stuff

I pulled out my leftover blocks to see what I could use to make a bunch of Christmas stockings for the step grands, honorary grands and grands.  I have lots of stockings in progress now but no pictures yet.

Found these churn dash blocks left over from I do not know what in my bins.  Could not find another project with this size churn dashes on my blog so no idea why I made them.  I need to make at least one more in order to complete a tiny top....or make more so I can have a baby size or something.  

I also made two more soft books and brought two (one is a duplicate) over to Hannah and Jeremy's house for Hazel.

We visited Hazel last Tuesday night and I held her for a long while.  I am going to see her tomorrow again.  Cannot get enough of this little face!

BJ and I have been doing a lot of sewing on camera.  I did the next clue for the Morewood Mystery and now have to wait for another month for the next clue!

Three of my four Chunky Churn Dash baby quilts are quilted (by me) and bound!  Pretty happy with how they turned out and the time quilting them went fast while chatting with quilting buddies online.  

We turned the heat on last Friday night...Wisconsin is in the 50's!  Arizona is still over 100.  CRAZY!  I made there Halloween bags from panels that Barb gave me.  Put them in a box with a bunch of other stuff and sent them off to the Ohio grands.

Speaking of cold...Kathy asked for handwarmers so I made us each a set.  We will be using them on the dog walks soon!

I also sewed up the Easy Breezy blocks until I ran out of friendship star blocks to go with them.  I will need to make more and then I can grow this one.
 As you can see I was all over the place in my sewing but I got a lot done!  I also made simple ornaments for the grands from the Scrabble tiles.  

Morewood Mystery, Games and Chunky Churn Dashes Galore!

Spent some time these past weeks cutting and sewing four Chunky Churn Dash quilts from Quiltville.  Free pattern if you click on the link.  SUPER fun and fast.  I was not planning on making four baby quilts (though I always seem to be in need of them for gifts) but it was fun since I used my huge bucket of kid fabrics.  I just kept on making sets while gabbing on the video phone with BJ and sometimes Andrea too.  At least we have technology during Covid to keep up close.  

Kathy made a table to go with my chair out front.  She still needs to make her chair..it is in progress.  I love reading out here and have read several books the past few weeks.

Hannah and Jeremy came over Friday (we had to quarantine after mom and dad left) since we knew we were going to see Jay Saturday and would have to quarantine again.  We are not taking any chances with the baby coming in less than a month!  So we played Horrified twice and finally won the second time!

SaS

Saturday at Jay's we took him to get new glasses and helped set up the futon we delivered (gifted since his sister no longer had room for it setting up for baby) and played Catan.  He won of course, but I feel like we held our own...only played it a few times.  

I started the Morewood Mystery too. Picked out my fabrics from my stash...chose a few I am not so nuts about but need to get them moving off my shelf!  This mystery gives a clue once a month (which is a little slow for me) but thought it would be something nice to look forward to.  She offters a sneak peak (she will email it) but you cannot post it so that those who do not want to see won't see it.  I have never done a mystery like that but of course I had to look!  

Mystery is all cut and waiting for the sewing instructions!

Dr. Scrappy Kathy finished her Jelly Snowflake and added an outer border to it.

Barb finished hers and added a star in the center which really makes her red pop.

Kathy and I sent one of the eye spy quilts to the family that bought our house.  They flipped it and did a great job.  His wife was pregnant with baby number 3..it arrived and their middle son claimed it before baby was born!  They sent us a nice thank you and this picture.  :) Makes our hearts happy!

I saw that on Temecula Quilt Company blog she put some little quilts in a wine rack for display.  Since i have yet to replenish my wine supply I decided to try it out.  Kind of cute!

Birthdays and Chunky Churn Dashes

 My birthday was last Thursday and I had a really nice day!  Kathy got me the Once Upon a Book Club selection and I saved it to read that afternoon.  If you have never seen this before, you get a book and several gifts to open on certain pages of the book.  The gifts relate to the story.  (If you get this and have not read August's yet, do not scroll down as I do post a picture of what the gifts were--do not want to spoil it for anyone!).  I loved this so much I ordered another one --the classic David Copperfield which I have never read.

 I decided to settle in on a quilt in the backyard with my ice coffee and start reading.  The dogs loved it! Here are the gifts I got.  The book was good "The Last Piece" by Imogen Clark.  Not one I would have picked out on my own, but a nice escape and well developed characters--so much so that when it was over I still wanted to know what happened in the lives of the daughters!

 I have also been sewing and made two Chunky Churn Dash baby quilt tops so far.

Bug is modeling with the quilt

 Kathy also made me a chair for my birthday (we had a pair and a table in AZ and sold them since we knew she could make another set).

 I read in it a bit today and then we painted it Packer green.  Will need some touch up tomorrow.  Kathy will make a second one and a table we will paint yellow too.

 My Mom and Dad stopped by and camped near Milwaukee for four days so we could see them.  We went to their campground twice and played lots of Play Nine.  They came here and toured Hannah and Jeremy's house and hung out here far from the kids since they have been with lots of family in Chippewa and the kids are really protecting my grandbaby--just in case.  Hannah is about 34 weeks along in this picture....it is getting close!

It was nice to have some time with my parents who are now heading back to Arizona early to be with my sister.  Mom hopes to come back when the baby comes, but with Covid and her health I am not sure it will happen.  Mom and Dad gave me a pretty crystal angel for my window and some cash--which was partly spent on the David Copperfield book.  Seriously I was spoiled this birthday and I got to spend it with my parents and Kathy.  Super special since we now live so far apart.

Dr. Scrappy Kathy completed her Jelly Snowflake quilt and it looks great!  The blues were a good color choice for this.  Love it!  

A Flimsy Finish and a Start

I finished the Jelly Snowflake Mystery Quilt top.  Turned out cute and most likely will be quilted by me and become a baby gift.  I never seem to have a shortage of folks who want a baby quilt so I am focused on doing more of those.  To that end, I have been Video Sewing with BJ (and Andrea) and BJ was telling me how much fun she was having with Bonnie Hunter's Chunky Churndash blocks.  That got me thinking I could use my kid fabric and make some more baby quilts!  

I kitted up oodles and oddles.  No counting or anything, just went through my bin and made sets that would work.  Here are the first six blocks...I already have lots more made and today I made the alternate blocks but have not taken more pictures so I guess I better get back to sewing!