Hand Sewn Hexies, Pillowcases and Labels!

 Cut and sewed this pair of pillowcases for me and Kathy today.  The pillowcases are matching, but the fabrics are different on each side, kind of cool.  They are already in use on the bed.

 I went to Kathy's (sewing buddy) house today (see her in the back corner) and sewed with her and Barb (left) and Becky (right).  We had Bonnie on the QuitlCam while she was on which was hoots of fun!  Since Becky and I were done with our Easy Street Clue three I worked on Tobacco Road pinwheels with a few spools thrown in for good measure and Becky worked on a Christmas skirt for her daughter and some lounge pants for both her kids.  Kathy was working on cutting and finished up her clue three.  I was tickled to see she had some of the same connecting threads aqua with little circles in it as I did.  Barb was working on a customer quilt and hasn't started Easy Street, but she needed lots of space to work, so eventually took to learning how to use Becky's knitting hoop thingy.  I have a few of them with hats started (by DJ) that I need to finish up.  Next time we get together I think I will bring them.  Becky is a great teacher of those kinds of things!  Barb caught on in no time and was YouTubing other patterns it could be used with.

 I came home and hand sewed four labels on the Christmas present quilts, so they are all set to go!

 I also hand sewed up the flower from last week (I never got to it during the Packer game because I was upstairs doing other stuff and spaced it!).

 Not sure why my pictures are kind of cut off, but you get the idea.  I finished hand sewing the last hexi flower--finally!  Now apparently I need to hand sew them down to the brown squares.  May still be working on this next football season!

 Today is my oldest son's birthday!  Coleman is 26 which seems impossible to me.  I am not that old, lol.  Here he is being silly and not showing me his face with his bday/Christmas quilt.  It is the bonus Night and Day quilt.  He likes it, yay!  Happy Birthday Coleman, I love you!

Six Quilts in the Sun

My camera died, so on Black Friday we got a new one and apparently I need to figure out how to adjust the settings because all my pictures look overexposed.  Usually I bring my phone out and do pics with that at the same time to put on Facebook, but this time I did not, so since I am not trucking them all out there again this is the best it is going to be!  First above is Leap Year Schnibbles.  Below, is Anita's Arrowhead for my daughter Hannah this Christmas.  It matches her Christmas Tree Skirt I made her last year.

 This is Star Path and was a mystery quilt.  Pretty sure this one is going to Jill--my longtime friend from before Coleman was born.

 This picture is the worst...this is Dime Store Schnibbles..it has no home yet.

Above is Quilt History blocks from 2010..this one will go to my cousin Trisha and her hubby Bob.  Below is Bonus Night and Day for my son Coleman for his birthday coming up just before Christmas.

Randy's younger brother (in Ohio) had a massive stroke last night and prognosis is he will not survive (and if it does he will be a vegetable) so Randy will be flying to Ohio late tonight to say his goodbyes and be with his family during this hard time.  Dave was a great guy and I know he will be missed by all who knew him.  Life is short and you just never know...tell those you love that you love them often.  If you are the praying type, please say a prayer for the Clark's in Ohio.  

Binding Marathon!

Today Kathy and I met up with my mom and dad for the Tempe Arts and Crafts Fair.  We shopped and walked and got a great philly cheese steak sandwich at Corleones.  We were exhausted  by the time we left but very excited to get home and sew.  We put in Walk the Line and then The Green Mile and got busy.  I put the bindings on ALL SIX of the quilts I got back from Joanne.  YAY...several of them are Christmas gifts so I am really glad to cross them off my to do list.  I won't mention that none of them has a label yet, UGH.  So that is still on the list.  Tomorrow I will take pictures of them outside so you can see them all, but here they are getting bound.  

The first one is Hannah's Christmas Quilt (Anita's Arrowhead) and I forgot to machine bind to the BACK so I could machine bind it on the front, but I made it work anyways!  

 The second one is actually Kathy's most recent mystery.  This one may be for my good friend Jill (who was Coleman's father's girlfriend at the time he and I met--he has been out of my life for 25 years, she has remained close to my heart always..funny how things work out!)  or it might be for my cousin Tricia and her hubby Bob for their ten year anniversary.  At the time they married I wasn't big into quilting, so she is my only married cousin that doesn't have one of my quilts.

 This is was number three.

 I think this one was called Dimestore Schnibbles (I should check but I am in bed on the laptop--yep it is checked google!).  Not sure who is getting this one yet, but it will find a home.

 Number four is made of Mary Englebreit fabric.  Love this one!  It is also a Schnibbles--Leap Year.  I haven't been doing the Schnibbles the last few months.  Just have had too much else to do but I see pincushions are the next challenge and they make good gifts so I may try to squeeze that in somewhere this month.

 Leap Year.  Not sure who will get this one, I really love the fabrics, but I sure don't need to keep it.

 Number five is Coleman's 26th birthday quilt (coming up on Dec. 9th!) and this was made from leftover bits of Night and Day by Eleanor Burns.  Really happy with this one.

 And last but not least in the binding marathon was my quilt history quilt from 2010.  I am quite happy with this now that it is done...debating on this one for my cousin Trisha and her hubby Bob too.  My mom says she likes Americana so this quilt might fit the bill better than the one farther up.

Tomorrow, in addition to quilt photos in the sunshine, I plan to pull out all the "can be gifted" quilts and see what should go where and make the final decisions on these that I am on the fence on!  So very happy Joanne was able to quilt these up and get them back to me so I can get them out the door.  

In other sewing news...Kathy cut both our clue two rectangles that Bonnie told us about for a future clue and then she (and later I) cut some strips and squares for more Moth in the Window blocks.  I have been cutting them as I go and now we kitted some up to speed that project along!  I did sew up one spool block and cut up several more from leftover bits from making the bindings.  I have a great habit of making the binding when I do the backing but somehow with these six I had only made binding ahead of time for TWO of them!  I do have  a leftover binding drawer and I used a few from there and had to make a few too.  

Bonnie will be on QuiltCam tomorrow so I will be sewing up Moth in a Window blocks while listening to her!  Hope you have had some time to sew too!