Traditions, Illusions, Eye Spys and More!

 Ros quilted up the Traditions (35th Ave. BOM) quilts for my great aunts.  One for Sally and one for Jean Ann.  They are my beloved Grandma Char's sisters who are still living.  I cannot wait to get these bound and sent off to them in Wisconsin!

 Ros quilted them differently, so here you can see the backs.  Beautiful!

 I finally did another panel on the herringbone and put them all togehter.  I didn't quite get the pattern right--there was wine involved!  Oh well, it is together and will wind up on the couch and the dogs will spend the most time with it!  It was fun to do but not sure I would do another.  The panels stretch and it just was more frustrating than I like!

 I also finally tied this Eye Spy which has been waiting patiently forever!  I got it all bound in leftover dog bone binding (with a titch of polka dots to make it fit) and Rosey and Joe like it!

 Kathy finished her Grand Illusion Clue two tonight!  YAY!  She is really happy to have that in the rear window!

 I met Jill and we went for a hike today.  My knee still not up to snuff, but I NEEDED to get out there.  I brought my stick with me and we did two miles!  Kathy (who has shingles as of Tues. night) stayed home sick.

I managed to lose a pound this week (after a gain of .8 last week) despite barely working out or even walking.  I am at 81.4 I think it is...Kathy lost 6.5 because she was sick this week and her total is about 71. something now.  She will soon get her new bike.  

Weeknight Sewing!

Tonight I made my quarter log cabin in blue for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.  I also made Zig Zag in orange since Angela thought the layout needed another orange--I am following her lead so orange it was.

I also made another herringbone panel...they are rough trimmed but not really exact yet and are not sewn together.  Four more panels to go.

I also quilted and bound my Packers Lil' Twister which has been waiting patiently for me since just before football started!
It was so nice to have the evening off work so I could come home and sew for several hours uninterrupted!

Blocks, Blocks and More Blocks!

Today Kathy and I went to 35th Ave. and picked up the second to last Traditions BOM.  The year has flown by!  I also picked up a 1/4 inch foot for my Featherweight.  I had no idea there was such a thing available until last weekend's quilt camp.  I am not sure this is the same foot that the gals there were telling me about, but it seems to be alot more accurate than the tiny foot I had.  Yay on that!  I also made my Wild and Goosey Block so I could do my Quiltville Open Studio check-in for the weekend.  That really motivates me to get one done!

I then finally caught up on the RSC Sampler blocks (unless Angela posted another one in the past hour or two!) So here is Road to Oklahoma.  

And here is Twinkle Star.  The above photo shows my OOPS! I was Skyping with Barb and had been sewing for a long time and I held this up all proud and Barb said..umm let me see that again....haha! So I unstitched it after dinner and then after my workout I restitched it.  I have tried to use of leftover parts (that are overflowing from a bin) and this block has four leftover Celtic Solstice pieces.  I trimmed them down and ignored the fact that the star was supposed to be blue and the background white and called it good.  Love it when that works out!  And it made a slightly more involved block suddenly more doable, or as Barb says "I cheated" ha!

 I also made this block before dinner.  Nice easy # 22 from Tula Pink's City Sampler.  Since I already did block 21, I am set for this week!  Choose your own blockalong is coming along nicely!  Linking up with Live a Colorful Life!

 What a fun happy bunch of blocks they are!  So glad I will soon be wrapping up my RSC and then getting into this one...only so much space on the design wall!

I also made panel # 3 for Herringbone.  I have 5 to go, so much to sew and not enough time!
I got a new laptop today--my old one had more issues than I can tell you...worst of all it developed a jumping cursor so every time I typed I had to delete and find my spot and then ten keys later do it all over again.  It made it hard to blog, or answer emails from home.  Last night it wiped a whole bunch of my programs for the second time and rather than try to fix it all again we got me a new laptop.  That one will be reset by someone who knows more than us and Kathy will use it.  She is happy because hers died awhile ago and she has been using a super old laptop since.  So here's to hoping this laptop lasts me longer!