Secret

I finally got to do some sewing this evening. This is a secret gift that I will be revealing here in the next couple weeks. I do not want to spoil the surprise. I believe it is called the color wheel, and I think I will be making more of these blocks. Fast and Fun. I first saw this block in Karrielynn's pinwheel quilt on her blog freckled whimsy. I then found it at the Sometimes crafter, with a link to the pattern here. There is a wonderful tutorial of this block at the sometimes crafter's blog. It is paper pieced and I really enjoyed making it. What do you think?

I also wanted to update you with my latest picture of my crazymomquilts quilt along. This is a picture of what it looked like at the end of week 6. I am currently trying to finish week 7. I know I am behind, but this quilt got to be a challenge real fast. I will complete it though. I can't wait to see what it will look like!

For now though, I am heading to bed...Good Night Moon!

Man is it Hot!

Well unfortunately my past two weeks have been a bit on the dry side for sewing and quilting. it has been too hot, and since my husband and I remodeled our garage to be the multipurpose room, I have not been able to get out there and sew as there is no air conditioning yet. I am hoping to get caught up on my Crazymomquilts quiltalong, and start my freckled whimsy quiltalong. Maybe tonight.... cross your fingers maybe pictures will be up tomorrow! By the way did I mention that 100+ is way too hot for me....

Okay so I am a slogger!

Happy Fourth of July Weekend everyone!

I know that I have been a slogger (slacking blogger) as my friends like to call them. I have been ill with a respiratory infection, and unfortunately unable to take meds since I am nursing my youngest daughter. Oh well, hopefully I can really kick it on this three day weekend.

Today was a wonderful day in that it was not 100 degrees and I was able to get some sewing done. I finished my quilt along with crazymomquilts for week #4.


So far I am loving all the colors and believe it or not my block ended up being 20 1/2 inches wide! YAY! I did it. I feel like I should get a ribbon or something :-)

I also got some more sashing done on my oldest daughter, Megan's Topsy Turvy Quilt by Kariepatch designs. I have two more sides of sashing left to sew before I can sew the rows together. There are 77 blocks in this quilt (70 for the quilt, and 7 for the matching valance). So far I have 90 different fabrics in this quilt, 89 of them are batiks. I hope it turns out as beautiful as I am imagining it. I will have more pictures to come when I have the sashing completely sewn on.

I also last weekend was able to start my Baby Jane, It is a rainbow Batik baby Jane and I am doing it as a BOM with Twiddletails. So far I have A1 and A2 complete.











A2 is a little rough around the edges, but I will keep it this way and call it a learning block!


Also this week I came across a strange inspiration...
These colorful onesies of Julia's and this eggplant quilt I found on flicker, what do you think a log cabin as shown or a spiderweb quilt? All my friends will tease me, because I do love me some purple. Hmmm thoughts to ponder....

I hope to get some more sewing done this weekend, but I better get the rest of the laundry done as well. Blessings to all of you who are traveling, and God Bless America! Enjoy the long weekend.

Love,
Angie

Yummy NEW UFO's

So are you asking yourself what a UFO is? Well it is an unfinished object. I don't know how many of you feel like this but I just love to put the fabric together for new projects. My start of this blog was to give me even more motivation to continuously work on and complete my UFO's. Well, I started two new ones this week. The first was because I had purchased this yummy brown fabric

by Michael Miller at my local quilt store Quilter's Corner. The fabric has been sitting out and talking to me for two weeks now....I happened to flip through my quilt pattern binder, and found a great pattern called French Garden by Swirly Girls Designs. Perfect! I started it this week. I can't wait to show you my progress.

I also this week decided to join my first blog quilt along with Crazy Mom Quilts. I cheated alittle and bought already cut 2 1/2" strips. Here is my color palate for Amanda's quilt. I cannot wait to get sewing on this one. This is my first time using hand dyed fabrics.

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and some great time sewing this week.

Love,
Angie