May's Goal in Review

There is nothing in the world like that of knowing you accomplished something wonderful!  With that being said it is time to review my goals for the month of May.

I had made 5 goals for May to be completed in only 10 days.....(no pressure there!)
Well I am here to say that I completed 3 of the 5 goals!! (Does a little happy dance :-))

I pieced a backing, sandwich, quilted and bound my Postage Stamp Quilt.

 

I decided to keep the quilting simple with diagonal lines.  I was thinking about making boxes, but my hubs changed my mind for me. 

I love this quilt, and my oldest daughter does as well. I am believe that she will be keeping it on her bed.  I still have enough of the Farmer's Market fabric to make at least one more quilt! Oh the possibilities....I must ponder this for a bit!

 As well as a completed quilt, I was able to make my BOM for my LQS, and piece more City Sampler Blocks. You can check them out right here! I am enjoying these blocks and hoping that my fabric choices are as nice as Miss Tula Pink's Quilt. 

I was trying to get this post to you all you all sooner, but Blogger is being bad! Hopefully, it will start acting straight and I will be able to let you know what my June goals are, and about some more City Sampler Blocks. I hope you are having a great day and I will chat with you all soon!


Love,
Angie

One Star can comfort a solider!

Have you heard about this wonderful program sponsored by Moda, Quilts of Valor and headed by the Semper fi fund?

It is a challange by Moda to make 100 quilts by Flag Day June 14, 2010.  That means making 1800 star blocks.  You can find all the good information and the star pattern here! But I have a feeling they will make 3 times that many quilts. They are asking quilters to make one star in blue or red and sign your name and location to the block and mail them in. Moda and some wonderful quilters will peice, quilt, and bind the quilts to be given to our service men. Can you ask for a better reason to sew than that!

So as many of you know,  I am a CTRS (certified therapeutic recreation specialist) who works with disabled adults in a daycare setting. They wanted to do an activity around quilts since Saturday is national quilt day! I saw this call for action last week and decided it might be perfect for us! I pitched it to them today and we are IN!! They are already asking me if I can make enough for a whole quilt for a solider? 

I even offered to give some fabric from my stash so that they can choose their fabrics to make their stars! I know it may not seem like alot, but for these folks who are already disabled and want to help others, they jumped (some of them literally) at the chance to say thank you even if it is in a small way, and even if it means I may spend all weekend sewing blocks together! I am super excited about it! Hurah! as one of my former military members put it! :-) all smiles!

Who is in with me? check out Rachel's blog for a challenge to go with this quilt challenge!

A Quilt in Less than a Month

I joined Rachel's postage stamp quilt along at PSIQuilt back in January. I could not believe we would be making a small bed size quilt in a month however, I finished up very early this morning...I won't tell you just how early, but I am definitely working on very little sleep today! But here she is...

Isn't she pretty?!?

And a look close up too...

I decided to use Farmer's Market by Sandi Henderson for Michael Miller Fabrics for this quilt. I love all the bright cheery colors against the white. I know I love the brights, but they just make me smile. I had originally bought most of these fabrics in a kit. I loved the quilt, but changed my mind and picked another color scheme for that quilt. 

I decided for this quilt along (and pretty much all quilt alongs I join this year) to bust open my fabric stash and between the kit I had purchased and my stash, I had 24 of the fabrics from the line...not too bad. I did have to cut them into 2.5" strips, but I used a tool called the Shape Cut by June Taylor, and I have to say it is my new favorite friend. Much cheaper than buying Jelly rolls of solid colors. And from there the piecing went fairly easy.  

The best part of this quilt is that I finished the top in less than a month :-) I used 6 yards of fabric from my stash, and my darling 3 year old helped me with this quilt. She decided it was fun to layout the fabrics and help mommy iron the blocks, as well as layout my blocks in their rows. So although there maybe the same fabrics side by side, but that is what she wanted, and I loved her helping me quilt! :-)

Well I hope that you all have a blessed weekend, sorry for the long post.. I had a lot to say! :-) 

Postage Stamp Quilt Along Update

I was able to finish cutting all my strips tonight. Here they are looking all pretty...

and of course I couldn't just leave them alone, here are 4 of the blocks.


Now only 44 more blocks to make, and then I have to stitch them all together. Normally, that would not be that bad, except all my gals (mad love to my girls) and their families are descending on my house this weekend for an awesome get together! I need to get working on this quilt, and my house...hmmm the choices! :-)

Happy Sewing and Quilting!