Backing Bonanza

The little blue extras quilt was hanging out on the dining room table patiently waiting.  

So I dug into the scrap bin and found a Noah's Ark panel which didn't have a home.  There was also a long strip of dark blue which must have been leftover from another backing.   I used that as a frame to make the panel large enough.  This one should be ready to go whenever I am in a quilting mood again.

Theres was a star quilt also waiting to have a backing prepared.  I found some teal fish.  Maybe this extra bit of teal and purple with stretch it out enough?

 I got the binding machine sewn onto the postage stamp quilt.  I'll save the handwork for tomorrow of course.

 Also, look at the blue scrap basket that I made to go with the green one from last year.  I am hoping to get the scrap stash down enough that each color will fit in its own basket.  I'm not quite there yet though.  Maybe if I make a light blue basket as well it will work out.
Now I have to decide if I am done for today or ready to press on.

ScrapHappy Saturday - Still Singing the Blues

I made a quilt out of random leftovers.  There are three in line to quilt, but this one is in there somewhere.  There is still more than a week left in January though, which means one more blue Saturday after today.  It works out well to have a long blue month, hopefully that means you have more time to dig to the bottom of your blue scrap bin.  I think for most of us on the east coast of the United States, home in the sewing room will be a very good place to be this weekend.  I can see the palm trees swaying in the bridge and we have already seen our high temperature for the day.  Hot tea and scraps of fabric sounds like a great plan to me.  Misterlinky is below, please share your own scrappy blue progress with us all.

Happy and Scrappy on Sunday

It is a Sunday, but also a Saturday as I get to stay home tomorrow in my pajamas and sew some more.  Ah happy day!

So in celebration of an extra day at home, I sewed these blocks together.  They were all done as part of RSC15, but needed to be sewn together.  Maybe a nice wide border and a soft snugly flannel backing?

The extra blue pinwheels got a narrow white border before the extra blue spikes.  I found a big piece of dark blue in the scrap bin, but it might be too dark.  Maybe something lighter or brighter?  

These are the rest of the geese from crumbs.  I'd better do some math and figure out how long they should be.  Perhaps a narrow white strip between each row of geese.  I am thinking of an up down  arrangement, maybe with a transition to look like the geese are flying around the corners?  I'd better get out the graph paper and start some planning.  

Blue Pinwheels

It has been a while since I have actually managed to finish anything. So I went digging through my Rainbow Scraps and pulled out the Blue Pinwheel quilt that I worked on during January. It was finished (even had borders!), but needed to be layered and quilted.  I did a simple stitch in the ditch by machine and scallops in the border.  I just finished sewing down the binding, so it is officially done, done.

Kurt took the kids to the beach this morning, they came home all sandy and sunburned:).  Then I got my hair cut and took Sydney to a birthday party. After that it was a couple of loads of laundry and a bit of puttering around the house. Kurt rented Tron and I snoozed through it.  Not a bad Sunday at all.
We've got FCAT (Florida Comprehensive Achievement Test) testing this week at school so it will be lots of odd schedules and figuring out where to be. I think the rest of the school year is going to be a bit that way, so I'll just go with the flow.

Friendship Bread

Someone brought bags of friendship bread to the Girl Scout meeting on Monday. Then one of the leaders compared it to the ashes of campfires that are ceremoniously collected at each camping event and then spread into each new fire. The idea is that the same ashes unite all of the fires to each other. Today as I was finishing up the Dad's Plaids blocks (finally) I put together some of the "bonus" pinwheels from a quilt I made when my nephew was born last year. My quilts never seem to end. Little bits of one lead to another and the scraps from those lead on to the next. I'm thinking of putting a wide border on this one and doing some kind of appliqué. I might also experiment with some more wonky letters, but I'm not sure what they should say. The original quilt was called Zach's Shining Star, so I should try to tie that theme in somehow. Maybe something like Star Light, Star Bright. It's not very big, so I don't know how many words will fit.
One of my neighbors called this afternoon to chat and we discovered that both of our husbands were out of town for dinner. We went over to let all the kids play together and ordered some pizza for dinner. It was nice to catch up on all the neighborhood gossip and chat over a glass of wine. After I came home and got the kids put down, I did some serious chain piecing and am just about done with ALL of the blocks for the Dad's Plaids quilt. It takes a lot longer to make a king size quilt than a cute little wall hanging. Steel Magnolias was on cable, so I sat and matched up squares and cried my eyes out. I'm such a sap sometimes.