State Soccer Championship Game

MY school, the one best known for our outstanding academic programs, is competing for the state championship in soccer tomorrow night.  Amazing!  The local paper had an excellent article on it this morning.  

Tiny Tuesday Mill Wheel and Flower

This is Midget Block 84. It is called Mill Wheel and is appliqued.  It is another one of the really cool blocks that uses two blocks that are pieced and then rotated before one is trimmed down and sewn on top of the other.  I did one with four patches earlier and a flower shape.  This one is pinwheels and a doughnut shape.  It has 24 pieces, though it started as only 16 before the layering. 

The next block was started several weeks ago but languished.  It is number nine from  the extra Midget Applique series.  It is called Flower #6, which is a distressing unoriginal name.  I think it should be called Honeysuckle.  It has 10 pieces. 

Design Wall Monday February 13, 2012

I'm not sure why I woke up so early this morning.  Eventually I decided to do something useful with the time. I got borders on the crumb-along blocks as well as a few Jamestown Landing blocks put together. 

The cheddar bow-ties have overfilled the wall they are on. I think I need one more row in either direction to get it to be the size I'd like.  I still have an hour before I need to be awake, I think I'll go give sleep a try. 

Sunday Sewing Day

Today I finally got into the sewing room again.  I would have worked on the borders for Orca/Flamingo, but honestly, I'm not sure where they are.  I started shuffling things around a bit and tidying odds and ends until I stumbled across the crumb blocks still left from the crumb-along at Jos Country Junction.  I had about half the finished blocks I needed but lots of orphan crumb bits in my happy scrappy jars.  So I dug and sewed and ironed and trimmed, making a huge mess along the way. All I need are some borders and my crumb quilt will be ready for quilting. 

While that was going on I worked a bit more on Jamestown landing. I'm not quite sure how many broken dishes blocks I have, or how many I need, but there are some more ready to work through the system.

Finally a Flimsy

Orca (Flamingo) Bay has been sitting in pinned rows by the machine for several weeks.  I sat down today to get all the rows together.  I hope the border will help to calm it a bit, as there is quite a bit going on here.  I think all the kids have dinner plans with friends.  How odd that they would all go out without us. I was going to hide out and sew, but I guess now I'll have to be hang out with my husband instead. 

Beautiful Backgrounds

There is a quilt shop not far from the museum for the Girl Scout outing this morning.  We made a quick stop and got for lunch before heading home.  Because I had a gift certificate from Christmas and no particular quilts in the works, I hit the sale wall and focused on backgrounds.  Sydney added a couple of her own choices too.  She didn't quite agree with my neutrals are always necessary philosophy.  Everyone seems happily involved in playing with friends now, so I think I'll sneak in to sew a bit before somebody needs me. 

ScrapHappy Saturday - Naturally Still Green

I haven't been posting much lately, just not much time or energy for sewing these days.  Everything goes through cycles though, and I'm sure my motivation will return soon.  Today there is a Girl Scout trip and a birthday party, but I still hope to find some time.  Tomorrow looks wide open so maybe I can have a little sewing room retreat?  There were already lots of beautiful green scraps coming together last week.  Use the linky below to share your progress this week. 

Green Geese and Home Again

 We got back from Camping around lunch time.  I will admit to a quick snooze on the couch, but after that I did venture to the sewing room for a bit of time.  I had some red geese left from last month and so decided to make some green to keep them company.  They finish at 2 by 3.5 and are just the right size for the waste triangles from joining binding strips. 

The camping was just perfect.  Beautiful weather, everyone got along well and the campsite took care of most of the work.  Hard to ask for much more than that really.  It is hard to really call it camping when you are staying in air conditioned cabins and eating hot meals served at regular intervals, but it was lots of fun nonetheless.  It will probably be my last year to attend this particular event as most of the girls won't continue with scouting when they go into junior high next year.  Everyone will be scattered to different schools depending on the results of applications and lotteries for all of the schools of choice. 
The super bowl is starting soon, and though I was content to curl up in jammies and enjoy the commercials, we've been asked over to a neighbors party and will go and visit for a bit.  I had to ask who the teams were, so you can guess how keen I am to enjoy a sporting event.  It will be nice to visit with the neighbors though. 

ScrapHappy goes Green

I think it is appropriate that the new color for February is green.  I'm off this weekend at a Girl Scout camping event and being all sorts of green.  I have so many projects started with red that I should be able to just start the same cycle in green.  I need to make green houses, green log cabins, green stars, a green place-mat.  I wonder if all that will use all my green scraps?  What green thoughts are starting to work through your head?  Use the link below to link up to your own green ideas, projects or ponderings.
I am printing out a color symbolism chart for a freinship pin craft this weekend, this is what it had to say about green: Nature, environment, healthy, good luck, renewal, youth, spring, generosity, fertility, jealousy, inexperience, envy, misfortune, vigor.

Chaos Theory

It is hard to remember the last time I saw the dining room table.  I know it is under there somewhere.  Buried under lego blocks and Girl Scout bags and craft supplies.  The regional tournament is this weekend, and with no hope of going on to state, that should free up some space.   All of the recycled gift bags are going to leader daughter along with the craft supplies.  I will cook a big fancy meal when it all goes away so that we can eat at the dining room table as a family.  Until then I have goody bags to stuff and crafts to organize and clothes to pack.  I am looking forward to a camping weekend. 
Sadly that means I won't be here to sew on scraphappy Saturday.  Has anyone noticed that the new color is green?  I'll leave a scheduled link up box and hope that it all works as it should.  I'll have my handy i-pad, but I don't think the wild outdoors has wi-fi.  Have fun thinking green thoughts and I'll check back in on Sunday.