The Elephants Are Coming!

I've been crazy in love with elephants ever since Lorna at Sew Fresh Quilts

created the most adorable quilt pattern, Elephant Parade, and had us quilt along with her.

Thanks, Lorna, for such a sweet pattern...I've had so much fun!

Even with my elephants going the wrong way and scaring that poor turtle, I love how it turned out.

To finish it, I added a double ruffle and some very simple wavy lines to quilt it.

I'm thinking of making another one in shades of blue (and no ruffle) for a more Monkey Boy look.

Don't you want to make one, too!

AND...

The Tree Bird blog hop is still happening...check out all the creative birdie things going on.
You can find the whole schedule by clicking HERE.

I have a GIVEAWAY going on right now along with the Tree Bird Blog Hop, so check it out, too!
HERE

Elephant Parade Quilt Is A Little Ruffled

 Sewing and quilting is going pretty slow in my life right now, but I did manage to get a

ruffle on my Elephant Parade Quilt. It's so girly looking and I love it!

I have it sandwiched together and ready to be quilted...soon, hopefully.

I've been hanging out with the older Monkey Boys while their mama spends time with the new baby.

They look like they're praying here with my oldest daughter, but they're really planking and

watching the timer to make sure they do it for who-knows-how-long. My daughter outlasted them!

Vickie at More Stars in Comanche was showing off her newly organized sewing room

 (it looked so tidy and clean!) and she asked me, "What's yours look like?"

Well...when I'm visiting the monkeys, I use a corner in the bedroom of my oldest daughter's house.

It's a dark room and it gets a little cramped when I bring all the things I think I might want to sew.

Unfortunately, I rarely get around to sewing everything I bring, but I drag it all with me just in case.

My other grandson, RJ, likes to hang out in my room while I sew.

The Tree Bird blog hop starts on Friday!

The Elephant Parade Quilt Moves On

My Elephant Parade finally moved on with the addition of more of my favorite solid fabrics, 

Robert Kaufman Kona. Now I just need to finish it. Hopefully that won't be much longer, but there is

the much anticipated arrival of another Monkey Boy that might take more of a priority for me.

I should have made this in blue fabrics!

Sew Fresh Quilts has the correct version of the direction these elephants should be going,

That poor little turtle looks so scared because the elephants are heading right at him!

Baby Monkey Boy (soon to not-be-the-baby) and the other grandson, RJ, tried hard not

to let me get a picture without them. They seemed to like those cute elephants as much as I do!

Elephants At A Stand Still

My Elephant Parade is at a stand still on my design wall because...

ALL WHITE FABRIC IS NOT CREATED EQUAL!

I already knew this, but I thought I had more of my white Robert Kaufman Kona in my stash.

NOPE...it is all gone! Yikes!

Here they are, all stopped facing the SAME direction. Poor things!

They were just heading towards "the chocolate on the left" and now they can't reach it!

I went to FIVE quilt stores in my area and managed to get just three quarters of yard of white.

That-is-all!

I had offers of all those other shades and brands of white fabric, but none of them matched

this project I had already started. Shame on me for not double-checking to make sure I had enough!

I still have to do some hand stitching on the quilt, so I guess I will work on that while I

wait to get more beautiful white Kona...not snow Kona, not eggshell Kona, or any of

the rest of those amazing Robert Kaufman Kona's.  Just plain white will do. 

Good thing I bought the whole quilt pattern so I won't fall way behind, but you can get the free quilt 

along patterns over at Sew Fresh Quilts if you'd rather do that. The directions are great and it has

 been fun to see what people are doing with their parade of cute elephants. 

Hopefully, my parade will get moving towards the chocolate very soon!

Elephant Babies And A New Blog Hop

I added 15 baby elephants to my stack for the Elephant Parade quilt along.

Of course, they are going the same way as the mama!

Thanks to those of you who told me it was "okay" to have ALL my elephants going one way.

 A while back I won the little fabric bundle I'm using for this quilt...Hug Me by Clothworks.

I've been holding on to it for just the right project...this is it!

The patterns are free over at Sew Fresh Quilts or you can buy the pattern. 

Come quilt along with the rest of us pachyderms!

AND...

Sew We Stitch announced a new blog hop yesterday, Tea for Two.

Mary from Needled Mom is cheering us on for this hop of vintage embroidery with

patterns by Cori from Chitter Chatter Designs. They are so beautiful!

Click HERE for all the details and sign-up information. Come join the fun!

AND...

The We Support You blog hop by Sew We Quilt ends this week, so be sure to check out all the

 creative projects showing our support for breast cancer....the whole schedule is over at 

Life in the Scrapatch...HERE.

Elephants Parade My Way

I was visiting Kris Loves Fabric and saw that she was participating in a new quilt along called
"Elephant Parade" created by Sew Fresh Quilts. Of course, if Kris was doing it, I had to do it, too!
It makes an adorable baby quilt...I love the elephants!

I was feeling rather proud of myself for following the really easy pattern directions,
something I'm not always good at because I'm easily distracted. There they were,
all cut out, sewn together, pressed and looking so cute. Then I saw it...WHOOPS!

All my elephants are going the same direction. Dang it! I missed that instruction!

Sooooo, my big elephants will be doing their own thing and going one direction.
I'm not sure how that will work out, but I'm out of the gray Clothworks fabric so I can't make more.

Next up will be the baby elephants...they are so cute!