Pigs Flying All Over The Place

I had no idea what PIGS were until Joan at Moosestash Quilting told me. 

It was a brilliant blog hop idea to get some of our "projects in grocery sacks" finished.

She really pushed my button on this one!

I found way too many PIGS in my fabric closet. Yikes!

Thanks to Joan, I finished quite a few.

I found a great rock wall at a park near me...perfect for quilt photos.

PIGS #1

This one was started by my grandson but he never finished it.

His life is pretty busy right now, so I finished it for him.

 

It was a great way to use up a charm pack.

PIGS #2

The Ghastlie fabric is one of my favorites, but for some reason I never finished this one from 2011.

All it needed was to be quilted and binding added.

PIGS #3

My friend, Susan, made me this Ghastlie quilt top. I added a border, quilted it with minky 

on the back, and added binding. This one is mine...I love how soft and cozy it is!

It was a little windy for pics, but I managed with the help of my crew.

PIGS #4

Last summer, Joan came to visit (it was a whirlwind of fun!) and showed Susan and I

how to do pantos on my longarm. This was a practice piece and I didn't want to just

throw it away, so it now has binding and will be a donation quilt.

I've had the fabric FOREVER but never used it. Love those girls!

PIGS #5

This one was a paper pieced quilt that was sewn in 2012. It had the top, bottom, and binding 

just waiting in a bag for me to finish it. I scribbled some quilting on it and called it done!

PIGS #6

This quilt was made using the tube method of strips that get cut at different areas. 

It only needed a couple more strips at the bottom to be finished.

Quilted and binding added...done!

I think I love Joan for pushing me to do this...or maybe not. LOL 

She can be quite wicked (but fun) sometimes!

I've been so impressed with all the PIGS that have been finished.

Check them out all the PIGS by visiting these blogs...lots of fun!

Monday June 19

MooseStashQuilting

Quilting Gail

Songbird Designs

Quilt Schmilt

Words & Stitches

Scrapdash

 

Tuesday June 20

Quilted Delights

Ms P Designs USA

Selena Quilts

Just Because Quilts

Stitching Farm Girl

Bumbleberry Stitches

 

Wednesday June 21

BeaQuilter

crazy'boutquilts

Days Filled with Joy

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Texas Quilt Gal

 

Thursday June 22

Just Let Me Quilt

Karrin’s Crazy World

Inflorescence

VroomansQuilts

The Quilted Snail

BB In A Boxcar Or What

Now that Christmas is over I feel like two BB's in a boxcar. I'm all over the place!

There's way too many sewing ideas bouncing around in my head.

Which reminds me about a book I read as a child, The Boxcar Children.

I loved this book! I remember checking it out over and over from the library.

As for my sewing...

I feel like a bouncing ball that can't seem to land anywhere in particular and keeps hitting walls.

Kind of like Mitch Miller's bouncing ball...the one he had you follow along to sing.
I loved watching his show and had fun singing along as the ball bounced over the words.

Uh, back to my confused state of sewing decisions...
it appears that I have the attention span of a two year old Monkey Boy!

Oh look! He's playing Heads Up with the phone. If you've played the game with your family,
you know he has the phone backwards making it impossible to play the game.
Yes, that's chocolate on his face. I wonder if I have some chocolate leftover from Christmas?

Uh, where was I?
Oh, that's right. What to sew, what to sew, what to sew.

There's this cross stitching thing I'm working on for the next blog hop, Tammy 4 All Seasons.

It's far from perfect, but I've learned what not to do when cross stitching.

There's the We Support You blog hop that I just started working on.
Surprise, surprise...I keep changing my mind what to make.

I started this quilt a month or so ago for the second oldest Monkey Boy.
I put borders on it yesterday.

The label he drew needs to be embroidered before I can make the back of the quilt.

It's close to being done...well, sort of close.

Last night I started this other piece for Tammy 4 All Seasons.

I have no idea why I started it when the other one isn't done, yet.

Like I said...BB in a boxcar, bouncing ball, blah, blah, blah!

Maybe there's a little procrastination going on because I'm sitting here blogging instead of sewing.
Or, I may be sitting here because my head hurts from bouncing all over the place!

Maybe I should go take down the Christmas stuff and put it away.
Maybe not.

I hope you're all having a fun (and focused) day of sewing!

Now What?

Bowls With Borders is over and now I'm not

sure what to do with all my extra time.

No more reminder emails (some of you will be so glad about that) and 

no more oohs and aahs each morning as I looked at the newest bowl creations.

What do, what to do, what to do......

Well, there is that other hop coming up with Corrie....

 

A little black and white peek at what I'm sewing on this week.

Yep, there's dots!

And this hop with Cherry is a month away....I've got some ideas floating in my head.....

....oh, oh, oh, and there's this hop, too! SCARY! Wendy's ready to show her wicked side with this one!

I could work on all those unfinished projects that are waiting for me to bind them, quilt them, or just sew them together. Nah!

I DO look forward to catching up on all the blog posts I've missed, so I may be making comments on posts  made two (or three) weeks ago.

Of course, there's this that ends tonight
and then I'll be busy picking a winner:

I just love my little cheerleader...
thank you, Madame Samm!