Who's Following Who?

Thank you to all who left comments on my table topper post. You are all amazingly kind and thoughtful to leave such sweet comments. I loved every minute of it!

I have totally enjoyed the blog hop, especially because I found some new and incredible blogs to follow. Getting Followers or having people leave comments is a real motivator in blogging. There's just something about knowing that people will be visiting that spurs us on to create, write, sew, photograph, cook, or whatever our blog is about.

I picked up a few followers to my blog and I am thankful to those who clicked that "Follow" button. I don't post very often and I'm not a pro quilter like most of those who participated in the hop, but I do love to sew and post my "creations" on my blog.

So....

A BIG THANK YOU TO THOSE WHO

FOLLOW OR COMMENT

ON BLOGS/WEBSITES!

And....

A VERY, VERY BIG THANK YOU TO

MADAME SAMM AT

sewIquiltnow.com

FOR HER ENCOURAGEMENT TO ALL OF

US DURING THIS REALLY

FUN BLOG HOP!

Table Toppers Hop

I'm loving this challenge to make table toppers (it's my first time entering one of these things.) I've been so excited and impressed at all the the mini's that everyone has made--I'm such an amateur compared to all of you! I've never made a quilt this small (12x14), so it took a while to figure out what I wanted to make. I even hand sewed the binding and hated every minute of it! It makes my hands hurt too much.

The first one I made--love the fabrics!

I do love my little quilt holder and just had to make

 a few more mini quilts to hang on it.

St. Patrick's mini

...and I just HAD to throw in a Ghastlie mini!

A Little Ruffled

I had started making blocks from the Valentine fabric I had won on Madame Samm's blog, but just couldn't get into it. Sometimes shiny things or new fabrics distract me and I drop what I'm doing and start something new. One of these days I'll drag out all those unfinished quilty things and join a "Finish Friday" group or something. I'd love to clear out my closet to buy new fabric to clean things up a little.

Anyway...

Quilted Works was having a party all week for their anniversary, so of course I had to stop by, and of course I had to buy something (I love that store!) They had more of the the fabric I had won on sale, so I bought a bit more to make sure I had enough to do whatever it was I was going to do to finish the quilt.

Then I saw it!

There was a baby quilt displayed on the wall with ruffles that was just so dang cute. I knew I had to make a quilt with a ruffle. Since I rarely follow a pattern exactly (because I'm easily distracted or whatever), I started piecing some of the leftover pieces from the blocks I started, added a strip here and there, and then added a ruffle. A cute little ruffle. I love the ruffle!

It turned out like this

(and yes, I notice two blue blocks, too close together....ugh!)

I'll post it again once it is quilted and hopefully,

that cute little ruffle will show-up better.

The Sun'll Come Out Tomorrow.....

....and then it is time for Madame Samm's Table Topper Blog HOP. Whoohoo! I'm pretty excited to see what everyone has whipped up for this HOP and find more quilty blogs to visit. My table toppers will show-up here on Monday, April 23rd, along with a mini giveaway. I'm new to these mini-quilts and am so hooked on them! Thanks Madame Samm for putting together this lovely HOP!

Here's the schedule:
Just click on a name and
it will take you to the BlogHop-of-the-day!

Monday April 16th

Jacque (Snoodles)

Lesley

Sharon

Dawnmarie

Piece Peace

Tuesday April 17th

Kris

Marcia

Jenny

Sheila

Josie

Wednesday April 18th

Vickie

Shanna

Deonn

Mrs Pickles

Sharon

Thursday April 19th

Leslie ( lesquilts)

Jennifer ( that girl)

Patty D

Karen

Katherine

Friday April 20th

Marlene

Charlotte

Leslie

Darlene

Jane

Michelle

Cherry

Monday April 23rd

Christine

Just Carol

Patty D

Wendy

leanne

Elaine M

Judy C

Tuesday April 24th

Jennifer m

Roxanne

Syd

Selina

Connie

Patti

Jane

Wednesday April 25th

Mary

Thearica

Marianna

Kelly

Marnie

Pauline

Mdm Samm

Triangles!

I've been wanting to make a two color quilt, so I bought some bright green and plain black charm packs from Green Fairy Quilts. The pictures don't quite do justice to how pretty a green it really is. Having seen this fun and easy technique on making triangles, I thought I'd attempt them. I love it!

Put two squares right-sides together and

sew around all four edges.

Cut corner to corner and then

corner to corner the other direction.

Open up each cut triangle to get these cute

little blocks--iron them open.

Arrange the squares in a pattern of your liking--I

like it this way for this quilt.

Now I just need to sew all those little blocks

together, which may take a while.

To be continued...hopefully...with a finished quilt. 

Diet? What Diet?

Heck with the diet.

It was Easter AND my 40th anniversary.

Yum!

Too Early For Ghastlies?

It's NEVER too early for Ghastlies!

Quilted Works got one of my favorites (maybe even my VERY favorite) fabric lines in, the Ghastlies, and of course I had to have some!

I love, love, love the pregnant Ghastlie pushing the baby stroller and though I'm going to be making a quilt (in progress), I thought I'd start with a diaper/wipes bag just for fun.

This is the back with that adorable (if

Ghastlies can be called adorable) pregnant

momma pushing the stoller.

This is the front with velcro to close it and

a shiny button for decoration.

It holds at least three newborn diapers and

one baby wipes container.  It makes a great gift!

Now if I can just find someone who loves Ghastlies

as much as I do and won't think it's a little creepy

as a baby gift. Hmmm....

I won! I won!

I won a giveaway on Madame Samm's blog! Wow, I was so surprised!

It's a fat quarter bundle from ADORNit. Yay! Thanks!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Lovely graphic courtesy of Madame Samm

The Grinch Christmas Quilt

Just picked it up from Quilted Works--love it! The quilter chose clear thread which was much better than a colored thread. It was a perfect choice!

This is the back of the quilt

Now I just have to bind it and it will be ready for next Christmas.

My Sewing Room

I had a big sewing/craft room that I just loved, but I had to condense it into a room half the size because my son moved home. Sigh. I loved that room! Now that Christmas is over and my moving around is over I hope to get my sewing groove back and finish up a few quilts plus start some new ones.

Before all the moving and rearranging I wasn't totally lazy:

The top of my Grinch quilt was finished before Christmas and I just need to put one more strip on the back side and it will be ready to quilt.

The quilt for my boss just needs binding and it will be completed. The quilting was done by Lynn White, who finished it a couple days before Christmas, but with all the moving and present unwrapping I just couldn't finish it.

I'm working on a Madame Samm project that fortunately has been moved from February to April. I should be able to find my sewing machine by then.