Happy Mother's Day!!

Just want to wish all the moms out there a very happy Mother's day.

I got to spend time with little Smiles yesterday and that brightened my whole weekend.  Had dinner with the girls which is always wonderful.

Today's another day with abundant sunshine.  I think a Mother's Day bike ride is in order today :)

Whooping it up on Friday

Yeah the weekend is almost here, just need to get through the work day.  The forecast for today:  Abundant Sunshine.  I loved it when I saw that forecast.

Rainbow Quilt

Rainbow Quilt

Not much sewing through the week.  I did manage to finish quilting Anna's rainbow quilt, just need to get the binding on now.  I love the baptist fans on this one. This is the reason why I wanted to learn how to do these, just for this rainbow quilt.  Just need to get the binding on and throw it in the washer and it's done. Not only that but it's done 2 weeks ahead of time, wow, that's a first!!  Well ok, the binding isn't on there yet :)

5 in charms, 3 inch border before cutting

after cutting and twisting

Cyberquilters (yahoo groups) is having a twister weekend the weekend of 5/18.  I just got my ruler yesterday.  I tried to wait, I kept telling myself but there's binding that's needed for the birthday girl's quilt.  But nope I just couldn't convince my self and tried a tiny little project first.  I mean really if the ruler that I chose was going to work for me, then I'd be really frustrated the twisting weekend and no one wants that :)  I just chose 9 charms and a 3 inch border all the way around.  and it worked like a magic!!  I wanted to see how directional prints worked cuz I just wasn't getting the whole twisting thing visually, had to do it myself.  After cutting the block size was 3.5 in.  One more row and you'd have a nice placemat size.   I think I'll be doing a table runner for the twisting weekend.

Linking up with Sarah, stop by and see what everyone else is whooping about.  Happy Mother's day to all the moms out there, have a great weekend!!

Design Wall Monday - May already??

Hardly seems possible that it's May already.  We picked all of the youngest daughter's stuff from University of Illinois this weekend. She still has a couple of finals but wanted to get her stuff out so didn't have to mess with the whole rush that was there when we moved her in.  It was unbelievably pleasant!!

I did work in the car and here's what I got done on the six hour round trip drive:  One diamond hexie.  Man, those things take a long time to sew by hand.  Or maybe I'm doing something wrong, I dunno.  Now mind you all the hexies were on their little templates and basted before the trip.  I just had to sew the cute little things together.  Yep, this is what six hours will get ya :)

And I did finish putting the Garden Party top together, such a simple quilt, I really like the spring colors.  I love green, blue and purple together.  All you need is a jelly roll and some fabric for the sashing and this is what you get.  I have a new pantograph that I want to try on this one.

Venetian Dream

Venetian Dream Back

I finished up Venetian Dream - I used a new pantograph on this one too.  I like the interlocking squares on this one.

And on the frame, it was a dreary day in Chicagoland, cool and rainy.  So I quilted rainbows on Anna's Rainbow quilt, now that felt better :)  All in all not a bad quilty week.

Linking up with

Renewing Subscriptions and can give one for free

I'm going to renew my subscriptions for Quilters Newsletter and Quiltmaker. Both have a  special,  if I renew I can give a free gift subscription.  Leave a comment if your interested in one or the other and I'll get your info privately via email. 

UPDATE:  both have subscriptions have been spoke for - how nice to be able to share so quickly.

Whooping it up on Friday

Just a tiny bit of sewing this week.   Started a new quilt which is pretty quick, I want to try a new pantograph that I got last week  and after doing all the guy stuff last week, I just needed something a tiny bit frillier :)  This is from Jelly Roll Quilts, Blue Lagoon. They did theirs in all blues which is really pretty, but I had a jelly roll (yep still have a few left, that was quite the binge I was on :) And I"m calling mine Garden Party.    I have all the blocks sewn and have the rows sewn together.  Not too bad for an after work project :)

On the H2H front, I have 3 of 4 quilts completed and hope to get the last one quilted either this weekend or next. You can see the finished quilts from last weekend here

Stop by Sarah's to see what every one is whooping about this week.