I"m only seeing rainbows - no snow, nope no snow

Oh man 8 more inches projected today. Well I've got the day off, 3 different kind of soups in the freezer and the sewing machine is ready to go.  I was think of Spring and made a couple of rainbow baby quilts.  I'll post the patterns by next week.  I was using some of the material that I got at the estate sale of a quilter, oh what fun that was.  She loved the bright colors and I'm still using them!  The first one I'm calling Over the Rainbow, wish I would have had one more color, but eh I still like it even though that purple is hanging out there.  When I do the pattern, it won't be hanging :)

Over the Rainbow

over the rainbow detailed quilting

Over the rainbow black

 This one is still in progress, I'm calling it Slices of color.   This came from my stash and a Joanne's Jelly Roll that I couldn't resist.  But I will next time, that was the absolutely worst cut jelly roll I have EVER had.  Not one of them was cut straight and they ranged any where from 2.75 to 2 in width. Very disappointing.  But hey a little trimming here and there and I've got splashes of color everywhere!!  Just need to get two more borders on this one and I'm done. UPDATE - Slices of color done!  Update 2 - I've added the pattern (pdf only) to the tutorial and eq7 tab

Slices of color

Ok bring on the snow, where's my sewing machine?  I've got the machine, the computer for all sorts of inspiration, and I'm ready to go.  Check out the linky parties on the side bar, you won't be disappointed!

DWM and H2H Check in

Anna's Rainbow Quilt

Two finishes for the week Rainbow quilt is done with a scrappy border.

Garden Party - H2H quilt #4

Garden Party back

Garden Party is done.  I used a new panto for this one Fanfare Grande by Patricia E. Ritter.  It was  a bit harder for me, those swirls were a challenge, but I'm getting better.  I like how it turned out.  I think you can see the quilting on the back a bit better.  This is the last of my H2H quilts.

And it's check in time for H2H so I'm showing all the quilts together here - I'm all done, all washed and just need to get them in the mail.  So I just finished Garden Party above, I think this one will go to Happy Chemo. The other Happy Chemo quilt will be Venetian Dream .  The two that will go to Nola are the Half Moon Modern Log Cabin and the other solid squares quilt with no name:)  Then since I was able to get 2 for each charity. I made one for Sarah's quilt Ministry, Kitty Korner.   I used the block that I designed from the block challenge she had a while ago.  I wanted to make the squares and donate to her ministry, but I just kept going and finished it off.  These were finished in previous weeks, just the first time they are all in one place.

Venetian Dream - H2H #1

the other solid squares quilt with no name: - H2H #2

Half Moon Modern Log Cabin - H2H #3

Kitty Korner 

And Baby Smiles needs some hooded towels so we made three.  So easy to make, I use a regular bath towel and a hand towel.  One hand towel can actually make two hooded towels. I cut a square 12-14 inches, then cut that in half on the diagonal.   Add something cute to the triangle.  I used fusible and a blanket stitch.  Just round the corners of the towel and the hand towel triangle,  cut off the ends of the bath towel if they are bigger than 1/4 inch.  I sew the triangle to the bath towel with 1/8 generous seams.  Then just add some binding and you've got an adorable hooded towels.

Lots of inspiration go check out these linkey parties: 

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!!