This and That

I treated myself to a new quilting book, I was at one of the LQS and they are offering a club were you work on a quilt or technique for this book. I looked at the book and was quite interested but don't feel I have the time to join the club, so I picked up the book. I can see a lot of these quilts in my future. I think for the next couple of years wall hangings and minis are what I will most likely to get finished.

I started on my SSCS, mainly just cutting it out, but it is a start. I am going to show you a sneak peak. This will be the only one as I don't want to give away what I am making. I think it will be pretty.

I also got another BOM done. If I only make six I will have one to go, but now I am think I might make nine, will have to check how much fabric I have, as that may make the decision for me.

I will not get any quilting done next week as on Friday I am leaving for a week in the sun. Hopefully I have a few vacation snaps to share with you when I get back.

Only one to go

I think I am getting slower at sticking rather than faster, or maybe I am more easily distracted. I see lots of blogs where stickery are done quickly, but I am still slowly working on my bunny blocks. I have completed another 2, so only 1 to go.

Not sure why I had left the ones with writing until near the end. The last block is bunnies again, so hopefully I will get that done quickly. Then onto the making of the quilt. I think my new goal is to get this done for LM 1st birthday.

As this is a post about my bunny quilt I thought it would be a good time to share this photo of the bunny (Hare) that spend time in my front yard. He will be around for a few days then I won't see him for weeks. I like seeing him, but don't like what he does to my lilies.

Sew Day

My guild had planned a sew day on Saturday, unfortunately it was canceled. I had done some prep and had a baby free afternoon, so I decided to have a sew day at home. I had thought about working on my SSCS but decided that I was in the need of a quick project. I had three charm pack projects in mind so I picked one and cut it out Friday so it was just sewing on Saturday.

I love how bright and cheery this turned out, but I think it will make a nicer pillow cover than wall hanging. I even have a pillow that I was planning on recovering, its just a little bigger, so I would need to add another small border. That's the plan at the moment, but I have been know to change my mind.

After finishing this top I decided that I wanted to work on a couple of blocks from the guild BOM. I got the first one finished before super, and the second one completed after LM bed time.

I think these are turning out nice. Since I am only doing a few of the blocks and I am having a hard time choosing which blocks to make. There is still a couple more months of blocks to come, so I also don't want to pick my blocks too early.

I think this was a good sew day. I have gotten a bit slower, with the reduced amount of sewing over the last year but I enjoyed my day. It would have been nicer meeting up and sewing, but this was still a nice afternoon.

I Spy Finish and Drumheller

Its been a busy couple of week, and as normal I got less quilting done than I would like to. I did manage to get the I spy Baby quilt finished, all I need to do now is get it in the mail. I really cut it close to not having enough fabric, I had to un-sew a bit I had done for the Shadow effect to make the binding long enough.

My in laws had come to visit over the long weekend so we did a bit of the tourist thing and when to Drumheller, part of the badlands, on Saturday. First we stopped at Horseshoe canyon.

Before going to check out the HooDoos After this it was time for lunch and in the afternoon we went to the Royal Tyrrell Museum. I just share on picture from there, I love the way this looks like Little Miss is looking at the baby dinosaurs, I think she is actually trying to eat the hand rail.

It was a lovely day. It as so nice to have family here, as we don't live near any family I really appreciate any time we get to spend with them.

Bunnies

We have had a few nice days here, so not much quilting has been done. Last Monday was my guild's summer pot luck and I took along the I spy that just needs the binding added, and I think its still in the same bag as I took it in. I will hopefully get to it soon as the little girl that it is for was born on Tuesday.

I did pull out my bunnies to work on, I am not sure why but these seemed to have been put aside. I finished this block.

I just have three left. I need to trace them first, and for some reason when I cut out all the blocks last year I missed cutting out two of them. There is plenty of fabric, so I think this is just as case of getting it done.

Garden and BoM

I was planning on starting the post with a picture from my garden as for the first time in two years both the front and back garden are weeded at the same time -yeah. I was going to take the picture on Monday, but there was a thunder shower with hail on Sunday night, so will not be taking any picture of the garden any time soon, but at least I know it was done. So here is a picture of Fritz watching me weed. My guild has been working on a Block of the month. Each month one of us picks out a block to make. I am so far behind and I know that I will never catch up, so I decided that I am going to make a smaller quilt with just a few of the block, so I at least feel a bit involved. I have made the block for my month, which isn't until October, so will hold of showing that one until then. I also made my first of the other block. I picked to make the card trick, when I first became interested in patchwork this was one of my favorite blocks, I think I even made a couple of pillow using this pattern before I knew how to make a quilt. I decided that I wanted to use black and batiks, and when I was in my batik stash, the more masculine colours were calling to me. Here and here are examples of some of the colours and blocks a couple of the other ladies have made. I love seeing these when they are all revealed.

I also pulled out my scrap book of the quilts I have made, this is pretty simple with picture of the quilts, sample of the fabric and who I made it for, or gave it too. This was a bit out of date, but I should have it up to date in one more session. It will be nice to have it all done. I do like to have a record of what I have made, and find it nice to look back and see the improvement in my quilting.

I Spy top

I have not had much time to quilt these past couple of weeks, the summer seems to be quite busy. But I did have a bit of time to potter around the sewing room today and I managed to get the top for the I spy I am working on completed.

As I mention before this is a stash quilt. It is bigger than I was expecting, that is what I get by picking my measurements to use all the fabric I have. The amount of I spy fabric never seems to reduce. I have none of the background fabric left, and just enough of the shadow fabric for the binding. The zinger fabric was another one that I found in the stash. I have even found a piece of purple that is big enough for the back, which was left over from another project. It looks like I will need to pick up some batting, I only have very small bits left and don't feel like piecing that many. But over all very happy with how this stash quite is turning out.