I'm here!

Well it has been crazy around here this past week. People coming and going constantly! Lets see if I can keep it all straight and get caught up on what we have been doing!

We start back at Wednesday, Linda dropped off Allison to spend a few days with us while she and Nat headed to Arcata. Nat's All Star team made it to state playoffs. Delaney and Allie loved having a slumber party!

Thursday was full of swim lessons, finishing my first 9-patch a day quilt, quilt guild meeting and shopping at Target. Thursday morning before swim lessons we stopped at Gymboree to spend my Gymbucks and to get Allie an outfit to wear to kindergarten this year. Ang also came to town on Thursday to stay the night before heading up to Redding for the weekend.

Friday was full run too. We started at Gymboree to spend the last of the Gymbucks before picking up breakfast at the Boudin Bakery. One of the bakers gave Delaney a sour dough turtle roll. I ended up eating it in the afternoon, YUM! Then off to swim lessons. We love Teacher Brian! Then on to Linda's house to get Allie packed for camping with my parents and get the bike and scooter out for my dad. Ang left to go to Redding then. I had to hurry home to pack Delaney for camping and to get her back to my dad by 3pm. Then I went to get my nails done! First time in over a year! I rounded out my Friday night with dinner with my friend Jim.

Saturday I decided to get my hair cut and colored. Never did I think it would take 5 hours! It does look great. Then it was off to Sarah's 4th birthday party. Once the party was over I had to head out to feed the horse. Which lucky me meant climbing a 6 foot fence 8 months pregnant. Thank you Dad! After that wonderful experience I got to meet Heather and Kymn for coffee.

Sunday was spent hanging out at home reading a book! That's all. I went to pick up Delaney around 7pm.

So far this week has been slower. I think I have a touch of the flu. I haven't felt well at all. We finish swim lessons this week and Delaney is sad that there will be no more swimming with Teacher Brian. Other than that nothing is planned.

I am hoping to finish sewing stars onto my quilt. They are time consuming and there are 60 of them. I refuse to take the thread out of the machine. I know once I do it will be a long time before I put it back in.

Here's The Question...

I should have the top of the first 9-Patch A Day Quilt done by the quilt meeting tomorrow night. The question is should I bring the top for Show and Tell? The camera is still broke and you know it will be a long time before I get to quilt it so do you want to see it now or when hell freezes over? I am going with the popular vote by 5pm Thursday.

I do have some finished projects to also show.

Y'all Know What's Comin? Right?

I did it! I am doing Round 2 of AmandaJean's 9-Patch A Day. You knew I would. Be Honest. You Knew!

This time I am trying some things the same and some things different. First the same is using my SCRAPS! This quilt eliminates almost 4 yards between the 9-Patches and the pieced border. That should be a lot from a scrap stash. Not mine though. Also I am cutting a bunch of blocks, 4 to 7, at a time and chain piecing them in one sitting instead of doing only one a day. Now for the different, since you cut 5 squares of one color and 4 of the other I am cutting the 4 squares out of white scraps, either solids or tone on tone. As for the 5 squares I want them to read more solid and be a rainbow. The other different is I am going to cut a square for the pieced border as I go, instead of trying to pull out the fabric again and cut a square. The last different thing I am doing is trimming my blocks to 6 1/2 inches as I make them instead of doing all 70 at the same time.

Anyone else going to jump in with the 9-Patch A Day Project. It would be a great way to use scraps and the quilt could be donated.

Today I am also cut out the last of the novelty prints for I Spy A Swap. I am hoping to get mine in the mail this week. I have to go to the post office tomorrow for Scott so I am hoping to kill two birds with one stone.

9-Patch A Day Quilt Along!

Making process on my 9-Patch A Day quilt. Tonight I am finishing putting on the first border. This weekend will be spent working on the pieced square border. IF I get that done I can add on the last border. The first and last borders are plan Kona Snow. The middle border is 2 inch squares. It is going to take some time. Of course I am annal so I have to make sure my directional prints are going the correct direction.

For those of you that didn't do the first round of the 9-Patch A Day Quilt Along there is going to be a round 2! You can read about it on my other blog Stash & Scrap Elimination Project!

I have also gotten one piece of mending done and I am hoping to get the other 2 pieces done this weekend.

Current Count 17 - 0

No I am not watching baseball. This is the current count of finished found quilt blocks and mending. Which means the current count on the unfinished found quilt blocks and mending is 2 - 3. I am not done cleaning out the sewing studio so this count may go up too.

I need a trip to JoAnn's to work on 2 of Delaney's things in the mending pile. I need a button for her PJ top and some seed beads for her Roxy sweatshirt. I am hoping by the end of Saturday the count will be 19 - 3.

I am also busy working away on my 9-Patch A Day quilt. I chain piece everything, so I have been using this to get my blocks out of the machine to press. All the vertical sashing is sewn in and I am working on the horizontal rows now. I am hoping that by the end of Saturday I will be ready for the first of 3 borders! Border number 2 is going to take some time since it is pieced with 2 inch squares. I will need to find and cut more first.

Linda is supposed to be my way sometime this weekend. Which means hopefully pictures!

Quiltin' Tia Closing Sale!

Quiltin' Tia is closing and having a HUGE sale. If you are looking for fabric or have money to spend go to her site and have a look around. Fabric, books and patterns are 50% off,many other things are 40% off and a few items are 20% off.

I was able to get Alexander Henry's flame fabric for only $4 a yard. I picked up 4 yards. Shipping was a flat rate of $5. That means only $21 for 4 yards of fabric!!! What a great deal. I needed this for my Rings Of Fire quilt.

The good news is they are updating the site as they sell out of items. So if it is sold out, it is out of the site. The other good thing was when I placed my order I was given a few options if they could not complete my order:
1. Send what they had
2. Cancel that item
3. Contact me first to see what I wanted to do

I really liked that I was given some choices. They also notified me, by e-mail, that they received my order and again when they shipped my order.

More Than 10 Less Than 100

While I was cleaning out my Sewing Studio I found MANY part way done quilt blocks. How does this happen? I mean really how do you sew half a block and leave it, for months?

This week I have been trying to get some of the blocks finished. Now I am not trying to finish the whole project right now I just want the blocks done and with the project they belong too. So far I have finished 12 blocks. There is still a pile on my table to work on too.

I have decided that I can't work on any UFO'S or other projects until the half finished pile is gone. Lucky me I also found 3 things that needed mending. So they are in the pile too. I REALLY want to work on my 9-Patch A Day quilt.

With any luck by next weekend the pile will be gone!