Do you look around?

When your reading your favorite blogs, do you just read what they wrote, maybe or maybe not reply and move on to another blog? or do you look around their blog to see what they have on there usually down the sides. Usually there are lots of buttons too. Did you know that most of those buttons are clickable? Did you notice I added a lot of new buttons on the right hand side of my blog.......a lot more Quilt A Longs???? All the other buttons have been moved to the very bottom of my blog, and they are all still clickable as far as I know.

Right now I have 9, yes that is NINE QAL's listed on my side bar. Now mind you, I put them there if they sound good.......sometimes I never get to them, or don't have the time for them. But they are there if you want to click and go to them. I also move them around sometimes too. But right now I have....

Christmas is coming so I have a...................

Then there is a free BOM ............

and then

I love stars so there is this one...........

Myra has hers going full swing, there is time you can catch up..........(ps I haven't started yet) changing my mind on fabrics.

This one I am almost done with, so this button will be going to the bottom soon........

 I have always wanted to make one of these so why not............

and then the last one for now is the..........

So while you are browsing your friends blogs, stop for a moment, even if you follow over 400 blogs like I do, and look around a bit. You might find something you were looking for. You might find another great blog and end up meeting your next best friend that way. Or you could get yourself way over your head buried in projects too. But you will have fun any way it comes out. If you find anymore cool quilt alongs, that I don't have listed, drop me a line. I am a sucker for quilt alongs!!!!! It is the best way to get rid of your scraps and stash too, let someone else tell you what to do with them :D

I didn't make any of the buttons in this post clickable, but they are on the right and they will go to the beginning page of that said quilt along. Some of them are almost over, others haven't started yet.  Have fun!! You only have 81 days left till Christmas, get sewing!!!

Super Sewing Sunday 08-28-11

I didn't get too much sewing done today, that could be because I am a little sore from using a jack hammer the past two days. Even though it wasn't long, and it was the little jack hammer drill, it makes your whole body hurt, and your hands too! Plus I mowed the yards in extreme heat conditions today too.

Right now I am working on the Garden Fence QAL. I had to wait because I didn't have the fabric I needed for the sashing. DD #1 bought it for me for my birthday, and she finally gave it to me last Saturday, not yesterday. (DD #2 bought me 2 flower GO! dies I needed :D) So I slowly starting cutting the pieces out this week, here are the first two sets waiting to go...........

 Here is the first set all chained pieced and waiting to be pressed.

 Second set is waiting it's turn........

 Here is the first set done, just hanging around waiting for them all to be done so they can be paired up and finished.

 Ok here are the first 3 sets all piled and waiting....................

 I counted how many blocks I had...........I need a total of 100 and I knew I didn't have that many cut so far. So back to the cutting table I go. Here are the last 2 sets, I just don't have it in me to keep sewing the same thing over and over........that boredom thing is kicking in! 

This last picture is a few of the fabrics on the design wall before I cut the last two sets. I was checking for light/dark values to see if I had more of one than the other, especially the darks since I was using chocolate for the sashing. I believe there are 23 different fabrics in this quilt including the sashing.

Hopefully I will finish the last two sets tomorrow. So then I can start pairing them all up and try not to duplicate any blocks. There will be 3 of the same fabric centers for blocks for 9 of the fabrics and 6 of the same fabric centers for blocks using the other 12 fabrics and there is one fabric there is only enough fabric for 1, and I got that out of the scrap basket. The same for the outer rings, and I want to make sure I don't pair any with the same ones. Plus there is 4 or 5 with polka dots, a few with swirls, and I want them all mixed up. Shouldn't be too hard, but I also want to keep the value even too. Hopefully I will have the top done next week when I do my weekly report.

Are you working on anything exciting right now??? I am also going to finish the last 2 blocks of BAP this upcoming week (thought they were all done) so I can start playing with the GO! and the flower garden I am putting in the middle of it!!!!!

Woo Hoo, another QAL

Ok if your loving stars, here is another QAL using Fat Quarters.

Konda over at Moose on the Porch is having another QAL. It is a slow paced one. One block every two weeks. Doing stars, and using fat quarters this time. Ok so I went to find me 16 fat quarters.....it is kinda hard to do, when you don't quite know what your actually making, besides stars. But I did find some old fabrics, in green ( I am not too fond of green, period) Figure I would use them up, there was a paisley in there with a little bit of pink, so I found some old school pinks too, then I found this panel, in the same funky old school green and pink, with lots of funky purple, so off to the purple stash too. This is what I came up with. I might have to get some off white tone on tone for the background, or I might have enough, forgot to look. Looks old school huh?!! But hey, I am only shopping from my stash as much as possible. So, they coordinate it is what I am using. Definitely NOT my usual palette that is for sure. Here is what they look like.....

The one on the bottom is the pre-printed panel I found, and there is actually 2 of them, with enough coordinating fabric to back them with. They are only about 44 inches square. Must have liked it at one time if I bought it twice!


What about you? Are you going to join too??

Mystery Quilt Along

Have more free time now that the kiddos are back in school, well almost back? Well Myra is having a Mystery Quilt Along if you are interested.  She has the fabric requirements ready, and the kick off isn't until the 15th of September..........so you have time. Go check it out HERE!

Garden Fence Quilt Along anyone???

Found another quilt along if your interested.............

Over at McIntyreGirl she is hosting a Garden Fence Quilt Along. I am checking into this one, this might be the quilt for a stack of fabric that has been sitting there waiting for the right pattern to turn it into a quilt. Can you tell I love QAL's???? Do you do QAL?? Why? Why not?? I would love to hear what you have to say about these. Have a wonderful weekend, and watch for my report on Sunday.

Do you like stars? What about QAL's???

If you are a star lover like me, no not movie stars.....even though some of them are cute. I am talking about star patterns on quilts, Well I have a QAL (Quilt A Long) for you. Melissa over at Happy Quilting is going to start a stars QAL on the 8th Of August, this upcoming Monday. So go check your stash, or your scrap baskets, and go check it out. I am joining in of course.

I have just finished another secret quilt. So I have space to put another QAL. I am also getting closer and closer to finishing a few other backs, and tops too. Woo Hoo. See ya around the sewing table someplace.

Do you like flowers?

Well you can join on in at How does your garden grow QAL by clicking the link and going on over to that blog. You can make any flower you want, any way you want. Just make flowers. Check it out.

I will be back way later this evening with my super sewing sunday report. Off to make lunch first, then to my sewing room for the evening.

Do you like Round Robins? How about one that is Rockin???

Jen of Reannalily Designs 

is having a Rockin Row Robin and has gotten 4 other hip and modern bloggers to help her out, starting next week the 5th of July for 5 weeks on Monday thereafter. Click her blog name, or this button in the list on the right to find out more details.............

Whew..........I have been busy!

First off before I forget, if your interested in another QAL, Angela over at Cut to Pieces is having one called A zig A zag. Haven't decided if I will participate or not in that one. Got a lot going on as usual, I bet that is a surprise huh? LOL!

Remember those bright beauties I had cut out, and sewn them into that itty bitty twister thing. Well I cut and sewed 3 more sets of those together this week. (well only had to cut one more set, and all the white squares) Need to sew the borders on them, and then start twister cutting them out, and sew them back together again. Then I will sash the 4 itty bitty ones, to have a lap size quilt. When this is done and over with, I won't be doing another twister for a looooooooooooong time!

One hanging on the board, one draped over the chair, and the 3rd one on the table. The finished twister hanging over the top of the board.



Let's see I have less than 10 string blocks left for RRCB, I was trying to finish them today, and Jethro and Ely Mae, would not get off and stay off my string pile, so I gave up on those and cleared the entire table instead.

See how tall that pile is getting, that is 50.......I have one or two others done sitting waiting to get to 10 to be added to this pile.......I will be soooo happy when these are done. Never again!

Now that I cleared the table.......I finished quilting, and got the binding on my Christmas table runner, washed it and dried it too!!!! Woo Hoo!! That is one off of my PhD list as well!!!

Then I dug out my snowman one since I was on a winter holiday in my head, got it all ironed, threads snip, pinned together to start quilting that one, and I only had one little spool of really really dark blue Navy thread. Dang that isn't going to be enough, so I had to put that one aside for now, will have to get some thread this week to get that one done too. It is also on my PhD list.


Then as I was blogging or reading blogs the other day I had seen a picture of a quilt I liked, sooooo I went stripping, 2 inch strips that is. Went a little nuts, haven't a clue if I have enough, or way too many cut. But I cut out 100 white strips (wof) and 200 turquoise/teal ones from fat quarters. I have 4 massive chain rows to do, then I can start cutting and piecing to see what I have in my head. Here is half of them 2 sets of turquoise and one set of white,

 Got row one of the massive chain rows done today as well. I am loving Super Sewing Sundays!!!! Here is that bunch 2 sets of white and one set of turquoise.

 Well it is late, and I do have to get up and go to work this week, YUK, and Boy does my back hurt! Kinda sucks I cancelled my Chiro appts for this week......till next time.