Quick Update

         I'm dropping by to give a quick update into what I've been working on.                   I did a bit of sewing for the 4th of July this year. I made some small flags and put them on a ribbon to string in my windows. 

I used scraps from my stash to create them. Each one is approx. 4.5" x 6.5" and the blue corner is 2" x 3". I sandwiched them together, then sewed around the raw edges. I also quilted straight lines in the stripes. I also used them in a small white box with my table runner and flags.

For my monthly sewing, I made my 4 blocks for the Stash Buster Challenge. I choose to make the blocks in purple this month which is also the color for the RSC blocks (which I haven't made yet.) 

I have been slowly working on quilting my strawberry quilt. 

It should be done soon if I get some more time to devote to 

quilting. It has been a busy time helping my daughter 

with the kids!

A new month means a calendar journal finish! 

Here is June (my birthday month!) 

Hope to be back soon! How is your summer going?

How can it be?

I know that I have been absent from my blog but how can it be that it has been almost 2 months? Time just flys by with a wink of the eye. 

I have been quite busy since my last post with several finished. My snowball quilt which I showed in progress is now all done. 

I finished the binding on our grueling trip back from Door County 

on Columbus Day. Traffic through Milwaukee took 2 hours! 

You can read more about the details here.

The backing is pieced from the left over pieces.

I quilted a clamshell motif over the snowballs and did some simple straight line quilting in the extra wide border separating each of the prints. 

It makes it feel like 6 borders!  

It finished at 64" x 78". 

I also finished knitting 8 newborn/premie hats for charity. I mentioned this project in previous post. The project is called Little Hats, Big Hearts and is with the organization Mended Little Hearts of Chicago partnered with the American Heart Association.

My knitting club has made 38 hats!

I also finished another mini quilt which was a result of blocks made and donated to a new quilt group in my community. We were to make 3 star blocks in red, white, and blue.

All this little cut-offs from making the points on the stars (flying geese) resulted in this little gem. 

It is 13 1/2" square...perfect for a candle mat or small table topper.  

I really love how the quilting looks... 

I have a couple more finishes and a few my quilts ready to be sandwiched...but I'll wait for another day! 

Hope you stay tuned and thanks for persevering through my 'drought'.