break time….

ok, finished my project for my Civil War Diaries Club—well, the top is done (will add it to my list, and do the binding next). Again, the blocks are 9″ and I kept it simple with a table topper:

And I finally picked out my fabrics for Bonnie’s Orange Crush. After reading Kristie’s progress and listening to Bonnie’s suggestion of Leaders and Enders, I think I can do this in between allllllll the other stuff I have on my plate Here are my fabrics, can we say BRIGHT? I felt whites would work better in the brights I was using verses creams/off whites—which I don’t have scraps of anyway and picked out some great leftover blacks that would as the contract. I’m scared honestly though, I don’t like Mystery Quilts, the last one I did was such a failure, this one seems easily in the color selection process and I used EVERY thing from my stash—bonus!

Off I go, back to cleaning and tossing in some sewing.

Picture pages..

finished all 5 of my blocks for this month’s project.  Had to manipulate the paper piecing pattern because of the flag going the wrong way, but all in all pretty easy to do at 9″.

I’m still working on the layout for the 5 blocks, but that will happen over the next month.  I figured my newbies to paper piecing in the club will have enough to do over the month with these 5 blocks.

I have SPOUTS!  I’m very excited in my newest garden – the Aero-Garden.  My friend Lynn, has raved about hers for over a year now and I finally took the plunge!  And I can tell ya the excitement this little gizmo creates, I’ll definitely be getting a few more.  I need one more for lettuce and a small one with flowers to put in my sewing studio.  My intiatation is the herb garden.  I started it on Sunday afternoon and I have 3 pods with spouts.  Very exciting!

Now to spend the morning doing laundry and packing for tomorrow’s trip.  I leave mid-afternoon to Philly to see my youngest son graduate from his culinary arts program.  It’s going to be a long day.

wait…I have more to share….and it involves pictures

I’m soo rude and I apologize to Linda and Margaret for not saying anything until now. But I received my Winter Four Season Swap quilt this weekend…..I love it!!! Linda didn’t have to make this for me, but I feel so grateful for her kindness and I thought this is soo close to mine, I don’t have to make my own now What do you think?

Here’s a preview of what I’m going to use in my new Four Season Swap….and it’s soo soft and fuzzy and out of my box. It involves hand work, so it will be a challenge for me.

And for those out there doing the Civil War Love Letter Quilt, here are my 2 new blocks. Both are 9″ and done with paper piecing. Again, working on 3 more. First one is Jersey Boys on page 96 and the other is Sweet & Gentle Disposition on page 248.