One Creative Family

I have been feeling lately that I never get anything accomplished, so I’ve started making myself lists. Today, by 2:30 this afternoon I had all done and even finished up the last binding for a charity quilt.

Now to start on baby quilts for family members. Have 2 to make before long. One I will make for a nephew’s new son.

Tonite our son, daughter in law, and puppy will be over. Jethro, their puppy, is now 100 lbs.

This is the growth difference from May on the left, to August on the right. He isn’t even a year old yet only 7 months. Such a cute little thing right? Since he can’t have table food(parent’s fix specific food with chicken) I made him a dessert. We get angel food cake and strawberries, he gets Greek yogurt with peanut butter frozen.

Now to gather fabric to start on a new baby quilt. We will see how it turns out. Fun times.

Do you make lists? Do they help? What will you be doing this week?

We were at the Kansas City Zoo when it opened this morning and the temperature was 75 degrees and beautiful. The animals were very fiesty. We were looking at some Otters in with a type of Monkey when I thought we would have to go home to change clothes. We were inside a building and the monkey’s home was on both sides of the little passage we were walking thru with plexiglass as the ceiling so they could have the run of 1/2 this large room. This one monkey was on the left side of the room so we were watching the Otters swim and play when there was a loud slapping noise. Not 2 feet from me on the other side of the plexiglass window there was this monkey eye to eye to me. I screamed, this got the granddaughter to scream and hubby looking like he had no clue. People down from us were laughing so hard. I can’t blame them I would be too. I think the monkey was laughing. The zoo was fun. I like going in the morning when the heat hasn’t hit yet and the animals are playful.

When we got home my little “Chef” helped me make Lasagna, sausage kolaches, and cinnamon bread. The next photos are of her and my kitchen with her help.

When she went home I spent an hour cleaning the kitchen up, but we did have fun. I hope you have as much fun doing something as we did.

Well finished my quilt top and while I’m debating on what to put on the back I am working on my beach wall hanging. I have the background in and started quilting that before I put the people in. The more I quilted the more I didn’t like the look of it so for 3 hours I picked out the stitches. It didn’t look like my drawing so tomorrow is a new day. Have you ever experienced this? You’re probably thinking, “Are you crazy?!” I will finish this part of it tomorrow evening.

As far as the quilt top I finished, I am trying to decide if I want whole cloth back or piece a backing. Which do you prefer?

I am going to use a low loft cotton batting for the inside. I want this to be a summer quilt. I am very cold natured so I sleep with a quilt on the bed and this would be nice to have one not as warm as my others.

Enjoy your week and make something fun.

I think I am part Rip Van Winkle. I woke up and it is now Thursday. Today will find me making more aprons. When those are finished I will start on correcting my mistake on the quilt I was working on. You see it?

I have decided to start taking pictures of my quilts to see any mistakes. I don’t know how many times I looked at this as I was working on it to see how all looked. I never noticed until I took a picture and posted it on facebook. A few wonderful women pointed it out to me. Thank you all so much. I even had hubby look at it. He is my “painfully” honest critic and he over looked it. Thank you to my friends at Farmhouse Quilts for pointing this out. I want to enter it into the guild quilt show in April and it needs to be perfect.

I love working with batiks. They are so happy in any quilt. What is your favorite fabric to work with? Why?

Do you NEED to feel a fabric before buying it? I do. It has to feel good or “talk” to me before it goes into my cart. Sometimes I will purchase a fabric just for the feel and then build around it.

I love hearing from all.

Have a great day.

I started a quilt last week and have all the piecing completed and getting ready to start assemble. With that said I have had a photo hanging on my door and wanted to put it into a wall hanging. I picked out the fabric, but have been a little, no a lot, scared to cut into some of it as I have limited amount of it. This morning I said, “You have to do it sometime.” So I did it. I used some chalkboard chalk to kind of draw out some of my cutting lines. Now I need to cut out the pieces for the people walking. I’m trying to decide if I want 1 or 2 people walking down the beach. What do you think? Here is the photo of what I am using.

This is what I started this morning.

I see a few changes I need to make right now, but I would love your input.

I hope you have a wonderful weekend.

I have been working on a Paper Piecing Quilt I came across in my American Quilter Magazine. From Oct 2018. It is called Cactus In Bloom. I have 17 out of 30 the pieced blocks completed.

I love the colors and Batik is my favorite to work with. After I get all the blocks made I will be excited to see how it turns out. I think that is one of the many reasons I like quilting or making things is to see a finished project.

These blocks will have to wait for a day or so as tomorrow I have some mending to do and want to get outside before things get too hot again. We’ve had several days of nice and cool weather. I also have a few blouses for me and a dress for my Granddaughter to finish.

What will you be doing over the next few days? Anything interesting? Let me hear from you.

After a few days of not knowing what to start working on I now have 4 projects in the works. I now have 5 blocks of a Dear Jane quilt made and only 105 more to do. Not bad right?

I have 2 1/2 blocks (diamonds) fro my log cabin wall hanging. Only 30 more to go.

Cut out pieces for my Cactus in Bloom from my AQ magazine

And finally I have the fabric and photo I want to turn into a 24×24 Wall hanging. I took the photo last time I was in Texas visiting family. The person is my great niece, but I want to put 2 people walking the beach.

I’m still drawing out where I want what. The water will be a little more on the sand, but such a wonderful time.

Now to work on all these things to get them completed. What to work on first? You have any fun projects you working on?

I have been asked to Chair the Activity Committee for my quilt guild. I helped last year and now to be incharge. I am looking for ideas for several ideas for fun activities. The lady last year said I will do it and you help….nope not happened, but I can’t be too upset with her as she moved. This year or 2020 Opportunity Quilt will be a 50’s quilt. I’m thinking to keep the activities 50’s inspired. I would like to have something every other month or so, and then a contest towards the Quilt show in April.

Any ideas out there? I am in the process of researching things in this area. We will see what I can come up with.

I would love some ideas. Thank you

I have several projects completed and am at a place where I have been looking at my fabric and thinking, “What next?” I can’t settle on anything. It is like nothing is of interest . How do you decide on your next project? What do you do when it seems nothing is of interest?

I did find as I was cleaning a cheap quilt design program and started playing with. I think I will make some unequal 9 patch. They look interesting. This looks like it could be an illusions quilt. Think I will go ahead and make this.

Let me know how you get past that brain block when and if you get it.

Today was our craft fair and it was the perfect day. The high was in the mid 8o’s and sunny. I love meeting the people and visiting with them. Here are a few pictures of the booth.

So much stuff, so much fun. Have a great weekend.