One Creative Family

Been getting ready for the craft season.  Peanut brittle started, other odds and ends ready and now I am working on testing a quilt pattern for a lady I know.  I want to make it in reds, white, and blues.  It will be great for the 4th of July.

What has everyone been working on?  I feel like I have lost touch with everyone, and it hasn’t been that long.

I am anxiously waiting for Mother’s day.  It will be a very big day and I am ansy.  There is going to be an auction about 4 blocks from me and the lady did quilting.  The family is getting rid of everything.  I feel sorry for their loss, but WOW can you imagine the finds.  Now for the family’s part an auction on Mother’s Day?…For me…how many people will attend?  Money in my pocket I am ready.  I will try and post Pictures on Monday.  Sunday is also my daughter’s  BIG 40th birthday.  We will be having a Mexican dinner that night.  I will make a lot of it on Saturday.

I will leave you with a few pictures of inspiration for One Creative Family.

Gary and I just got from our first 5K. We were not the first to come in and not the last. Our time was 1 hour 2 minutes. It was great and we were with some great friends. One of our group did come in 1st in her age group…Linda Dooley Hough, you rock. Thank you and Mary for all the encouragement. Here is a picture of the WW3. Me on the left, Mary in the middle and Linda Dooley Hough on the right.The rest of the day will be with granddaughter and grand puppy.  Rocky is a 130 lb Rottweiler/Boxer mix and very much a lap dog.  We will have a lot of fun today.  So have a fun day also.

We have been so busy with family things that sewing has taken the back seat for a while.  I have signed up for my 1st official 5K on Saturday, and even tho it is only 3.10 miles I am nervous.  But excited at the same time.

I am 1/2 way done with the Illusion quilt.  I can’t wait for these to get done.  Between this and yard work time goes by so quickly.  We have had the littlest one more this month…other grandparents had things to do on their days, so this is what we do on Grandma Jackie’s days. We will either have a bumper crop of sun flowers or none.  We planted packages of seeds.  But she got so excited to dig that I think more got dug up.

For those of you who love to make totes and bags.  I got this email from Mayra at So Sew Easy.

 This bag is usually sold for $6.95, but today and today only it is FREE.  I am going to make it for my grandkids and adult kids.  Love it.  Here is the site.

Surprise! Tablet Tote Bag Pattern FREE Today Only (RRP $6.95)

Have a great day.

 

Today started out with our taking my new Janome in to the service center because the tension when free motion quilting with the dog feeds down.  They fixed the issue within about 15 minutes.  Came home and finished my 2 Little Giraffe Baby Quilts.

After finishing these went to exercise and now I am visiting with all of you.  I am crossing my fingers, in a few weeks I am going to an auction where the woman quilted and all the fabric there is will be so much fun.  Cross your fingers for me.  I will let you know how things turn out.

We have been planning a trip this fall so my list of fabric stores to visit are growing.  Hubby is even looking for them for me in case I  miss some.

I hope your week is a wonderful week.

I love the sound of rain hitting the windows.  You know that nice steady light tapping on the window.  The last few days have been cleaning days and not too much sewing. Today will bring morning sewing and then a day with granddaughter.  On May 6th I am going to do a 5K. I am looking forward to this.  I haven’t done one in years.

I now have  2 sets of blocks for my Illusion quilt finished and will be organizing the next set of blocks.  There are 3 more sets.  Starting the 3rd set.  Hopefully I will be able to get them done before Destiny comes over,

Well time to get started so have wonderful day.

 

I have been working on a challenge from a facebook group Friends of Farmhouse Quilts.  Yes this is from the one and only Farmhouse Quilts.  It was fun once I got started.  I put it off because I couldn’t think of a way to put my spin on it till I was actually running out of time.  It is due the end of the month and today is the 26th.  I finally said “Do or die” and Did.  I looked at the drawings I had done and thought, had a Diet Coke, thought, drew and another Diet Coke.  This is the finished project.I am so glad that this turned out to be as much fun as it was.  Now on to the next project.

While scrolling thru facebook and visiting with this friend and that friend, I got a message from our group from “Friends of Farmhouse Quilts”.  One of the ladies, Viviane Covo, posted this. If the model interests you :
DIY Accordion Pouch | with Jennifer Bosworth of Shabby Fabrics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PD7CiM1tO4  I decided to try and make this.  I loved it.  It took less than an hour to make and turned out pretty good.  (I need to trim threads more)   I decided to make some and use them for a first aide kit, for diaper bags, anything you want to use it for.  What would you use a little bag for?  Thank you Viviane for the site.  I love sharing ideas, this is what makes life fun.

Speaking of sharing, I am digging up Tiger Lilies that are starting to take over my yard, and have 2 ladies stopping by this evening to pick up.  Yea!  Maybe I can get grass back there.  I can hope.  Have a wonderful day.

Got so much done today.  It was great.  Started cleaning my sewing room and found some pieces that I put back for a while and then forgot where I put them.  I am also playing with the Stack and Wack quilt.  Once I got the hang of it, I was hooked.  I then did some sewing on some Artist Portfolios, BBQed chicken for dinner and just all in all a good day.  Here are the lost finds.

Now I will be putting them together into one wall hanging for the sewing room.

Here is my before and after of the stack and wack block.

These are so much fun.  You just have to try it.  Let me know what you think.  So much fun going on here.

Today I have all day to spend in my sewing room, have loads of fabric, and brain can’t decide.  I guess I will pull out some fabric and see what I come up with.  I have an idea now it is just seeing how I can get it into fabric.  Time will only tell.

How many of you have worked with the stack and wack quilts?  I do believe that will be one I may try.  I have been sitting here staring out the window and thought about that and a southwest color inspired quilt.  I do believe it will be the Southwest color quilt to start today.  I will use the fabric from our vacation.  Thank you for letting me talk it thru.

Have a wonderful day and try to be creative everyday.

 

What a wonder Easter we had.  I hope everyone else had a wonderful Sunday.  Our day started out about 6 am finishing up things that needed to be ready.  Easter Bunny hid eggs for our 2 yr. old Granddaughter.  It was so wonderful watching her trying to find all the eggs and the pure excitement when she found one.  She carried around a blue one all morning until her had turned as blue as the egg.  She was so up set when she dropped an egg and it cracked until we all assured her we loved the cracked eggs too.  We danced the chicken dance with her, ate a wonderful meal, enjoyed an afternoon full of laughing with our kids and the older grand kids.  We laughed till we cried.  It was a wonderful day.

 

This morning has me thinking of what I want to create next.  I have a few ideas rolling around in my brain and I will be putting them on paper.  The next big challenge is how to get them into a quilt or wall hanging.  My problem is that I think too literal.  It is hard to think in the abstract.  I need to do some more thinking and experimenting.  How do you take that idea you have and put it into a finished project?  What advice to you give to someone who is stuck in the literal thinking mode?    Help please.  Thank you in advance,  I appreciate all advice.