Bloom Blocks 13, 14, 15 & Patriotic items, A Splendid Sampler Block & Daryl's gift

When I started this blog a couple of months ago I thought I would be posting more often, but life gets in the way.  It's already May and I have a few things to show you.  First off are my Bloom Blocks #'s 13, 14 & 15, I am so happy with how these are coming along.

 Here is my Bloom Block #13 and was really quick and easy to make up.

 

Block # 14, equally as easy to make and I love the colors



 

Block # 15, isn't this just a pretty block with hearts for the petals?

 

This block is one of the Splendid Sampler Blocks that I hadn't finished last post and now is ready for show-n-tell.  I am falling a little behind, well a lot behind on these blocks because of prior commitments but after June I will have more time to dedicate to these 6.5" blocks.

This Patriotic Mug Rug is for a very nice quilter and I appreciate what she did for me, I hope she enjoys it.  Hopefully she will be at the meeting on Thursday and I can give it to her.

It's no secret that one of my favorite blocks is the Dresden Block, this is a tiny little one that I was playing around with, it measures 3.5" and the whole block measures 5.5".  I think I will make a few more leaving off the ribbon to hang it and using them as coasters.

At our guild they are collecting idea's for our Fiber Art's Fiesta fund raiser, I found this pattern online and whipped up a couple for show-n-tell, who knows there may be a few of these in the $5 bags next May.  I gave the one with the buttons to a good friend of mine and I am keeping the one with the spools on it.  I will be making up a few more for a donation to our guild's fund raiser.

 

This wonderful gift was given to me by one of my best friends, she knows I have some health issues and found a great book "No Grain, No Pain", it's about eating right to eliminate pain.  How thoughtful she is, and not only did she buy me the book, she made a book cover in these delicious fabrics with fruits and vegetables, aren't I lucky.  Then she made me the cutest post card with a heartfelt message on the back, in short "Call if you need me".  Thank You Daryl, I appreciate your thoughtfulness and most of all your friendship.  You can go over to her blog at "Patchouli Moon Studios" and see the beautiful items she makes and posts on her blog.

I do have other projects that are getting done and will have more show-n-tell for my next blog post, hopefully it won't take almost a month before I post again.  Have a wonderful day!

 



Bloom Blocks 11 & 12, Splendid Sampler Blocks, April "Finish It" Quilt

The Bloom blocks are coming along nicely and I can't wait to see this quilt put together.  We only need eight more blocks to go.  Below are blocks 11 and 12:

 

Block 11

 

This block was so quick and easy, one bloom, one stem and two leaves!

 

 

Block 12

 

This one took a little longer but it was still quick to make.

 

I had never done a sew along as well as purchasing the kit of fabric, this was a first for me and I can tell you it won't be the last.  It was nice not having to pick out fabrics for this one especially when the colors are so sweet.

 

Another sew along I am doing is The Splendid Sampler, you can go to "The Splendid Sampler.com" if you are interested in this one.  There are two blocks each week, one on Thursday and one on Sunday.  This is a year long sampler and you can join at any time.  Below are the latest blocks I have finished:

 

Above are blocks 6, 12 and 13 and they will finish at 6" square when all sewn together.  Even though there are lots of pieces, they were easy to put together.  The hardest part is choosing the fabrics.

 

The seven blocks above are blocks, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12 and 13.  I am a little behind on some of the other blocks but it's okay, I work at my own speed.  This sew along will last until 2017 and will include 100 blocks.  I am working on the ones that I like the most and then when time permits (if time permits) I may go back and work on some of the ones I have skipped.

 

Block 7 above, is "Snug As a Bug", I made it two different ways and I don't know which I like best, but I don't have to decide right now.  I will see how I am going to set the blocks and then I will see which one goes better in my quilt.

 

This is my "Finish It" quilt for our guild.  Those who are participating, each chose 10 projects to finish within 2016 and listed them from 1 through 10.  The leaders choose a number for the month and that is the quilt or project we are to finish.  If you finish your project you are included in a drawing for a prize (what a nice incentive).  This little flimsy is on it's way to my Sister-in-law and longarm quilter "Grace" who I know will do a beautiful job as always.  I will post another picture once it is done.

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.

 

Bloom Blocks 9 & 10, Gabriella's Bread

Wow, I can't believe that these last two weeks have flown by so quickly.  I thought I would have more to show but no such luck, life just got in the way and that's okay.

 

 

I do have Bloom Blocks 9 and 10 to show you, they are as follows.  I think that #9 has to be my favorite one so far with Block 2 a close second.

 

 



 

Bloom Block #9

 

Bloom Block #10

Good Friday has always been a very special day in our family for many reasons.  I remember as a child that my maternal grandmother would always make a traditional meal and all of our aunts, uncle's and cousins would come, it was such a nice time.  As I got older I remember most of us cousins would take off of work just to make it to grandma's to enjoy her traditional meal and catch up with each other.  More years passed by and all of us cousins started taking our children to their great-grandma's for the same meal and to play with a new generation of cousins.  After grandma passed, my mom continued this tradition with our family, it is such a special time.  This year my mom was sick, so as the eldest of our family, I made the traditional dinner.  To the bottom right hand side of the picture you can see a plate full of "papitas" that Gabriella helped me make with her own little hands, she shaped them almost perfectly, the way my grandma taught me.  I have not yet learned to make the home made bread so I bought some baguettes and had my little Gabriella butter them.  We all laughed that we had bread with our butter, but it didn't matter as I was able to bring one more generation into the fold of making our traditional "Good Friday Meal". 





By the way, the bread was delicious.

 

Below are a couple of other items that my Gabby helped me make!

 

The cake is our traditional "Carrot Cake" with cream cheese icing, just in a different shape than what we are use to seeing at the table.

We also had deviled eggs and we did a little something different with these, we actually colored the white part of the egg with food dyes before filling, they were delicious.  This might be a new tradition my Gabby and I start.

 

I don't have any Easter pictures of my little grand children as I had a migraine and missed out, but as soon as Alisha sends over some pictures from her phone I will show you how nice they looked in their Easter outfits.

 

 

You all have a wonderful week and remember to smile!!!

 

 

Bloom Block 8 & Quilty Zip Bag

Today I am going to show you my Bloom Block #8 and the Quilty Zip Bag from Lori Holt at Bee In My Bonnet.  First up is my Bloom Block #8, this one was my favorite so far until I saw Block #9 last night.  Well the next block is on it's background ready to be stitched down.  I am getting a little sad because next Monday will be block #10 and that means that we will be half way done, where did the time go?

Next up is my "Quilty Zip Bag.  Lori did a tutorial last Saturday (3/5/2016) on this cute little bag and I just had to make one.  I only had a mini charm pack of her fabric and didn't want to use any from the kit they sent me so I used a little of my stash fabric that I thought would go with the other fabrics.  This was so quick to make up and is now just sitting on the shelf looking pretty.

 

 

I don't have as much to show this week because everyone here at Little House of the Prairie's has gotten that nasty virus that has been going around, so not much of anything except taking care of the little ones.  I think we finally got over the hump and I started sewing again last night so there should be more to see next week.

 

I hope you all have a wonderful week! To those of you going to Tweeds, I hope to see you there on Thursday.

Bloom Block #7, Tweeds Finish & Splendid Sampler Blocks

 

Hello Ladies,

There hasn't been much sewing this last few day's as those pesky migraine's have come for a visit, but I think this last one is finally gone.  I didn't make the last Tweeds meeting but I did have a few items for show-n-tell.  The first two were my new patterns which you all got to see here on my new blog first.  The next is my project from the "Finish It" group at Tweeds, my number four was the "Great Pumpkin Harvest Table Runner".  The pattern is from Saginaw St Quilt Co, do you remember this Cindy?  It was started back around 2011 and I only had the background sewn down, the rest happened this last couple of weeks, but it is now done!!!

 

 

The next project was my Bloom Block #7 from Bee In My Bonnet.  This weekend Lori had a tutorial on how to make a little zipper bag, this lady makes the cutest stuff, I really enjoy her blog.

 

 

Last but not least is another new project, it is called Splendid Sampler.  Pat Sloan and Jane Davidson have put together this sew along.  Each Sunday and Thursday a new 6" block pattern is posted, I believe there are 82 designers who are producing new blocks with Pat and Jane and at the end of this sew along there will be a total of 100 blocks which will be made into a book some time in 2017.  Meanwhile we are getting these patterns free and can use any color choices we want, we can also choose which blocks to make.  Below are my first five blocks, these are also fun to make and I can't wait to see what the quilt will look like when it is done.  Heck with 100 blocks, I might get two quilts. If you would like to join in and sew a few blocks for yourself look up "Splendid Sampler".

 

 

 

I am also working on a couple more new patterns and as soon as they are done I will post them here for you to see first.

 

Thank you to the ladies who have e-mailed me and let me know what you are working on, I appreciate the feed back.  If you would like the pictures of your projects up, just send me the photos through e-mail and I will share your finishes with our friends.

 

Have a wonderful week!!!

 

 

 

Quilter's Clock Pattern Finished

Hello Everyone,

Well it took me a little longer to finish up my latest pattern, but it's finally done and ready for show-n-tell, I hope you like it.  This one is my Quilter's Clock and it has the 13th hour, to give me an extra couple of hours in each day, don't we just wish we could have that. Okay, here it is:

 

It is so nice to finally be getting things done!  I only have about 48 more UFO's to go, seriously I have just started to many project's this last few years and haven't finished anything.  What are you all working on?

Easter Pinwheel Table Runner

Good Morning Ladies,

As I mentioned in my last post, I was going to put up a couple of new patterns in my Craftsy Store.  Well after a few hours getting it all put together I finally got one up and I am so excited to share it with you.  Here it is, my Easter Pinwheel Table Runner.  It was really fun to make and I know it will look nice on my table for the next few weeks.

I will be working on the next pattern tomorrow and will hope to have that one up in a day or so.
With the grandkids getting bigger, Gabriella 4 and Josiah 3, I am now able to get into my sewing room a little more often, so hopefully I can continue to have show-n-tell via blog for you all.  I would really like to see what you are all up to.

Bloom 5 & 6, Watermelon Q, Gabriella makin' cookies

This last week I have been working on a few different things.  I have finished up Bloom Block 5 and 6.  Block 6 just got released this morning and I finished it right away today, I am sure enjoying the handwork.  This quilt has 20 blocks, so 14 more to go, and I know when we are on the last one I am going to be pretty sad.  Hopefully Lori has another quilt in the works by June.  Well here are blocks 5 and 6.

 

 

 

 

 Block 5

 Block 6

I am also working on a smaller project from Kansas Trouble Quilters, it is a progressive wall hanging and it started with the star in the center, which I have done here.

 

Next was a border of blocks going around the star

 

The second to last border to be added was the flying geese, yup 44 flying geese.  I only have one more border to put on and then I can quilt it.  I have to admit that this wasn't a UFO, but it will get done, so it will count as a "finish"!

 

This Watermelon Quilt I made last fall and over the holidays my SIL, Grace quilted it for me.  I got it back in January, put the binding on and had it for the Tweeds Show-N-Tell

 

 

On Saturday night Alisha took Josiah to see the Monster Trucks, so that meant that I had Gabriella all to myself.  Well I asked her what she wanted to do, and she said "make cookies".  So we got out the ingredients and went for it, after about an hour we had made all these "MINI" cookies.  See the sugar packet to the upper left hand side of the tray, that is how little they are and very tasty.

Gabriella, decorating with the icing bag, she is only 4 years old.

Here is my little angel with her tray of cookies!

Here is the tray of cookies and that little sugar packet I told you about. 

 

 I do have two new patterns that will be going up on my Craftsy site very soon, I will post a picture here when they are up.  It is so nice to finally have some time to sew.  What are you all working on, e-mail me, send me pictures or leave me a comment.  Have a wonderful week.

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 

Valentine's Day

 

Hello Ladies,

This is just a quick little note to wish you and your families all a very "Happy Valentine's Day".

 

I hope you all get a little time today to get a few stitches in one of your projects, if any of you are working on the "Finish It Up" through Thimbleweeds, we only have three more weeks to get it done.

 

I think we need to send this to our husbands next January so that they can have a whole month to try and find something like this for us for next Valentine's Day!

 

 

Valentine, Bloom Blocks and Gabriella sewing

Hello Ladies,

I have a few updates since the first post, there are few more items on the finished list for January and February that I would like to share with you.

 

I don't know if any of you remember me starting this table mat a few years ago at one of our last meetings, well I got "Busy" and finished it.  There are even some crystal's to give it a little bling.

Gabriella asked me to make her a bag to take her Valentines cards to Pre School, so grandma got busy and found this really nice pattern on the web.  The bag was quick and easy to work up using the quilt as you go method, I changed the handles and made it in red and pink just for my little lady.

As you know, I like to decorate for each holiday so here is a new addition for Valentine's.  The pattern is from Shabby Fabrics, this is also very quick to make in a day.

In the first post I had Block 1 of the Bee In My Bonnet sew along "Bloom" with Lori Holt, here is Block 2.  The pattern is free on the Riley Blake website and Lori has lots of tutorials on how to make the blocks on her site.  This is only the second time in 26 years of quilting that I have purchased the fabric to make a quilt and I am glad that I did because I love her color choices. 

 

This is Block 3 in the sew along and below is Block 4.  I am using Lori's method of applique and am enjoying doing the hand stitching in the evenings.  I am using Kimono Silk thread from Superior and it goes through the fabric like a hot knife through butter with no knots.

If any of you ladies would like to join in, it's not to late.  There are twenty blocks in all and they are all very simple and quick, only one a week.

 

 

Here is Gabriella at her sewing machine.  She had been sewing on my Pfaff since last fall and really enjoys it, so for Christmas I got her, her own sewing machine.  This little lady will one day be making quilts with me, the only draw back is that I will have to share my fabric stash with her. lol

 

If you have any show-n-tell, please send it to my e-mail so that I can share it with our group, I would love to see what you are all working on.  Have a wonderful day!

 

Your Buddy In Quilting,

Bobbie