Heather's 15th birthday party - family and friends

Home made pizza by chef Tom!

Saturday

Here is the latest square in the Nabby's Dowry series, the last block we make 4 of them (I've only made one), 2nd row far right..

Also putting together the squares in the Suffragette quiltalong, still a few more rows to go.  And a border!

Suffragette quiltalong - putting together the squares

After putting sashing on one side of all the squares, I started then to sew it to the opposite side.  Then I thought, wait a minute, I don't need to do that!  So rip those out, and now although I wasn't going to put cornerstones, I guess I have to since I have so many of the 8.5" strips already cut!  But it turns out that's a good thing since my sashing is so light, and it needs medium to medium-dark cornerstones I think.  I am going through all my scraps from making this quilt which I saved in one bag - thank goodness.  I will have to cut just a few pieces of fabric to have enough 2.5" squares.  Funny how things work out!  Of course I could say I planned it this way all along... this is how it is looking without the sashing/cornerstone strips.  Not sure about borders but will figure that out as I go.  Since purple is my favorite color, and this quilt is for ME, it likely will be a purplish border. 

These are laid out in the order in which I made them, 1 through 49, so I could see if my color selection and sewing improved any from start to finish.  But some I like more than others so I will rearrange a few and put the favorites in the middle, like my sunbonnet girl, the parasol, coffee cup, Kansas sunflower, heroine's crown.  This has been fun!

Friday - Nabby's Dowry square

Here are all together, the newest one is top right and is surely one of my favorites!

Quilts for Kids

Here are 2 quilts for kids, ready to be mailed.  It should not have taken me so long to get these finished - I'm just not as fast as I used to be!

Labor day 2013!

I really did work on quilts last week although not much to show for it.  Many days were spent taking out quilting on a baby quilt - which of course has taken 10 times as long as doing it in the first place.  But almost ready to re-quilt it!

Here is the Mystery QOV top put together:  Kind of weird...

and here are the 8 blocks completed on the Nabby's Dowry quiltalong: I'm doing mine in blue HST scraps.  http://www.heartspunquilts.blogspot.ca/

Friday's progress on things

Working with these QOV 'bonus quilt' parts, kind of tedious - squaring up 2.5" and 2" triangles, snipping the dog ears, finding I need a few more of each.  I had hoped to be finished with it this week, but alas I am not yet. 

Then I've done the 7th block in the Nabby quilt-a-long.  I know I will need a lot more than just one of each of these, so why haven't I done at least 2 of each one??