Friday night sewing and Happy Scrappy Saturday!

Last night I went to the church and sewed with my friends.  It was so much fun.  I saw two new quick things and I'll be doing those sometime this week. As soon as I get everything worked out,  I'll show them to you.   They are really fun and I know you will like them. So, please check back this week for some quick things to make.
I took my red blocks and my scrap strips and worked on those a little. We visited and ate and sewed too.  What a fun time with friends.  Today, I made some Disappearing 4 patches.  I saw these last week and just had to make them along with some easy hearts.   I am still doing the red heart blocks and I'll be making those into a little wallhanging.  I'll be making more DP4 patches. I want to make the DP4 with other colors too. This might turn into a rainbow quilt too.  Time will tell as I haven't made up my mind.  Right now, I'm just trying to use up some scraps.  I did two more Fun and Done red strip scrap blocks and that made me think about using my strips to make a little scrappy bag. I'll be working on that this afternoon.  Now, I'm going to see about making a red scrappy little bag.  I'm loving happy scrappy Saturday...mindless sewing!  Ahhh, just fun sewing while I watch kid shows with my grandbaby.   I have looked at the crumb tutorials on Quiltville and another Crumb Mile a Minute block tutorial and I'll be doing some of those too, maybe....

Here's some pics.  Now back to sewing on red blocks!  I hope you enjoy your weekend and get some sewing time in.

Little Red Hearts

Fun and Done blocks. These are quilt as you go and are fun and quick to do.

Disappearing 4 Patch Blocks. These are also easy and quick to do.

Friday Night Sew In with Heidi and Bobbi and my friends

This Friday is FNSI with Heidi and Bobbi, if you haven't signed up yet, go on over to Bobbi's site and sign up. Here's a link to go there.  I plan on sewing Friday night with my friends at the church too.  Heidi and Bobbi did this last year and are doing it again this year. Yeahhhh!  I always get more done when I sign up, I don't know why but I do.  I always enjoy seeing what everyone is working on too. 

My first finish this year.

I listened to some podcasts today of Pat Sloan.  I haven't had the chance to listen to these and had 14 to listen to.  I didn't get to listen to all of them but I did catch up a little bit while I was quilting on this little charity quilt.  I'll be giving this one to my guild this week...These were just little floral blocks that someone in the guild cut out and I put them together.   I machine quilted this one with leaves and little flowers.  The stitching wasn't great but you gotta practice, right?  Anyway, it's finished and ready for gifting....

January is red month...red blocks

Yesterday, I worked on red blocks. I pulled out my red scraps and and made some little 9 patches and one string block. 

Today, I  made 4 flower blocks.  I'm making this flower quilt out of the Easy Quilt magazine.  I'll be working on this quilt this year and I'll be using scraps to make it.  I did buy the yellow fabric for the center of the flower but I plan to use scraps for all the other flowers.

I was thinking about making some scrap blocks too.  What are they called?  Oh, yeah, crumbs...Do you use a foundation to make these or just start sewing crumbs together?  Can you use paper or should it be fabric?   I haven't done any of the crumb blocks yet but I have some crumbs that I want to try.  With the cost of fabric now, I think it would be good to use up all the fabric I have. 

Here's my pile of red fabrics, it didn't go down at all, so I'll be making a few more blocks out of my reds.

My Present Quilt

I came in Friday night and worked on my present quilt...here's a picture of it. The last border in the pattern shows just a small 1 1/2" white border.  I had several 2" blocks left over and I started putting them together two at a time.  My first thought was I would make a little quilt out of the leftovers but then I thought, well, what about a border on the quilt?  Look at the top of the quilt and you will see what I'm talking about. 

Should I use this as the border or do you think it takes away from the presents in the middle?  Let me know what you think, please.

I was hacked and I'm hacked off!

Ok, I can't send each one of you an email as my contact list and email have been compromised.  If you have received email from me in the past, you were probably in my contact list. I hope you didn't get a crazy email from me saying I was in Madrid and got mugged.  I have had so many calls and texts letting me know about this.  I apologize if you got this, it wasn't me.  I hope it's all cleared up now. All my accounts have been changed but like I said, if you continue to get crazy email, please don't hold it against me.  Thanks for your understanding.

Row By Row quilt and a little Christmas wallhanging

I finished my Row by Row quilt this weekend.  I think it turned out really cute.  We were given  a row instruction each month last year and the final instructions were given to us in November.  We are to take it back to our January meeting and show how we finished it.  For all the ones that finished, there will be a surprise drawing.  I think there was only 8 or 10 of us doing this but this was a fun project and I know everyone will be sorry they didn't do it when they see the cute quilt it made.  Here's my Row by Row quilt flimsy ready for quilting.

Here's a little wallhanging I finished too.