Butterfly Rainbow block and some tatting. Happy Late National Quilting Day!

I hope you had a great National Quilting Day yesterday. I was lucky enough to spend it with a new friendship group. There were fourteen of us in all and we had coffee at a local coffee shop first then went to Shirley's house, the leader of the group. We unloaded our machines and other things we would be working on and visited for a little while. We then headed to a restaurant and had lunch to celebrate the first quarter birthdays.  Yum, food, fun and friends.  Can't beat it....We went back to Shirley's house and my friend Cheryl and I started teaching  a few of the ladies how to tat.  Lots of laughter and fun along the way.  We had a few quick learners and get the "flip" right off but we will be continuing to instruct everyone and hopefully everyone will understand and get to know how to do this great artform.  I didn't sew at all even though I dragged my machine and some projects with me but I had a great time with some new and old friends....

  I got home and the grandbaby was there and we got to spend the rest of the evening with her and the great-much needed rain. 
  Today, I got up and fed the grandbaby. We then headed into my half sewing room/half baby room and while she played with her doll house, I cut and sewed this great block. I used teal for the butterfly so I could count it as my Rainbow scrap block!    I have two more of these cute butterfly blocks to make but they will be made in different colors. These are our summer blocks for my friendship group.  I'll turn them in for a chance to win more blocks.  For every block turned in, your name goes into a drawing for all the blocks.  I hope I win as I love this block.

 

I finished up some tatting this week and wanted to show you what I ahd been working on.  I haven't shown you any of my tatting in a while so I thought it was time to share.

 

I finished this blue cross Monday night.  The other little bookmark started out as a cross but I didn't have enough thread so I made what I could out of it.  I finished this one Wednesday night.

 

Last but not least, I've been working on this necklace for a few weeks and finally finished it. I will be making a bracelet to go with it too.  I'll be giving this one to my sister as these are her colors.   I made a blue and white one for myself but my niece saw them and loved them so I gifted them to her. Now, I'll be making me another blue one.  I love this easy pattern. It's not fast but it's easy to remember and fun to make....

 

Now, it's time to go to lunch witht he kids and hopefully, we'll get back in time for me to do more sewing. I haven't had my fill yet this whole week and I really want ot catch up on my Rainbow scrap blocks.  Til next time, have a great week and happy stitching.

 

Happy St. Patrick's Day, Slow Stitch Sunday, my second D4P Quilt and The Quilt Show

Happy St. Patrick's Day!  I hope you are having a fun day. I'm not wearing green or eating green food or even drinking green beer but I know some of you are!!!  I'm not even sewing on anything green but I am finishing up another project and I know some of you will be green with envy over it! 
Ha, ha, you have to excuse me as I'm just a wee bit happy to be finishing up this sweet little quilt as I've had a bit of trouble over quilting it...I'm very happy to say I finally got my tension trouble worked out. This has been a true learning experience for me and I hope I've learned enough not to have this much trouble anymore! I was able to finally finish quilting the D4P quilt for the second granddaughter late last night and I sewed the binding on today. Now, I'm enjoying sewing down the binding for the home stretch on this one.  I'm so happy to get this one finished way ahead of schedule.

This frees me up completely and I have no other projects with a deadline. I can sew and quilt whatever I want to... Woo hoo, what a relief.   I hope I get this one finished today but not sure if that will happen. I have to go watch my other grandkids tonight while my son and DIL go to a play.  I'll be taking this with me to work on as the grandkids have school tomorrow and will be going to bed early, so just maybe I can get this one done.  It's my goal to have it done this week as I'm teaching my quilt group how to do this block and showing them the quilt too.  Ok, here's quilt number two in the binding phase. What are you working on today?  I'm going to link up with Kathy over at Kathy's Quilts for Slow Stitch Sunday. If you get a chance, come on over and see what all the others are working on. 
BTW, yesterday was national quilting day and if you didn't hear about this, it's not too late to go over there now and visit.  Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims have a contest going and you can watch quilting videos this weekend too. Today is the last day, so hurry on over there, here's a link.  The Quilt Show. You will find all kinds of fun projects and tons of videos by Ricky Tims and Alex Anderson.

National Quilting Day

Hey everybody, Happy National Quilting Day!

Fab Shop Hop website has a free quilt pattern to celebrate the event.  Here's a link to the pattern.
I'm sure there are alot more freebies out there to celebrate, I just don't have the time to look right now. I gotta get out from in front of this computer and go get in front of my sewing machine and finish that baby quilt.  Have a fun day and go sew!

National Quilting Day and a great giveaway

Go check out Abbey Lane Quilts. They are having a great giveaway to celebrate National Quilting Day. What fun!! They have some great patterns too. Go check them out. Click here to go to their blog and website.


If you didn't know it, the 3rd Saturday of March is designated National Quilting Day. Click here and it will take you to the website for the National Quilting Association and you can read more about it. They usually have a free pattern every year and this year is no exception. This year is in honor of the troops, go check it out....

I hope everyone had a good day and got alot of quilting done today in celebration of National Quilting Day.

National Quilting Day 2008

March 15th is National Quilt Day. Find details at NQA (National Quilting Assoc).

HAPPY NATIONAL QUILTING DAY. I hope each of you gets time today to sit down and do some kind of quilting or to do something quilty.

It was a real struggle but I had to work at the LQS today while my other co-workers worked at the Dallas Quilt Show. I did get to meet some nice ladies coming to the shop after they went to the show...They just didn't get enough of a fix from the show! Anyway, I get to go to the show tomorrow and see the quilts and see if there's anything new out there that I just can't live without. From what I heard today, the Quilt show was a success and the quilts looked great! I'll let you know tomorrow! Gotta go now, I have some sewing to do and can't stay away from my machine any longer. Quilty hugs....