Friday night sewing with Heidi and Bobby

I was supposed to go sew at the church last night but I put my hip out of place and just couldn't walk on it.  It's feeling better but I'll be taking it easy for a few days.  I wasn't doing anything special to do this, I just turned wrong and stepped wrong and out it went.  Talk about pain to the brain, or hip in this case.  It's ok and back in place but still sore.  I did still sew last night and got a little top partially together.  I got up early this morning and finished putting it together and it is so cute...


I picked this little kit up last weekend at the Plano Quilt Show.  It is a kit for Project Linus and it was a combination of crayon blocks, marker blocks, hand embroidery blocks and machine embroidery blocks.  This was so much fun to work on.  All the while I was sewing this together I could just imagine some little child coloring some of these blocks.  Two of the blocks have kids names on them and some of the coloring is so sweet and innocent it just had to be a child that did it.  This was fun to put together and I'll quilt this one quickly to get it finished for this worthy charity. The girl I talked to at the booth said she passed out 125 kits at the show! 

The Plano Quilt Show was great and I took pictures of some of my favorite quilts. If I get time, I'll post those later.  Gotta go for now and work on some other stuff while the grandbaby is still asleep.  More to come later,  happy sewing!

Some things I worked on this week

Ok, I have done some things this past week and I haven't showed them. My computer at work doesn't like to upload my pics to blogger anymore so I can't do it at lunch. I've been super busy this week and haven't taken the time to post....here's what I was talking about in my last post.  It's my Row by Row quilt and I finished doing the May or 5th row and added it in.  I redid the top row and took off the first pinwheel row and replaced it with the new one...I think it looks alot better.

See the blocks I took off. I changed my mind about the background color and went with white so this row of pinwheels just didn't work for me.  The pattern calls for a beige or off white background but I found this white fabric I loved and wanted to us it....I'm the only one doing white background and I'm glad I decided to use it.  Mine will be just a little different from everyone else's and I like that.  Who says we have to follow the rules?  Anyway, I like the way it's looking so far and this has been alot of fun. Only 4 more months to go on this little quilt and it will be finished. I can't wait to see how it's gonna look.

I made these two little blocks this week for the leaders of my quilting group.  I couldn't show them before now as the blocks were a surprise for them.  Everyone in our group made a heart block and gave to them.  Our party was Thursday night and it was alot of fun and the heart blocks were great.  I didn't take pics of all of the different blocks but I'll show you those when they put their quilts together.  Here's my blocks.  These were just simple little hearts with a few different stitches from my machine but I added some of my tatting around the blocks.  We were asked to do one in pastels and one in brighter colors....

Diane and Judy loved all of their blocks!

I did show the girls at Tatting on Tuesday night and they liked the blocks too.  I had done the tatting a while back and didn't have any purpose for it except to put it on something like a pillow or maybe a hankie so this worked out really well.  I have a little bit left and I'll make something else with the leftover lace.  I guess I could have put more tatting on it too but I ran out of time....

Weekend sewing and cooking

I sewed yesterday afternoon and worked on my Row by Row quilt.  I had made the rows but had not put them together. I started putting them together and found out I was missing a row.  I had not done the May flower row...I also didn't like the January row so I took it off and am re-doing that row.  I thought I could live with it and decided I didn't want to live with it....it would bother me too much so I un-sewed it.  I'll be re-doing that row and put it back on tonight or this week. I'll show you the finished rows later. I still haven't taken pictures of this but will this week.   I didn't get finished with the flower row as I had to stop and go to the grocery store. I wanted to try out a new recipe and do something different for supper. 

We like the Chipotle restaurant and I decided to try to do a take-off on their burrito bowl....I made spanish rice, Fajita chicken and red beans. I bought hot sauce from Chili's.  I cut up tomotoes, lettuce, onions and bell peppers.  My family liked it alot and so did I. My DH loved it and said he liked my version better than Chipotle...Hm, easy to fix and he liked it too.  Not bad, I think I'll do this again.

I made a recipe from a blog I read...Becoming Betty.  She had a recipe for White Chocolate Popcorn.  I popped popcorn and made her recipe.  Here's a link. I made this and was letting it "set up". (You know what I mean by that, right?  It's like Rice Crispie squares, you have to let them harden... I started reading blogs trying to catch up on the people I follow. I turned around to ask my husband if he wanted some and he was already munching down on it. He said it was his third helping...He loved this stuff.  This was also very easy to make...I can't wait to share this with my grandkids....
It was fun to cook tonight. Normally, it's a chore for me but I enjoyed making both of these.  Now, I'm doing an easy dinner tonight and sewing some more.  Hopefully, you will see pictures. I hope you get to sew today, til next time....

Creative Grid Ruler video

I saw this video on You tube the other day and went out and bought this ruler.  I want to make a One Block Wonder quilt and thought this would help. I have a 60 degree ruler but just had to have this one after I saw the video.  I've been working on other things yesterday and today and haven't tried it out yet but I'll let you know. Has anyone else used this ruler?

Saturday sewing

I got the little block from Friday night finished.  It's the block on the left with the pink star in the middle and blue around the outside.  I finished it differently than the pattern called for because the pattern measurements were wrong and I didn't want to take the time to figure out the correct measurement, I just put the rectangle around it and called it finished.  The other two little blocks went together just fine.  These are all 6 1/2" blocks.  They are  alot of fun to do but they take more time to do for me than bigger blocks.  I worked on these during the day yesterday while watching the grandbaby and doing a little housework too.  The pinwheel and 4 patch on the bottom were leftovers from the blocks and I didn't want to waste them. I'll put them in with all my other orphan blocks and one of these days I'll put together an orphan quilt.  That might be coming up pretty soon as I think I have enough blocks now to do it..I'll have to put those on my design wall soon and play some. Here are the little blocks I made:

Doesn't look like much work for a whole day, huh?  Oh well, it was fun and I'm this much closer to a finished quilt too.  These go in one of my UFO's (the 30's Sampler- Number 1 on my UFO list) and I only have about 12 more blocks to do, so I'm slowly whittling them down. 

Friday night sewing with friends

I go to this group on Friday nights every other week.  It is for a few hours and sometimes I get some things done and lately I just can't get anything done here.  I visit more than I get done. I think I'm just going to start taking hand sewing with me instead of lugging my machine and my projects with me.  This just made me decide to do this the next Friday I go.
Every thing I tried to work on just didn't work.  The little block I was working on didn't fit together correctly.  There was a mistake in the pattern and it was about 1/4" wrong on the outside edge...I put it aside to finish up later. 

I pulled out another project and didn't have the  right fabric I needed for the next round. I decided it just wasn't meant for me to finish anything so I just put everything up and sat there and visited.  I was getting flustered and that was not how I wanted to feel.

My ASG Meeting and Kumihimo

Last night was tatting night but I had an ASG(American Sewing Guild)  meeting too, so I had to decide which one to go to...I decided I'd go to ASG and skip tatting. I hate to do this but I don't like driving like a mad woman and going to both places.  Anyway, our meeting was fun and we did Kumihimo again.  We worked on making bracelets with beads.  It was alot of fun watching all the other ladies do it. I didn't do it as I didn't bring any beads with me.  We had some young visitors to our meeting last night too. Two ladies brought their granddaughters to the meeting and they could do this alot better than us.  They had a great time showing up their Grandmas!  Lots of fun but nobody finished their bracelet so I have no pictures yet. I will take pics next month and show you what they look like.   Crafts are definitely addictive and it was so cool where we were.  Joann's had the A/C on and it was very comfortable compared to outside at 108 degrees. I'll be glad when we get some cooler weather!  til next time, happy sewing!