I'm so excited

This has nothing to do with quilting.

We just found out that DD was accepted into the Masters of Social Work Program at Texas State University!!!!

Her Dad and I are so proud of her!

I had to share!

 

Something Mom Loves.

My Mom loved to read.

 

I made a mesh beach bag.

It has an open pocket and then a zippered pocket attached to the side seam

There are lots of pockets on the outside too.

It was a free pattern that was well written.

The one thing I had trouble with was sewing the bottom to the bag, but it worked.

I had mesh laying around and used it.

I kept thinking oh, these would be fun to make for friends.

I have a black mesh still in my studio, so only one more is being made.

I don't need to buy anything else for the time being.

 

2021 Challenges

  2021 Challenges

All People Quilt 2021 Challenge

1. Cheyenne Grad Quilt

February 2. Oasis Cover

3. Scooter Bag

April 4. Tree genealogy

5. Stonehenge Pillow

6. Fish Bowl

8. Football Pillow

9. Patriotic Coasters

10. Jo's Club Blue HST

March 11. Ashley's Round Pillow

I now need to make the insides and stuff it.

I have one inside made and am stuffing it.

12. Memory Pillow/Bear

HCMQG

February # 80 Hive Mind

March #44 Crumb Fabric Totes

April #8 Ashley T-shirt quilt

Stashbuster

January # 9 Round Pillow

February # 4 A Little Bit Shorter Tree

February #60 Flower Shop Quilt

March #10 August Table Topper

March #28 Christmas Card Caddy

April #7 Artic Wolf

April #73 Heart Embroidery

One Monthly Goal

February - Ashley's Round pillow

March - Guild BOW

This is the finished BOW from my HCMQG.

It has been delivered to the Bride and Groom.

Hope they enjoy it.

April Chey - Grad Quilt

Quilting Gail PhD

This is a new one for me.

She suggests listing 12 items and being able to change them if you want.

My list, as of now, is as follows:

1. Orphan blocks  

 

 

 I'll be working on these all year long.

My guild is doing a challenge with orphan blocks, so this helps that too.

2. iron caddy

February 4. A Little Bit Shorter Tree

5. Christmas - Nature Gift

6. Christmas Embroidery

7. Snowman Ornaments

April 8. Tree Genealogy

9. Quilter Wall Hanging

10. Rob Peter

11. Paris

March 12. Patriotic Coasters

H4H

 I have binding to do on two Habitat For Humanity quilts

The first one is finished.

Stash Report #13

quilt paint create links to all our stash reports.

	Used this Week:	8.59 yards
	Used year to Date:	50.31 yards
	Net stash used in March	18.43 yards
	Added this Week:	0.75 yards
	Added Year to Date:	11.08 yards
	New Goal:	200.00 yards
	Yards to the goal:	160.77 yards
	Net Used in 2021:	39.23 yards

   

A couple of other fun facts are:

Prairie Moon is doing a 350 block challenge:

	Total Number of equivalent blocks:	231
	Perimeter in inches:	21544
	Number of UFOs finished this year: UFO Yardage Used:	17.75 27.79
	Percentage of yardage used in UFOs:	55%
	Number of Bobbins Used this week:	3
	Number of Bobbins Used this year:	38
	Number of Spools Used this week: Number of Spools Used this year:	2 4

Kate at Life in Pieces is doing the challenge of 15 minutes of sewing.

	Days of Stitching 2021: Number of Days this week: Number of Days this year: Days Organizing 2021: Number of Days this week: Number of Days this year:	85/86 6/7 99% 74/86 6/7 86%

I was home more this week and did better until my tummy was upset all day yesterday.

Quilting is more fun than Housework has us working on scraps.

 

 

 

Friday sew day

 

Working on some postcard swaps

Fixed the two blocks that I had messed up the placement of two segments.

Now, I need to get the rest of the blocks made so I can continue with the pattern.

 

Monday Design Wall

   I'm linking to

Small Quilts and Doll Quilts Design Wall Monday and Monday Making.

I found one of these embroidered and decided to go ahead and stitch them all out.

Now to find the emerald green fabric to match the thread and put it into a quilt.

The blue is a paper-pieced block that I am going to make the house as the back of the trees.

It will be a reversible mug rug.

It took me over a half-hour to restitch the one block and I have one more to correct.

I need to make most of these blocks.

all of the pieces are under the sample block.

I think this will be fun to make once I get the corrections made.

Home

 I had some things from retreat that I didn't get to complete.

 

I made a couple of pincushions.

 

Table topper

 

Catching up on postcards.

This is the outer part of a floor pillow for DD.

I'm making the inners of it to stuff with all the leftover pieces of batting, fabric, etc.

I hope we are home for awhile and I can post more consistently.

 

Retreat

The New Braunfels Area Quilt Guild had our retreat and it was safe and fun.

 

 

 

  

  

 

 

 

Two of my friends joined the guild and joined us at the retreat.

This is the way my car looked before they got their stuff in it.

I wish I had taken a photo of the packed car.

We had lots less stuff in it when we came home.

I could see out the back. LOL

Our stop before the retreat at Lively Bistro in Salado, TX.

Lanica is a beginner and she completed this quilt top at the retreat.

It was so much fun having my friends with me.