quilting...and quilting....and...

I'm machine quilting today the king size Stacked quilt I mentioned a week ago... Can't put it off any longer...

I have about a third of the red Matisse Quilt hand quilted! I can't believe it... makes me very happy. I can't wait to finish it, wash it, and snuggle in it!

I had one block left over from the mod sampler I did last week, so I am practicing my hand quilting and turning it into a pillow...

Tonya was so awesome in showing me what great hand quilting looks like. So I'm trying to be more adventurous in that department...

I tried so many different borders on these old blocks, but I keep coming back to the HOT pink... LOUD as it is... I think it might work...

I'm trying really hard NOT to start any more quilts this month... I'm not sure I will be able to do that... I do have a stack of fabric picked out for something else... ** sigh. **

Perhaps just one more before summer...

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Something to focus on every day....

sat.

My scrap bins over floweth...

I had sent Kathie a bag of some small crumbs and some other scraps in the effort to minimize my scrap bins... I mailed them Thursday she go them Friday and already cranked out some squares.
I figured she may need more as she wants to make a kids blanket for donations, so i picked up my Yellow/pink/orange bin, dumped it out on the floor to get to the bottom,
(as some of that has not seen the light of day for about 9 years)

And boy did I find some goodies! I found a load of orphan blocks! Blocks I had made trying to make the Perfect baby blankets for our baby we were waiting to adopt! B!
So many were just not good enough, so I chopped them up into small blocks, or I attempted to make, didn't like and discarded... I wanted a palette of bright colors but not PINK.

Over the years, I have attempt to keep all my orphan blocks in one place, so that I could crazy quilt them into on big quilt. it looks so great, but boy did I get bored with that project...

But I found all these great blocks that needed just a little face lift...
so I cut them down, and played...

I'm still playing, and have a huge pile of MESS on the floor. But I don't care! I love finding all these old fabrics I collected to make B's nursery!
So many memories were in that bin.
And so many more quilts to come!
So yeah, Kathie, need more? I think I can spare some!

I have a lot more playing to do...



Did you see all Eileen's pin cushions! Do you have a lot of them too?

I have one! (but it's big!) I'm pincushion deprived!