Bye, Bye

Sorry February but I'm glad to see you go.  I'm hoping maybe some warmer weather will come with March.

I am so thrilled that I got almost everything on my February "To Do" list done.

1. Primitive Primer...Take a look!

It's a little wonky....can't seem to get it straight on the design wall..new flannel I guess.  Any way...I had to take part of it apart to resize some blocks.  Now it is pretty square.  I added the first appliqued border on the right and the pieced border on the top.  I have prepped the bottom appliqued border whew...I will be so glad to finish this.

2. 2013 Pieced Sampler...DONE

3  10 Plaid Jacob Ladder Blocks...DONE

4.  Lori's Midwinter Blues...DONE

5.  Cheri Payne Basket quilt...(Hand quilting) top is DONE

2014 BOMS

1.  Sugar Shack...DONE

2.  Pat Sloan's Globetrotting...DONE

3.  Hip Chicks...DONE

4.  Country Threads...DONE

5.  Quilt Doodles...DONE

Now for my March "To Do" List

1.  Finish my Primitive Primer top

2.  Flannel quilt for Sammie (our dog)

3. 20 Shoofly Blocks (Pat Sloan QAL)

4. 10 more Jacobs Ladder Blocks

5.  Blue Bird Challenge

2014 BOMS

1. Sugar Shack

2. Globetrotting

3. Hip Chicks

4. Country Threads

5. Quilt Doodles

I hope I get as much done in March as I did in January and February.  But no pressure...as long as I am enjoying myself I'm happy.

Don't forget about the GIVEAWAY..today is the last day to enter.   

You can enter here.  Good Luck everyone.  I will be back tomorrow with the name of the winner.

Hugs, Cathy

OMG...

The last block has been made for my Primitive Primer and all the blocks are sewn together.

Don't look too closely at my star burst block.  It was a real bugger to make.  I spent 4 days on it and finished it up this morning.  It is paper pieced and appliqued....and it was too big.  Bummer.  I started crying...all that time and all that work.  Then I figured it is suppose to be primitive, right.  So I whacked it down to size.  It is off kilter but it is growing on me.

I sewed all the blocks together, an achievement in itself.  I like how it looks. I need to cut the borders now.  I can't add the top pieced border until I add the applique border.  This will have to wait till tomorrow.  It's 5:30 pm and I am beat.  So no more sewing until tomorrow.  (Unless I do a little hand quilting later).

Now don't forget about my final giveaway....

You can enter here.  You have until Friday evening.  I will pick a winner on Saturday March 1.

And a big yippee!!!  Finally got the last of the paperwork to file my income tax.  So glad I am all done.  

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs, Cathy

Final Giveaway

Today is the final giveaway for my Anniversary Month.

I got this book for Christmas and loved it at first site.  I knew I was going to be having a giveaway for my Blog Anniversary and Wedding Anniversary in February so I ordered another copy.  

You know the drill.....

Leave a comment letting me know you are a follower and how you follow.

For a second chance blog about the giveaway and leave a comment letting me know.

Good luck in the giveaway and thanks to all that are following.

You have until Friday the 28th to enter.  A winner will be picked on Saturday, March 1st.

Hugs, Cathy

Finally...

I have finally finished Ashley's quilt.  It has been over a year since this project was started.  I showed her a picture of the quilt on the computer.  She said she wanted one but not in the colors shown.  So I told her to go to the paint store and send me paint chips in the colors she wanted.  I hope she hasn't outgrown the colors in the year + it took to make it.

It is quite large and quite bright.  I have it hanging in the living room so I could get a picture of it.  Just the border is hidden behind the bench.  

I backed it with flannel.  She lives in the Upper Peninsula so she something to keep warm.  I quilted it with a serpentine stitch.  It is a tighter stitch and took much longer to quilt.  I could only machine quilt for an hour at a time because after that my neck hurt.

So I hope to go visit sometime next month and give her the quilt that she has been patiently waiting for.  I sure hope she likes it.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs, Cathy

We Have a Winner!!

The winner is Bonnie Stapelton.  Congrats Bonnie.  I have sent you an email requesting your address.

Be sure to stop by tomorrow when I will be posting about Week 4 Giveaway.  This will be the final Anniversary Month Giveaway.

Hugs, Cathy

Ta Da!!!

 A Flimsy finish, an new project to finish and a challenge.

First the flimsy finish...

Yesterday I sewed all the blocks together...that took a while.  And then I added the narrow blue border.  I used the same blue as I used in the 9 patches.  Today I got up bright and early (not really) sewed on the final border.  It is 3" wide and I used the same fabric as the background.  This top resides on the pile (and I do mean big pile) of quilts to be quilted.


This leaves me with one project left on my "To Do" list for February.

Meet Primitive Primer!

This project was started a few years ago.  I got serious about finishing it last year and this is where I left off.  I need to make a large star burst block for the upper left corner and 2 appliqued borders and 2 plain borders.  I'll be happy just to finish the last block this month.  This will end up on my March "To Do" list because of the appliqued border.


Last week while reading some of my favorite blogs I came across the "Bluebird Challenge" at Em's Scrapbag.  She had 10 blue bird flour sacks that she would send to the first 10 readers who wanted to participate.

It is so cute how could I pass it up.  We have until April 4th to make a quilt using the bag.  Once the quilts are posted our friends (That's You) get to vote on their favorite.  The winner will receive a FQ Bundle of 30's fabrics.  I'll keep you posted.

You might be interested in the fact that Em was chosen to be apart of Quiltlmaker's 2014 Scrap Squad.  I hope she has as much fun as I did in 2012.  She should be posting a picture of her latest quilt sometime this month.

I hope you enjoyed this post.  I've had lots of time to get some sewing done as our weather has been really crappy lately.  We had extreme cold weather, a snow blizzard, more snow, warm temps (we are talking 40) and now today it is raining...but wait...we are expecting colder temps and more snow by the beginning of next week.  

Hugs, Cathy

To Do List and Giveaway

I am making great headway on my "To Do" list...

I wanted to get 10 Jacobs Ladder blocks made and I did.

I love how this is coming together.  I need to make 18 more then I can put the quilt together. I will make 9 blocks a month for the next 2 months.  This is a project I started early last year.


Continuing the theme of finishing projects from 2013....This is the Amish Sampler Block of the Month by Sentimental Stitches.  You can see I chose not to make it Amish.

This is where I left off last year. I had 3 blocks to go.

After I finished the last 3 blocks I had to put them on point on my design wall.  Only one of the 3 blocks is original to the pattern.  The were a bit involved and I wanted to get this top done so I opted for easier blocks.

Now the blocks were suppose to have sashing around all of them.  I decided not to add it.  I love how it looks like with the red and blue nine patches.

The quilt was suppose to have pieced set in triangles and corner triangles.  Wanting to make the quilt my own I decided to add plain triangles.

You know how hard it is to figure out what size to make the triangles...  Well I got this free app for my phone and my kindle.  It is the Robert Kaufman Quilt Calc.  You go to set-in and corner triangles.  Add the size of your finished block and hit calculate.  I needed 15 1/2" squares cut twice on the diagonal for my set-in triangles and 8" squares cut once on the diagonal for the corner triangles.  This app makes it so easy.

Today I hope to get the top sewn together.  After I am adding a 1 1/2" border of blue and then a 2 1/2" to 3" outer border.  

I only have one more project on my "To Do" list.  That is to work on my Primitive Primer quilt.  I don't think this will get done this month but that is okay.  I'm happy with what I've gotten done.

I want to remind you of my Week 3 Giveaway.

To enter click here to enter in the giveaway.  Good Luck!

Thank you for stopping by.  I hope you are having a wonderful middle of the week and getting lots of sewing done.

Hugs, Cathy