Quilting like a Maniac- Relaxing through Quilting.

Holy cow!!!  I haven't done much this month!!!  Don't get me wrong, a trip to San Fran, then to Anaheim, picking up Row by Rows in Washington, Vancouver BC, Oregon (54 of them now - right now you're saying ARE YOU NUTS!!! and the answer is yes), 6 baseball games, a day trip to San Diego to walk on an Airplane Carrier - the USS Midway ,  and finished up two quilts I was working on (see my other blog entries), but I did not work on the three quilts I wanted to.... OK, so I did take out the one quilt and start on it, but none of the rest.  Just stayed there.  What have I done?   Some row by rows, some Splendid Sampler blocks, finished finally the Garden Tea Party quilt for my best friend, a new quilt for a friend of mine back in Manitoba, but none of the ones I said I would do...  So truthfully, I cannot submit anything for this month....  I'm a bad girl  :( So for next month I am only listing one item for this month, because I'm gone for two weeks agai

I only had this morning to do a bit of sewing, but I'm really missing it, busy as I seem to be.  And I'm suppose to relax??  But I did have fun with a friend, went to the movie Finding Doree's Parents or something like that ;)    Great movie, almost two hours, but a lot of jokes that both adults and kids laugh to.   So that left the morning for a bit of sewing and after seeing my friend @Sylvia continuing to do the Splendid sampler and staying on top of it (you can still join - all 6" blocks are listed here for download - it's great fun) I got motivated to do so as well.  So here is two more.  I still have tones to do, but I seem to enjoy paper piecing the most, and this is what the white one is.  Love how the lines all seemed to work together.  As for the other one, I wanted it to look like a lemon on a picnic blanket on the grass.  And to me it does.  Would love to do a few more before I leave for two weeks to see family, but I don't think it will happe

Before our vacation to California I tried to complete a few things and I did get some things accomplished but I didn't blog about them.  So here I am catching up on a few things that I did accomplish already for my goals for the month and goals for the 3rd quarter. I'm extremely proud of the Garden Tea Party I did for my friend Gro. The flowers were quite hard to complete, it just took time and patience.  Each month I would be doing a centre tea pot, with some sort of applique and hand stitching needed on it.  Then the 5th month was the tea cups with the 3D tea bag (later there is a picture of this).  The 6th month was the flowers and then instructions on how to put it all together.  The results were fantastic!! See the 3D tea bag in the picture below?  It was very easy to do and the dark part is black fabric in the white fabric. The tea pots all had that hand stitching needed.  Like below... I did machine button stitching around it all, but left the lac

OK, Jetgirl is asking for an update on my New Years Resolution which I posted here..... So I'm going though it by copying my resolution, and putting in red what I've completed. Resolutions Do not buy quilt pattern and material unless I sew two quilts YES - the only thing I have not followed is for the ROW by ROW but it was the same last year. Only buy a new ruler every 3 months.     YES - I have only bought 2 rulers so far so I'm following it.  One of those rulers was by the Quilty Box. No more books unless I sew two quilts from the same book and do TWO books.  That's 4 quilts.   NO - Sorry, I broke this one.  Have purchased two books, and only did two quilts from the Precu Primer Book by Me and My Sister Designs. Make time to quilt - it relaxes me.   YES - Take a look at my list of 2016 quilts and what I've accomplished so far. Be happy! - Hard one - NO - Lost my dad in November and my brother in April.  But trying still....  Goals 1.  Star