What a Week!

It's Sunday.  

Time to start a new week.

What a crazy week this has been.

My poor hubby was working during the first big storm.  He had a crazy night at work and had to come home to a "previously" flooded basement.  The kids and I had most of the furniture moved out and the water sopped up, but we still needed to move some of the larger furniture pieces and clean.

When I got home from the store with the cleaning supplies, I showed him a bag of DampRid that I found on clearance.  This is what he did with it:

 He fell asleep.  Not what it's intended for.  He insists that he was ignoring me...but he obviously had worked way too hard!

Last night at our Feb/Mar birthday party with friends, he was treated to a wonderful massage by Maggie.  She has amazing hands!  And doesn't he look happy? 

While the storms were raging, I was hiding in my happy place quilting.  Or planning blocks.  Or making bags.

Here are a few things that I worked on this week:

Sampler Block 4 "Rolling Stone"

Sampler Block 5 (layout) "Rolling Pinwheel"

Farmer's Wife Blocks

Satchel for 2 with Kindle sleeve

WIP 2/29/2012

My big finish for this week is a Kindle sleeve.  I was just messing around with some scraps and had that wonderful Ah-ha moment that resulted in a lovely little sleeve for my beloved Kindle.

I have a Quilt Monster friend that is pushing encouraging me to do a tutorial, so I will be adding that to my WIP list.  Because this was not the intended final product, I have to try and remember just exactly how I got to this lovely little sleeve.


So, here's my update for the week:


1.  Cinnamon & Nutmeg: Progress!  All of my fabric is cut.  I can start sewing whenever I want.  This one is going to have some new techniques for me (cutting on an angle) and I always hesitate on new when I don't have another person standing right there to blame double check what I am doing.  It has been way too long...planning to start sewing this week.

2.  Prairie Paisley HSTs: No Progress

3.  Jelly Roll Jive: No Progress

4.  Fun & Done: No Progress, BUT I am committing to work on it every weekend.  This weekend it will be Saturday since the hubs is working OT.

5.  Pinwheels In My Garden: No Progress

6.  Jelly Roll Sampler:  Progress!  Blocks 1, 2 and 3 are completed.  Block 4 is cut and on the mini design board (I need to make some more of these).  Thanks! to Bee in my Bonnet.

7.  Kristi's T Shirt quilt: No Progress (I need to get more stabilizer.)

8.  Craftsy BOM:  No Progress (The new lesson should be up tomorrow.  I hope.  Foundation paper piecing.)


9.  Farmer's Wife: Progress!  I only made one block of the "Big Dipper" because I wasn't crazy about it.  I got out my stash and found some other fabrics to use.  I've chosen some blues, browns and golds for the next 3 blocks.  Plan to get those cut and pieced this weekend as well.

10.  Satchel for 2:  No Progress...on either one...I thought I would do some finishing on the first one while I was in Baltimore, but had so much fun with the hubs that I didn't get a single thing done.  The 2nd one is still waiting to be pieced.

And I found these little lovelies when I dug into my stash...not sure what to do with them yet.

Finally, here are a few pictures of how I was treated on my birthday...

My wonderful first born made this beautiful cake for me...

...and even decorated the batter...

...and yes.  That is a blow torch used to light ALL of the candles!

Linky Party!!

I almost forgot about Quilting by the River's Linky Party!

I would love to put the button right here on my post, but I'm afraid that I haven't made it that far in my understanding of the world of blogging...so, you will have to go to the button on my side bar or you can just click Quilting by the River.

I haven't created a special blog for this Linky, but please check out my posts from this past week.  I've managed to create a Kindle sleeve that I am just giddy about!  I have it on my to-do list to sketch out the details of this project.  I want to make one for everybody I know that has a Kindle.  I am so proud of myself! Of course, the fact that I was intending to make a mug rug is not important any more...

Today I am doing lots of cutting and not much else.  I have cut the 4th block for Morgan's Sampler and about half of my strips for Cinnamon & Nutmeg.  54 down, 44 to go.  After that, if there is time before the kiddos get home, I will cut the next 3 blocks for my Farmer's Wife.

As soon as I figure out how to post pictures from the cell phone, I will give you a peek at my birthday weekend in Baltimore.  We had a great time and came home to a lovely birthday cake (made & decorated by my No. 1 daughter!), several home made cards and pictures, a box of French Mints and some time with my sweet kids, Mom & Dad, my other Mother (MIL) & my niece and nephew.  What a great night!

Let me know if you prefer the larger print...my old eyes kinda like it better, but I will have to make an effort to remember to enlarge the text before I publish.

 

WIP Wednesday

The only finish I had this week was the Satchel for 2 bag that I made on Friday for FNSI.  Well, actually it isn't completely finished since I am taking it with me this weekend to stitch up as we travel.

Current Projects:

1.  Cinnamon & Nutmeg (No Progress, although I did get my sashing fabric picked up.)

2.  Leftover Prairie Paisley HSTs (No Progress)

3.  Jelly Roll Jive (No Progress)

4.  Fun & Done (No Progress)

5.  Pinwheels in my Garden (No Progress)

6.  Jelly Roll Sampler (Progress: Block 1 assembled.  Blocks 2 & 3 cut and on design board.)

Sampler Block 1

Sampler Block 2

7.  T Shirt quilt (Progress: Shirts washed and cut.)









8.  Craftsy BOM (Progress: Ripped stitches and re-assembled Balkan Puzzle block.)






 9.  Farmers Wife (NEW Linked to Randy's Sow-along.  Blocks 1 & 2 completed.  I am making 2 sets of these and maybe a third in batiks.)

10.  Satchel for 2 (NEW Cut 1 pocket, but couldn't seem to process the scrappy fabric with the pattern instructions.)

Monday's Update

First off, the kids were home from school today...Happy Presidents Day!

The older kids did a little make up job on the twins...and they want everyone to vote...

Who makes the best Joker?

Thing 1 & Thing 2 Who is the best Joker?

They are looking forward to comments.

My update for the day:

I did 2 (4) Farmers Wife blocks.

Basket Weave & Contrary Housewife

Finished the first block of Morgan's Sampler.

Tulip block

Laid out the 2nd block for Morgan.

Rocky Road block

And chose the fabric for block 3.

Star Choice block

And that is all I did today!  If I could stop time, I could get so much more done.  Now, off to soccer.

Have a good one!