Super sewing Sunday

Well today is Super Bowl Sewing Sunday. Woo Hoo!! Dear Hubbies surgery is early in the morning, so he will be staying close to the toilet.  Since today's project is done, and the electric fence is electrified, all I have left to do is sew, sew, and sew some more.

I found another quilt along if your interested in starting yet another project. Like I really need a hole in my head.......but what the heck. It is over at Amy's Passion and it is based on a quilt one of her Math 8 students created. They are calling it Raven stars. This is the drawing it is based on. It starts on the 9th of Feb. It is a 3 color quilt, light, medium and dark. Need to get rid of more scraps or more stash???

I am still doing good on the Fabric Diet & No Fab Feb. I was even at Jo-Ann's yesterday. Ran in grabbed the thread ( 50% off) that I needed and ran back out. Didn't even look at the fabric. I wanted some, but not  looking makes it easier to get out alive.

It is the 6th of February and I haven't bought one penny worth of groceries yet this month, so I am doing great on the Frugal Groceries for February too.

Haven't done too much sewing the past week, with the crazy lunatic dogs getting out everyday, spent soooo much time repairing all their escape routes. But the electric fence is up and working now. :D

Tomorrow I will be sitting in the hospital for hours on end, and since you can only read, and play on the Ipad so much and you get tired or bored. I made myself a project bag to take with me.  I spent an hour cutting out over 120 5 inch circles on the GO!. Took more time to unfold over 120 different fabrics than to actually cut them out.

Now I have to fold all that fabric back up, here I am holding all of it in my hand like a huge grocery sack. It was heavy too!!! What a mess that was. Doesn't look as neat back on the shelf either since I didn't follow the fold lines when I refolded it all.

Do you remember Turtle Bay, well here is that quilt top.....

and here is the back of it.....it is kinda hard to see the squares of a different fabric with that crazy bright blue.

Remember the monochromatic yellow one?

Here is the back of that one, using up most of the scraps I had leftover from the front. This month is purple. Did you see all those circles at the beginning of the blog? Won't be a quilt, but it will be purple. Who knows, I might get ambitious and do a purple quilt too. We like purple around here.

Block-A-Palooza (BAP) is in full swing, here are my blocks using the Sunkissed line by Moda. Here is Block 3

and Block 4 too.

Here are the first 4 all together..........

the next clue for Dorinda's has been published, but I haven't got it started yet. Not sure what I want to do yet.

I am slowly working on all my other UFO's WIP's and PhD's too. Need to start quilting them and calling them FINISHED!!!

RRCB is at the top of my list, still working on the string blocks and those HST's....:(

What have you been up to lately???

New challenges of a different kind......

Ok everyone wants to save money right??? Well over at Quilting in My Pyjamas Shay has a challenge from Feb1-Feb 28 on who can be the most Frugal on Groceries. This is a cool challenge because I just mentioned this week that we needed to stop buying groceries because we are FULL. The pantries, the cupboards, the freezerS ( yes more than one). So we will only be buying the essentials, milk, bread, eggs and the occasional oddball ingredient too.  Wanna play along come on over to Shay's and join in.

Then Angela over at Cut to Pieces is having a challenge on being on a fabric diet. Every Friday you check in with if you stayed on the diet and bought NO fabric for the week, or did you fall off the wagon. This challenge goes on for 8 weeks, every week you are good, you get a entry into the final draw of the contest. What do you win, you ask???   Fabric of course!!!!!!!!  Since I am only shopping out of my stash, I should be able to stay on this diet as well. Think you can do it?? I know there are a lot of you out there, trying not to buy any maybe one more challenge can help you stay on track.

Ok well it is Saturday and I have lots to do today, outside, so I can sew later this evening, gotta go get busy. Have a great weekend, and I will be back with photos of my blocks from BAP, and the back of my yellow quilt as soon as it is finished being pieced. :D