A Finish and a Win

I've got another finish.  

 I finished Sammie's Quilt.  She loves to cuddle up with a warm quilt.  I did some zigzag quilting that I saw in another quilt in a magazine.  I like how it turned out.

I am almost done with my "To Do" list.  I finished my Primitive Primer top, Sammie's quilt, 20 Shoo fly Blocks, 4 of my 5 BOM's.  I have 2 of the 3 Hip Chicks blocks done for March and my Blue Bird Challenge is ready for quilting.

The only thing left is 10 Jacobs Ladder Blocks.  I made 2 blocks with 8 to go.

Now for the win....  Last week Heather at Happy Appliquer had a giveaway.  And I won.

This book was written by her son Kevin wrote a book on Applique.  I love this book.  It shows you how to do every form of applique....needle turn, machine, fusible and prepared edge.  He also has some really great projects.  If you haven't seen it yet go to amazon and check out a few of the pages.  It is really a great book.

Well Mother Nature is not done playing tricks on us.  Tuesday we got 7" of snow.  Yesterday morning it was 1 degree out.  This morning it was 31 degrees out.  And in a couple of days it is suppose to be in the 20's.  I am so over this weather.

I hope it's nice where you are and that you have some great plans for the weekend.  Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs, Cathy

A Few More...

Off my list.

I finished the Quilt Doodles March Block.

The blocks for this BOM are suppose to be made of all squares.  I really don't like having to sew all those different 2 1/2" squares together so I redrafted all the blocks.

Here is Jan, Feb and March row and blocks.  Each month is either a block or a row.

I got all the shoo fly blocks made for my gifting quilt.

I really like the looks of these blocks.  I'm going to have to make myself one. Now I need to cut the sashing, corner stones and borders.  The 20 blocks was was on my "To Do" list.


Last month while I was straightening my sewing room I came across some flannel 9 patch blocks that I made many moons ago.  I decided to make our dog Sammie a quilt.  She loves blankets

This morning I got them all sewn together.  I actually found some of the fabric used to make these blocks (Obviously I never throw anything out) and scraped a back together and have cut out the binding from the last of the fabric.  I ordered a silicone mat that fits on my quilting table to help the quilt glide when quilting.  I will need it for this quilt.

The last thing I have to show you is my Primitive Primer.

Again a wonky photo.  But more importantly I finished the last applique border and got it sewn on.   The directions said to add a narrow border to the side and top but I chose to leave it as is.  This quilt now resides on the "To Be Quilted" pile.  And I am embarrassed to say that the pile is now over 3 feet high.  I think I need to get some tops ready for quilting.  And I promise not to post any more pictures of this quilt top until it is quilted.

The patterns for the next 3 6" blocks for the Hip Chicks BOM were posted the other day.  I printed them up and can't wait to finish them.  They are applique blocks.  I started one and will show you when I am finished.

Hope it is nice where you are.  The sun is shining here and the temps are rising....could it be spring in the air.  Gee I hope so.  I still have large piles of snow in the yard that I would love to see disappear.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Hugs, Cathy