Quilt-a-thon Weekend

It began on saturday morning at 9 am and didn't end till 5pm sunday. I am exausted. First I made this pillowcase for my grandson Nickolas. He will be three in a month and needed a big boy pillow case.

Next I needed to comple blocks out of the free fat quarter I received from the Thimbleberries club for February.

And I needed to complete the February Block of the Month, which was three house blocks. This will be an adorable Thimbleberries quilt. I am so excited to be working on this.

And my biggest accomplishment this weekend was the Thimbleberries quilt from the 2009 Block of the Month.

I am so proud of this quilt. This is the most difficult quilt I have ever made, And if you look careful enough you can see all my mistakes. At least I can. But my goodness I am still looking at this and thinking I can'f believe I did this. Thanks to my girlfriend for giving up her time this weekend to watch me put all the blocks together. What I lack in confidence I make up for in the number of my friends that believe in me.

Happy Valentine's Day

My weekend started with good intentions. The plans were that I was going to spend the whole weekend in my sewing room working on the buggy barn quilt that was started with the class last weekend.
And then my sister called to ask if I would join her for lunch. She was visiting her daughter who lives about 76 miles from me. So I agreed to meet her half way. We had a great lunch and then after we ended up at a quilt shop. Well there went the budget. As if I don't have enough projects started I ended up buying some more. Primitive gatherings, what a wonderful shop.

So that kind of used up some of my time, seeing as I got home around 4 in the afternoon.

And today, I needed to get the weekly grocery shopping done. And I couldn't seem to get myself going this morning. I spent more time with my coffee then I should of, but I did manage to get going.

Later when I got home I made my DH a homemade coconut cream pie for his valentine's day surprise. Not much of a surprise since he requested it.

So it was after one before I got to sit down at the sewing machine to get any of those buggy barn squares done.

Out of 25 needed for the quilt, I got 13 done. Wish it would of been more, but I won't complain. It is 8:45 in the evening, and I am tired. Enough, bed early and work tomorrow....

Super fast weekend

Another one of those weekends where I seem to burn the candle at both ends.
This weekend was nothing but a blur, Saturday I spent the day at our local quilt shop taking a class on making buggy barn quilts. It takes alot of prep work to get to the point of sewing the pieces together. Our instructor said that alot of women find it so much fun that they do only buggy barn quilts. Working from 10 in the morning till 3:30 in the afternoon and all I got done was this one square. Which actually needs to be squared off yet. And on sunday, don't you think I should of picked it up and continued with it? Yeah, that would of been the thing to do.

Instead I worked on the blocks made from my free fat quarter from the January quilt club meeting. Seeing as the next one is tomorrow nite, I knew I have to get these done.

And the block of the month for January blocks. Ok, so I put it off a couple of weeks, I at least got it done in time. So many projects and so little time.

I also made a couple of pillow case for one of my son in laws. Long story, but the guy doesn't throw nothing away. He tried to give me a pillow case that he had years ago in his college dorm room. He needed me to patch it up for him. I threw it out and made these for him instead.

And I got my table runner finally done. Alot of applique, but it was fun.

With all that to do it is no wonder my weekend just rushed by. And I did manage to get the wash and grocery shopping done too. That's about it for the housework.

And now it's time to settle down by my honey in the livingroom and pretend I am interested in the Superbowl. Oh you laugh, but your doing the same thing aren't you?