See Y'all in a Week!!

Today was my last day of the regular

 school year and I get a week off

before we start summer school. 

So, I'm flying out tomorrow to Florida

 to see my family

and maybe visit some new quilt shops!

See ya in a week!!  :-)

My Bad!

Yes, I'm bad! 

Instead of going home after work and

getting busy finishing the June Schnibbles

 which is up on my design wall....

I made the mistake of sitting

 in my red chair and picking up

 a novel I am reading...

And that was that!

No sewing... so engrossed in this great book

that I sat there reading until I had

to get up to make dinner!

Didn't sew a stitch!

sigh...

Works in Progress

I've laid out my Quilt Along blocks on my

 design wall and am ready to 

sew them together...

but as we've only got three more days in June,

I've stopped for the time being in order to get

my Schnibbles "State Fair" completed!

I made the blocks yesterday and this afternoon,

 I trimmed them and arranged  them on my

design wall, ready to sew them together!

Hopefully tomorrow after work,

 I can get the top done!

What did you create this weekend??

Stash Manicure

This morning I have the honor again of

authoring a post at the Stash Manicure blog. 

It's a little tutorial on how to use up

 your scraps to create a laptop bag!

Hope you'll go on over to

Stash Manicure and check it out!

Quilt Along Blocks

Today, I was able to find some time to sew up

 the CGQC Quilt Along blocks.

I really love these 16 patch blocks!

Now I can't wait to see it all put together!

I hope your husbands and fathers had a wonderful Father's Day!
I sent my Dad in Orlando a cheesecake from Harry and David.

My DH chose the menu for today's dinner-

grilled strip steak with marinated mushrooms,

 creamy garlic shell pasta, salads

and rootbeer floats!  YUM!!

What did you do this weekend?

More Summer Tops

I've finished the first three camp shirts I previously showed you the fabric for, and on Sunday night I cut out 5 more. 

Here are the fabrics!

tropical camouflage

tossed mums

bamboo batik

bright sunflowers

I'm using an old old pattern from the 80's

 that I've always loved!!

Today after work I finished

the tossed mums shirt!

One down 4 to go!  YESSSSSSS!

If I Were...

I saw this activity on another blog and thought it would be fun to do myself and fun to challenge others to do-



If I were a month I’d be October.


If I were a day I’d be Sunday.


If I were a time of day I’d be midnight.


If I were a font I’d be Curls.


If I were a planet I’d be Saturn...(with RINGS!!)


If I were a direction I’d be South.


If I were a piece of furniture I’d be an antique pie safe.


If I were a liquid I’d be a frozen pina colada.


If I were a gemstone I’d be a blue diamond.


If I were a tree I’d be a maple in autumn.


If I were an element I’d be trickling water.


If I were a tool I’d be a rotary cutter.


If I were a flower I’d be a ruffled peony.


If I were an element of weather I’d be falling snow.


If I were a musical instrument I’d be a xylophone.


If I were a colour I’d be periwinkle blue.


If I were an emotion I’d be joy.


If I were a fruit I’d be a juicy mango.


If I were a sound I’d be a tinkling wind chime.


If I were a car I’d be the pink Barbie convertible.


If I were a food I’d be a key lime cheesecake.


If I were a place I’d be a beloved home.


If I were material I’d be Minkee.


If I were a taste I’d be gingerbread.


If I were a scent I’d be gardinia.


If I were a body part I’d be thick spirals of red hair.


If I were a song I’d be "The Look of Love" by Burt Bacharach.


If I were a bird I’d be a penguin.


If I were a gift I’d be priceless.


If I were a city I’d be quaint and artsy.


If I were a door I’d open into a secret garden.


If I were a pair of shoes I’d be comfy sandals.


If I were a poem I’d be real short.

OK, so who is next????

I Am SOOOOO Done!

Would you like to know what I did this weekend?

We had 22 new windows installed on Friday.

So this is what I did this weekend...

I painted the inside trim

ON ALL 22 WINDOWS!!

Can I put them down on my sidebar

under things I've done in June?

All Cut Out!!

For the "Between Charming Friends Quilt Along"

Kelly gave us intructions as to what to cut out!

So, after work today, I cut mine all out!

Here are my 84 charm squares cut into pieces.

Isn't this fabric cute?

It's Tweet Tweet from Moda.

And here is everything ready and waiting...

(why did Blogger flip this photo?)

Time to sew, Kelly!!

Stash Manicure

I wrote a post today over at Stash Manicure

about creating purses out
of scraps leftover from quilts.

Go here to check it out!! 
Let me know what you think!

What A Guy!!

My birthday is Saturday so when I saw this at the quilt show last weekend, I knew that's what I wanted for my birthday.  I've been thinking of buying one for a while as I'm running out of places to store my quilts. 

I told my DH about it and he said-

 "Go buy it!"  So I did! 

I only have 6 quilts in it now, but more will fit!!

It fits in much better with the living room

 decor than any other room in my house.

I am lovin' it in there!!

So, waddaudink??

Nice Givaway!

Go to the Cluck Cluck Sew blog

and enter their awesome givaway for

this gorgeous bundle of fat quarters.

Wouldn't it make a lovely quilt?

Between Charming Friends Quilt Along

The "Between Charming Friends Quilt Along"

activity for this first week is to select our fabrics.  I've decided to make the smaller version and will use 2 charm packs from the "Tweet Tweet" collection from Moda, with a beige for the background and inner border.

I'm so excited about this quilt along! 

The pattern is just adorable!!

Quilt Show

As promised I remembered my camera

 when I went back to the show today.

So here are some photos of our local

Quilters Unlimited Quilt Show 2010!

Wait 'til you see what my DH let me

buy at the show for my birthday...