Oh, What a Beautiful Day

On Friday night I worked on the quilt on the cover of this book. Everything I am using in that quilt is from my stash. I will get a picture of it up later this week.

Yesterday my family and I spent the entire day sitting out side watching my daughter play lacrosse. It was the most beautiful Autumn day.

In this picture you can see the ball going in the goal. Yes, I actually got a picture of her scoring!

Scrapping Along

I have decided to do the "Sew Scraps Along" with Jodi over at Pleasant Home. 

I have the tab on my sidebar. I got 8 blocks done yesterday.

She had suggested to use only certain colors. So, I sorted through my scraps.

The orange is going to be my centers.

Love that orange!!!

I decided to go with green, purple, brown and orange. I think the orange will only be used in the centers. Some of these scraps are pretty old. It is about time I used them.

Blue Work by the Seashore

I quilted this one yesterday. It belongs to Alice. 

Last night I had trouble sleeping. I have been awake since 2am, but I did not get up until about 3:40. I was quilting before 4am. I finished an entire quilt this morning before anyone else was awake.

Today I have Art Bee. I am thinking about trying to grab a quick nap before I go. I really feel beat.

It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

My Monday was spent quilting for the Hospice Festival of Trees. This is a table runner/wall hanging made by the 7-Sisters Quilt guild.

 A close up of the holly leaf in the green border.

 When we were making this on Friday night everyone was saying they want one. I think the plan is that next Friday we are going to work on them. I intend to make the entire quilt that this part came out of. I will let you know after Friday what book this came out of.

 This quilt was made by one of the bees of the Bayside Quilters for the Festival of Trees. I think it was the Needle Turners Bee. All of the applique on this quilt is needle turned and done by hand.

I just love this block. Of course it is the Candy block!

What should I bind it with?

 On Friday night at the 7-Sisters Quilt Guild this is what we did.  This is a table runner/wall hanging for the Hospice Festival of Trees. I will be quilting it, hopefully some time this week.

On Sunday I quilted one of my own. It is made with 2 charm packs. The stars are Kona Snow. I originally thought I would bind it with the snow but I don't really like that. Since it was charm packs I do not have matching fabric for binding. Here are 2 fabrics I am trying to decide between. The brown on the left or the blueish on the right. What do you think?

Wedding Quilt

Both of these quilt belong to Colette. I quilt a lot of quilts for her. This particular pattern is here standard wedding quilt. She really knows a lot of newly married couples. Over the last few years I have quilted many quilts like this for her.

This is also Colette's. It is going to a little lady named Emma.

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Cooking With Character

There was no school on Thursday or Friday so my daughter had 2 friends over.

They wanted to bake something and decided on snicker doodles. Then the bright idea came to do a cooking show. The name of their show is Cooking With Character. These kids are hilarious. They want me to put it on YouTube but I haven't had time yet. 

I quilted this earlier in the week but I haven't posted in a while. Really, where did this week go? This is Pat's quilt. I returned it to her on Wednesday at the Bayside Quilters Guild meeting.