Great birthday weekend

Yesterday was my birthday! – as you may know 🙂

Last week- mid week I think, I asked my husband if he orderd my birthday gift yet, he said” what do you want” I’ve bugged him about a light table for a while, so that’s what I said and let him actually PICK which one on amazon. It got here on time 🙂

isn’t it nicely wrapped??

This is actually a quilt for Connecting threads…

here’s the light table box!

funny, it had this blue film on it, which I removed of course

This weekend I was planning the TWIN quilts, I had this car traffic fabric, so I found some matching fabrics

also had a pooh fabric, the matching choices are more muted

I think I’ve changed some around a bit and now I found another kid fishy fabric that I might use instead, we’ll see

here’s the 2nd choice for pooh.

The other day while folding laundry, I put Sonja in the baske of clean clothes 🙂

she liked it in there

And here’s a birthday pic of Sonja and I- umm should have taken a pic with all my kids.

Our friend Gwen came to visit for the weekend and her room mate gave me this runner.

Gwen baked a cake and gave me a card- she just recently gave us lots of goodies from Singapore and licorice from germany for me 🙂

THIS is the back of a quilt for Mccall’s! it’s going out in the mail tomorrow

And this is the back for a quilt for Quilt it.. today, also going out tomorrow

Plus I got this surprise in the mail saturday all the way from Australia

THANKS!!

This is the Bible BOW, JAEL

I never heard of her before, then read the story of how she killed someone with a tent peg right thru his skull!! Oh my…

well, the block is a tent block, very “tricky” to piece, I had to modify the block in EQ, but finally got it to look nice, here’s the main part of the block, I laid it onto stabilizer

then ironed on these curves and stitched around

see the back.

Here’s an update on my 2013 list

#1 giraffe wall hanging – still working on needleturn applique, mommy giraffe almost done

#2 pineapple black and blue quilt- giving these a break now

#3 Bonnie Hunter ORCA mystery – backing fabrics ordered

#4 green, red, yellow flower quilt- top done, just taking forever removing the papers

#5 spring swap blocks- got plans but no background fabrics ordered yet

# 6 Making memories embroidered panel- needs to be made into a cute wall hanging

#7 fall leaf blocks swap- ready to quilt

#8 bubble gum quilt kit won at quilt show – top done adding vine on border

#9 won 9 march BOM -dotted flowers -DONE!

#10 Round Robin swap -TOP done and ready to quilt

#11- drunkard’s path- top done

#12- Hidden forest- applique- Deer block done

#13 pin cushion swap – packed and ready to go

#14geese in a ring- 6 blocks are here

#15 christmas tree skirt- top done

#16 hexies- 43 flowers done and sewn together

#17 women of the bible quilt blocks- block #14 Jael done

#18 Boxes!- fabrics arrived

#19 McCall’s #5 diamond in squares – Done and ready to mail

#20- roman holiday- kit

#21 Benertex floral quilt- top done ready to quilt

#22 Valentine’s Round Robin- dec done and mailed
#23 Woven Stars for CT – DONE!
#24 Quilt it today #2- red, white and blue quilt- fabrics on the way
#25- easy street- top done, may need a border?
#26 McCall’s #6 flower star- fabrics here
#27 McCall’s #7- “crazy daisy” – fabrics here, waiting on solid white
#28- Book quilt- just planned
#29 and 30(December) twin boy quilts -spider web quilt,scrapping the spider quilt, planning twist on bargello instead
#31 “birds”, #3 quilt it today- DONE and ready to mail

#32 winding reds” #4 quilt it today- fabrics are here