little bits here and there

Yesterday I chaperoned my son’s class to Old Salem NC, it’s a cute little town or street where they kept everything like it was in the old days and the employees are all dressed up to match and talk about how people lived back then etc.

You know when I saw this! I had to take a picture 🙂

also came home to a package of nice fabrics I ordered the other day.

The floral and white is for the charm quilt I’m planning, using a pattern and charms that I won at the last blog hop, the black dots is for my blue strip blocks, the red, well I am always low on red fabrics and I needed 4$ to get free shipping at fabric.com so I added that for my stash

ALSO I received these two NEW books from cheryl lynch, one is for me and another is to give away- but not yet! so keep your eyes open, in a few weeks I will talk more about this

thursday I worked on the pastel bubblegum quilt, all the pieces for the top are cut out and I am half way done with block #1 (diamond in a square)

I also received a customer’s quilt in the mail, have to get started on that soon, my husband would say NOW! so that I can get some money to pay off my fabric purchases 🙂 isn’t that always the case??

here’s another update on my 2012 list

#1 welcome to the hive-turned into a pillow DONE!

#2 lotus quilt- DONE!

#3 blue flower table runner- DONE!

#4 pumpkin star pillow- just needs to be stuffed and sewn together

#5 red mini star table topper- top done and ready to quilt DONE!

#6 Bunny table runner- DONE!

#7 Connecting threads KIT fabrics- all blocks are back!

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

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

#10 Blue star quilt- lots of blocks done

#11 Pine tree BOM- MARCH is done

#12 Next Stitch STAR- top done waiting to be quilted, binding made, backing cut

#13 snowmen table runner- DONE!

#14 Elenar Burns star Go! die- pieces cut for a scrappy look- SCRAPPED! added pieces back on shelf

#15 aqua owl- DONE! and made a pair of hotpads too for a neighbor

# 16 geese in a ring- DONE!

# 17 Bonnie Hunter ORCA mystery – top done- skipping the border

# 18 Little twister blue- SCRAPPED

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

# 20 small embroidered trees (4 blocks) – DONE!

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

# 22Making memories embroidered panel- needs to be made into a cute wall hanging

# 23 black, red white asian quilt- ready to be quilted, found red backing

# 24 color block swap- top is done, done and quilted!

# 25 fall leaf blocks swap- top done

# 26 Baby gingham dog boy quilt- DONE!

#27- a doll apples quilt- DONE!

#28(jan 2012) need to quilt 2 donation quilts- done and mailed off

#29(jan) batik pastel kit won at quilt show – block #1 half way done

#30 (jan) wonky block- mailed off DONE

#31 (feb) jelly roll quilt- DONE!

#32 (feb)5 x 1yards of beige/ black batiks- DONE!

#33 (mar) won 9 march BOM from pine tree guild- make into quilt top

#34 (mar) batik quilt for McCalls – DONE!

#35(mar) another quilt for McCalls- top done, binding and backing ready

#36 (mar) Round Robin swap – May done and ready to mail out

#37(mar) Dr seuss baby shower gift- DONE!-missing label

#38 (april) blue strip pieced blocks – block done and black fabric arrived

#39 (april) won a pattern and two charm bundles- matching fabrics arrived

Of course I really want to work with the new fabrics or work more on the pastel quilt and work on the customer quilt, but I should also be starting some owl pot holders for the craft fair, now a week away!!