Pink Cupcake Delight

The other day I was reading over at Quilt Matters about the naming process of her quilts.  I was telling her that I'm pretty boring when it comes to naming my quilts, but that I would try a little harder.   So how's "Pink Cupcake Delight?"  Tee hee. 

I have a friend who has 2 boys and is finally having a girl, so I thought she could use a little pink in her life.  In a perfect world I would have ordered a solid for the background to make the quilt top a little less busy, but since time is of the essence (she's moving in June) I had to go with what I had on hand. The polka dots are growing on me though.  I whipped this together in record time last night and hopefully will be able to layer and quilt it soon.

Last Minute Finishes

I had this elaborate idea of quilting I wanted to do for this quilt with weaving in and out of the borders and then the reality check came: Hello!  You're having a baby next week and this quilt needs to get finished.  So, loopy lines it is!  Once I decided that, it took me less than an hour to quilt the entire thing.  I added some hearts, stars and crossed spirals to keep it slightly interesting to me and called it a day.

This quilt consists of my 15 blocks from the 4x5 Modern Quilt Bee, and it's a gift for a girl from church.  I used to do Activity Days with all the 8-11 year old girls, and one of them is turning 12 and graduating into the Young Women's program.  She's also moving to Texas next month, so I knew I couldn't procrastinate finishing this quilt. 

The 3 blocks on the back

Here's the full back:  I was surprised how textured it looks with the quilting.

 

Linkin' up to TGIFF & FMQ Friday!

Oklahoma Tornado Relief

I just want to pass this along to those of you that are able to help out.  Oklahoma Modern Quilters Guild is currently asking for quilts for the victims of the tornado in Moore, Oklahoma.  The quilts can be any size.  They would like them by June 30th. 

The natural disaster hit a little closer to home, because a member of our do.Good Stitches Wish Circle, Kirsten, lives in Moore.  Fortunately the tornado hit just North of her house and it was not affected, but she knows several people who lost their homes.  The Guild is going to help her distribute quilts to those families.

If you're interested, you can find all of the details at the OKCMQG website.

Another Block Crossed Off the List

Gratefully the Diamond Carat block did not take anywhere near as long as the hexies to hand sew together.  I finished the block up, and then appliqued and quilted it last night. 

Spiraled Hexies

I quilted the Skill Builder: Chev N' Hex last night.  I had fun adding straight lines with basic spirals. 

 You can see it a little better from the back:

More Hand Sewing

The second block for Skill Builder is all prepped and ready to go.  I really hope it doesn't take me as long to do this one as the Hexie block, or else this may be the block that took me all Summer.  It is kind of a snazzy design though.

WIP Time

I need to organize myself here, so I thought I'd better put together a Work In Progress post. 

Skill Builder: April Blocks - I finally finished the first one, but I need to do the second one still, and they both need to be quilted.  I'm a bit behind because the hand sewing takes so long. Sadly, the two May blocks come out on Friday, so I need to get moving. 

4x5 Modern Quilt Bee: I've put my blocks together, so I now have a finished front and back.  I just need to layer the quilt to get it ready for some quilting.  I haven't decided how I want to quilt it yet.  I'm still in limbo. 

do. Good Stitches:  The ladies put together a virtual baby shower for me, so if you want to see some ridiculously cute homemade baby items go here for that post. 


Other projects
Sisters BOM- up to date
Christmas quilt - nada nada limonada

Stats for the Week:
New projects - 0
Completed projects - 0
WIP- 4

Linking up to WIP Wednesday.  

A Quick Framing

Normally framing blocks seems like it takes a long time, but this quilt top came together rather quickly which is always nice.  I really like it. 

The quality of the pictures aren't the greatest, but I was hurriedly taking pictures as a storm was blowing in yesterday.  You get the idea though.

1001

This is my 1001th post.  How crazy is that?!  I started blogging 4 years ago a little here and there about my family, and then 2 years ago I got more heavily involved in the quilt-blogging world.  It's been a wonderful adventure and journey.  I've made quite a number of friends and acquaintances along the way, and it's been a great outlet for me about my family, quilting, and life in general. 

While we're talking about quilting- I've now received all 5 blocks from the Spring Round of 4x5 Modern Quilt Bee. 

I now have 15 total blocks after 3 rounds and I'm ready to make a quilt top.  I only need 12 for the front, so I'm using the other 3 on the back.  I think I'm going to frame the blocks in the black background.

Block Time

With only a couple of weeks left before the arrival of the baby, I am trying to get all of my May blocks done as early as possible.  I'm still whittling away at the April Skill Builder hexie blocks.  I forgot how long it takes to hand sew things.  The first one is coming along though a little at a time.

I finished the Sisters Modern BOM blocks for May: Aunt Eliza's Star.  As my son would say, they were easy peazy lemon squeezy.

I also finished the 3 blocks for do.Good Stitches.  It actually takes 4 to complete an entire Crazy Star block, but we're leaving them unfinished for Erica to mix and match them together.  The finished block is 20 inches, so they're pretty big.  We were to use red, yellow and orange scraps with low volume prints as background.  Here's a lovely explanation of low volume prints if you're curious (go here).

My Brother Hyrum

This video struck close to home and brought tears to my eyes.  I thought I would share it with you: