Another Finish

I forgot how much I love rainbow quilts.  This is a bit more in the pastel category since it's for a baby girl.  She's set to arrive next week, so I've got to hurry up and get it in the mail.  I seem to always manage to wait right up until they're due. 

 I did a large stippling for the quilting.  It's been so long since I've stippled anything, so I was a bit rusty, but I enjoyed it.

The backing comes from my stash from a previous project.  It was the wrinkliest piece of fabric I had ever seen.  It obviously did not fare very well when stuffed into a box during our move.  I made a noble attempt at ironing it, but it was nigh unto impossible to get some of the creases out.  It led to some puckering in the back when I quilted it.  I like to think of it as texture. 

5 Little Hens in a Row

My quilting club met this week, and gratefully, I finished my row with a day to spare.  I had Rebecca's Americana and Civil War fabric.  The only stipulations were that the row needed to be 42" long, and no block larger than 8".  I found this adorable tutorial for a hen, and decided that's what I wanted to do.  They are surprisingly easy to piece together. 

 I pretty much love my row.  I almost wanted to keep it!

You can see Rebecca's row of flags that I'm adding on to.  I think her quilt top is going to be adorable!

Scrappy Quilt Top

I was looking for a cute quilt top that I could piece together quickly for a baby who's coming in the next 2 weeks.  I saw this quilt top and knew I could do it quickly.  There wasn't a tutorial, but I decided to just make everything 2.5" in width, and it was very simple, but nice. And of course, I love that it came completely out of my scrap bin.

All in a Row

I finished my row of Dragonflies with one day to spare.  Phew!  Tomorrow night I'll pass on my fabric to another woman in the quilt group and she'll add another row of whatever block she wants.

This is going to be fun.

Carrying the Banner

This weekend Newsies came to OKC, and my loving husband took me to see it.  He's not much of a fan of this particular musical, but he knew I really wanted to see it.  The highlight of this musical is definitely the dancing.  It's insane!  The tap dance number in King of New York was ridiculously amazing!  I know the music inside and out, because I grew up loving the movie.  The musical adaptation is a bit different from the movie, but the changes didn't bother me.  The plot is not the deepest thing on the planet and the musical moments themselves are alright, but it's definitely the dancing that makes this musical good.

Small Town Quilting

Some ladies at my church have a quilting group.  They invited me to join them.  The majority of them are in their late 70s with the one closest to my age probably being around mid-50s.  We have little in common except love of quilting.  We even have opposite tastes in fabric, but they are seriously hilarious.  I have a feeling I'm going to enjoy the group.  Two of them took me on a trip to go to a quilting store out in the middle of No Where, Oklahoma about an hour north west of where we live.  It was so much fun.  We drove through small towns.  They look exactly how I would picture old towns off of Route 66.  They are almost stuck in time with their old buildings and one stop light.  It was so charming.  The ladies informed me that other than the military bases, OKC, and Tulsa, this is what the rest of Oklahoma looks like.

The fabric was drool worthy.  I mostly just window shopped, but it's fun to look at all of it.  I loved all the gorgeous quilts that lined the walls.  They were truly stunning.

 This sign outside their shop just cracked me up.  Only in Oklahoma...

The ladies then took me to another small town called City of Kingfisher for lunch.  We stopped at an old school pharmacy that has a little kitchenette in it.  The food was surprisingly good.  They're famous for their orangeade.  It's made with freshly squeezed oranges and it's delish!  BB loved the orangeade and drank most of mine for me.

Wonky Stack

September's block for do.Good Stitches consisted of stacking fabrics and wonky cutting.  I really enjoyed this block.  Kristin asked us to use the colors white, red, yellow, and orange.  Doing through my fabric I realized that I have very little yellow and orange compared to any of the other colors.  I rarely gravitate to those colors, so this was good for me to move out of my color comfort zone.

 This block is a lot of fun, because you stack all 4 blocks on top of each other and then randomly cut outside and inside borders.  When you undo the layers you have 4 different blocks.

 (Excuse the carpet pictures.  It's storming outside.)

Pillowcases

When we moved to Oklahoma I went to the JustServe website to see what service projects were in the area that maybe I could help with.  One project in particular looked doable.  A local hospital has fabric that they would like people to turn into pillowcases.  When a child stays at their hospital they get to choose a pillowcase and keep it.  It was on my list of things I wanted to do once things settled down around here, but imagine my surprise when I found out the Young Women at Church were working on the same project.  I came to help sew, but I ended up showing everyone how to make them instead.  Nora and I were the only two who had ever made them before, so we helped everyone with the process.  I didn't even touch my sewing machine that night.  Since I didn't get to sew I took a bunch of cut fabric home with me.  Yesterday during nap time I whipped up 4 pillowcases and then finished the fifth one in the evening.  I like fun and easy projects like that.  They're finishing up the project tomorrow night at church, so I'll probably take home whatever is left to quickly make the last of them.