Scrappy Lines

My husband says I should make a goal never to buy fabric again until I've used everything I have.  Eh- that's a goal that will never be realized, but I did put together a quilt top using only my scrap bin yesterday.  I also told him I hadn't bought any fabric since the beginning of December either, so that's pretty much the same thing.  😂  He didn't really follow my logic.  Even though my reasoning may be flawed, it does always feel good when I use all scraps.

Sadly, I couldn't even tell a difference in my blue and green scrap bin after completing this quilt top, Joel's dreams may never be realized.  

Wonkiness

I finished the Wonky Log Cabin quilt this weekend.  It's headed to Alaska.  We have friends from our time in Ohio who are now stationed there with the Army. 

 I decided to do stipling starting from the center working its way to the edges.  It was a bit tricky at first, but it got easier as I got further out and the sides got longer.

My favorite part is actually the flannel on the back, because I love the frogs and turtles.  I got the idea to do a mostly green quilt top on front because of them. 

Holiday YW Fun

I work with ladies at church who know how to decorate and throw a party like no other.  I'm serious!  I do not have the decorating gene at all, but they've got it in spades! We had a Galentine's Party for the Young Women.  We combined with the other ward that the girls are close to, and ended up with almost 40 girls there!

 Papa Murphy's does heart-shaped pizzas for Valentines.

 If there's ever a time to have pink fluff then Valentine's Dad would be it!

 I love our girls so much!  We were only missing 2 that night.

Meanwhile, later that week my adorable Beehive Presidency went and heart attacked a family's door that needed a little cheer in their life.  These two make me smile every single time I'm with them.  Their enthusiasm for life is contagious!

While I was partying with the young ladies, Joel was holding down the fort with the kiddos at Little Man's Blue and Gold Banquet.  He got a couple more merit badges, and he's super close to completing his Bear.

Blowing in the Wind

It's been raining and the wind is in full "go" mode around here.  I should have cut my losses and known better than to try to get a picture, but I wanted to be able to layer it today.  This is about the best I could do with my Wonky Cabin quilt top.

Forget Me Nots

A good friend of mine from our time in Ohio is having a baby girl.  She's now in Las Vegas and we're in Oklahoma, but we were able to visit them over Spring Break last year.  I finished the baby's quilt this weekend. 

 I've been cleaning up a lot of my pictures, and getting rid of old duplicates.  I went through all of my quilt pictures this week, and it reminded me of how much I used to free motion quilt.  When time is of an essence I almost always do loopy lines, because it's quick and easy.  I decided to take some time and do something different this time.  

 This was my first time in a very long time of doing lines without a walking foot.  Some of the lines are a bit wonky, but I'm choosing to believe it just gives it personality.  I added Forget-Me-Not flowers in some of the borders.  I enjoyed quilting them. 

October Stitches

I finally got our October Stitches quilt completed last week.  It's going to an adorable boy who fought cancer and is currently in remission. 

Moda Cuteness

I've been a part of the online sewing group Do. Good Stitches for about 6 year now.  Every month we make blocks and rotate who's in charge to piece together the quilt for Project Linus.  I've always enjoyed this group and the women who are a part of it.  I had never actually met any of the women until just last month.  We're from all over the United States, but one of my group members lives in Oklahoma about an hour south of me.   This past December she invited me to her favorite fabric shop in OKC for their once a year End-of-Bolt sale.  I've been trying to be good and not buy fabric for a while now, but I was excited to finally meet her and see some designer fabric.  We had a blast and I'm sad we hadn't met earlier.  In the process I did buy fabric - although I did control myself better than what I thought.  We decided perhaps next time it would be cheaper to go out to lunch rather than meet at the fabric shop, because we were both enablers.  "You should totally get that fabric!"  "That's adorable!"  "You're husband won't mind."  "You need that fabric!" 

Yesterday I put some of that fabric to good use.  I used a combination of my Moda fabric with fabric I had in my stash to piece this baby girl quilt top.  I saw this pattern online and modified it to what I wanted.  Every once in a while math really does come in handy!  Don't tell any of my math teathers though, because I think I was rather vocal about never going to need it in real life...

January Charm Pack Blocks

This month Steph asked for 2 Charm Pack quilt blocks using all bright solids for the middle strip and solid tan, cream, and grays for the background.  I liked this block a lot.  I may have to put this on my list of blocks for future quilts.