HOME!

 My spouse and I arrived back at home January 2 after a week with the grandkids (and parents). It feels so good to be back home drinking my coffee, sleeping in my own bed, and so on.  Love, love, love them all to death. But I am getting older and like my own things. They also have a lot of pets. 

But we had fun playing games together, hanging out on the couch with them while they played video games. and going outside with them. We also cooked with them. I am so happy to see the boys helping out around the house. 

And the younger boy had his 9th birthday. ( New Year's Eve) We did tacos and Sonic theme.  He is such a cutie and a sincere kid who cares about people.  He is still as skinny as a rail, but so much bigger than the 3 pound premie.

Stash Bee Hive 5

Great pattern where you sewed around the middle square and then cut it into fourths and realigned.

Sewing started for Stash Bee and My Corrine et Cecile Celebration SAL

Celebration SAL

So I am excited to get started on my list of projects. Happy New Year to you all!   Hope your goals are exciting and fun for you. 

Starting the new year!

 In my last post, I commented over not completing or even starting my 3 new quilts from a year ago.  2 of them are still on my sometime to do list.

So a big goal I have is to continue finishing projects.  And the top of the list is to finish these projects:

1) Blockheads 1  (Started in 2017)  At this point I have the layout planned with 2 major steps of piecing to complete before getting it quilted.  I need to finish all the sashing strips and only need 24 left to do. The second is the large pieced block of the center.  

Photo is of the completed side sections of the center.

2) New York Beauty with pattern from Karen K Stone's book. All the blocks are made; I only need to lay it out and sew it together before quilting. I have 36 of these blocks completed and 24 side blocks.
I want to enter this is our guild show in March.

3) Stash Bee: I was queen bee for November.  I have yet to receive a couple blocks due to Canada's postal strike. But it will be a great summer quilt in red, white and blue:

4) Tilda quilt in the pattern: Everlasting by Corey Yoder. I only need 20 of these blocks and sashing.

It was a new start after my birthday in November. I am just completing one block at a time with no specific deadline. ( I do need to buy more Tilda fabrics for it, though.)

5)   A miniature quilt:  5 blocks completed 7 more to go.

6) Lastly I have a Rainbow Scrap quilt started 4 years ago. I made huge progress in the setting this last year , but needs final arrangement and borders:  ( Maybe 1 more block to make it 75 or so inches squared. )

I will be starting a mystery quilt in late January. 

And I am participating in the blue squares exchange with a scrap pattern in plan.

And I do have 6 small quilt tops needing finishing. (Plus one which has been at the quilter for a while. )

I am still debating the Corrine et Cecil quilt along: the theme is birthday and I have found a row by row that looks tempting.  HMMMM.

Plus a few other squirrels along the way, not that I don't have enough patterns and stash to use. 

How about all of  YOU!  Inspiration is always welcome. 

Happy New Year to each of you! May your quilty dreams come to fruition!