I've entered The lil Lion that Roared

Remember the quilt I made for the customer of mine. The lil Lion that roared??  Click here to read the original post.

Well I entered it in today's contest over @ the quilting gallery. Go check out the baby quilts today. You can vote for me if you want to.

Also today is Friday, so that means FNSI with Heidi!!!!

Click HERE to go and sign up, then put the peddle to the metal and sew, sew,sew!

Super Sewing Sunday 08-15-11

Wow, what a week it has been. Let me see what I have gotten done, Monday started out by pressing 100 HST's again, and getting them chain stitched into 4 rows of 5, so I have 5 more blocks waiting for them to be attached. Then I quilted The lil Lion quilt. Got the binding all done.

 And Embroidered a label, got it sewn on , then washed and dried it so I could gift it to the new mom.

She asked me how I knew.......I had to asked her know what?  She said they decorated Laith's room in the same print. NO WAY!!! I told her I had no clue, that I made that quilt just for him. What are the chances of that ever happening again????
Tuesday I had a migraine, so no sewing for me. Then on Wednesday I embroidered all 20 of my friends shirts, needed his name on them. Whew glad that is done and off the list. The machine ate the last shirt.....dang it. Good thing it was the last one and not the first one, otherwise I wouldn't have kept trying. Made these Cinnamon Crumb Cake Muffins for dessert Saturday, MMMMM they are good too.

No sewing for me on Thursday, Friday or (usually) Saturday, but this Saturday I was up at 4am, so off to my room I went. I started by picking out fabrics to join in Myra's mystery quilt along. I want to use up a few fat quarters I started using for a different QAL, but couldn't get into it. Since they are batik's I picked a rainbow of batik's out of my stash, and this is what I came up with. I think my color wheel is severely lopsided wouldn't you say???? Maybe it is because I have been using up alot of the warm colors?

 Sewed another 100 HST's together, that is 5 more blocks worth. 19 blocks worth to go.

Then I started working on 2 of my Rockin Robin Rows.The stars and the houses. Then hubby finally awoke so off we go to run errands, and work on the rental house a little bit, I so want that remodel job done. Can't wait till it cools off, it will be much easier to work on it then.
Now it is finally Sunday my super sewing day of the week. I started out by doing another 100 HST's so now there is only 280 more left to go, woo hoo past the half way point. Sew them on the respected blocks and I can start piecing the top of RRCB together, FINALLY!!!! Doesn't look like it will be put together by my Bday, but it is getting there. :D

I went back to working on my 2 rows of Rockin Row Robin, after about 6 hours, my machine started throwing tantrums. GO 3 stitches and it would thread lock underneath. For no apparent reason. Everything was the same as it was for the past 20 minutes or so. So I unthreaded it, still not working. Took out the bobbin and unthreaded it, still not working. Put on a new needle, still nothing. Took the machine apart and cleaned it out, rethreaded it, put the bobbin back in, and it STILL did it. URgghhhhh.

So I got out the ol Kenmore machine. WOW, what a difference!! There is a lot of things I actually liked better, and some I didn't. First off, see the left side of this foot, how it is going UNDER the seam allowance, that is on the good machine, drives me nuts.............

See this one, how the left side is raised up, so it NEVER grabs the seam allowance, this is the trusty Kenmore foot, LOVING IT!!!!

 I did have to rethread the Kenmore about 45 times while using it. But if I would remember to turn the fly wheel so the needle was down before hitting the foot pedal, I wouldn't have that problem. Oh yeah, I found out the reverse isn't working on the Kenmore. Also Kenmore doesn't have auto needle down no biggy today. I did manage to get a lot done on the two rows of the Rockin Row Robin though, here is the left half of the row, not all put together yet..........

 and here is the right side, I was trying to finish those two little stars, one is done, and the other one almost done, when the Kenmore decided to do the same exact thing the Big Brother is doing.........URGGHHHH!

Time to quit for me. Tomorrow, I will go up there, and both machines will probably work fine, that is usually how it rolls around here. I have less than 30 minutes to sew and these two rows are finished. One more to go. But since they are only doing 5 rows, and I added two more blocks wide, I am going to do another row of my own design so the quilt will be square at least. This way it isn't wider than it is long. Didn't think that one through when I started it. Well it is after midnight as usual so I am off to bed.

What have you been up to?? Know of any good QAL's going on right now. My table is almost cleared off, so I need to find a few more to work on. Still have lots of scraps and stash to use up before the end of the year. Resolutions.......still sticking with mine!!!

Semi super sewing Sunday. 07-31-11

 Earlier this week I put the borders on Laith's quilt, but haven't figured out yet how I am going to quilt it, so it is still hanging on the design wall for now.

 I got all 600 HST's for RRCB sewn and cut out this week too. Sure doesn't look like 600 does it????

 Here they all are in a shoebox, heading over to the ironing station, which at the post of this blog, they are still sitting.

 I finished piecing my Kaleidoscope quilt together, it is 10 feet square, I am NOT quilting this one on my lil' ol machine. That is a fact!

 Here is a view of the other side.

 And a view from the end. Can you tell which nightstand is mine? Hint: It is the one piled high with quilting books. Which I did put away today, the pile was getting toooooo tall.

 As soon as me and my gang went upstairs to sew today, Bailey layed her head on Hershey and just looked at me, so I snapped a picture.

 Then Hershey looked up and said, Hey take one of me too!!!!

 After taking those two's photo's, I looked around to see what I need to finish up and get off the table. I started with the scrap pile leftover from the Kaleidoscope quilt. Somehow I am going to use all this to make the back of the quilt. Because I don't want anything going into the scrap buckets that I am trying to empty. I cut out a lot of squares, and sewn a lot of the pieces together, no plan here like usual. Just look, sew, press and repeat. Eventually it will be 10.5 feet square.

 Next on the table was the rest of the 22 blocks I needed to finish for RRCB. I got all the centers done. Now I just need to start pressing those HST's, and sew them into strips of 5 and attach them to one of these blocks, only 29 more left to go. Then I can piece the top, and add the border too. My birthday is coming up in about 2 weeks. I want this one done before then. So I have made me a goal now of when I want this done. Oh yeah and my dinner from today too, a big bowl of Kettle Corn Popcorn! MMMM It was delish!

My daughter wanted me to make her a baby quilt to go with this fabric that has frogs on it. Guess I forgot to take a closeup of the frogs. So she picked out some fabrics and told me she liked the red and white one I did on the back of the Coke quilt. She wanted all the greens to go one way, and all the bluey ones to go the other way. She wanted it square too, not long and skinny like the red and white one. So here is her simple rail fence quilt top. She is going to buy more yellow, (It has dragonflies on it) so I can add a wide border, and she is getting lime green Minkee for the back of it. I will have to get a better pic of it later, because from here some of the blues and some of the greens look the same, but they aren't.






We drained the pool Friday and Saturday morning, and tore it down Saturday afternoon, and cut up the liner and toted it to the curb Sunday morning. Put all the pieces out of reach of the Lunatic gang too. Now my back is killing me, so I am done sewing today. Normally I would have sewn for another 4 hours. I do have another secret project I thought I would have done by now. Guess I will do that one tomorrow.
The dogs are loving that we got rid of the big pool, and gave them a HUGE sandbox in its place. I will try to take pics tomorrow, it was downpouring rain here again this afternoon. It is a daily thing lately. So now I am off to watch whatever is on the DVR, and flip through a pile of OLD magazines I found upstairs. I brought down a dozen, have at least a dozen more dozen to go through. Got really behind on reading all my magazines.

Super sewing Sunday 07-25-11

The little Lion that could.......  There is this lady that comes into the Post Office (where I work) who just had her first child. She was soooo excited leading up to her due date. Not sure what happened, but she had to have an emergency C-section, 4 weeks early. The first 13 minutes of her sons life, he wasn't breathing. She is glad they never gave up on him. When they finally got him breathing, he was swollen ready bad, they said he had edema ( I think) and he was in a lot of pain because his skin could only stretch so far, and his body was still pushing. They didn't give him too many days to live. Then a week later, they said he more than likely has cerebral palsy, she was devastated. As the days ticked on, he kept defying the odds. Every time they said he wouldn't be able to do something, he would do it. They were both in Shands hospital in Gainesville Florida for about a month before she could finally bring him home. I finally got to meet the little guy this past week. He is doing great. He might grow up to have absolutely nothing wrong with him. When I asked her what she named him she said "Laith" it means little lion. He has been fighting for his life everyday so far, and he is a strong fighter. So I am making them a little lion baby quilt. I am not done with it yet, but here is what I have so far.

White minkee in the middle!! I have to add the borders yet, and piece the back with a special label. She is going to be super surprised. :D

I also quilted and bound my secret project I did last weekend, here is the sneak peak...

I also have my Kaleidoscope quilt almost all pieced together, I have 5 more seams left to do, but I have to press, and pin, pin, pin and pin some more before I can sew them. Soooo I will do them tomorrow. Glad to have that one off the design board.

Ely Mae, steals stuff out of my room all the time, today I caught her running around with a piece of lace, that had a ribbon in it, so..............

I tied it very loosely on her like a queen or something.


Good thing Jethro has a stub for a tail, otherwise I might have stitched it into my Kaleidoscope quilt.

See the fluff on the right, that is his stub, and he was trying to sit in the hole where I was sewing, I had to push him out.


Oh and CONNIE>>>>>>>>this one is for you. Connie made this flower for the flower quilt along, and I told her I had done the same one about 10 years ago, and she asked to see it, here it is.