Sunday Morning

Usually, Sundays are for quilting (I quilt in my pj's!)

Today I put on a pair of pants.

By the time I headed for my shoes, someone was waiting for me:



Do you think he knows we are going somewhere?

It is cool this morning so Caleb could come with me to the post office to mail my April blocks.

I'd film Caleb bouncing off the walls (literally!) and racing for the car, but he plowed me over on the way...

Here are the blocks:



This was a very exciting and early morning- I may need a nap this afternoon!

I was going thru all the posts and saw that Karen had posted the picture of the flowers that she was looking to plant. I figured that being down south, we are probably blooming a little earlier than most of you so here are some of my flowers that are already out:

Yellow Columbine and Coral Bells



Coral Bells- I love the color of this!


Heron's Bill (planted next to the pond, of course)


and XXXXXX XXXXXXX. (I mean PAINTED daisies, oops!)

And as if I didn't have enough to do, I pulled out this old paper pieced quilt and started working on it again. It is made up of 1/2" hexagons and is about 30" x 40" now.




Here it is folded in half so I can figure out where to put the pieces on the other side to make it symmetric. I need to go back and start pulling the papers out of those internal pieces....

Scraps, Scraps and more Scraps

Definitely, it is Katie's fault....

I'm not sure what I am doing wrong. I sew and sew and sew... this scrap pile is NOT getting any smaller. I am almost sure I have more than when I started. And how the heck did she make a scrap quilt out of fabrics that are all the same color? I am pretty sure that there are fabrics in here that I have never even SEEN before, much less used in a quilt...

My sewing room is in a sad state. There used to be a project at this end of the table and scraps on the other end. (Usually I am working on more than one project at a time.) Clearly, the scraps have taken over. They have migrated out of the scrap basket, all across the front table and have taken over that back table, too. There's also a pile of them on the ironing table that you cannot see...

My progress so far... These are the 6" blocks I am making with the embroidery disk I talked about in an earlier post. For some reason, I decided to dress it up and put all these skinny little sashing strips in here too. Sure wish I had decided to make that in between block a bigger piece, instead of all those little 1" squares right about now. Oh well. These are sewn together in blocks of four, alternating a plain block with one that is not. Here it is taped up on the wall-


Not a great photo, as it is rainy and dark here today but you are sure to see it again. Also not sure how big this will get- it is about 45" right now. I guess from the state of my scraps I should plan on a couple of king-size, but I'm not sure I can get all that done before my lobotomy is scheduled...

I am a slug.

It has been a long time since I have been out here- so sorry, guys!

Dave had surgery so I got to take care of him for awhile. I am pretty sure he is sick of me calling to check on how he is by now. The job has ramped up and has been kicking my tail again. We are supposed to have everything up and running by next month but we keep running into glitches. So I have been a crabby little brat. And being of the opinion that you all don't want to listen to me whine I have been absent. Enough of that.

This morning I went off to the quilt room and vacillated over what to do (can you say spastic?) Unable to choose a project to work on, I finally moved all the furniture back where it was originally (so the drafting table is back by the window). After that I gave myself a stern talking to and sat down to put the four pieces of the Mississippi Kite together. So here are all of the assembled pieces so far...



Oh, and here's the original photo: