More January Blocks in the Mail

These are the blocks for this month for Harmony / do Good Stitches....

Wonky Stars

                                             This is the inspiration for the quilt....Lovin' it!    Jeri

Sew Much Fun / w Friends

    Saturday I spent the day at a workshop put on by my quilt guild. It was led by one of our members, Julie. She taught us how to make a "Marys Unit" block from scraps and what can be done with such a simple block with a pile of them. First we traded our precut  piles with each other to really mix up the scraps and because sharing is so much fun with friends. Then we went to our machines and began sewing.......

Ladies.....start your engines!

A little of this.....

A little of that......

being productive.....

chatting along the way....

love the serious expression on our faces.....

After sewing the morning away it was time for some potluck lunch.

Always fun to taste what people bring.

We are pretty good cooks and the variety was deliscious.......

After lunch we went back to the drawing board.

These blocks go together quickly so my pile was more than adequate to "play" with.

add a little diet coke in there.....My kind of quilting!

Time to play....See the Mary's Block Unit?

Sooooooooooooooo many possibilities!

These are my blocks. Kind of a traditional setting like this.

or how about this way......

see the arrows in this setting?

Here I am playing with my blocks.

or what about that................

an on point option.....

Bobbi playing with her black background pieces....

our fearless leader playing with some blocks...

Joyce says....I'm done!

What a great day. Another workshop extravaganza!

Thankyou so much Julie.......

First finish for 2012

    Just put the final stitches in the binding for this quilt last night. I think I started it in 2009. It was one of my first Quilt Alongs and I was able to pull from my stash for it.It's kind of like an Eye Spy for me in that it has fabric from past projects, and bits of my favorite fabrics.  I think I had to buy a bit of yardage for the back, because this one is a generous twin size, and I started quilting it before the Gammill, so that took me a while too. I just love the nine patch block and love the scrappiness of this quilt. Yay for the first finish of 2012 and one more check off on the UFO list!   TO THE NINES

Don't those nine patches make you smile?

and a few scrappier ones thrown across the back....

These are the blocks I sent off for Decembers'/ Harmony Do Good Stitches blocks of the month.

I like this mix of colors a lot!

and these are for January /Scrapbusters Bee Blocks.

I have joined one more Bee for the year and I am the Queen Bee for the month of February. Meaning I need to get my act together and figure what I would like my fellow bees to sew for me. It has to be wonky...thus the name Sew Bee Wonky.

What's Your Favorite Block?

Do you have a favorite quilt block? This next month for one of the swaps I am in she is asking for a 12.5" block of our choice. Now that opens a whole world of possibilities........I do like the simple 9 patch....and then there is a House block that I have loved for many years. Lately I have been into Crumb Chaos to try and tame the scrap heap! Log cabins are a fav as well. On my design wall now I have several blocks...half square triangles in cool/warm colors, and another block that I am not sure of the name of but it would work. Dresdens are really nice...I could do a word block with something inspiring like "SEW" or something like that. My but the possibilities are endless.  Maybe I will just close my eyes, fan through my sampler book, and randomly pick one. I will let you know what I choose......

and then I need to think about the fabric choice.....contemporary, retro, solids, scrap heap. What for the background if there is any? Wow.....for one little block there is a lot to think about.

After Christmas / and a year in review

This year I bought a gammill........These are some of the projects finished for the year. and of course there are a few UFO's around just waiting to be finished.....

Wonder what next year will bring?

Had to work yesterday and so Christmas gifting with the family was a little late.

I gave Gary his bed the day before and I think he likes it!

Made my heart happy.

I have to stop posting things that I make before giving them because the girls both said they had

a preview of the snap it bags I made for them. Oh well, much better in person.

Santa was good to me.

 He made some fancy new circle templates for my quilting machine.

 Now I want to try some Baptist Fans and some other patterns with them.

I hope you had an enjoyable weekend. Here is to a quilty New Year!   Jeri