What I Did Yesterday / Process Post

Yesterday I spent around the house..ALLL DAYYY..it was GREAT!
On Sunday we were supposed to have a BBQ but my husband was ill. So I has 8.5 pounds of ground beef thawed out! YIKES!
I decided to go ahead and season them & make them into hamburger patties to freeze.

 I made about 35 or 40 patties in all..and I HAD to keep some out for dinner! :)

I listed some homeschool curriculum for sale on the various HS groups. I didn't get to all of it listed, but at least I made a dent in it :)

 I sure do miss homeschooling. I am so reluctant to sell my middle school curriculum  in case we end up homeschooling again. I don't know what the future holds, but as of now Kyle absolutely loves public school...and there aren't any issues with it...so....

I guess since I was having a somewhat lazy day...the animals decided they would too. I walked out of the sewing room and this is what I saw as I went along...

Jacob napping

Patches napping...yes that is her BACK leg up by her head, lol.

Linus napping...caught him mid-yawn :)

and Lissie napping!

 Just seeing them made me tired!

Next I headed into the sewing room to complete the quilt top that I had listed on my Design Wall Monday post. All I had left to do was add the final border. The border fabric is actually the same as the squares in the centers....

 Then I decided to pull this quilt out and FINALLY quilt it. (It's been pinned and hanging in my closet for almost a year now)

 BUT...I couldn't find a thread color for the backing that I was happy with...so off to the side it went...again :)

I pulled out these scraps left over from a doll quilt project I made last year...hmmm...

 what to do with them...

 PINWHEELS! (I love pinwheels)

 I decided to sew them together into a table topper/doll quilt sized piece.

I looked over and Patches was napping (again) on my daybed. I thought it was so cute that she was laying on top of a quilted quilt, just waiting on the binding...up against a quilt top that is awaiting a border and next to a quilt book. :o) Made me smile!

 Here was my thought for the border...

 Ta DA! I love it! It's completely UN-uniformed but I love it. I am using the leftover scraps to piece a scrappy backing :)

And as I looked out my sewing room window last night, I saw this beautiful sunset and just had to go outside and take a picture. I love where I live.

Sewing Up a Storm!

I have had SEW much sewing time lately!! I am LOVING it!

I finished my funky farm blocks:

I also started ONE pig block to go along with the funky blocks I receive:

I have this to add still:

I also finished adding the border to the Round Robin that I'll be sending off to Australia:

I finished my Doll Quilt for the August swap! I did a traditionally pieced top this time.

I did add an appliqued flower to the backing because it needed a little something.

A couple of CUTIE PATOOTIE pics of Jacob and Jasmine (my BFF's cat that we are cat-sitting)

Jasmine

Jacob

SO CUTE!!

Mini wallet & luggage tag!!

My bestie and I sewed until almost 3am last night!! (well, this morning, I should say). She is traveling to Italy over the summer and wanted a small lil wallet to take just her bare necessities in.
We tried a new pattern and here's my wallet. THIS is where we found the mini wallet tutorial!
Front:

The front has two pockets...the main inside of the wallet, which is where you would put $, etc.:

And the front slidey in thingy-I put a yellow card in there to show it, but it's where you would put your id or credit card, etc.:

 Here's the back view:

Which also has a slidy thingy....

 that's the back "pocket"/slidy thing opened. you could fit some folded cash in there but I put my license there.

This was our first one of this pattern and Lisa didn't work all the bugs out like she normally does before I try to make anything with a pattern...so...it's def NOT perfect...BUT...I have THREE more cut and ready to go!
Isn't it cute though!??!

We also made luggage tags...mine is not finished. Lisa's is done and it is SO ADORABLE! Here's mine...in progress. I just have to sew down the clear plastic with a cutesy ribbon ;) I'll post a finished pic once it's done!

You can see Lisa's finished luggage tag on her blog. It's SO cute!


And.....Lisa finished my Doll Quilt!! She purposely made it to match the 30's quilt I'm making!!! :o)
Front:

Back:

Here's the quilt I am making with the same fabrics:

 

I LOVE my doll quilt! Isn't it cute!

(I think Jacob approves too) ;)

Process Pledge Post

OK, since it has been so long since I've posted about my quilting...I am going to just pick up where I am at...I'm sure eventually all of my WIP's  will make it on here.

This week I have been working on my Nov/Dec Doll Quilt Swap.

I finished the top today. Here it is:

 

 I have been loving making yo-yo's! I've been using the Clover yo-yo makers and they are great!

I've been making these while sitting at Kyle's baseball games and Cub Scout meetings.

Last month was my first month doing the Doll Quilt (DQ) swap on www.thequiltingboard.com. I really enjoyed making the miniature quilt and sending off to my swap partner. I made a birthday themed DQ for her b/c her bday was in early Nov. The pics I have are really bad but it's all I've got. I did a lot of embellishments on it and it was just adorable!