More flimsys for the quilting que

I did manage to get Buffalo Troubles into a flimsy stage! Yippee! I also have enough blocks to piece a lazy star top for one of the love quilts and almost enough for a different pattern for one of the other ones. All of the small triangles in Buffalo Troubles are bonus hsts from the lazy star blocks! Can you imagine? And I have to make another 100 small bocks for the third quilt. What will I do with all those bonus triangles this time? The key is to trim about every 10 blocks or 20 bonus triangles or I get discouraged - overwhelmed with all the trimming. But the top is in que for some warmer quilting weather.




And well Moose was in a playful mood this morning. I love the crossed paws- such good manners-lol!



After I piece 2 more rows for the lazy star quilts I need to seriously clean up the sewing area. DD and my best friend's son are cooking dinner for 6 of us tomorrow - how cool is that? So the table needs to be totally cleared. That hasn't happened since New Years Eve-lol

Oh and I need to make the qst for an ohio star quilt for a bday present

Making Progress

I've managed to get 12 of the 20 blocks I need for the Kansas Troubles or as I'm going to call it Buffalo Troubles *wink* top.
The closer hubby gets to moving the more grief I'm getting from the teens. This too shall pass ( I hope)


I need 8 more of these blocks and I can piece the top....


Let's not forget the insane project I started last year. This poor top keeps getting pushed aside for other hand sewing. Bindings,hanging sleeves- soon english paper piecing.


My brain dead son stepped on the Marti Mitchell template I was using to cut and mark all the little pieces. After a few emails I am getting a replacement template from Marti Mitchell w/o buying a whole set...yeah!

Kansas Troubles are here to stay

This was today's project :)
Like it says, 16 are shown but more than 20 are done. Actually 20 are sewn into pinwheels. Making the blocks 20% done . YIPPEE!



For every one of these finished, that means 2 of the lazy/shooting star blocks are done also :) Good thing I only need 520 of them. Maybe it's time to think of big borders.
I probably have 80 of those done too. Need to cut more 6" squares tomorrow.

I have the black/red and white pineapple blossom quilted and the binding sewn on. Tomorrow when I come back from my mom's I hope to quilt the blue one. Those are the only 2 gifts that need to be quilted by the holiday. I have 4 more shirts to embroider but that's another project. My laptop lost internet and I'm going nuts trying to connect it so in the meantime hubby bought a 8gb memory stick that I'm transferring from my pc to the laptop a million or so embroidery designs. Some are unzipped, most are not. Which is a major PITA on the laptop :(

My mom is having major sight issues. She's become legally blind in a week :( and losing her zest for life. She was an advid crocheter and she could read a book in a day or two. No more.

Who's ready for the fat man in the red suit????

Kansas Troubles revisited

When I got home last night, there were a few comments that I made my blocks wrong. THANK YOU! I can't imagine if I made 80 blocks wrong :( Well they just would have been renamed ( like hubby told me to do) So around 6ish this morning, I started reconstruction and had my book that the pattern is from the book, SCRAP QUILTS. I love this book and have made a few patterns from it.



All better, plus I made my 4 blocks for today :)



See the base of the triangles against the blue? I had it backwards yesterday....

Challanging to Say the Least

I thought Ocean Waves was a challenge. This block had me about crazy trying to figure out where the darks go.



But first thing this morning, I trimmed some more of the Stashbusters prize up for the lazy star blocks and a cut a few so I could try the Kansas Troubles block. BEFORE i commited to making 80 or so of them. I think I can do this *WINK*

Oh I guess I can do them - I made 4 before I put that project away:)

arggggg one of the 4 blocks are wrong :( tomorrow that's the first order of business. I just checked the book of the pattern I'm using