Happy Birthday and Groundhog's Day

I must wish my sister-in-law a Happy Birthday (Groundhog's Day).  I forgot to give her a call. I was so busy cleaning house (ha, ha), doing laundry (really), and sewing that I didn't get to call her.  I know today she was going to be busy.  Maybe tomorrow, that is if I don't forget again.  Anyway, things around here are the same.  Nothing really new.  I lead such a boring life.  Well, this Wednesday us girls are getting together.  I'm told that we are going to go to the casino to celebrate the second youngest one's birthday that was at the end of January.  If course it's Senior Day so we should fit right in!
My niece did have her baby girl the last day of January.  Looking at her picture she is such a beautiful chubby baby and looks like her Mommy.
As I said earlier, I've been sewing up a storm so that I can get some of these scraps gone.  So far I've made 4 scrap quilts and I didn't even put a dent in the 5 containers.  This is the last one that I've been working on all week into the wee hours making the solid 12" blocks. The star block centers are 6" and they were a breeze. I finished up today putting it together.  I saw the pattern in Quiltmaker Mar/Apr 2013 Issue.  It's the one on the cover and is called Star Splitter.  Anyway it was done with a yellow background which I thought was horrible.  I liked the layout so I made it with a white background.  Everything is scraps.  Here's a picture minus the borders.  Right now it's 73"x 90".  It will fit either a king or queen when finished.

Close up of the blocks

Entire quilt

I can see my 2 featherweights just sitting there naked and gathering dust when I'm sewing.  I figured that I should get busy and make some 'blankets' for them. 

Naked and dusty.

Warm and clean.

 The Super Bowl is on right now and you can see how interested I am about it.  I don't like either of the teams playing and now is a good time to update my blog.  That's about it from here, till next time....................................