What do you get when you . . . . . . . . .

Mix lime green, orange, black, and a crazy neon squiggly striped fabrics?

The crazy striped fabric was in a box of fabric that I bought at Suzanne McNeil's warehouse sale a couple of months ago.  I've been debating with myself as to what I wanted to make with it while using some of my new templates and some of my stash.  These 2 - 20" blocks are what I came up with.  I only have 7 more to do.  Then it will be a 'square' lap quilt 68"x68" when finished.  Far cry from what I would normally do.  But maybe one of my granddaughters will love it because I definitely don't!

Simplest Wedding Ring by Cheryl Phillips of Phillips Fiber Art

 

 

 

 It sure doesn't look like the picture below

Booklet and template that I'm using

EQ Stitch

 
I did get my ElectricQuilt's EQStitch.  I'm really impressed with it.  I've been fooling around with it for a little bit and it seems quite easy to use.  Let's see if it helps me design any quilts.


Let's see what else I've been up to:

Yes, I'm going to try and grow some celery again.  I'm hoping that I can take better care of it this year.  Last year with all the treatments, feeling yucky, and doctors appointments, I didn't get to nurture the other one.  Check out the green grass,  yippee spring is on it's way!

Excitement

Well, it's excitement for me anyway.  I ordered EQStitch by Electric Quilt.  It should be delivered on Monday.  Anticipation is not a strong enough word for what I'm going through just waiting.   I don't usually tell anyone about the stupid things that I do, but, this one takes the cake!  I had been checking the EQ site everyday for the new software that was announced in January.  Finally, it's been released.  Okay, get my American Express card out, fill in my order, put in my card number and hit GO.  Card denied.  What???  I double checked everything, it seemed okay,  hit GO.  Card denied.  I did this 3 times.  Then I go to Bill's computer and use his card, same thing, denied.  By now I'm really upset.  Did sweet hubby pay last month's bill??  (It's easy to blame him)  Called AMEX and they said that the charges were on there 4 times and it was not denied.  WHAT??  I thought it was denied.  I called Electric Quilt, they said it was denied 4 times.  What is going on?  I also asked if they would happen to know why it was denied.  Yes, they knew, the security code was not correct.  Dummy me or stupid me entered the wrong number.  It all worked out okay because I verbally gave EQ all my info, hence, I get the software.  Lesson learned.
I had ordered a quilt book and  templates to make a quilt that I just fell in love with.  The book's title is Melon Block by Elisa Wilson.  The quilt in the book is black & white with a little red in it.  The one I made is black and little blue flowers with a white background.  I ran out of the fabric that I had.  It was from a friend and I certainly couldn't ask her where she got it so I could get more.  She had died over a year ago.  Here is a picture of it.

65" Square 

Individual block

After I made this, I thought 'Wow, it's easy to sew curves'.  So I decided to do a tablerunner.  I need a new one for my dining room table.  I got it done and then I had to quilt it.  I am tired to doing meandering stitches so I thought that I'll just experiment on the different free motion quilting on this table runner.  Now I just need to buy a new tablecloth.  Here are the pictures:

My new table runner.

Front of table runner

The back shows the quilting better

We replaced our two heating and a/c units.  The old units had heat strips in them, the new ones have heat pumps.  Let's hope that the electric bill goes down.  Pretty soon we'll have everything replaced.  I'm still waiting to get the hardwood floor put down in my sewing/computer room.
The Dallas Quilt show is in two weeks and I'M GOING!  With my friends of course.  Wouldn't be the same without them.  We all love going to quilt shows and shopping the vendors.  After the show we are headed to a fabric warehouse to, what else, buy fabric.  Just like any of us need more fabric.
That's it for now.

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....................................