Teaching my sister Jill and her wonderful hubby Mark to enjoy jeep life.    I forgot to get his picture but he doesn’t have that fly away kind of hair.   We missed going to the beach because of Hurricane Matthew but we did a couple of fun things while there were here.

 

Just needed to add another pup picture.  These can be lazy pups.  Some days they hate getting up once you let them lay in the bed.   That little space in the middle is all they leave me.

I just posted my weirdo dog cause I thought it was funny.   I can’t imagine why he thinks it’s comfortable to sit like this.  Maybe he can see out the window without standing up.    Crazy dog.

I found this last night when I came home.  I like to think it’s God reminding me He’s watching over my home.

I decided to try a little crochet while I watch tv to relax at night.   It’s hard for me to just sit so figured what the heck.   Hopefully I can remember how to read a pattern since i haven’t crocheted more than a chain stitch in 20 years.  I was surprised how much yarn has changed in 20 years.  I saw a lot of beautiful ones online.  Still like the look of knitted items better but I simply couldn’t get the hang of it.  Doesn’t look too bad for almost 20 years.

I found this on her facebook page and hope she won’t kill me for reposting.  Isn’t my sister just beautiful.   I wish I was so live loving and carefree as she is.   I’m much to boring.

Sunday I was exhausted and needed to get some house cleaning done but completely at random I pulled one of the kits and decided to sew a little so I could say I started one.  I picked this pattern as it looked not overly complicated.  Turns out it had over 600 pieces and I’ll tell you, 600 pieces should look a lot more impressive than this little pile after taking that long to cut out.   Here are the first of the blocks.  They need to be pressed so might look uneven in the pictures.  It will look like a weaved basket when assembled.

Here are 2 more kits I cut over the weekend.  I’m not sure but I think I have a total of 7 or 9 cut so far.  I lost track along the way as it was a long day.  If you haven’t guessed by now, all 30 will be some form of red, white & blue.  I’ve made both these patterns before and really like them.  The carpenter star (on the right) is one of my favorite patterns.  I’ll likely make 3 of those using a solid red, blue & white for the backgrounds. I love seeing how different a quilt looks just changing the colors.

I spent Saturday cutting out quilt kits till I could hardly stand to look at fabric anymore.   I thought I’d have enough fabric for 20 or so but I’m thinking I may not have bought enough for more than half yet.   For those of you just reading my blog I made a commitment to myself to make a quilt for each one of the firefighters and cadets in our city.  Luckily I live in a small town and there are only 30. It will be my 2016/2017 volunteer project.

It’s funny to look at a pattern and think that couldn’t take more than 15-20 minutes to cut that and then realize it took you over an hour.  I’m always amazed though that once cut up you wonder how that little stack took so long.  Here are two I cut out over the weekend. Haven’t made either of these patterns before but I like the overall look of them. 28 more to go.

Her blog stated we could repost and this is an excellent blog on free motion tutorials at Theinboxjaunt.com

 

http://theinboxjaunt.com/quilt/free-motion-quilting-tutorials/