Fresh Squeezed Disappearing Nine Patch

I started on a new quilt this weekend using Moda's Fresh Squeezed line. I bought two charmpacks and made 12 inch disappearing nine patches. Here are 24 squares that I made:
I love this fabric! Twenty-four squares made a 2-feet by 4-feet rectangle. I want the middle to be 4" square, so I will have to go buy 2 more charm packs later this week.

We also went to the Rockies game against the Minnesota Twins on Sunday. The Rockies won and it was a beautiful day!

I wish my grass was that green! Coors field is such a beautiful stadium with the mountains in the background!

Quilt-A-Long

There is a quilt-a-long going over at crazymomquilts: http://crazymomquilts.blogspot.com.
I decided to join! So here are my three squares. She is posting a different pattern each week. So this is three weeks accumulation because I couldn't decide what fabric I should use! Anyway, here they all are. Enjoy! (Each are 12.5 inches square)

Nickel Dog Quilt Finished!

I finally finished (I think) the Doggie quilt! It is the first time I have actually quilted an entire quilt, the first time I have used a pattern, and the first time I have actually added binding.
Since this is a quilt of dogs, I felt obligated to include a shot of Gigi checking out the quilt.

Yes, she has a t-shirt on. It is currently 42 degrees here at 6:00 when I took the picture. It was 38 when I woke up and raining/snowing-when is summer going to be here? I quilted around each of those 36 dogs in the ditch and around all the borders. I used Moda's "Strawberry Lemonade" and "Brights". I think I want to keep it. For Nat-Yes, that is gigirina.

I have a couple of dogs that didn't make the cut and I can't decide if I should make them into an accompanying bag or pillows-what do you think people who read my blog?

Yo-Yo's! Progress

I am plodding away at my yo-yo quilt. Here is my progress since the last post. That is 8- 4x4 squares, so only 24 more 4x4 squares to go before I have 200! Maybe, I can finish this summer.

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to my mom who is the best mom in all the world-"Mudda Green" you mother us well.

Happy Mother's Day to Sheila who is a great mom and mother-in-law!

Happy Mother's day to the new mom in our family. Amanda just had baby Savannah on Thursday. I am now an aunt and my mom is a grandmother!

Block of the Month

While I am quilting away on my Nickel Dog Quilt, I thought I would share some of the other things I am working on. My local quilt shop has several Block of the Month clubs going on. One of the BOM clubs in a Feedsack Quilt sponsored by Thangles. With this club, you pay $6 the first month and you get these triangle papers by thangles and the first block which is below:
You then have until the end of the following month to come in with your finished block, show it to them, and purchase the next month for 1$. Yes, one dollar it is! Here is my block for February.

Here is my March block. I was one day late with turning this one in-I left work much later than I thought I would be able to and arrived at the store 5 minutes after they closed. So, I went in on the first of April (my birthday!); since I didn't get it in by the 31st, my new block was $6. I have learned not to procrastinate!

Finally, here is my block for April:


The fabrics are so neat and the blocks are 8.5 inches.

They also have a 1920's fabric BOM and they have two blocks per month. One of the blocks in pieced and the other is applique. I have a couple of the applique blocks to complete, but first I need to learn how to do that! Here are the April and May pieced blocks below. They finish at 6 1/2 inches square. These are 3$ per block-so a bit more expensive but they include the pattern so you learn how to make new blocks.

This past weekend I worked a little on my nickel dog quilt. I added three borders!


And I started quilting! It is going to take a while I am afraid to finish this part of the process. I do think it will be pretty in the end!

I am debating whether to outline each individual dog or not....

I was downtown this weekend and it was beautiful. We went to the Denver Art Museum on Saturday. The above picture is a sculpture outside the museum. We then went to driving school. That is i got my license at the MarioKart Wii Driving School:

We got to play the new Mariokart game which comes out later this month. I came in first twice, I guess my license helps.

I am involved with a virtual quilting bee/lap quilt block swap over at craftster.org. The basic premise is that you send 11 other people pieces of your fabric, they create quilt blocks out of it, and then send it back to you. Of course, I also received fabric from 11 other people and created blocks for them. Here are the blocks I received back with one block from me. I created the star in the second row in the 3rd column.

Nickel Dog Quilt: Work in Progress

I worked on my nickel dog quilt today joining all those cute dogs together. Here is my progress thus far. There are 36 dogs combined to make up the center square. Next, is the border.
It really isn't that wrinkly... :)