Scrappy Trip Bee

Here are my blocks for my hive in the 

Scrappy Trip Bee

Round 7/Hive 5

Its always so fun to see everyones color choices emerge...

the upper left is simply a scrappy block..

the upper right is all black and whites with a bright center strip...

lower left is Navy blues and reds with tans and creams..

lower right is all warm colors....

My color palette is black/gray tone on tones...

mulberry or eggplant center strip and 

black on whites....

I love all the blocks I received!!

(sorry I dont have a photo of them)

Learning something new!

I have always loved all the little 

pouches that pop up all over blogland..

I was even lucky enough to win a pouch from

 Connie @ Free motion by the river, you 

can find her blog here:

 http://www.conniekresin.com/

 I loved the pouch that Connie made so much that 

I wanted to make some for my

family and friends for Christmas...needless to say, 

once I started digging into 

my 2.5" and 2" fabric square bins, the number 

of pouches to be made

went up and up and up!!

The patriotic one went to my sister Junette.

The black Daisys and Dogs went to my DIL Kasey..

The orange one went to my coworker Sarah...

and the Purple Peacock one went to my niece Jetta....

I also made a pure purple one for my Co-Nanny Tam Tam!!

They were a hit!  I am going to make 

more also...they are so fun and quick to make!!

Who knew? Me? Zippers?

WOW!!

I'm still here!

Oh Christmas time!!

Oh Christmas time!!

Sorry for being "MIA" the last couple of weeks....

life has been super duper crazy insane busy busy busy!!

I wanted to show you something I got done in time for Christmas!

These are the Grandkids stockings....

Jayden had hers last year

but their Rottweiler puppy "Easton" 

chewed up the cuff and I had to repair it...

This is Super Coopers new stocking....I 

really love the green cuff....

turned out great....now I need to make another one

for my new Granddaughter due in May 2015!!

Yay!

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas with 

your families, I know I did...I was

especially spoiled!!!

Bring on 2015!!!

Jayden!

Every year Jayden and I make a Gingerbread 

house together.  Its so much fun to have this 

annual tradition with her.  This year she was home 

sick from school but that didn't stop her

from hanging out with her Granny and decorating 

our candy house.

She always has such deep concentration when 

applying the candies!!

She did great with placement of all the different colors too.

Here she is super proud of her completed house!!

Shes such a ham!

I love this little girl so much!

Then out of no where came a measuring tape....

she insisted that we measure to make sure the 

house was correct!!

Hmmmm...color placement and measuring???

Quilter in the making???!!!!

I sold a quilt!

At the annual craft fair where I work, I 

always enjoy showing my

quilts and talking to people about them and seeing

what they like and why they like them.  

When my friend Lara showed up and said she

wanted a quilt for her mom for Christmas, I was thrilled.  

She washappy too because she said her mom was super hard to buy for!  Score!

• So she was thrilled to spot a quilt that she 
• loved for her mom!
• 
  
• She chose this Arkansas Crossings scrappy quilt....

Heres Lara all wrapped up in her quilt Burrito style! 

She loves it! Yay!

Doggie Sleeping Bag

Anyone who know us knows that our whole family is crazy

about critters of the four legged variety.....and maybe a

few of the two legged variety!

My daughter in laws grandmother asked me to make her

weiner dog a sleeping bag...

I used this super cute doggie novelty fabric that I found 

in my stash for the exterior of the bag.

and this super soft furry stuff for the inside...

She loved it, thought it was perfect and I heard that 

it was a big hit with her weiner dog!  Yay!

Sharing with Friends

I ran into our friend Chris at the market, hes a fire fighter here 

in El Dorado County.

He is an exceptional guy & a wonderful single father

 to three great kids! (Crazy photo bomber below!)

He blew out the "ahem" crotch of his "turnouts", 

part of his fire fighting gear.

He needed to make a patch...so he asked if he could come over and

use one of my sewing machines for a little while...

he brought the kiddos too!

All of them took a turn sewing, it was so cool!

This is Catelynn, the oldest, she is 10.

This is Cole, hes the youngest, he is 8.

And this is Cassie...shes 9....

It was a blast having them over for a quick little sewing retreat!

I love this special family...

Grand Illusion Start!

God Bless Bonnie Hunter!  

Its mystery time, and this year its Grand Illusion.  

The first clue

came out last Friday and I got started!

First order of business was to cut my Aqua and "pinks", mine are more mulberry colored into

2.5" hsts with the Easy Angle Ruler...

Once that was done, I got down to business with my cut pieces and a turkey sandwich and cheetos!

Gotta keep my energy up right?

I had lots of help....This is Suki..shes horrible..pure Tortie!!

This is my girl, Jacey Mae....I love black labs, 

shes the best dog ever! Shes 10!

She needed to rest her head....shes old ya know...

Then the Suki monster got back in on the action...

at this point I realized it was

because of the turkey sandwich!!! Brats!!

Its all about the belly with these critters!!

The next day I went over to my kids house to 

watch the grandbabies..

I brought along my chain pieced triangles hoping 

that Jayden would enjoy helping

me snip them apart....she did a few and decided it wasnt such fun...but she posed for this 

super cute picture...shes such a character!!

And low and behold, here is the motherlode of 125 Broken Dishes blocks...DONE!

Bring on Clue #2 Bonnie!!

Ohhhhhh....Toffee!!

OMG...Help!

I have made so much English Toffee this season that I am

ready to drop!  I made 11 pans in two days.  

Thats ALOT of Toffee!!

Its Soooo good!

Damons Quilt

You may remember this quilt that I blogged about last month,

its for my nephew Damon who is a student at 

Sacramento State University.  He is a Mechanical Engineer Student.

I decided to go very masculine with his quilt and use recycled 

mens shirts and make string blocks...

I even talked his brother into helping me!

This is Damons younger brother Zane...he is also a student at

Sacramento State.  He loves to come and hang out with his crazy 

Aunt Julianne on the weekends..so I put him to work!  Its 

fantastic to see this 6' 3" handsome guy sewing! His 

grandmother would be so proud!

Probably needless to say, he is a dork just like me...

must be genetic! LOL!

He completed several blocks...and he did a great job!

I was so thankful for the help, lord knows I have a ton of stuff to 

get done for craft fairs and the holidays! He was a big help to me!

Heres where we left off...I put all of our blocks together 

and we have a good size top, now I just need to figure 

out borders and then wrestle with the longarm!  

Heres a close up...its pretty neat looking!  

I know Damon will love it, hes been wanting a new quilt

for quite a while and I know he will be thrilled!

RSC-November

I've completed my Rainbow Scrap Challenge  

blocks for this month.  This months color is Light Blue.

12 String Blocks

1 Churn Dash Block

Thats done for the month!

Last Minute Christmas QAL

I dont know about you but I love Christmas quilts! I want to make one foreveryone in my family.  I came across this QAL that just started and its

Paper Pieced...I love that!

                             

Check it out here!

www.http://jednoiglec.blogspot.com/2014/11/christmas-trees-block-pattern.html

More Bonnie Hunter Love

Have I ever 

told you all how addicted I am to 

www.quiltville.blogspot.com? 

Its Bonnie Hunters blog, shes

amazing!  I love her Scrappy goodness!

 I had another brain fart and started another 

Scrappy Spiderweb Quilt

(its a free pattern on her blog)

This one is all random neutrals

for the points and bright scraps for the webs..

Heres a close up of the deliciousness!

I've decided that this quilt isnt big enough yet so 

I am going to trudge on and

make some more blocks....stay tuned...its gonna GROW!

Linking up with Richard & Tanya Quilts
for link a finish Friday!

QBSA-November

Heres my block for my partner in the 

QBSA Paper Pieced group for November,

this one is for Kerry in Australia..she requested 

any block in a variety of greens, 

Jade, Mint, Bottle Green, Teal Etc with Grey.

Then my partner Wendy, also from Australia

 in the QBSA 12" group requested any block in

Mushroom, Taupe, Sands & Tans...

so I killed two birds with one stone and made her the same block...

Done and in the mail, they should have them by now!

Sisters Choice

I was watching Quilt Cam with Bonnie Hunter a few 

episodes ago and she was making one of her 

free patterns...Sisters Choice.  Needless to say,

I got a itch and tickle and a cramp and started one immediately.

Is anyone surprised by that?

I decided to do all different scraps for the Orange Star points...the 9 patches are all random scraps as are the neutrals!!

Heres 42 blocks all put together....I love it!

A close up of all this Scrapalicious Deliciousness!!

I love you Bonnie Hunter!!  I do I do!!

If you would like to try out any of Bonnies Free patterns, 

you can go to www.quiltville.blogspot.com

You can also check out the Quilt Cam Archives there!

Its fun to sew along with Bonnie.

ENJOY!

Block Lotto for November

Have you heard of the Block Lotto? 

Heres the website....

www.blocklotto.com

This months block is a super bright and fun "X" block.

You can enter up to 9 blocks, heres mine.

I sure hope I win this month, these are really 

beautiful blocks, would love to have a bunch more 

to put all together!

She loves it!

I finished the Polka Dot Quilt for my Daughter-in-law

Kasey and she LOVES it!! Yay!

I took it to her at work last night, she was so happy!

Shes been very patient waiting for this quilt!

Heres me holding it up at work before the 

delivery...its bright for sure and very happy! 

A Finish!

Linking up with Richard &Tanya Quilts for a Friday Finish!

Block Lotto Quilt Top complete!

These are the Blue Bar blocks that I won in the

Block Lotto @ Blocklotto.com

This top was completed with scraps and bits

from my stash for the borders, didn't cost me a dime!

I love all the different blues...time to get it on

the dreaded longarm frame!!

Another finish coming up!

My pal Kathy of Kathys Quilting Blog

@ new2quilting.blogspot.com

turned me onto the Block Lotto. She and I are

always getting each other into Quilty trouble, but honestly I
think neither of us would have it any other way!
She is truly a "sister from another mister"...one of these days I
hope to get to meet her!

Planned Round Robin Starter Block

Crazy me joined up with Beaquilter.com for a planned Round Robin.

Thats where your single center block travels all over the states and 

has rows added to it every month, then when you get it back, its

a pretty good size quilt that you can complete or add to.  Its alot

of fun, I always am so thrilled with the finished product!

This is my "Scrap Attack" Starter block, I love it,

its so "ME", Scrappy Deliciousness!!! Cant wait to see what all the

Awesome quilters do to it! I know it will be amazing!

Yippee!!