one more hour...

nope, probably 3 or 4 would help...i could get more posts up...
i'm not going to bother with updateting with what i've done since december...
so let's just start new here...(maybe update flicker account?)

 buck-a-block from my local fabric store. this year we had 2 6" squares out of the monthly pattern. so i made two quilts. the left one is for me. a bit disapointed that the outer triangels don't line up in the side triangles. error on my part. the right quilt is for an aunt who's given us lots of girl clothes and been super awesome.

this one is the same block concept, but done in 30's reprints. it's a thank you for my grandma who gave me her treddle.

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my ol man would entertain me with things he found on "reddit."

reddit this, reddit that...so i got onto his account while he was at work to see what the hub-bub was all about...

sweet jesus...what have i missed out on!?

he signed me up for the secret santa and i was worried i'd get trolled since i'm a lurker. i think i've had 1 post to some person's quilt they had posted...but that's it.

haha, received a "subversive cross stitch"

hilariousness...so to my secret santa, thank you for the little stitch of heaven 

august

haha, we had our 3rd on the third.

rosie

i found a pattern in an australian magazine i thought i'd try out...

reeediculously easy...so easy in fact, i tried it again...

the original pattern is for a packet of fat quarters. i doubled it to get a twin size quilt for the older kids. for my daughter, i added a purple border and the scrappy fabric border. 

and i secretly started another quilt...

july's quilts

my last week of july felt my most productive week so far. my ma took the kids and i was alone to quilt to my hearts content.

i was able to finish my couisn's mario quillow

used the leftover triangles from using "square in a square" ruler (made a Oregon star quilt for my nephew)...looks fantastic in my Greenbay Packer's kitchen

pinned the 2 middle quilts. the top quilt was for my daughter's first day of school....last year....
haha, and the bottom is a "roads" quilt i started hand quilting several years ago...wondering if i should machine quilt the rest
haha, it was pretty hilarous being 40 weeks pregnant trying to pin a king size quilt

sandwiched and hand quilted baby rosie's quilt

machine quilted my wicked quilt. my favorite part are the legs at the bottom

happy birthdays

with the upcoming brithday of a good friend, another friend and i quickly made 3 of each block 1 and 2 from last year's block of the month from the local quilt guild. added 2" sashing and did 2" criss-cross quilting, the quilt was complete. it's our tester. i think for the next one, stitiching around and in teh stars...or just one star. with the success of this quilt, several more will definetly follow :)

and, with the day after being another good friend's birthday, i knitted up some socks. the same friend who made the blocks made the bag. i got one for a babyshower gift and it's perfect for my dp roll and extra knitting stuff.

wicked witch of the east quilt

in the monthly quilt guild newsletter, there's a block-of-the-month you can make, bring to the meeting and enter into the drawing. more times than not, i participate. this last year, a friend joined and i told her that i'd do the block-of-the-months with her....read the first one (finished size was something like 23"x23"!!!) since i told her i would, we made the blocks together..

lo and behold! i one the first month, total of 3 big blocks...i gave her mine and kept hers (and the extra one)

the rest of the quilt blocks consisted of making 2 of the same blocks a month, with different colors...

between my friend and i, we won ALL the months...haha, easy when it's just the two of us :/ so every month, we'd win and swap blocks.

the only month we didnt win was october's block, but, it was because the block wasnt part of the series...

so here's my wicked witch of the east...thing 1...

i'm going to add different size prairie points on the top and a pair of black/white strip legs with red shoes on the bottom...so damn goofy

my friend assembled her's the way the instructions suggested...

did i mention that after winning (and realizing it was just the 2 of us out of the 70+ ladies) i started picking out UGLY...no, FUGLY fabric...fabrics that are the "wtf-why-did-they-make-this!?"

all of my blocks (excpet the big halloween block) are from my friend...and scrap fabric

hoping to get it sandwiched, quilted and ready for the county fair in august.

shirts, skirts and sacks

with about 24 students in her class, the hurricane has been to quite a few partys. the standard gift, a bag, hair clips, bubbles, and maybe a coloring book. these bags were made for a party on sat, then on wed of spring break. the bag's reversable and i added the girl's names on the "inside" of the bag.

 we didnt go out for easter nor did i buy any foofy dresses or fancy shirts...made the hurricanes "easter" outfits instead.

for teacher appriciation day (which the school had may 11th) i made the hurricane's teacher a cat in the hat square bag and filled it with tea. she made her teacher a card and gave it to her.

the skirt was a pair of pants that had a hole in the knee...that i could've easily fixed, but with her pulling and tugging at it, made it bigger. bwahahaha, hope ya dont think you're guna get new pants from that dear? modified it into a skirt, added a ruffle and stitched the flower from the pant leg to the skirt.

from another blog that i followed, the lady made thee cutest backpack from oliver +s things to sew. yes, i bought the book just for the backpack. so freaking adorable!! i'm planning on a dora backpack

heehee, bought the fabric for her shirt at the local quilt store and fell in love with it. finally made her shirt. she wore it with a skirt i had made from an old poncho. makes me giggle inside when she wears stuff i make her.

and here's my daughter's ladybug backpack. i adjusted the pattern so it would fit her folder...haha, even though she has about a month of school left...oh well aye