Friday Finish

Christmas colors!

I am making table mats for an upcoming retreat

and this seventh finish makes me SO HAPPY!!

I began fiddling around with half square triangles

and an old quilt block pattern.

THIS is what happened!!!

Not anything NEAR the original design. LOL!

I want to GO BACK and pull some more fabric!

I am imagining ALL kinds of two color options.

This table mat uses 2 1/2" squares and half square triangles.

It measures  approx. 20"x 20"

Happy Sewing!

Monday Making

I'm playing around with some leftover

CHRISTMAS scraps.

There are SO many possibilities

when using half square triangles!!!

When I finally finish PLAYING...

I'll sew them together.

:)

What are YOU making this week????

easy trees.

Since I already had the tree pieces leftover from

last year, these were a cinch to make.

I DID need a piece of fabric

BIG enough to fill in the background.

Oh good.

I had it!!!!

That's what a stash is for.

When the inspiration comes...

I'm ready!!!

I began with a square piece of newspaper that I thought would

be big enough. I didn't measure...but I tried to make sure it's square.

That'll make it easier to put the quilt together...

don't ya think??

Ya.

Drew some lines.

Figured out how long I wanted that tree trunk.


Figured out about how big that triangle is.
Then all I had to do was use this as my pattern.

As I added pieces I tried to fudge and make the blocks
a little bit bigger than my paper pattern.
I did not stress about it being perfectly square.
I will just have to square the blocks UP...I mean DOWN... when I'm done!

Super simple.
Not complicated at all.


Now....I've got to think!
Should I use black in those outside corners???

Hmm.....

cool air

There's a chill in the air today at my house

so I went digging through my Christmas fabrics.

What did I find??....

Leftovers from my projects last year.

Lots of orphan pieces from my little

hexagon table toppers here and here.

You can see I'd even pieced some together to

MAKE a little piece of the hexagon pie...thinking....

maybe....

someday....

I'd be able to figure out a way to use them.

I do like thinking about what to do with leftovers.

Crazy. I know.

I figured something out!!

Yeah!

And I think I have enough little pie pieces to make
a quilt.

If I don't.....

That problem is EASILY solved!

Mail Time!!!!!!

I received a little package yesterday!

These SWEET Christmas blocks!

Thanks to Susan who sent them!

And Beth for organizing a GREAT SWAP!
Beth also has some great ideas on how to

use these blocks on her blog!

Can't wait for the Mail drop today!

Maybe I'll get another little something?

two blog projects

I'm having fun quilting along with other quilters in blogland. Here are my two projects. The first is a 9 patch from a quilt along with crazy mom quilts, Amandajean. Everyone is supposed to make one 9-patch every day for 70 days. Actually I can't remember right now how many days - I know it's a lot! So-o-o I'm on schedule so far. Yeah! There will be some fun pictures on flikr of all the quilts people make.

This second little project is a sort of swap. Make 6 to 12 blocks and swap with other quilters. The pressure is on now...I better do a good job on my seams, etc. especially if it's going to a quilter. I think it's a lot less stressful giving quilts to non-quilters. I have already made these and now I am worried that they aren't quite right....oh well. Hopefully someone understanding will receive them. This swap just started so there's time to join in. Maybe you can be that understanding quilter that receives mine. :)

I better get back to quilting...my husband and 2 of the kids will be home from a big backpacking trip tomorrow! Then it's back to Cooking and Cleaning. :)