Bounce Flimsy

I am on vacation and getting ready to head to McCall, Idaho to attend Corrie Munson's quilt retreat.  My sister will be here tomorrow and then we will leave Wednesday morning.  After cleaning the downstairs bathroom and bedroom, I finished up my Bounce flimsy.  I like the pieced border between the solids.  No, your eyes are not goofy, the blocks are all cut at different angles!  I still haven't figured out how to solve the shade difference of the background colors.  Any suggestions?!

I am making Patti LaBelle's mac and cheese with chicken for supper.  I might even make a dessert!

Construction Zone October 2012

The group decided to make two blocks a month and post them on the 15th of the month.  I made mine with a bit of a fall color scheme.  I have to say, that I like these two houses!

Bounce 2

Yesterday afternoon after golf (the day turned out beautiful, sunny and warm), I finished the 25 blocks of my "Bounce" quilt.  Somehow, it looks as if I have two different shades of my background.  How can I fix this??  Tea dye?

I think that right now, the quilt looks a little BLAH!  After golf today, I will finish up the borders and maybe then it will POP?!

WIP Saturday

Thursday evening, I was trying to figure out what I was going to work on this Friday after I got my chores finished.  I have a few UFOs but decided to work on this month's Schnibbles, "Bounce".  I found 14 fat quarters of Riley Blake's "Sweet Divinity" in my stash.  I am making version 1, which is scrappier than v2.  I think that I am going to make my quilt five across and five down.  Just a tad smaller than v1.

Neat piles of cut pieces

Messy piles of sewn peices

Close up

Design Wall (two rows of five blocks)

Fall is finally here and I am off to play golf in the gloomy outdoors!

Have I mentioned that my sister and I are going to Quilt Taffy's retreat next week.  It is being held in McCall, Idaho.  I can't decide what to take, UFOs or a new project.

Thimbleberry's "Harvest Time"

I finally finished a quilt today that I bought last year or the year before from Darlene at Quilting Daze.

It is downstairs, ready to be quilted!

Haley's Refurbished Quilt

In 2007, I made my cousin's grandchildren quilts.  The oldest granddaughter, now 16, takes her blankie every where.  When I was down last September, I did a minor repair.  But, this year, OMG it was a major rebuild.  Besides the wear, the cat had chewed a couple of holes in it!  I got the quilt in the mail Monday.  Mon-Thurs evenings I ripped all of the quilting out.  This morning I cut new blocks to replace the bad ones, and then this afternoon quilted it,

Holey Quilt

Holey Quilt

Holey Quilt

Refurbished and re-quilted  (good as new!)

Tomorrow, I will sew the binding on and get it in the mail before Haley has a melt down!  LOL  Love you Haley!

Christmas Through The Year

After my post yesterday, I remembered that I needed to make a Christmas gift.  I made this for my friend Penni, who loves Gingerbread Men/Women!!

Gingerbread Tote

Lining

The last 12 matches of the Ryder cup come on in two hours.  I need to get to the post office and grocery store!  Gotta run!!

Ryder Cup

2012 Ryder Cup

If you have followed my blog for awhile, you know that my other hobby is Golf.  I love watching the Ryder Cup but it makes me very nervous and exited.  So nervous that I can't stand not to watch it and too nervous to sit.  So, yesterday ESPN televised the whole day.  I could only watch downstairs, where my quilter is located.  I finished two quilts.

Today, NBC is showing the Ryder Cup and I can watch it in my sewing room.  So far today, I finished the flimsy of my "Forget Me Not" Sewalong.

I have sewn the binding on one of the quilts that I finished yesterday.  I finished my monochromatic "Quilties" and have gotten them in the mail.

I have finished three of my "General's Wives" blocks.

I am not quite sure what I will do next, but it won't be just sitting here!  And, I have 12 golf matches to watch tomorrow, in addition to football, so who knows what I will finish/or get started!  I will let you know.

PS  Don"t forget to try the "Cheddar Bay Biscuit" recipe  listed below.   Soooooo GOOD!

Halloween Quilts

Can you ever have too many Halloween Quilts??  Melissa from Happy Quilting has introduced another great tutorial called "Starburst".  I am thinking of making the same 4 block quilt in Halloween fabric.  I still have to finishing quilting the second half of the Irish Chain quilt.  But I think I can fit Melissa's quilt in!!

I wanted to share a fantastic "Cheddar Bay Drop Biscuit" recipe with you and give proper credit to the blog where I thought that I found it.  I have looked for the last 40 minutes through the site but can't find the recipe. Sorry!  But these are absolutely wonderful!  I FOUND THE BLOG!!  STELLA B'S KITCHEN

Cheddar Bay Drop Biscuits

              2 cups flour                                                2 tsp baking powder

               1 tsp sugar                                                 ¾ tsp salt

               ½ tsp baking soda                                      ½ tsp garlic powder

               1 cup buttermilk                                              

               1 stick butter, melted and cooled

               ½ cup shredded cheddar cheese

               Preheat oven to 450^o     

               Line baking sheet with parchment paper

                         Combine dry ingredients and whisk.                         

                         Combine the cooled, melted butter with cold buttermilk.

                         Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients.   

                         Add shredded cheese and stir until just combined.

                          Using ¼ cup scoop, drop biscuits about an inch or two apart.

                          Bake 12-14 minutes, until golden brown.

                Brush on top of baked biscuits:

                  1 Tbsp butter, melted

                  ½ tsp garlic powder

                  1 tsp parsley, chopped fine

Now, it's downstairs to do some quilting.

A Sunday Finish

I have had a very busy week.  A friend was having a moving sale and I decided to get rid of some fabric.  I spent about two hours every night last week sorting and bagging up fabric, kits and fat quarters that I knew I would never get to.  The big sale was yesterday for six hours.  I did not sell any finished goods, pillowcases, small table toppers, tote bags or pouches.  But, I did sell a little fabric, CHEERS!  Several quilters were happy happy to buy some good fabric.

I slept like a log last night.  Got up this morning, thinking that I would only need a couple of hours to finish up my Irish Chain quilt.  Well, I just finished the borders and took pictures.  Tomorrow, I will sew the backing together and then get it on the quilter.  I mostly used Moda's "Little Black Dress", with several other remnants.  The background is Moda's Bella Solids, "Etchings Stone".  And, the quilt is KING SIZE!!

Country Homecoming Quilt Update

We are suppose to post our progress tomorrow, but I am ready.  I made two new houses because I missed the last one!

I think that I need an exterior decorator!!

Plans for the day
     pedicure      DONE
     finish the last two blocks for Pam Buda's "Forget Me Not"    Sew-Along      DONE
     Quilt my sister's Granny Squares      DONE
     Work on my Double Irish Chain Quilt      27 BLOCKS LEFT
     Baily Jade's Madalyn Skirt

I will let you know tomorrow what I don't finish!!

"Lovely" Granny Squares

I have just pulled my Granny Square quilt out of the dryer, finally finished!  I used Sandy Gervais' "Lovely" and used the aqua as the binding.  I think that I love it!!

PS  Vicki, one of your Granny Squares in loaded on the quilter!

Speck

I have noticed that several bloggers have posted their Little Bites "Speck", so I will too!  I used Sweetwater's "Lucy's Crab Shack".

Madalyn Skirt

I made two "Madalyn Skirts" by "Viola Lee Patterns" for two grand-nieces.  I just need to buy the right size elastic for the waist.

Isabelle's (she wanted black)

Olivia loves purple and cats!

Tetris

I finished my Tetris quilt yesterday.  I used Moda's "Sophie".  I found some for the backing on sale last week--YEAH!  To finish it off, I made one more block and then cut two squares of backing and sewed them together.  I am not sure if you can see the three blocks because Sophie is a busy fabric, but they are on the lower left.

Once again, Melissa was a great hostess for this fun little quilt!  THANK YOU MELISSA!