Teresa's Happy Blocks For July 2010

Teresa sent me the centers, I added the borders. These will be returned to Teresa.

Happy Blocks!

This last week was very exciting, but hectic also. My daughter and her family moved back home to Lincoln! So spent some much needed catching up time with them last week!

For July quilting projects, my To Do list is lengthy, but some fun things are in the making. My StashBuilders group, is doing a Happy Block swap. I am doing (2) 4" sets, and (1) 6.5" set. The 4" sets each have five swappers, including me. And the 6.5" set has four swappers including me. So, for the 4" Happies, I sent out 40 4" center squares, and will get back 40 finished 8" Happy Blocks! For the 6.5" Happies,I sent out 18 6.5" center squares, and will get back 18 finished 10.5" Happy Blocks! Friday, and again today, I got Teresa's set done, and Barb's two sets!

String Blocks

Wow, very long and exciting holiday weekend behind me, now its time to get back to sewing!
Monday, I got the rest of my 4" and 6.5" Happy Block Centers cut, and packaged to mail.
Today I pulled out my bin of strings, and will begin making my 24 string blocks for a swap for the StashBuilders group.
Also need to start on a "Pay It Forward" baby quilt that is due to one of my Facebook friends!

My big Birthday Surprise!

Wow, i got the best birthday surprise ever, Sat. My daughter and her family moved back home!

Company Will soon be here!

My daughter, and her wonderful family will be here soon! If they hadn't of had car trouble, they would be here already. The 3rd is my Birthday, so what a birthday present!

Drawstring Bags For SS Swap

In between all the cleaning, errands, and the other zillion things I needed to do, for my daughter and her family's visit this weekend from Ariz. I made these for a swap I am doing in July! The material shown, is what will be in the bags for the recipient!

Purple Passion's Progress

Since I finished all the blocks due for exchanges, and the Fish Quilt, this past several days have worked on the Purple Passion Quilt. I got several more rows done, and all sewed together! Still have a couple more rows to go, then to start on the borders!

From This:  One Row


To This: Three Rows!













Close up of blocks!










 From this angle, you can see the pattern of diaganol rows, made by the purple blocks.











And here, in this view, you can see the pattern of diaganol rows, made by the white blocks.