A Flimsy and OMG

I love it when I meet my One Monthly Goal - I love it even more when I exceed it.  Happy Dance.  
Okay my One Monthly Goal was to make the remaining 2 pinwheel blocks for my Black and White Pinwheel Quilt. 

Then make 80 sashing units out of HST (half square triangles) 

Ta-done.  But instead of letting it go there and work on something else, I kept going. On somewhat of a mission to get all these UFO's and half started things done.  I know I still need to quilt all these but just getting them to flimsy stage is a relief. 
I had some issues with cutting of blocks being wrong you can read about that in my last blog post or click  Here. 
Despite the hurdles I worked and just kept putting row by row together on the diagonal.  I had 3 rows and the sashing rows to put on yesterday along with borders but was able to finish it up. 

I was having a hard time getting a picture that showed the it real well.  I have it draped on our king bed. 

And then here it is on the guest bed where it will be when it's done.  I actually like it turned side ways.  I fits the way I want it to and will still be long enough on the sides when I'm done quilting it. 

Well I definitely met my OMG and so at he end of the month I will be linking it up, over at Elm Street Quilts. 

Now to figure out the next UFO I want to tackle.  
Today I have some household things to do and my Sister and Brother in law are coming over for dinner.  I'm going to make roasted Chicken and Vegetables and not sure what else.  
Have a blessed day!
Lynn 

Pinwheel Quilt

When I was growing up, there was a cheesy joke: What is Black and White and read all over?  A newspaper!  Because when you tell the joke you don't know you are saying read and not red.  :)  Okay what does this have to do with quilting you ask - Well I will tell you.  
The Quilt is Black and (Off) White...  The read all over is the fact that when I finished all the components (blocks and pieced sashing units) to assemble the quilt,  the triangles that were the ends to each row do not fit.  

Here I've laid out a few blocks to see how the row go together on the diagonal.  

I read - and read - and measured and Re-read and texted a friend.  Here's the instructions for #4 fabric.

Here are the layout instructions - 

I don't know what's wrong, this pattern was a block of the month and is really old so there may have been a correction and I didn't get - but the cutting instructions do not work no matter how hard I tried.  I can't cut a 5 1/4" sq twice and get it to fit a 4 1/2" block.  SO.... I have enough fabric and ended up cutting more pieces.  I did have to change the smaller triangles to #5 fabric instead of #4, but actually that way the whole outside is the same fabric so it works fine.  Here are the first few diagonal rows sewn together. 

I keep you posted on how the rest of it works.

Blessings,

Lynn 

Sweet Adellie

What a week - this week had a little of a lot of things. The really big news that has got to take the top of the list,  we have a new great granddaughter.   Adela Rose 

She was born on the 11th.  So sweet and precious our these little babies. 
This is #4 for our Granddaughter and husband and on this baby they decided not to find out the gender until she was born.  So SHE was a surprise, then it took them a day to name her.   Her big Sister who is 2 today was named Adriana, but some reason, she ended up getting the nickname of Nellie.  They are thinking that this one will be nicknamed Adellie or simply Ellie.  :)  Regardless of what she is called.  She will be loved  - A lot!
Haven't gotten an updated picture of the four children together - here is a collage of Carter the oldest holding Ben, then Nellie on the right and Adela on the left. 

Nellie and Adela

Look at how alert she is. 

Since they live in Texas, most all my pictures come from Snapchat.  I love that we have an avenue to keep up with their daily life since we can't be there in person. I take screen shots of the pictures and videos. 

Well I could go on and on - Grandchildren are such a blessing. 
Welcome sweet Adela we do love you so much already!
Blessings, 
Lynn

Third of Three

Well I am home from my 3rd of the 3 retreats.  I was doing good momentum was going good until I got home then I crashed.  I unpacked a bunch of my stuff sat down and I fell asleep hard.  15 mins later I got a text that jarred me like a cattle prod.   
I thought after a night or two of good sleep and I'd be back to normal, but we have been on the run with errands and appointments so the jury is still out on the good as new thing. LOL I slept for 9 hours we got up got ready and headed to hubby's doctor appointment then from there we needed go to Kingman (about an hour away) to pick up my sewing machine that has been in the shop for ever.  The part it needed was on back order. Anyway when we got home from that it was only about 1:30 or 2pm but hubby and I both were so so sleepy.  He went and hit a bucket of golf balls to practice his game a little and I worked on the "Where I Belong" Quilt that I worked on at retreat #2.  It only needed it's 2 borders and I was able to get them done.  

As I was showing it to hubby, I said yay a ufo done.  He informed me that if it wasn't quilted yet it was still a ufo.  Yes he got a dirty look.  :).  
So at the retreat the last of the trio... I only worked on the black and white pinwheel quilt.  I had my 640 HST that I was making into sashing units.  

I ended up taking a couple of hours to check my hst and re-trim a few of them.  My handy short cut on how I trim maybe isn't the best because some were off.  Anyway that took away from sewing time but I did still get a lot done.  Since I needed 80 I was putting them in piles of 8 so I could count 10%, 20%... As of the end of the retreat I got the remaining 2 blocks done 

and I  am 75% done with the sashing units which is my One Monthly Goal.  :) 

I met a few new people this time and one of them was Carla.  

She was working on a panel and I told her I had the same panel.  Well she bought hers as a kit -

 This is it before she put the last border on.  

And when she was done she gave me the left over fabric and the pattern.  Wasn't that sweet. 
So of course I had to come home and dig mine out.  I think there will be enough of her scraps to make a nice top out of it.  

Okay this post has taken me way too long and I need to get going.   We have an appointment and then hopefully I can come home and do some sewing. 

Hope you all have a wonderful day - Blessings,  Lynn 

Pinwheels and HST

Today is my "Plan-a-lot-amus" (nick name from my daughter) day but also my plan of action day.  Tomorrow the 3rd of 3 retreats in a row starts.  This one is 4 days and I am staying over so I'm trying to make sure I have everything I need.  I do only live 30 mins away if I have to come home, but who wants to take an hour out of their sewing time.  :) I usually cook all day on these days, but hubby still has lots of food left over from the last one so other than making him a big bowl of salad, he should be set.  

At the 1st retreat in this trio I started working on a ufo that was my Black and White Pinwheels from 2009 or 2010.

There are 2 more of the pinwheel blocks that need to be made and then there are 640 Half Square Triangles.  At the 1st retreat I got several HST done, and some trimmed.  At the second retreat I got more sewn and this week I've been trimming them.  However - I still have this many to sew together.  

Then I will have them and these to trim. 

Once that is done I can start sewing them together to make a square 

Then two of the squares will make this little sashing unit. 

There needs to be 80 of these units.  So now that I have listed all these steps - what I want to do is link this up as my One Monthly Goal over at Elm Street Quilts. 

 

The goal is to make the 2 Pinwheel Blocks remaining and get all 80 of the sashing units sewn together. Wish me luck  :). 

Now head back over to see what others are sewing and what their goals are.  

Thanks for stopping by - Blessings, Lynn 

Havasu Quilt Show 2019

November first and I started it off on the go.  A few of us got together and drove down to Lake Havasu City to go to their Bi-Annual Quilt Show.  I have to say there were some super duper quilts.  I only took a few pictures and I did not get the details recorded of who made them. *Sorry* But I know a lot of these ladies and the ladies that quilt them so I wasn't as concerned with that.  And since my friend Cheryl and I just did two different retreats with people mostly from Havasu, we were all like "Hey There, I know you"  because we just saw them. :) 
Here are just a few that caught my eye.  
This one are blocks of machine embroidery of cute sea animals, but click on it and see if you can see the quilting on the borders.  That is really cute too.  

 I really like the hot air balloons, and haven't had a lot of luck getting to see them in person.  It has rained  or been too windy each time we try, but this quilt with London Bridge behind is really neat.  

 Because I love everything Christmas - this was cute.

 This was really neat too.  

After the quilt show we went to lunch at Shugrues.  Funny we are about 3/4 done with our lunch and our friends from our own guild that we saw at the show - walk into the restaurant.  What are the chances.  Anyway after we're done Jean's Sister Carol hadn't been to Lake Havasu City for many many years even before the London Bridge had been reconstructed so we wanted to take pictures.  

After I took pictures of Jean and Carol we start taking other pictures -

Then this one is because they tell me to go over so they can take a picture of me and then they walk away so I'm like - so I don't have any friends in my pictures.  :)  

Jean was nice and came to my rescue

 Then Donna.  :)

 We had a fun day.  Nice hanging out with good friends.  We went to a quilt shop after this and then home.  I didn't find anything I wanted.  And so my only purchase (other than lunch) was a panel I got at the show.  I want to do an attic window quilt with it. 

The fold lines in the fabric kind of show you what it may look like as window panes.
Tomorrow I will be gearing up for the 3rd retreat.  It starts Sunday morning.  I won't have to do much cooking hubby still has food in the freezer, but I want to do a little cleaning.  I am staying at this one so need to pack clothes and then just make sure all my projects are together.  I also need to figure out what I want my One Monthly Goal to be and do a post for that so I can link up. 
Until then - Blessings,
Lynn