This quilt for Noah has been quilted and is in line for binding. Noah is 6 months old so I need to get on this. (picture does not do it justice, the colors look funky)
This quilt top is finished and awaiting some quality time with Clyde (quilting machine). This is going to be for Chloe, hopefully for Christmas.
And this panel needs to be turned into a quilt by October 16th for Silvia's baby shower. Where did the summer go?
No more wobbles for me! Then, I picked the Drunkards Path die. This die will literally save me hours of cutting time. I'll be posting more about the AccuQuilter GO! after I get it in my hands and get to play around with it. I CANNOT wait! WooHoo!!!!!!
This is a picture of the futon in my craft room/guest room. This is the way it always looks. I stack projects on it. The only exception is when company comes and I move the stacks of unfinished projects to another surface. This futon drives Shawn (husband) crazy.
This is my cutting table and "design wall." I'm cutting a lot of 1 1/2" squares right now.
And finally, my sewing table. I got lucky, it usually looks worse than this. 
Maddox has been working out in the shop at his toolbench with his new tools from Christmas.
Making Rice Krispies treats.
Chopping down ur Christmas tree.
Painting...
Jumping on the bed...Dad doesn't seem to mind.
Maddox bowling for the first time in Clarkston.
Swimming lessons. (He did not pass)
Spending time at the cabin.
Music camp.
He is 42" now and tall enough for the water slides, which he loves. He's liking ice skating once a week, Hockey here we come!
Finished, finally, two years later. Got put up and forgotten. My picnic quilt! It's pretty big, and hard to take a picture of. Some of the quilters on Flickr have such nice pictures of their quilts, and I can never seen to get a good picture. But, here it is, finished. I really like it and had a lot of fun picking out all the different food fabrics, and now I have a TON of leftover food fabric that I'm not sure what to do with. I finished this yesterday and it has already been used and spilled upon by two little boys having a picnic. Did I mention that I really like it?
These are my blocks for the block swap at my quilt meeting tomorrow afternoon. This meeting's block is the Bow Tie, I made these from my stash. I put them into the hat to win a set of blocks to turn into a quilt. Never participated in this before and thought I'd give it a try. 
Got my fabric cut out for the In the Leafy Treetops Quilt Along over at Whosies. I'm using "vintage" sheets, not really sure that they are all vintage. This is all the rage right now, I'm told, and wanted to try it out. This picture doesn't do these justice. The green fabric on the left is actually more polyester than cotton, but was from my Great Grandmother's stash and I'm using it. When the In the Leafy Treetops Quilt Along is over I should have something that looks like this:
I love this!
My Craft Hope donations are done and mailed off. My final total was 7 quilts, 1 pillowcase, 7 handkerchiefs, and 5 baby hats. You should head over and check out the numbers so far! Many, many children will be getting lovely items in a couple of weeks.
This is my fourth green bean "harvest" from my garden, and there's more coming where that came from. Every two days I have to go back out there and pick some more. I love my green bean plants! So far they're the only things really going. My basil went to seed, my pea plants didn't get staked up so they're everywhere, my lettuce did ok, zucchini should be coming and looks promising, pumpkins look promising, sunflowers are a no-brainer, potatoes I'm not sure about because they're underground and I don't really know what to do with them (they were given to me), and my peppers are not doing anything at all. So, yeah, I LOVE my green bean plants. However, the only family member not getting sick of green beans is Duncan, he can't get enough. My garden is fenced (good thing!) and when that gate opens Duncan comes running! I always give him a little something, I mean they're just vegetables. I noticed something weird though a few days ago. It looked like some of my green beans had bites out of them. But my garden is fenced...weird. Then I caught him in the act. Duncan goes to both sides of the garden fence, sticks his nose through the chain-link, pulls whatever plant he can reach through and helps himself. He loves his veggies!
Like I don't have enough projects I went and joined another Quilt Along, the Zig-Zag Quilt-Along over at Old Red Barn Co. I know, I know...have I finished the last Quilt Along quilt? No, not yet, but I will! I had to get quilts done for Craft Hope so I could mail them out tomorrow so they'll make it by the deadline. My new Quilt Along starts tomorrow, and I went out today and got my fabrics. This photo is not very true to the colors, but I really thought a rainbow like effect would be pretty. I guess we'll see!
This picture was not our beetle, our beetle was bigger, I'm sure. Where is the bug now, you ask? As Maddox likes to say, in nature. We try to release our bugs, but Maddox knows that spiders aren't held to the same standard.
Click HERE for a tutorial on how to make some of these hats.You still have time to contribute to Craft Hope, deadline for items is July 25th.
And one of the blocks done for Shannon, and the Stash Busting Bee International. The fabric she sent is the center square. I have one more block that I need to make for her this month. The quilt she's making has a Hunting Lodge theme for her nephew, so I figured a Hunting Lodge quilt needed a Log Cabin block.
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What's this you ask? It's my newly finished sewing machine cover! I LOVE IT!!!!! It ties on either side with ribbon, so it's fast and easy to get on and off. The fabric I used was from Sorbet, by Moda. I got the idea over at Sew, Mama, Sew! Check out the tutorial from Jessie over at Tiny House.
I have also just finished my first two blocks for Stash Bustin' Bee International. Basically, every member is assigned a month. When it's your month, you send a “scrap” of fabric to each of the other 11 participants by the 1st of your assigned month. The quilters will use their own stash to complete your block, incorporating the fabric you send.Quilters will send back the completed block by the end of the month, along with a scrap from their own stash, just to spread the stash love!
This was my first block. Lish, who had this month, requested pinwheels, stars, or spinning things. The flower print was the fabric that was sent to me, the red and blue are from my stash. This block was 12.5", and I was pleased with it.
I had enough fabric left over to make this 6.5" pinwheel block. Again, I was pleased with my first effort. Until I saw Marilyn's block. Her block blew mine out of the water.
These are my latest blocks for the One a Day Quilt-Along. I've also joined an International Quilting Bee, can't wait to get started. It's a year long commitment, but by the end I'll have a quilt made up of different blocks from people all over.
Head over to The Fabric Shopper by this Sunday and enter to win 30 fat quarters of Denyse Schmidt's Katie Jump Rope fabric!!! Click on the picture above to shoot straight over to the giveaway.
