Fat Sudoku

yay! top # 2 is now quilt #2!

2011, i am officially kicking your butt!! :D 

i LOVE Sudoku. i do it every night before

i go to bed. i've gotten pretty good at it.

i am working on my 3rd book of them.

thank goodness for the dollar tree! lol.

so, i wanted something fun and easy and to use up

some of my stash (so i can buy more stash)

so why not a little fabric sudoku?

and for all the wondering minds, this is based off

of an actual puzzle that i finished. all the pieces

are in the right place :) the most amazing

part, is that i used a misc. remnant from Joanns,

and a Wally world FQ bundle i got for Christmas,

and they all match PERFECTLY with my

Heather Bailey. it was awesome!

 

i believe i will be revisiting this quilt come spring.....

i hate all this deadness in my pictures. 

i have also come to the conclusion that i need

to build some props for my photo shoots.

its gonna be a busy (and expensive) summer.

wood is expensive!!

i also love it because it is so easy to quilt.

i mean, its all squares. how much easier

can it get?! 

hope you enjoyed the show!

how 'bout yall? any summer projects

in the works already?

Thank You Pat!!!!

Look at my new goodies!!! They were waiting for me

in the mail yesterday. i LOVE to get "fun mail". all i ever

get is crap advertisements and bills, it so much fun to get

something unexpected in the mail :) These are from

one of my Quilt and Needle home gurls, Pat!

She is working on a really awesome mystery quilt,

check it out. It looks great Pat!! and THANK YOU

so much, not only for my selvage goodies, but for the fun mail!

i am putting them to good use today :D

that one in the middle is my favorite.

it was so awesome to look at all the 

different pieces from a different place.  that is

my favorite part of going somewhere different;

you always find new things that you don't have

back home. so just in case you missed it, 

THANKS PAT!! :P you rock.

hope you guys are having a

productive weekend!

Top #2

even the hub said "did you finish the one you had in the floor?"

ughmmmmm....no. i have quilt A.D.D. if i run into trouble

or get bored with something, it gets tossed aside when a 

new idea comes along. like yall didn't know that?!

but i wanted a fast project to make.... some friends and

i went to a local winery this Sat. for some spirits & tunes,

and we needed a nice quilt.....sooo..... you  know i had to

remedy the situation. i needed to make something that

had tons of color and a busy back in case of grass stain.

of course all this being said, i prob. will go postal if someone

gets careless with their chips and salsa. Watch it! :P

my weapons of choice were FQ's from Heather Bailey's

Nicey Jane in grass colorway, a matching remnant from

some kind of JoAnn fabric and some FQ's from a set

i got for Christmas from Wally World. 

(words of advice....the wally world pre-cuts

are cheap for a reason. if the pieces are actually

cut correctly, they have skipped threads and ruts.)

OH, and most amazing, i didn't buy not one new piece

of fabric for this top!! i actually used what i had on hand.

now THAT is amazing. however, i will have to buy something

for the back....and batting....waiting for a JoAnns sale! :D

hope yall had a great weekend and a productive

start to this week!

Just One?

sew, Moda is sponsoring "Just One Star" for the Semper Fi Fund.

Just make one star and send it to Moda and they will make quilts

for our soldiers. Their goal is 100 quilts in 100 days.

Please click on the link and check it out and send in a star.

I can only imagine how awesome it would be, as a soldier,

to receive something that was hand made by the

Americans they were working so hard for.

I just want to say thank you to all of the Brave

that work to keep us all Free. I hope that all of our

stars bring them joy. :) I am making a few more

than one... 4 so far :) and my mom is making some too.

If your not a quilter please let your quilting pals know

and maybe we'll all send in enough for 1,000!

Their deadline is May 1st. I just found out about it,

so i am a little behind...hopefully yall know about

this by now, and if not, i apologize in my

delay! Now lets get sewing!!

and...... its damn near spring time,

and you know what that means?!?!?!

CHICKEN BABIES!!!!

man, i bet yall thought you were gonna be

in the clear this year, hu?! FAKE OUT!

this little silkie baby was born 2 nights ago.

this was his first day outside. its been cold and 

nasty here, today was the first warm day that

he could go out.

he stayed by my feet the whole time.

every time i walked away, he'd come

running. don't you just wanna

smoosh him?! we are pretty sure

its a boy; i mean that seems to be the only

thing we can hatch! errr.... at least they are

cute and sweet for a small period of time!

hopefully it is a girl. but thats pushing it.

i guess we'll know when he crows, or she lays

her first egg. Anyone wanna take bets?!

only 3 months to figure it out!

So anyone started on their stars yet?!

Or does anyone get baby chicks for Easter?

I'd love to hear some chicken stories if yall got any.

Happy almost Friday everyone :D

Chicken Tales!

stop rolling your eyes, you know you've missed my chicken stories!

this is Mr. Squishy trying to be intimidating.  i mean really,

can you take him seriously as a rooster?! Mrs. squishy has gone

broody, which means she is sitting on eggs to hatch babies,

and we go talk to her everyday and give her treats.

he is "protecting" her. how sweet is that. they are inseparable.

she does stay inside the coop all day (and will until she gets babies)

that's why we feed her, hen rarely if ever get off the nest to eat or

drink while they are "sitting") and Mr. comes out in the run,

but always goes in to check on her. 

she is THE NICEST hen that we have had to date. most hens

turn into predator when sitting; after all they are protecting

their young. you best not stick your hand near them unless

you're wearing a welding glove.

oh, but shes not sitting on eggs..... we started saving

her eggs to put in the incubator, and when she went broody

she was only sitting on 1 egg, so we took it and snuck in

some golf balls. but she is still protective of those golf balls!!

one the eggs hatch in the incubator (hopefully starting monday!!)

we will sneak them back under her. and then it will be

a Squishy family of silkies!

we FINALLY had a nice day here today.

the past week has been monsoon season, apparently.

so all the gurls are out for some sunbathing.

we put up this "log" between 2 other trees

and it is their favorite spot to sun and to rest

after eating. we like to cook them up big pots

of slop, and they LOVE IT. the hub and i tell each other

when going out to feed them a nice hot meal,

"if i'm not back in 5 min. come rescue whats

left of me". chickens are quite carnivorous.

when they see us coming it is a stampede 

up to the gate, and they will fall all over you to

get closer to the food. that is really

the only time they love us. feeding time.

well i hope you have enjoyed me talking about

my kids as much as i have!

and i love answering chicken questions,

so if you ever have one, please don't

hesitate to drop me a line!

Happy Chicken Saturday Everyone!!

Selvage spectacular!

here's the official block from triangles.

the dark side

the bright side!

I have decided to call this quilt "Mom & Me". it is a PREFECT

representation of both of us in quilt form. Me, birght and loud;

Mom, dark and antique. Not to mention if it wasn't for her

i would be able to make the dark side work :)

i haven't sewn these together, as it will be quite some time

before i will have enough to make a whole quilt top

(however at the rate i am going, it may only be another month!)

and i can keep the single blocks nice and neat in a pizza box.

i hope some of you out there are saving up to make your own

selvage salvage project. i thought of so many themes that 

could be done; like all christmas material -like for a table runner

or a quilt dedicated to your favorite designer, how yummy

would a Fig Tree theme be, or Tula pink, or Heather Bailey,

or Amy Butler, or....... well you get the idea :)

well, i think i have made up for my weeks of being awall

all in one week of posts. you are welcome :P !

anyone else ready for spring?!!!!!

(and friday?!)

overboard

its kinda like after you eat everything on the table

at Thanksgiving dinner, and you're literally splitting at the

seams, but you just can't resist a big ass piece of pumpkin pie

with about 1 cup of whip cream on top.

yeah, you're overdoing it, but man is it good!! :)

Contributions...

....from mom!

"hey mom, you got any selvage scraps?"

"what? why? you know, i just burnt a whole bunch

of scraps today..."

a day late and a dollar short, you guys!

Mom is working on a quilt at the moment and i just

was sure she hadn't thrown any of the cuttings away.

I asured myself of this yesterday when i was

gonna call her, but then didn't.... next time, I'll know better!

anyhow, we went thru her stash and still look at

all she had! there were even some that missed the

trash can, that i was able to save!

i am officially addicted to selvages.

One of my own!

sorry to be gone soooo long. i swore this year

that i would post every weekend, even if i had

nothing to share but my opinion; but i have been

kinda down in the dumps this past week.

i have let everything go; sewing, the house,

laundry, cooking....... all of it.

i basically just come home and sleep.

i'm not gonna go into all the TMI about it,

but today is the first day that i actually feel

like myself again, unfortunately tomorrow 

is monday, and i'll have to go back to my

hell  hole. :( i need an UBER LONG

vacation. don't we all?!

ANYHOW!! i am working on another

project that has lost its luster, so while

working on some of it, i started this!!!!

i saw this like, a year ago and fell  in love with it.

i new i must have one of my very own.

so i started saving all my selvages and i drug them all

out today and searched out this tute and got busy.

i am SO EXCITED about it. but i am gonna

need to go buy more "dull" or dark fabric.

hey, any reason to buy new fabric, right?!

my octo's are gonna be brights and darks.

i think this is amazing and i'm so glad that all these

gals have come up with great ways to use the

selvages. i remember when i was little and playing

around with all my moms scraps, and how much i loved

all those little dots of color and decorative text.

i guess the graphic designer in me was

making its first appearance!

so if you'll excuse me, i'm gonna need to go thru

every piece of material i own and look for more

selvages....and then hit up my mom's stash.

(its so awesome being next to my mom and her

fabric :) lol. she comes over to raid mine every once

in a while, when she's feeling wild and needs

a bright color or just filler material )