Not too late to buy chances for the HGTV Crayola Quilt Challenge

Special Thanks to all of my local friends and family who have bought chances on my quilt already - and ALSO to several of my blog readers who mailed me checks for chances!!! If you thought about supporting my efforts to raise money for the Ronald McDonald House Charity - but forgot... it's not too late! I'm still collecting money for the 30+ quilts to be raffled off in September.

This song reminds me of both my children and my Crayola Quilt maker friends :) Enjoy!




Love from Texas!

Happy Mother's Day

If roses grow in heaven, Lord, pick a bunch for me ~

Place them in my Mother's arms & tell her they're from me~

Tell her that I love & miss her, and when she turns to smile~

place a kiss upon her cheek & hold her for a while ~

Because remembering her is easy ~

I do it everyday ~

There's an ache within my heart that will NEVER go away.

Happy Mother's Day in Heaven ♥♥
I love you Mom!!

All women are called to shower their motherhood on the world in the particular ways that God makes possible. -The Authentic Catholic Woman

Love from Texas!

I Spy My Little Eye - I See Something You Don't See......

and it's ONLY the beginning! :P This is gonna take a lot longer than I had planned.

Love from Texas!

Guess what I've been doing lately?

Icing my knee. Above is what it looked like Friday. Not nearly as bad as the day before, but still swollen and very sore. When the twins went down for nap time, I set up camp on the sofa... and thankfully each day it's getting better! Thanks for all of your T's & P's my friends! ;)

And to leave you with something quilty - do you remember when I stared out on these a couple months ago...? well I've not worked on them as much as I should have had... but..

I did talk Nora into helping mommy and she picked up off the "design floor" these I-Spy Blocks that I have made so far. I've got about 50 blocks made so far.. I need another 50 for this quilt and then 100 more for the other. Eeek it's almost May which means it's almost June! I'm thinking these Birthday quilts will turn into Christmas quilts...

Well I have a lot of cleaning up to do in the dining/sewing room - I need to clear off the table b/c we had outside border BINGO winners today - so I'll need to spread out the Jackpot Stash so I can shop for their winnings... I let them choose what color/style they like and love or need for a project and then I take photos and let them take their pick.

More photos next week! ;)

Love from Texas!

4-patch progress

Well, I've been itching to host scrappy 4-patch blocks again - they are so easy to make and frequently used in Bonnie Hunter's patterns... that I just feel the need to have another swap so I can build up a variety of 4-patches.

And since I have at least 5 drawers of "noodles" (2.5" strips) in my "Stash User System" that's what I used... you know - use up what you have ;)

I paired up darks with lights. I'll trim them to size later..

It didn't take long to sew them into dark/light pairs and then sub-cut at 2" each... Not everyone pins, but I do... that didn't really take long either... I didn't have time to do the finger press at that time, so I tossed them into this basket and took them with me in the van and did them while waiting on Nora in the school carpool line. ;)

How to sew and press 4patches so that there is very little bulk in the center!
http://video.about.com/quiltin...work-Quilt-Seams.htm

Hummm.. these rectangular patches look interesting don't they? but we need to size them up. It's easy peasy - just line the ruler up to measure 1.75" from the CENTER of the patch... and slice, rotate, slice, rotate, slice... all 4 sides.

again -I used noodles b/c I have TONS of them.. but you can just simply cut your strips at 2" and then not have any trimming ;) I hope this helps you see the variety of colors I used. I think I got around 12-15 of the same 4-patches... so I'm thinking of making sets in 10's for our swap and then you have a few extras to either keep and use or you could throw into another mix/match set to send in for swapping.

Just please only cut one strip of each your fabrics... do not cut 10 of a dark and 10 of a light (same 2 fabrics) and then use that - no. We want variety! ;)

So what's next... I paired up blue/white nickels and sewed into HSTs and cut apart... just need to make a date with that steamy guy in the background and get some homework done for my "My Blue Heaven" blocks for Crazy'boutquilts.

Stay tuned!

Love from Texas!