Central Park Baby Quilt

I got busy on Sunday afternoon and finished piecing my "Central Park" baby quilt.  I decided to put a solid border on it.  Fabric on hand on Easter Sunday.

Monday was also pretty productive. I got this pattern from Lola Pink's shop from the designer Kate Conklin.  It is a variation of a log cabin and you cut four blocks at once.  My kind of pattern.  I am making the baby quilt first from my Katie Jump Rope fabric.  Next time I will think hard about using stripes.  Not coming out perfect.  Oh well.  Hope to get it done by the end of the week.  I already have the fabric "Hope Valley" for the lap version.  I just wanted to try it out first.

Summer Breeze

My husband and I went to the quilt store in Georgetown when we went to the Poppy Festival last weekend.  I picked up  few odds and ends on sale and he decided I needed 12 fat quarters of Moda's Summer Breeze.  Who was I to argue.

I don't think I got all of the fat quarters in the picture but you get the idea.  I am going to use the Yellow Brick Road pattern.  It is easy and fast unlike my churn dash and farmer's wife recent efforts.

I also made a baby quilt out of a Max and Whiskers charm pack and I am making another out of Central Park by Kate Spain.  I have co-workers who have had grandchildren recently and I am just looking for something small to give them.

You can see part of the Central Park nine patches to the right of my quilt.  Coincidentally, the pattern I am using the Central Park for is a Kate Spain pattern called "Verna".  I downloaded the other charm square pattern using Max and Whiskers from Sew Mama Sew.  I love free so thank you Elizabeth Hartman.

I also did not get a chance to post seven things about myself from the Stylish Blogger Award thanks to LaDonna and Diana at A Sisterly Connection. When I go out of town on business for a week it takes me a while to recuperate.

1.  I only have a year and a half until I am eligible for Medicare (a round-about way of stating my age)
2.  I had a granddaughter die of SIDS about four years ago.
3.  I really enjoy gardening even though that is on hold for now since we are presently living in an apartment.
4.  I love school and attended graduate school about 10 years ago and worked on plant tissue culture.  I  am a scientist wannabe.
5.  My favorite color is hot pink.  I have a hot pink holder for my iphone and macbook.
6.  I was blogging for several years on a site called Vox which is now defunct.  I had a lot of  photography buddies.  My husband and I share a love of photographing, what else, flowers.
7.  My favorite food is Mexican.  Coming to Texas from Missouri I really got lucky food-wise.

I guess that wraps it up.

Sash and Dash

The middle portion of my Sash and Dash quilt is done.  Yeh!  It is one of those quilts that I started and put down several times.  Churn Dash blocks are tedious sometimes.  I don't have the fabric for the borders yet so I will get to that later.

Have to head out of town again so I only had time for a quicky post.

Give-away at JayBird Quilts

I just was on JayBird Quilts blog.  She is having a great give-away of fabric from The Fabric Shoppe which is an etsy shop.  So much yummy fabric. 

New fabric both ordered and received

I  was out of a town the week before last and last week I was just really unmotivated.  I sewed a few blocks but that was it.  I was on a fabric buying tear though.  I received my $1.00 fat quarters that I ordered from an etsy shop.  Cute and bright pinks and purples.  Worth every penny.

I also decided I was going to join Stitched in Color's Rainbow Quilt-along.  I found three of my colors at the local Hancocks.  Went to Pink Chalk and ordered more.  I could not believe it, I had Chartreuse and Marine in my cart and when I went to pay they were unavailable.  I will get to those later.

I also have more scraps coming.  Can't wait.  Have so many scrap patterns and not enough scraps.

I also finally ordered one of those mini irons.  I can finally do some quilt in the hoop on my embroidery machine.  Add that to my list of projects.

Hopefully I will be motivated this week.  I have a few more blocks for my Churn Dash quilt to finish tonight and then I can move on to another project.