Stitching on Multiple Projects

The rainbow scrap challenge colour for February was yellow so I made lots of yellow and gray 16 patches which I used this week to make my version of the Colour Block March quilt Pattern.  I may or may not add borders to this quilt...it is currently about 45" square.  I will pick out some backing fabric soon and quilt this one myself.  I have several quilts in line to be quilted on my DSM.  Sometimes, the quilting mood hits and I get a bunch done all at once.  I am hoping this happens soon!

There are some leftover HST's from this quilt which I will use to make a table runner. It might get done before the quilt!

A few more logs were added to the pineapple log cabin blocks this week, using up more green and orange scraps.  I also started the centres for 7 more blocks so I will have enough for a table runner.  These blocks are now about 6.5" square. 

There was a lot of chain piecing this week --I made a 5th blue 16 patch block for this collection. I still have lots of blue squares cut for more blocks. 

The Elgin Piecemakers colours for our April Comfort Quilt are light blue, yellow and gray.  I had just enough of the print fabric for the squares in this block. 

In the knitting department, I finished a baby facecloth with a little bird on it.  I'm going to try making a facecloth with some cables in it next so I can start a bigger cable project next. 

Love Birds had some attention this week too.  I'm a little over 1/2 done this picture. 

My daughter managed to find a little bit of time for some cross stitch this week too.  This one is bigger than some of the other city scapes she has stitched. 

Finn got his hair cut this week.  He loves lying in a sunbeam in the mornings while my daughter works.  He likes to arrange the gray blanket "just so". 

My mother-in-law has snowdrops blooming in her garden! She thinks the squirrels planted them there because she does not remember ever buying snowdrop bulbs. This is a sure sign of spring in her garden. 

In our garden, our earliest bloomer is the witch-hazel bush.  Our snow all melted this past week so the daffodils are starting to come up now.  I love seeing everything come to life after the cold winter. 

I think I saw a reference to this book on someone's blog last weekend so I took it out of the library this week, electronically.  It is a series of essays about yarn stashing--substituting the word "fabric" for "yarn" makes it applicable for all of my sewing friends as well. I would recommend this book to anyone who collects fabric or yarn!

I will be linking up with the Rainbow Scrap Challenge as well as Slow Sunday Stitching with Kathy.