June "Bowties" and August "Hot Sidewalk" Done

I finished off two more rows for my row of the month quilt. The Bowties are for Father's Day and the Hot Sidewalk certainly is suitable for this year! Only two more months to go and I will be caught up. Have you noticed that I am avoiding May? I will have to tackle it sooner or later! The July row is "Stars" for the US 4th of July holiday but I am changing my blocks to Maple Leaves for Canada Day. I have the fabric picked out for the July row, but not for May yet.
I am still working on cleaning up my sewing room. The fabric is all organized now into labelled drawers by colour. Onward and upward. Patterns and sewing supplies are next!

April in August

This morning, I thought I would spend an hour doing another row on my Claudia's Row of the Month quilt. I now have 4 months done, even though we are already 8 months into the year. There are lots of tiny pieces in this and my estimate of 1 hour to make the April row was about 1 1/2 hours short of reality! I will try to tackle another row shortly. May has lots of pieces too! The April row represents Lilies. Each row is 4 1/2 inches wide.

And the winner is....POKEY!

I just sent an e-mail to Pokey in California to let her know that she won my Pumpkin Wall-hanging give away. We went shopping at Ikea this past weekend and I used my daughter's new utensil holder for my draw.
Congratulations, Pokey! I will put your wall hanging in the mail as soon as I know your address!

Ironing Fabirc

Not a lot of sewing going on here these days. I am washing, ironing and sorting all of my stash fabric by colour, theme, etc. I am also cutting up scraps into 2 1/2 inch strips and narrower strings a la Bonnie Hunter. I spent most of the day today on this project and just when I thought I was nearing the end, I found more unwashed FQ's in a basket in my sewing room! The fabric that I washed already is mostly ironed and put away. I am still in the midst of cutting up scraps but that too is coming along. I haven't been taking many pictures along the way but here is my pile of FQ's after ironing and before folding.
It's a big pile and I did not count them. That would have been too scary. My family reads my blog and I don't want to admit out loud how many yards of fabric I have.

I cut off all of the selvages before folding so my selvage drawer is full to overflowing. I really must get started on my next selvage project.

I am off to do some more ironing. I still have some yardage to iron. The FQ's were more fun to iron than the larger pieces will be.

Check back tomorrow for the announcement of the winner of my pumpkin wallhanging give-away. (See next post for details)

Almost 30,000 visits--Time for a Give-Away!

My counter is approaching 30,000 visits and I have not done a give-away for quite a while. This week, I made this pumpkin wall hanging which needs a home. If you would like that home to be your home, please comment on this post. I will draw a name out of a hat on Wednesday, August 4th, 2010 in the afternoon. Let me know what you are working on at the moment. Is there anyone else out there working on something for the Fall?

Thanks for stopping by to check out my blog!

Happy quilting!

Row Robin and Carolina Christmas -step 4 done

The London Friendship Quilters' Guild did a Row Robin this year. This is the last row that I made for someone else in my group of 4 quilters. The theme of Edith's quilt is Transportation. It is a quilt for a child. Everyone else in our group had covered all of the transportation modes except flying. It took me a while to find appropriate pictures to use for my row and I am a little late getting it done--but it is done now. Now, I just have to get all of the rows back to Edith... I hope she likes the row I made for her quilt.

Christine and I got together yesterday afternoon to work on Step 4 of Carolina Christmas. We both made great progress at completing this step as we sewed yesterday afternoon. I finished off all of my step 4 broken dishes units (104 of them!) this morning. Here they are:

Christine and I will not be able to get together for the next couple of weeks as both of us are busy. We get to start putting the blocks together next! Here are all of the step 1-4 units I have completed:
We have spent many hours sewing and we are both excited to see how the blocks look!

I am working on another project--a give-away to celebrate 30,000 visits to my blog. I will post details shortly.

Another Finish!

It was really hot and humid out today! How hot and humid was it you may ask? It was so humid, that when I went outside to take a picture of my phlox which were just coming out into bloom, my camera lens steamed up! The picture above was taken before I wiped the lens off and the one below was taken after.
I actually like the effect that the steamed up lens gave to the first picture!

My husband and I went to the local farmers' market today and purchased 3 bags of fresh fruit and vegetables including this purple cauliflower: We had the cauliflower and some corn on the cob, also purchased at the market, for supper tonight.I put the binding on my children's charity quilt this afternoon so now it is all ready to donate to the London Childrens' Aid Society for a child in foster care. This is one of the charity projects of the London Friendship Quilters' Guild. I used a flannel piece that a friend gave to me for the back.
Here are a few pictures of the flowers blooming in my garden. We have had lots of rain lately so everything is very green and lush.Clematis

Black eyed Susan


Clethra (a flowering bush)