I had a very productive day in the sewing room yesterday.  I managed to cut and sew 4 fun blocks for So Sarah Sews.  I got a little carried away, but it is for a great cause.





I decided to link up to fabric Tuesday at Quiltstory  today because, KT Quilts gave me some inspiration for this fabric.


I bought this fabric some 20+ years ago while on vacation in Virginia one summer.  I think the original project was an apron for 4-H.  Obviously that never happened because I have toted it around with me for many years.

I hope everyone has a great day.

Last week as I was reading my regular blogs, my friend Jenna, linked up to Sarah's blog Sew Sarah Sews. Sarah is looking for volunteers to make a block so she can make a quilt for each of the foster children her mother currently has.  You can read her whole story and get the links to the Flickr group from the link above.

I signed up to make a one of each block.  I have several friends who have been 'through the system' and I have several friends who are foster parents themselves.   She requested pinks, purples, and white for the specified blocks, so here is what I have pulled from my stash.



I hope everyone had a great weekend and if any of you were in the path of 'Irene' that your home and belongings are all in tact.

Now I hope you can make a difference in someones life today.

God bless!

box of  random 2.5" squares

Got your attention now I bet.  What if your cake contained vegetables? Would you feel less guilty about eating it? I know it almost makes you cringe at the thought, but don't worry, you/your kids won't even know what is in it.

Yesterday a fellow blogger was talking about how much zucchini they had and were substituting it for other vegetables in different recipes.  It reminded me of the different things I have made and that my mom made when I was a still at home.

The first thing that came to mind was her chocolate zucchini cake. Mom made a lot of the usual things as well, fried zucchini and zucchini bread, but the cake stands above them all ,and well most people like cake.

Since it isn't a secret family recipe here it is for everyone to enjoy.

Here is a sneak peak at my project, you will have to check back to see the finished project.


I think I may have also come up with a use for the rest of my 2.5" squares in my box, even though the pattern calls for 2 7/8" squares mine will just be a little/lot smaller.

This past week has been rough.  my dear hubby's grandma passed away on Thursday last week and will be laid to rest today.  I wish there was some way that I could get to the funeral and make it home to get my son off the bus, but I don't see any way that is possible. With my luck I would get hung up in traffic or with a traffic ticket and well neither of those would be a good situation.

I really don't have anything exciting to write about today. So I thought I would just share some fabric yummy-ness with you.

I had to make a stop at the local Jo-ann Fabrics.

I went in for..

and came out with....


I need to start sewing some of this stuff up before my hubby realizes how much fabric I really have.

I did cut out some pants for my daughter last night that I'm about to sew up.


and the other day I was at the LQS (local quilt shop) and came home with these beauties.


The blue was just a remenant
And I think you can read the last one here.

I'm not working on anything special right now.

I finished up the hand sewn, hand quilted labor of love yesterday.  I'm so happy to be completely done with it.




Yesterday was such a beautiful day that we spent many hours outside. Here are just a few pictures of the beautiful day.



There is nothing more beautiful in a fairly landlocked state than a beautiful sunset over the lake.

I need your vote! If you have facebook Join the group https://www.facebook.com/group​s/FabricProblem and vote for my snowman mug rug. If I win I get a $30 gift certificate to my choice of fabric stores. You don't have to stay a member you can opt to leave after the winner is announced and their feelings won't be hurt.  I made the cute snowman mug rug. 

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The 8+ year old computer lives again and I have to admit I haven't done much sewing other than the start of the cute snowman mug rug I started and have yet to finish.  I really dislike posting from my phone, but I know I can do  it if need be, like when the hubby are on vacation and I get inspired. I was motivated by Heidi over at Boys, Buttons, and Butterflies and her recent trip to Hawaii, she visited a quilt shop or two while on the islands.  I told my hubby that I wanted to go to some quilt shops in Las Vegas when we take our vacation in October, and he got quite irritated with me.  Why I don't know, but I plan on laying down the law and telling him that I am going whether he wants to join me or not.  He always seems to complain that I never want to do anything but when I say something I want to do he rolls his eyes and asks if I'm kidding.

I have done some searching of the quilt shops in Vegas and found that they have a quilt shop hop, how fun would that be to do?  Really something for ME!  He has been to Vegas before and wants to drag show me all of the cool stuff out there, Hoover dam, the Grand Canyon really I could care less.  We are going to be there for 7 days, I'm sure I could find a few hours in there on one day to do it.

Sorry for no pictures today, but there may be a photo overload tomorrow since it is my son's first day of Kindergarten. Happy sewing everyone.

I managed to finish the memory quilt and I love love love, how it turned out.

boarders close up

backing

The excitement I had for being able to print my own labels has disappeared along with the ink that washed out when I washed the quilt.  I did however make a better label per say by hand stitching it. I say better because I feel I put more love into it.


I've spent the past couple of days entertaining the kids. Today if they are good we will take them to the local dirt track tonight and watch the World of Outlaws since they are in town.  I hope everyone has a great weekend.

I've been obsessively sewing the past few days so I could finish the memory quilt.  I finished sewing down the binding last night so I'm going to take the day off from sewing and do some fun stuff with the kids.  It has been so hot here that we haven't been able to get out much, so as long as the rain holds off we will be out running around.

I will post pictures of the finished memory quilt tomorrow.  Have a great day everyone!

I hope everyone had a great and productive weekend.  I was able to finish the quilting on the hand sewn beauty. I've picked out what I'm going to use for the binding, and I think the best part of the binding fabric is, it was in my stash, so I didn't have to make a trip to the store with the kids and spend more money.

Label I made.

choice for binding.