Happy Saturday!

Catalina # 7

                                          Vista Del Mar

                             
                                Happy Sunday enjoy your day,
                                        Robin

Vintage farm girl

just what I needed another project, lol.

I started the farm girl blocks and I'm loving

how easy they are to put together.

I have another one almost done it's

Tom turkey but there doesn't seem to be any

directions to make the small block.

I also just finished putting this cute

Halloween banner together now I just

need to get it quilted.

Robin

Have a good day

Scraps

 I made this cute mini quilt wall hanging as the shop sample.  When I took the scraps and made this cute little candle mat but before putting on the binding I decided to add some of my own scraps and made it into a cute little zipper pouch.

For whatever reason I'm not able to load photo of the back, will try again later.


Smile and have a good day,
Robin

finally able to show the back

Busy,busy,busy

                                  Block 6  "lover's cove"

                                             Robin

While working on my 5th block for

my Catalina BOM I made a mistake,

good thing it was just in the placement

of the little blocks that make up the block.

This is the correct way all sewn together.

This is how I had it arranged but before I started

 sewing I happened to glance at the photo

 in the directions. Good thing I did.

Anyway the above block is #5 Mai Tai. 

I love this fabric.

                                                   Happy stitching

                                                          Robin

Stars and stripes

Just a cute little finish for

yesterday.

I'm pretty proud of myself I only lost

one of the star points and that

was when I put the binding on.

This little hanging measures 10 X 28

I did stitch in the ditch and love

 how it looks.

Keep everyone guessing what your up to,

keep smiling.

Robin

forest babies

Another quilt top ready for some backing

then off to the quilter.

Back to the sewing room trying to get as many 

UFO's done as possible.

Keep cool,

Robin

wonky stars

.          This is what I've been working on, wonky stars. I took a class

to learn the process on how they are made and now

they are done I don't think I will make them again.

My grandson calls them "sea stars". 

Now that the blocks are together I need to figure

out my boarders. Any ideas??

I'm not even sure what I'm going to do

with it after it's quilted.

Resting and contemplating.

Have a great day everyone and keep smiling,

Robin

This is block 4 of  my newest BOM

This one started in April.

This BOM is called Catalina and this block is Girabaldi.

I love this line of fabric.

This is block 3 Smugglers Cove

Block 2 Bird of Paradise

Block 1 Avalon.

I've been pretty good on this one finishing each block within a

week of picking it up from the quilt shop.

This is what I saw when I went out to check

the garden and do a little watering before it

gets to hot. My favorite flowers my pink lilys.

Have a great day everyone and keep on smiling

Robin

Happy that 2 weeks of the flu are over :)

5 &3/4

Still working on my shop hop blocks. I've

just finished up with 5 3/4 more I say

3/4 because some how I didn't have enough

fabric to finish a block (bottom left)  I either cut

wrong or was given wrong amount (most

likely I measured wrong). So now I'm off

to the quilt shop for 1 fat quarter, yes 

only 1(we will see).

Happy Canada day

to all my Canadian friends.

Have a sew happy day everyone.

Robin

5 done.....

First five of my blocks (western Washington hop blocks)

 done with several more to go.

With the heat we are having I'm in my sewing room again

today let's see how many more I can get done so I can

get to my row by rows I have 8 now with a few more I hope 

to collect.

Have a safe and happy Tuesday,

Robin

western Washington shop hop 2015

The western washington shop hop

is now over and this is the quilt.

I wasn't able to go to all the shops but I did hit

17 and that was enough to get my passport entered

in a draw for some cool prizes.

I started sewing the blocks together and now have 4 done

and working on #5. Since it is so hot here that is what I will

be working on today.

I was also able to collect some of the row by row's kit's that

I really liked. I also collected the free patterns for the ones that

I wasn't sure if I would sew or not.

It's been a while since posting but I'm still here :) .
I'm back in Washington and hope to stay here for a long time.

Hope everyone has a great Monday and I hope to post more now that I'm home.

Robin

View out the window

This was the view out of the living room window this morning

at 7 am Arizona time. Isn't the sunrise beautiful and it's only suppose

to get to 82* today.

 This was the view looking the opposite direction a few days ago.

It felt like you could reach out and touch the balloon it was 

so pretty.  My grandson thought it was just the coolest, he wanted

to find more but it was the only one we could see.  I was able to find 

a fabric panel at a quilt shop with hot air balloons so will be making something

from it as a memento of the time I have been in Arizona.

Nothing much is going on here right now, we are planning and making

party decorations for my grandsons 5th birthday. He wants a 

construction theme for his party, not as easy as it sounds.

Have a good day and keep smiling,

Robin

front meet back

This is a quilt top made from a kit that my sweet husband gave me last year

for Mother's Day.  I love everything about this top but I was having a hard time

finding the right fabric for the backing. I didn't want the same fabric from the front,

I wanted something that felt beachy. I was looking for a tan batik but couldn't find 

the right one; when last weekend my daughter and I were at the quilt shop here in

Phoenix and she saw this fabric and its perfect, It is sea shells with beach glass and the

colors are great, the back ground color is a little more on the white side than in the photo.

This will be my first project to send off to the quilter when I get home.

I will be binding it with the dark blue I used for the sashing.

Have fun in your sewing room and

keep smiling.

Robin

I'm just about ready for the

elephant parade qal

Here are my colors but I still need to find just

the right color of off white back ground fabric. The

one I found at the quilt shop the other day was perfect

but there was only 3/4 of a yard and I need 2 yds.

So I will continue to search for one I like, I.m thinking of

a tone on tone off white.

If you would like to join in on the fun the first part will be released

on Feb 1st. Just click on the button on my side bar for more info.

Have a good day everyone,

keep smiling and make everyone wonder

what you are up to now!  LOL

Robin

Hello Everyone.

I know it has been a long time since I have posted.

I haven't really done anything to post about. 

I went home for two weeks at Christmas and had a nice time

 with my husband. I'm now back in Arizona with my daughter 

and grandson. It's been months since I have felt like stitching or sewing.

I have however started a new quilt for a friend that's going through a 

tough time and I feel she needs a quilt hug as reminder that she is loved.

Just need to add the side boarders and send it to the long arm quilter.

I think part of why I have no desire to stitch or quilt is that I don't have

my own stuff here. I have a sewing machine but I have to set it up in the dinning room.

I don't have my fabric stash so anytime I want to do something I have to go 

purchase what I want/need and that's no fun. Sometimes you just want to pull some

scraps from your scrap basket and make something.

I've wanted to join a couple of blog hops and BOM but I just don't think

I will be able to get them done with my traveling from Washington to Arizona.

I'm going home for good at the end of March so I hope to have a more

productive 2nd quarter of the year. 

Keep smiling and thank you for stopping by.

Robin

3 color quilt

Looking for help.

I'm wanting to make a quilt for a friend

in need, she's needing a quilt hug.  Her favorite

 colors are purple, brown and turquoise.

(And butterflies) 

I can add more colors if need be but what I'm

stumped on is a quilt pattern. It also needs

to be something that I can put together

in a short time.

Any help would be great.

Thank you  



Disney 2014

I think I have my photo loading issue semi fixed.

If I use chrome I can load photos and make a blog post. 

Yeah! but I don't like chrome for anything else. BOO

So for now I'm doing the switching back and forth. 

This photo is the one I have been trying to post since March.

This is of myself, husband, daughter and grandson at

Disneyland for his 4th birthday.

He covered his ears because we forgot his noise cancelling 

headphones at home and anything loud he says makes his ears 

hurt. It's part of his sensory issues with his Aspergers. 

We had lots of fun and didn't want to go home but vacations have to end

or they wouldn't be vacations. LOL

  

Here he is getting his fall photos taken for his mommy for Christmas.

He sure is getting big.

Love this guy so much.

Okay now I'm off to take care of him as he has a nasty cold now.

Have a happy day,

Robin still in AZ