Cont. Turtle Quilt 2 :(

How many of you noticed the sad face in the title?  Yep........yesterday you saw all my neat cut stacks, that were ready to sew into blocks.  Well, I actually starting sewing them Saturday night (I'm writing this post Saturday night).  This is how the first block turned out. :(  Well, I was going to show you one before I "edited" it, but it seems as if I didn't save it. 

See the "oops"?  Best I can figure I cut that strip 2" instead of 2.5"  I looked at it a million times trying to figure out how to fix it, and adding a small piece to it was the best I could think of.  I think once it's all together and quilted it won't even be noticeable.  Bad thing about it, I'll have to add that small piece to every strip.  Thank goodness it had just a bit extra.  Uggghhhh.....ya'll (spell check didn't recognize ya'll..lol) see what I mean now about patterns??

FYI: Be on the lookout for my 100th post giveaway.  This is post 93.

Cont. Turtle Quilt 1

Hooray, Hooray.......I got all the strip pieces sewed together.  Man it was a lot.  Then below you'll see, I got them all cut the way they should be.  And yes I'm sure.

Now, to assemble them into blocks.  

I can do it, I can do it!

Cont. Turtle Quilt

Looky, Looky..........I got all the fabrics cut for my turtle quilt I blogged about yesterday. Go me! Now, on to the next step.

These fabrics are just adorable.

I'm intimidated!

Of what you ask? PATTERNS..........I suck at following a pattern. However, I did successfully follow one here. Well, I faced my fears and have since order a few kits with patterns. The first one I'm going to tackle is from Green Fairy Quilts. And, yes it's turtles. My favorite all time animal, thing, object and all of the above.

A Picture of the quilt. Looks lovely and simple, right?

The instructions and pattern. EEEEKKKKKKK.....not so lovely anymore.

The beautiful fabrics that came with this pattern making it a kit.

OK, now I'm off to get this started! I will post the finished product, no matter how bad or how terrible I screw it up. Please wish me well! haha

Table Runner for GG

Again I've found myself using bold colors and patterns.  However, again I like this.  This is a kitchen table runner for GG in California.  Thus named "GG's Kitchen".  I made it foodie (is that even a word, well my spell check corrected it, so it must be ;)) so it would go with her kitchen, and her main color is blue.  I at least tried to use more blue than another color.  It measures 18x36.  Perfect size for the center of your table or bar. 

Gotta get this out in the mail, I think GG will love it.  

A Gift for E's teacher.

I have this lovely "school" fabric and have used it before.  You can see it here.  It's kinda loud and wild.  But hey, I want her to remember E.  I think this says it perfectly.  I wouldn't normally put these colors together, but oddly enough, I like this.  I even quilted this in yellow.  I also used the leaf stitch around the binding.  I've never quilted in anything other than white or cream.  I LOVE TO BE DIFFERENT, that's me!!  Hopefully, she'll appreciate it and the work gone into it.  I still have to put tabs on it for hanging.  

Let me know what ya'll think about this wild hanging. ;)

Spring Mini Quilt Swap done....

I gave you a sneak peek at this yesterday.  Well, I worked on it all day and it's finished.  I like it.  Very bright and very spring inspired.    This is for a swap I joined.  You can find more info about it on my sidebar.  Click on the Spring Mini Quilt Swap button.  And since I don't know my swap partner, and she don't know me, and don't read my blog, I wanted to blog it.   I'll get this out in the mail soon, the dead line is June 21st.   I hope this swap goes well so I can do more in the future.  I've read horror stories about swaps.  I'm thinking positive it will go well.