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I'm  Back, did you miss me??

 It's been a long week away...

I was at our Walla Walla Quilt Guild Retreat

Last weekend so I chose to have a 

Social Media Fast.

I sewed from early morning to late night.

That made not looking at Facebook and Instagram easier.

I got a LOT of Flimsies ready for Quilting. 

& a few  more blocks for my QAL & SAL's.

I made the 6" & 12" Typewriter blocks. 

Those keys are Tiny squares!!

Most of this week has been spent

 Car Shopping. 

We finally got a  Replacement for my Civic.

It took more time and $$$$ 

We hope this one lasts longer than 2.5 years

Design Wall Monday - D9P Variation center

I got home from Quilt Market 

Saturday afternoon. 

My Bernina missed me...

It didn't take long to stitch the horizontal rows.

A border on top and right side and it's almost done!

Linking up with Small Quilts and Doll Quilts HERE. 

I met Sarah Jane 

Her new line is sew cute!!

Peter Pan, Wendy, & Tinkerbell!

Spelling Bee Saturday 

Letter y (lower case)

Jililly booth was fun for pictures!

Jill Finley has an adorable new fabric line and patterns.

I met Christa before, but this time got to visit and get a picture. 

Her new Fandango line comes in 

Cool and warm colorway

There was so much more.
Fun to meet up with and see local friends, too...
I'm sure Brandy will be posting
Over at pamperedpettit
Find it on  my Blog sidebar.
Marlene took this picture with my 'Secret Project '

Benartex showed it in a video after I left to come home.

Design Wall/ Floor Monday April 23, 2018

I have made the Letters for My Grandsons Bigger quilt. 

My Spelling Bee Saturday was the Letter Vv

V- is for Vase, Victory, Verigated, Violet, 

Voice,  Video and I couldn't forget 

V is for Vincent.

My OMG is getting loaded later this week. I made sure the backing was big enough today .

Linking up HERE with Small Quilts and Doll Quilts 

Design Wall Monday - On the Frame

I had early appointments and am late posting today.

 On my Frame ready for Quilting Between the days of Meetings this week is my OMG.

No I ended up not going to Tri-cities.  The Challenge Quilt is NOT done.

It needs a border.

We are up to the Letter Rr on the 

Spelling Bee Saturday.

R is for RED, Ribbon, Rick Rack and My dear Sister; Roma!

Linking up with Small Quilts and Doll Quilts HERE

Come back and see what is happening with the QQQ Blog Hop later this week.

• My Day is March 20th.

It's National Quilting Day on the 17th.

WOW - Wednesday February 7, 2018

OK - It's a Wednesday...

Time to look around and see where I am at on a few of my OTHER Projects.

I tried to not 'Start" a Lot of New Projects last year, too many to count, that were resisted.

I did start these 3 Projects in 2017

Pat Sloan 2017 BOM "Children's Library"

2017 Designer Mystery - Fat Quarter Shop

Lori Holt - Spelling Bee Saturday

Having the Portable Design Wall up is very Helpful!

When I find the Blocks and take time to get them up to see the colors - LOOK!

 9 Blocks - Need the setting Square in a Square blocks/sashing

7 of the 12 Blocks DONE

Ordered the pattern for the Finishing, didn't know it wasn't included :(

I don't usually order Blocks of the Month online with Kits.  

These kits had a LOT of extra Fabric.

YEA for FQS. (Fat Quarter Shop)

This is #9 on the 2018 UFO List

and lastly Lori got me started on this book when I saw the cute letters showing up on her Blog.

also found each Saturday on Fat Quarter Shop's Jolly Jabber Blog

 we are halfway there...

I see that I need to space out the BLUE Letters.

 Or make a few extra in other colors... duh, I am already doing that.

Marking off the letters I have ready for the Grandchildren names Quilt.

This is # 8 on my UFO list HERE

I did start a few others, like the Garden Party and 2nd Midnight Flight at the Retreat with Bonnie.

AND the Mystery I just finished, it's a Flimsy HERE

I'm a Quiltville Groupie!

So far in 2018 I have started Just ONE NEW Block of the Month

Pat Sloan's "Let's Go Camping" BOM

I have one of the 2 Blocks done for this.

I shared it last week HERE

But I will be starting this one next month...

Eleanor Burns is Celebrating "40 Fabulous Years"

I saw this quilt at Road to CA...and online on her Facebook page and on YouTube Webinars

I know a few of my quilty friends will  be LOL - ing all over the place...

YES, There are LOG Cabins!

She used her Go Cutter to cut them, I will decide later IF I will make & use them.

The webinar's start in 8 DAYS on YouTube.

I watched her Webinar's last year and ordered the Patterns.

They were fun but no Big Projects came from them.

So Laugh all you want... 

I started watching Eleanor when I was a Newlywed in Mesa on PBS.

The year was 1976-80...

My Boys asked me to turn the volume down... her voice was squeaky, they said.

They wanted to know who was picking up that fabric off the floor...???

I was a star-struck fan at EXPO when I met her in 2010.

She signed all the Books I dragged along. plus a Siggy Square.

I will NEVER forget seeing her come down the aisle in the Expo Tent pulling strips out of her sleeves.  That was her "Still Stripping after 25 years" Show. 

How excited was I to see her last year at Road to CA!!!?

I missed seeing her this year by one DAY.

Today I got the email that my Pattern Book to go along with the Webinar is on it's way.

There's a Facebook Group just for this group too!

I'm just a little excited.

Easy to get me excited, huh??

My "Name Dropper" reputation is showing...

Saturday Stitching -

I pushed myself to get some Blocks made.

I sewed til I couldn't stay sitting up anymore.

It's Spelling Bee Saturday and I've been spelling all week.
Cutting out when I couldn't go downstairs and Sew.

This banner has a 12" Telephone Block

and 6" Letters

I made a red 12" Telephone, too.

It just clashed with the pink-y dot fabric in the Hello.

 These 2 cute blocks are 6"
There's some Elvis fabric in the Red one.

It took a while but I finally thought of a good thing that starts with "Nn"

What would I do without Needles??
I have to check in to see if anyone has signed up to make Banners with me next Friday.
I hope the coughing is gone by that time.

The next 2 blocks are from the
2017 Designer Mystery

Pat Sloan's 2018 Block of the Month is called 

"Let's Go Camping"

This is the February Block 

'Around the Campfire'

I'm using STASH again for my blocks.

I need to make the January Block still.

I didn't get to go to the Quilts of Valor Sew-in after-all.
This cough is just too bad at times.
Monday is the Link-up for the Quiltville Mystery.
HURRAY!
I got it all ready for taking a picture outside & I'm ready for that post.
Come on back to see what I did to my version of the Mystery.