Hardwood floor in den

There will be no sewing for me for awhile until we get the hardwood floor laid in our den and bedroom.  It is looking good though! 
I have finished Crazy Bet but my good friend Nancy is sewing the binding on for me.  When I get it back, I'll take pictures.

Making Lemonade!!

I have posted pictures of the first month's Ruffled Roses BOM that I am doing (from thequiltshow.com) and pictures of the little lattice pieces.  After I got ALL 112 of them made, I realized they did not measure 2-1/2" -- they measured just slightly over 2-1/4".  I was NOT going to make another 112 because to do so, I would have to draw my own pattern.  No matter how I tried to print it from The Quilt Show's web site, it always came out too small.  So I removed the two borders which were put on the first month, replaced it with a narrow blue border to make the lattice blocks fit and then added another narrow blue border to the outside of the lattice blocks.  I don't like it as well as I did with my focus fabric, but, hey, I didn't have to make another 112 little blocks!  These are the borders I removed.

To this with one blue border:

To this with the lattice border:

Now I'm ready for Month #3.  Hope it goes better than this months! 

My first month on The Quilt Show's BOM is finished!!  A few of my favorite things (NOT) to applique -- lots of leaves and berries!!!  This is what the first month looks like.

And this after part of the second month's portion:

I'm loving it!!  Now to do the paper pieced lattice borders.  You can't really see it, but I have added cording between the applique block and the red triangles in the blue.  Really adds to it.  I'll try to get a better picture later.
And I've gotten Crazy Bet pieced and on Matilda.  I'm auditioning how I want it quilted.  Either feathers or the curved cross hatching.  I am definitely doing curved cross hatching in the outer triangles but we'll see what I come up with for the brown borders.  I'm just going to SID around the baskets. 

Have a beautiful day!!

Another Beautiful Snow

What a beautiful snow we are having today!!!  This is our 5th snow this season and we usually may see one 1" snow per winter.  What a great day to stay inside and quilt!
Enjoy the pictures.  And, yes, Bruta, our boxer is now inside!!

Play day

I took today off to get rid of some of my stash.  I have finished all of my little baskets and didn't want to integrate the leftovers back into my stash, so I cut them up for other projects.  I am going to be taking a class taught by Bonnie Hunter in Jackson on March 5.  She is teaching the Pineapple Blossom.  I had lots of browns used in the basket quilt so thought I would do a scrappy brown pineapple blossom.  I now am ready for the class.  I probably don't have enough cut out but certainly have enough cut out that can be finished in the class.

Then I cut the remainder into two categories:  one in 2" strips to be used in a scrappy french braid quilt and the other to be used as half-square triangles in one of Edyta Sitar's patterns -- don't know which yet because I like all of her patterns and books. 

I don't use Edyta's triangle papers since I have Brenda Henning's Triangulations 2.0 and print my own.  I love that program!!! 

And I have two rows of my Crazy Bet quilt sewn together!!!!  Yeh!!! 

Yes, yes, yes!!  This has been a FUN day!!