There is Beer Here

 So one time, while shop hopping, I bought some beer fabric. I'm not sure why, but it's really cool looking fabric and my thought was to make a quilt for my Hubby's American Legion Bar to raffle off at their next fundraiser. Well, the bar closed so I'm not sure where this little pretty is going. 

All those little squares with funny beer sayings on them.

And I used a different quilting design-I like it! It's one of the built in designs on Freddie. 

And the back with more beer sayings. I like the back as much as the front!

It finished at about 60x65 ish, so a good cuddle on the couch size or a car quilt. 

Another finish, so I can start another one! And no more beer fabric!

And the nice weather has had this guy outdoors! He took his shoes off in the sand box and figured he was good to go.

I hope mama has his tetnus shot up to date!LOL!!!

He does love the swing, High gramma, high!

70th Anniversary Celebration

 So! We had a very busy day last weekend! We celebrated my parents 70th anniversary at the local library. It was a very nice time! We had so many old friends stop by to greet them. 

I made little M&M favors, and we hd a huge selection of cookies as well as punch and coffee and iced tea. I used a lot of old picturs to decorate the tables and everyone really liked seeing those!

It was a lot of fun. We then had a nice meal with our cousins afterwards. 

It was so nice to have baby sister Anita here from Cali and a super surprise to have our cousins from Florida come too! I was absolutely neglegent in taking pictures though.

I really don't know how I managed to not take a picture of the tables or my parents TOGETHER! 

Oh well, me and my sisters-thanks to my cousin being alert! 

The Blue Churn Dash Quilt

Well after all the drama with this vintage quilt top, I just took the best of the blue churn dash blocks and made one quilt. 

I chose a simple design for the quilting design, clovers. 

And wouldn't you know it, I look away for one second, and the foot gets caught on a block! I'll have to fix it later, I guess.

It really came out nice! 

These are some of the blocks that I didn't use.

I posted them on line and sold them for $20. Who would have guessed. 

The finished quilt looks good! 

I kept the original sashing, but added a new border on the outer edge. 

And then I used some of the other odd blocks on the back. 

I think the pieced backing seems appropriate. 

It's a good finish! 

 

Busy Working!

 SO, my parents 70th anniversary is coming up soon-we're celebrating on the 21st. SO I've been excavating old photos. LOTS of old photos.

I've mailed the invites, got a newspaper ad,  got the cookies ordered, the place reserved (Library next door) napkins, plates, centerpieces, table covers, cups, there's a lot to do! But it'll all work out, I'm sure!

This guy had his 1st grade music concert. He looks real excited doesn't he? 

And this guy is learning about PEZ candy. 

Deep Sigh

 So it's that tie of year... Taxes.....oh Turbo Tax I love you, but, dang it's time consuming!

Hubs wanted new seat covers for his car, but they came with one of them with no clips on it! I emailed the company, and asked them to send the ends that were not here and they did! I sewed them in place and the seat covers are great! But c'mon! Quality Control anyone??

This guy was helping me sew...yes, he's laying on the cutting mat writing in a notebook. 

Sunny Days.....

So, there was the I-80 Shopping Spree last weekend. I picked up some Sesame Street fabric-because I have a panel at home that I could finish out, and I got a couple of patterns. 

This pattern is going to be a challenge! I'll be fabric shopping for it, for sure!

But Here's Sesame Street! 

I just used the multiple muppet print on the top and bottom of the panel. 

The panel was in my stash from a few years ago...always good to finish a project, right?

Isn't that backing fabric cute? Love it! SO it was too cold to get pictures last week, so I went outside today-still pretty dang cold!!!

It's a little bit longer than I think it should be, but I'm pretty sure Dilly won't care.

Nice loopy pearl quilting design. 

And that cute backing! 

It was really fast to do this design on Freddie. 

And it was good luck that I had some blue that matched really well to use for the binding. And I have some Bert & Ernie fabric I can make pillow cases out of too!