Dilly is Keeping Me Busy

 

This guy was over a while back and thought Rosie the robot vacuum wanted to play, so the chase was on!

He would have caught her too!

And starting to stand a little bit too!

I am becoming a Caitlyn Clark fan, so had to pick up some of the new fabric with her image on it! I kind of hate the color, it's obviously not authroized by the University of Iowa because the colors are off and the hawkeye images aren't the U of I hawkeye. I'll have to think about it a while before I figure out a quilt for it.

Dilly needs a sun hat, so I opened a book and got this pattern....

Looks pretty good! Then I did another one....

Pretty cute I think!

And I've been working on this project. On the All Iowa Shop Hops, on some years, they give you a little block for each store you visit. I felt like I needed to get them used up!

The shadow blocks look good with the mixture of  little squares from the shops. I've collected these for a few years. so let's go!

And of course, I was baby sitting the other day for the two youngest boys and had to go to Hy Vee.

They both were just perfect! Drew got M&Ms he was so good!

Then it was on to the library book sale at our local library.

THe train/building table was very popular with both of them!

And Dilly also enjoyed the toys on his level! 

So I think I'm almost caught up. Now to get some pictures of my latest finished quilt!

Snow and Fun

 So, I thought the snow was done, but we got about 3 inches on Friday-funny thing, as soon as it stopped coming down it started melting. I didn't even need to get the snowblower out!

On Tuesday, it was a really noce day and the big music concert for the big mask kids over in Washington.

Hailey is over there on the right-I don't think I got a good view of her.....

But there's Hayden right front and center, where he didn't appear to sing one single note!

Anyways the choirs all did a fine job. 

On Saturday I had to babysit at 1, but that gave me enough time to go to the Annual Shelter House Book Sale!

Look at the line to get in!

There was a good crowd and I got a bag full of books for kids mostly as well as a few video games and puzzles.

And like I said, I had to baby sit for Dylan, look at this cute series......

Ben came over at the same time Dannie was picking up Dylan, so I wanted a picture.....

But Dylan was just waaay to interested in Uncle Ben to look my way!

Odds and Ends for the Weekend

A local bar in our town is converting in to a restaurant, it's being called That Place..on Augusta. Crappy name in my opinion, but whatever. Anyways, I stopped in to see what was good. I ordered a breaded tenderloin. It was pretty good, not too thin, not too thick, very light breading, and the best part, to me anyway, is it's served on toasted Texas toast instead of a bun. Perfectly grilled toast-really a good thing. Also the fries are crinkle fries., always a better choice I think!.

DD and I popped over to the Kiwanis Antique Show & Sale at the fairgrounds on Friday afternoon. I've never seen a flour sifter collection before. 

One of my favorite rulers....

And I bought a picnic basket, I don't have one like this. Then on Saturday morning I went to the Shelter House Booksale. This annual event is a big deal. It benefits the local Shelter House and attracts a huge crowd. 

I had to laugh at this one.......

I got a few good quilter/craft books

and a small pile of books for various kids. I love to have books around for any occasion. 

I also finished a festive little project for Easter.  I picked up this pattern at the I-80 quilters shopping spree a few weeks ago. 

This little bunny table runner is just right on top of the desk. 

Easter will be here before we know it! And I'm on my last week at work! Retirement, here I come!

 

Books & A Finish

 

Last weekend was the Shelter House Book Sale. It was a really BIG sale this year, since it was cancelled last year...covid ya know.

SO many books! And puzzles and records and movies too!

Going to a book sale is always a wonderful thing I think. This one is for a good cause, Shelter House, which helps folks in crisis to find homes.

I got some video games and a few puzzles for Bean.

I got a cookbook for Hubs, 

and look what I got!  A copy of Lori Holt's Spelling Bee quilt book! It's a $35 book! For $3

A very good haul from the book sale. And here's the finish for this embroidered star quilt. 

I had been trying to make up my mind about what to do with the borders, but jeepers...a year later?!?!

I just did a few swooshey free motion ribbon0ish passes and called it a day!

See where I used a washable Crayola Marker to mark the lines I wanted to stitch? I was a little bit worried if they would really wash out.

Well they did, see? Before....

and after!

I'm so glad to have this quilt finished. I started it before COVID! It's been taunting me from the desk for a long time!