WIP Wednesday

I have several things going right now.  

I'm working on some bridal shower gifts and 

trying to get my The Splendid Sampler blocks caught up.  

I spent a lot of time on this paper pieced block on Saturday 

(when I should have been in the garden weeding)

I think the resultant block turned out well though!

Hubby and son were out fishing on Saturday and since he does most of the cooking I decided to cook.  I made some chicken pot pie. 

 I use broccoli as my kids don't like peas.  

Kicker is that they are no longer at home and hubby likes peas better, but I love the broccoli!  

I decided to embroider some "Kitchy" kitchen towels for the bridal shower as part of my gift.  

I did get this one teapot finished, but have 3 more to do.  

There are black stripes down each side of the towels. 

 Their kitchen theme seemed to be black and white, so I thought these would be fun!

I also madea pair of oven mitts.  I love that the dots have faces!

I lined the mitts with white polka dots on black, so cute!

I also got the last round of my bee blocks finished.  So I guess that is not a WIP but the bee is a constant WIP!

Now I just need time to finish the embroidery on the last towels.

Quilt Fox Face quilt for the next baby.

Assemble the Little Birdie quilt and get that quilted.

Just a few balls in the air.

Linking to Let's Bee Social

~XOP~

My Wild Weekend

What a crazy weekend we had at my house this past weekend!  

On Saturday night my husband got a bad nose bleed and it would not stop. 

 I won't go into gross detail but we ended up at urgent care on Sunday

 followed by the ER on Monday.  

I think we finally got things under control but there will be a trip to the ENT tomorrow. 

 He is not on blood thinners nor is his BP high, so not sure what the deal is, but it seems like we have finally stopped the bleeding, for now.

I did manage to get a few things done over the weekend and some of the Splendid Sampler blocks were on my "to do" list.  

Here are my blocks that I have not shown so far.

Changed the bear into a cat (of course)

Back stitched and left off the crochet hook

Wow, this was a lot of little pieces

Loved this star

This block was seagulls.  I just did not want to put seagulls in my quilt so I drew these birds.

I think I will make a pattern up with them, what do you think?

These bunnies were a bonus block and I love how they turned out!

I was pretty happy with this one also.

I am still 2 blocks behind, but I hope to catch up this week. 

 It is challenging to make 2 blocks per week.  

It doesn't sound like much but you can get behind rather quickly.

  I also have my 2 bee blocks to make and various and sundry shower gifts to begin on.

I had a new great niece born on Saturday and have a chenille blanket and a quilt ready for her.  Another great niece/nephew due in May.

  I have that baby's chenille blanket finished and the quilt is ready for me to quilt.

I have to get cracking on the wedding shower gifts.  

I ordered the most hilarious fabric to make oven mitts with today.  

Hoping it comes soon!

  It seems the colors for the kitchen are black and white 

so I found this fabric by Cotton and Steel to use.

  I am going to try to embroider some dish towels and then use glass paint to paint the bottom of a Pyrex casserole dish with their last name on it. 

 Those will be the shower gifts.  Their quilt goes to the quilter tomorrow.

Baby shower at the end of the month, I have the chenille blanket finished.  

I started a quilt for them this weekend.  It is a girl so that makes it easier to choose a pattern.  

What are you working on?

~XOP~

Easter Weekend

I hope that if you celebrate Easter you had a great day!  

We were having a small celebration with 2 of my three children. 

 Every year I make a dessert and every year my husband doesn't like what I make.  

So this year I decided to make a pineapple upside down cake.  

I was nervous about making one as I had never done it but the directions seemed easy.

  I wish all those folks on IG that said their mom or grandma used to make them would have shared their recipe, but I found mine on the internet.  

This is what it looked like in the cast iron pan before I turned it out onto a plate.

This is what it looked like after I turned it onto the plate.  

It was really pretty. 

 I know now why my husband likes it so much. 

 This cake was more the consistency of angel food cake.  

Are they all like that?  

I prefer a more dense cake, he likes light and fluffy. 

 If anyone has a favorite recipe for this I would love to try yours!  

Here was our spread minus the cheesy potatoes, which were in the crock pot on the counter.  

Main meal was ham, cheezy potatoes, Caeser salad and rolls, supplemented by spinach artichoke dip, cheese and salami, deviled eggs, assorted relishes, veggies and dip and some chips.

I managed some sewing time and got another Splendid sampler block completed.

I also got my March bee blocks completed.  

These might be fun to make in Tula fabrics.  

We were to use navy and low volume.  I chose some navy Tula and of course my Pearl Bracelets.  

I have to pop these in the mail tomorrow.

My cat, Hallie, who never gets on my sewing table thought it would be fun to join me.

She is kind of like a ball with legs.

I'm glad she is liking to spend more time near me lately.

They are not getting any younger!

I hope everyone out there enjoyed their weekend!

~XOP~

Quilt Retreat Weekend

This past weekend was AWESOME!  

I got to spend an entire weekend with my DAM girls and my SIL at a quilt retreat. 

 We went to Creative Passions 3 in Chesaning MI.  The venue was so nice!  

There was a quilt shop about a block away too.  

We drove to another one in Carson City and they called me a little while ago and 

I won a $20 gift certificate from them!!!

My SIL and I have been trying to find some time to hang out together and quilt. 

 This was absolutely perfect!

The first night we went out for dinner we found ourselves at the corner of Lincoln and Broad.

Clearly we found this hilarious (My last name and her maiden name are Lincoln)

I see I look gigantic in this photo but I had a fleece sweater on under my coat.

We worked hard and we played hard.  There was a really nice quilt shop about a block away. 

 Of course we had to visit that shop too. 

 It was called the Silver Thimble.  

The owner's mom was running things as the owner was out recovering from surgery. 

 She was a riot!

They had the cutest quilt kits with Gabby and Friends.  

One was a quilt kit and one was a jammies kit.  I

f you have not seen these books you should look for them.  

There is a doll and bear too.

Seven Sisters quilt in Carson City was nice also.  

Since it was national Quilt Day, there were discounts!  

YAY for sales!!!  

There was also a tea being held in the classroom building out back.  

This wonderful man, Paul, had his barn art on display and for sale.  

Pretty reasonable prices too.

I loved this one the most.  It was about 18" x 18".  I would do different colors though.

Lest you think all I did was shop, I did manage to get this Splendid Sampler block finished.

I also got all of the HST blocks for the wedding quilt made, and trimmed!  

There was no design wall 

(actually there was but we didn't find out until we were getting ready to leave on Sunday), 

so I figured I could play with the blocks at home.

 I finished 2 more things but will show you those on Friday 

so I can sign up with all the finish it up websites.

How was your weekend?  

It was really difficult to be back to work today!

~XOP~

The Splendid Sampler

Are you playing along with the Splendid Sampler?  

It is 100 FREE blocks designed by various quilt designers.  

It is put together by Pat Sloan and Jane Davidson.  

You can find all the information on the website here.

I have decided to join in on the fun. 

 I have 6 of the 9 posted blocks completed.  Thought I would share with you!  

Stop back tomorrow for the winners of my giveaway.  Also for a chance to win again!
Linking up to Let's Bee Social

~XOP~