Flower Block

The Queen Bee for May for the South Florida Modern Quilt Guild Bee is Charlotte.  She requested a flower block so she can create a flower garden quilt to hang above her sliding glass doors.  I finished my block today and I think it's my favorite so far!  I used a folded fabric technique to make some of the flowers and even crocheted centers for two of the flowers to give more texture to the block.

Here are some close-ups of the flowers.  I even stitched on the leaves to make them look more "leafy".

It's been a busy week....

To catch up a little, last week I finished up the tumbler quilt that will be gifted to my friends first grand-baby.  Her name is Sophia Grace and I found the perfect backing fabric for this quilt.  The quilt was very easy to make since I used two die-cut tumbler packs that I purchased from Keepsake Quilting a few years ago.









I spent the week making cake pops for a friendly bake-off at work.  One night I baked the cake, the next formed the balls and finally another night spent coating the cake pops.  It was fun to try but a bit of a pain in the a$$, so I probably won't be making them again but I did end up winning second place!!



This weekend I spent some time in the sewing room and made a pincushion for the May swap at the South Florida Modern Quilt Guild meeting.  I used the Giant Pincushion pattern.





I also made a bit of progress on the May block for the Quilting Bee.  Charlotte is this month's Queen Bee and she wants to create a flower garden out of our blocks.  I thought I would try to do the folded flowers from the book "Fantastic Fabric Folding".  After a few failed attempts I managed to make two flowers.  The trick I found was to use the iron to crease as finger pressing just wasn't cutting it.  I'll post a picture of the completed block soon.

I love Tuesday Morning!

I went to Tuesday Morning today to see if there was any new treasure to find.  I couldn't believe what I was lucky enough to score!

A fat quarter bundle of the Happy Go Lucky collection from FreeSpirit fabrics for only $13.99!!



And a 6" charm pack of Westminster fabrics solids!!



One Tuesday Morning down, now only about 5 more in the area to check out.....(maybe)

Project Linus Quilts

Last Saturday my quilt guild had a special sewing day at the local library to make quilts for the Project Linus charity.  I managed to piece three quilt tops that day.  Since today was such a rainy day, I worked on finishing the quilting and binding on the quilts.  It gave me a chance to practice my free motion quilting.





And my favorite:



I completed the April block for the $10 quilt at StitchCraft.



And also finished the April block for the South Florida Modern Quilt Guild Bee.  Sue was the queen bee for April and wanted a block done in blues.  Her block is on the bottom and I made an extra block for me.



On the knitting front, I finished the Riverbank Road vest pattern by Amy Swenson.  I made the 34" size and used just one skein of sock yarn!!  I made this for my youngest niece and hopefully I'll have a picture of her wearing it.



I've also been working on the Gilet court d'été sweater.  I'm knitting from my stash and am using Wisdom Yarns Poem yarn.  I'm not too happy with the consistency of the color between the different balls, it's all the same dyelot but each ball has been a different intensity.  I cast on more stitches then called for to try and make it a little larger.  I think it worked.  I have about 10 more rows to go before I put the sleeve stitches on holders and begin the body.  This will be a nice little sweater for work when the A/C freezes us out.

Yellow Roadster

Today I finally finished the Ritenour hat for "Bubba" to wear on the cold nights when he's cruising in his roadster.  I told Bubba I'd make this hat for him about two years ago when we were at a fundraiser cruise in in Pompano Beach on an unusually cold January night.  Bubba is such a sweet southern gentleman that it was my pleasure to make this for him.  The hat was a fun and easy knit and hopefully my DH will like it so I can make him one.

The hat:



The roadster: