Vacation Time!

Well, I’ve been busy the last week and a half and I’ve been neglecting my blogging…..Had a very nice Easter, we had a house full for dinner after a very good church service. I’ve also worked some overtime so didn’t have lots of spare time this past week. The wonderful news is that this coming week is VACATION time! I’m planning on doing lots of sewing and then at the end of the week, we’re going to Kansas City to visit our daughter and her husband. I’m ready to see them and hopefully stop at a few quilt stores when we get there.

I’ve become obsessed with hexagons. I made an Aunt Grace’s BOM and I had to make about 8 hexagon flowers for it. By the time I’d finished the last one I was hooked, and thought it would be a good idea to make a quilt with them and use lots of my fabric scraps. I started making them in my spare time about 3 weeks ago, and evidently I must have lots of spare time because the total count so far is up to 100 hexagon flowers. I’m cutting out hexagons from card stock and you can print them from many different websites on line. I’m using 1” hexagons and have pretty big plans for this quilt, I’d like to  do some hand applique in the borders of this one, ideas for this one are swirling around in my head, by the time I’ve made enough hexagons, I should know more what I’m going to be doing to finish this quilt.

I‘m also a huge Nebraska Husker fan and I found this fabric and thought this is just perfect for me. Don’t know if I’ll actually use the Husker ‘flower’ in my quilt, but I just might not be able to resist! GO BIG RED! I like the other ‘word’ flower too, it will be in the quilt for sure. 

I’ve finished my Patriots in Petticoats BOM and I’m glad to see the end of that one. It’s about 100x100 when finished so it’s going to my friend Kelly Kreft in Colorado to be quilted. It’s just too big for me on my domestic machine to try and free motion quilt. I think I’m so tired of this one I don’t even like it anymore. Hopefully when it’s quilted I’ll fall in love again!Since we’re going to KC to visit my daughter, I was going to make a good try at getting her Retro Flower quilt done. I ran out of white fabric and only need one more 6” strip for the top border. I can’t find any within an hour distance of here. I meant to stop in Norton at the quilt store and get some on Friday, but completely forgot until I was almost home. Every other quilt shop is out of the true white. I guess that means it will have to wait another week or so.

My big project now is the Primitive Garden BOM from Primitive Gatherings. I got the first one in the mail about 10 days ago and I just started working on it this weekend. My goal is to get all the pieces on the block before we head to KC, so I can do the hand work (blanket stitching) while on the road. It doesn’t look like much yet, but hopefully I’ll have it done by the end of the week. I think this one will be lots of fun.

Happy quilting,

Kris

P.S. I’ve also become addicted to Pinterest the last couple of weeks! I’ve gotten too many new quilt ideas….Not  enough time in my  lifetime to do them all!