Interruptions

It seems that four letter words keep interrupting my sewing. One four letter word is “WORK”. This week I have worked almost 60 hours in 5 days. I am not sure if I will go to work on Saturday and Sunday but I really need to. I don’t see an end to these 12 hour days for quite awhile. I just love the first week of school. NOT! It is no fun getting up at 3:30am unless you can look outside and see it snowing and know that school will be canceled.

It took me two weeks just to find time to sew the label on this sudoku quilt. I gave it to a wonderful friend of mine today. We have been friends forever and I thought she might like something special from me.

Forever Friends Are the Best!

I did finish this table topper tonight. It is a wedding gift that I need for tomorrow. There is nothing like waiting until the last minute.

Another four letter word is “CORN”. Ten dozen ears of corn to be exact. Looks like tomorrow will be freezing corn instead of sewing quilts.

Karen

Wind turbines

Last week-end we were driving to Amish country and off in a distance we saw many wind turbines. On the way home we decided we would drive closer to the turbines to get a better look. They were awesome! I had never seen so many. We really didn't know where these turbines were located because we never found a town. I have done some googling online and found out they are only an hour from my home. We just might have to make another trip to see them. According to the newspaper there will be over 300 of them.

Last week I also delivered this prayer quilt to a friend of mine who is going through chemo. If you look close you can see the prayer ties on the quilt. My friend was going to have a very routine test and they found cancer.

She loved it.

It is amazing what you can do with a simple honey bun.

Karen

Life Can Be A Puzzle

Has your life ever been a puzzle? You know where the pieces just don't fit together no matter how you turn the pieces? I have a great friend whose life is like that at the moment. I decided she needed a quilt. What better quilt pattern to make than Sudoku.











The baby heart quilt is finished. All 40 hearts are done. The quilt was mailed today. I hope my niece likes it.

Here is the quilt I made at retreat for my daughter for Christmas.

Shh! Don't tell!


"Be Attitudes"

This is two of the blocks of "Be Attitudes". There are 12 blocks. I definitely was grateful when the applique pieces was on the blocks. There is still many hours of work to finish them.

You can see retreat was very productive. Great friends, good food, and a power outage. I can't wait to do again next year.

Karen

Whoop Whoop Friday

Quilt Retreat - Quilt Retreat!!!!

I have my car packed, lots of projects and ready to sew all week-end. I hope to have lots of pictures to show next week.

I am still working on this baby quilt. I have about 10 more hearts to do. I need to get this finished because baby Marian has arrived.

I am out of here.

Karen

Hands2Help Quits Finished

Back in April 2011 I found Sarah's blog Confessions of a Fabric Addict and her H2H Challenge. I decided this would be a fun and rewarding challenge. My swap partner Shannon sent very fun fabrics to make these two great quilts. Thanks Shannon.



Quilt #1 is Happy Butterflies.






Here is a picture of the back of quilt #1.

Quilt #2 is Silly Monsters.

Here is the back of quilt #2.

The quilts will soon be on there way to Judi and Clint over at Green Fairy Quilts. Clint will be taking these H2H quilts to Romania. You should check out last year's quilts. Thanks Judi and Clint.

I wonder what everyone else has been doing. Let's stop over at Sarah's and see.

Blessings, Karen

Fireworks

Please remember the men and women in the military as you celebrate the fourth of July.

Kansas Trouble Block Swap - LBC

This month's winner requested tans, green & purple.

Here are all my mini charm 4-patches. I just need to finish putting hearts in all the solid blocks. One heart done and many more to go.

I hope everyone has booming week-end. I wonder what is happening over at Sarah's.

Karen

H2H Challenge Sunday

Today is Hands 2 Help charity quilt challenge check-in. My partner Shannon and I decided we would swap two sets of fabric. The first set of fabric Shannon sent has bright yellow butterflies on it. I used the butterflies for the center blocks. This quilt is finished. Here are pictures of the front and back.

Butterfly Happiness Quilt

Butterfly Happiness Blocks

You can see the back of the quilt on the left. It is a yellow background with blue flowers.

The second set of fabric Shannon sent to me has silly monsters on it. I have the top completed.

Silly Monsters Quilt

Here is a close up picture of the monsters. Aren't they cute?

I am going over to Sarah's to check the progress of H2H challenge charity quilts.

Karen