4SQS-MONO Received from Australia!

Here's that gorgeous little quilt I was telling you about yesterday that came to me from Jackie in Australia!

We participated in the Four Seasons Quilt Swap - Monochromatic challenge. And boy did I luck out.

We gave 2 color suggestions and a season to our mystery swap person. One of the colors I gave was green, and my season was Spring.

Here's a little detail:

The centers of the daisies are three dimensional and beaded. And check out all those little strips making up those cute little long cabin blocks. I love all the different greens Jackie used. Her work is just lovely!

Thanks Jackie! It is a treasure. And many thanks to Margaret for organizing this fun swap challenge!

March Updates

The Sailboat quilt sailed off to it's new destination on Monday. I'm so happy with it. Except for that boat that's bottom center. Not good contrast there. Oh well. Once I made it, I didn't want to leave it out. I like the one next to it, the one that's going the opposite way from the rest of the boats. The full picture is for Trisha.

Here are the ATC (Artist Trading Cards) that Miss K Designs received from the swap she participated in. She really enjoyed receiving these in the mail from all over: Dubai UAE, Ohio, Australia, Germany, and Missouri!

Here's a peek at our football quilt we're making for a school fundraiser:

The blocks have actually been colored and the kids helped sew colored strips of fabric around each block. It was really fun to go to the school with my machine and have the kids try sewing for the first time (for most of them). They did a great job, and found out it wasn't as hard as they thought it was going to be! I'll take some pictures and post them soon.

I received an awesome package all the way from Australia, my 4 Seasons Quilt Swap Mono quilt from my partner....Jackie!

I'll take some pictures of it tomorrow and post them. All I can say is, it's AWESOME!!!

4 Seasons Quilt Swap - Mono

Our challenge was to make a monochromatic quilt.  It could have an accent color, and had to be between 16x16 and 20x20.  Mine is titled "Dutch Windmills."  It is 20x20 and is on it's way to it's new owner.

   I hope my partner will like my creation.  I love the little bees on the tulips and the combination of the blue and yellow.  I had been wanting to try this pattern out for a while.  I like how it tessellates.  I'm sure I'll be making it again sometime! I want to try it with all different colored windmills / cartwheels / whirligiggles (just some of the names I've seen for this pattern).

Soggy

Got a two mile run in this morning with J. He enjoys mountain biking much more, but it was fun to show him where I run and to do it with him. He was nice and ran my speed. We were lucky and it didn't rain, but it's been raining on and off ever since.

A few days ago J ran with my oldest. Now THAT was definitely a work out for him. He over did it trying to keep up with Speedster.

It's a rainy day, so we haven't been able to do the things we would usually on a day off. No geocaching, biking, or playing outside.

But my oldest did go and get his swimming merit badge today in this crazy weather, I think the rain stopped just for him. Anything to get out of doing it at the Merit Badge Jamboree I guess. Thanks Tom and Justin!

And we had some friends over to play.

Meanwhile I've been doing a little sewing today. Here are some parts to a little quilt for a swap. Can't show much more than this yet. But it's coming together nicely.