August Schnibble Done!!

(Go HERE for previous post’s givaway!)

I really enjoyed making the Schnibble for this month.

I’ve not pieced sashing before so it was a new experience!

A really fun one!  Woo hoo!

I made it from the “School Days” collection from American Jane.

So, it fits right in with my September school décor!

Yogi loves it, too!!

There’s not a quilt anywhere he doesn’t want to get up on!!

I like to take the photos out on the deck in natural light, and he loves to snooze out there!!

Do you like the black rickrack and star buttons I added?

I wanted some new school themed throw pillows for my couch and two chairs in the family room…

so, I took some teacher tote bags I had for years and ripped them apart,

backed them with some fun teacher prints from my stash and made 4 pillows!!

Yogi wants to know what you’ve been up to lately???

Celebrate Back to School Days - Quilter's Blog Hop Party

Michele Foster, over at the Quilting Gallery, is hosting a
“Back to School Days
      Blog Hop Party”
from August 26th-September 3rd!
There are tons of blogs registered to participate in the hop and all are having giveaways, including me!



So, what am I giving away??



Nope!  NOT my Yogi!! 
But, how about this wonderful quilt book…



and this fun Autumn fabric panel??



To enter my giveaway, first you must be a follower of my blog, then leave a comment and tell me you are a follower and share your favorite Back to School memory- and I will ship internationally!! 
Winner will be randomly chosen on September 3rd at 9 pm!
Click on the Blog Hop Party button above on my side bar to visit the list of participating bloggers!! 
Let’s hop!!

Great Granny’s Marmalade

I finished my Great Granny Quilt-a-long quilt top last month…

but just quilted it yesterday and finished the binding today at bee!!

I am so glad I decided to use my Marmalade jelly roll for this online quilt-a-long.

I think it has such a nice vintage feel to the prints that goes so well with the look of the granny blocks!!

And instead of the white background that is everywhere these days, I used an ecru Kona, which also looks more vintagey, don’t you think?

And this afternoon, while photographing it out on the deck, Yogi wanted to get into the act, too!!

He soooo needs to be groomed!!

I don’t like it when I can’t see his big brown eyes clearly!!

But he soooo H. A. T. E. S. getting groomed, that I wait as long between appointments!!

I’ve got all the sashing pieced and trimmed for this month’s Schnibble, Dime Store, so will be working on that tomorrow!!  Really REALLY liking this new design from Carrie!! 

I hope the backing fabric I ordered online for it, comes in really soon!!
Whatcha working on this week??

Back to School!!

I’m talking about my new quilt named “Back to School”, not that I’m going back to school! 

This will be my first fall in 34 years that I’m NOT going back to school!!  YESSSSSS!!

Love,  LOVE,  L. O. V. E.  being retired!!  Soooo wonderful!!

But, do want some new school themed quilts to put out every September with all my collected teacher memorabilia.

This pattern was one of those free flyer patterns given to me  with an online fabric order.

It was supposed to be made with an autumn themed panel, but I just loved the apples, so I just used a cute vintage school print from Susan Branch for the centers of the blocks where the fall panels were to go.

Well, The Queen Mother (aka my Handiquilter Sweet 16 Sit Down machine) is not in my little sewing room- it is across the hall in our home office.

I took Yogi’s bed off my sewing table and brought it in that room… but he does not like it in there on the floor.

He would rather just lay on the floor in the hall at the top of the stairs.

I  used some red stash fat quarters to make the apples.

And some of the many school themed prints for the rest!  And I still have plenty left for a few more quilts!!

I’m thinking of using my Accuquilt GO! and the tumbler die to make a quilt with the smaller school fabric scraps!

Isn’t that backing fabric cute??

I’ve got my granny square quilt all pin-basted and ready to quilt…

but I’m half way done piecing Dime Store - the August Schnibble pattern… so will probably finish the top and then quilt the granny square quilt while I’m waiting for the backing fabric to come in the mail!!

What sewing are you doing this weekend??  Something fun???

Busy on the Beach!

Of course, you are thinking this means I am on vaca at some beach, right?  Soooo  W R O N G !!!

I have been busy working on a beach quilt!!  “Sunset Beach”!

I saw an awesome beach photo online and decided it was just the view I wanted for a wall quilt for my son and his girlfriend’s apartment.

My oldest son, A.J., just turned 30!!!  Man, am I getting so very OLD!!!

So, I made him this quilt for the bedroom as their comforter and shams are black!

I also made 2 reversible batik throw pillows. One side black and bright batik nine patches and

the other side a really pretty black and orange print batik… so they can use both sides!!

And I made them a little orange batik fish pillow with fat black rickrack!!

I think they both liked it all!!  Now, it’s on to making a Back to School apple quilt to put out next month!!

What are you working  on?

Yogi’s working on his tan!!  LOL!!