Keeping Busy

I’ve been working on my Schnibble for Otober- Hubble.

I used Moda/Kate Spain’s  “Terrain” collection.

I really love how it’s turning out!!

I hope to get it all pin basted tonight, and quilted tomorrow!

Here are my bee friends and I at my son’s wedding 2 weeks ago!

This Saturday, our bee for October will be at my house!! 

And Yogi is so excited!

I’ve made my dear friends some cute Halloweenie things for little bee gifts, from this awesome book!!

I LOVE this little project…too fun!!

I’m still deciding what to make for bee lunch!!

A soup and salad??  Any suggestions??

October Doings…

We had a wonderful trunk show and lecture last week at our local quilt guild meeting by Bonnie Hunter of Quiltville.com fame!

She is a fun speaker

who shows amazing scrap quilts

and shares many tips

and tricks for saving

and organizing quilting scraps.

One of my favorite quotes from Bonnie is that “if the fabric scrap is still ugly, you’ve just not cut it small enough!”

I was lucky enough to get into her class the next day,

for her new Jamestown quilt from her newest book- String Fling.

I cut and prepared green red and a few pink scraps to make my version of her pretty Jamestown quilt (shown below) into a Christmas quilt.

So, what do you do when you discover that your planned project is not to your liking…whether from the colors you chose or the process itself?

I have lots of time invested in selecting those fabrics and then cutting the squares… so, I put together the string blocks with the broken dishes blocks and made this cute little table mat.

I also love the backing fabric, and will have lots of places I can use this in my house at Christmas.  I named it “Jamestown Christmas” as it is Bonnie’s design.

And I still had LOTS of half square triangle blocks, so I put them together into another small table mat that I named “The Elf’s Blankie”,

also with a fun backing, and it will come out for Christmas decorating, too!!

I just have to share this photo that Bonnie took at class of me holding my pillow, made HERE, that she had posted on Facebook a while back!!

Sooooo, whatcha working on these days??

Happily Ever After

My younger son, Anthony was married this past weekend in Pittsburgh, to his beautiful soul mate, Leah!

What an AMAZING wedding!!

(Notice the quilt on the altar!!)

And a wonderful weekend!!

Trying to catch up on some sleep and get back into the swing of things here at home!!  Have had several batches of family visitors this week after getting back home… and will be going to guild tonight to hear speaker Bonnie Hunter, and will be taking a class with her tomorrow!! So I gotta get my supplies and fabric collected and some pre-cutting done today!!

Yogi is very happy to be back home from boarding at the pet hotel!!

Hope you are enjoying this cool fall weather!!!  I sure am!!