I'm Back With A Design Wall Monday Post

I certainly didn't intent to take a long blog break, I thought maybe a week or so but it turned into 3 weeks.  I don't know how consistent I'll be now but I'll give it a go today.

I've been putting blocks together!

Virginia Bound and Chunky Churndash leader/ender blocks.

(VB is in Scraps and Shirttails and CC is a free pattern on the Quiltville blog.)

I hope the next time (after the reveal at retreat) you see VB,

it will be a completed quilt.

That's my plan right now. 

In my last blog post I told you about getting sidetracked with these blocks.

I had planned to take these to retreat and work on them.

But my plans changed as I sewed and trimmed just a few more and a few more.

Pretty soon there were no more blocks to take to retreat.

Survivor was on so I grabbed the stack of blocks and an empty trash bag

and plopped myself down on the couch to watch TV and depaper.

On Saturday I got out the Go! Cutter and took care of a pile of scraps.

When that was finished, I decided to go ahead and get the blocks into

4s so I could sew my big blocks at retreat.

Bahahahaha,

I have several of them already sewn together.

I'm now hoping to reveal the finished quilt at retreat 

since I how have a new roll of batting and renewed energy.

We spent a couple weekends at the beach.

The beach always refreshes my soul.

I took along some fabric strips with a plan to cut and kit up some blocks.

I think there are 40 little blocks ready to go.

These will to taken to retreat.

Maybe. 😉

Now I'm headed over to check on what everyone else is working on at

Small Quilts and Doll Quilts Design Wall Monday.

Until next time,

Have a wonderful week.

Monday Mystery Link-Up and Design Wall Monday

Clue 2 was to make blue and neutral half square triangles.

While l was reading the clue, I started laughing!

Blue HSTs! 

I love them!!

Needless to say, my blue strip stash has now been almost depleted.

Good thing I just bought new blue yardage. 

In May, I finished Jamestown Landing. 

In August I used my Triangle Gathering blocks with neutral string blocks to make this top. 

I thought I'd be slick and use my brand new Go! die.

That bit me right in the keester!

The blades just made a mess of my fabric so

I got out my ruler and rotary cuter and cut the old way.

I was happily sewing along when I remembered I had a bunch already cut 

from the other quilts.

(Do you like my Dollar Store bin that I saved with red duct tape?)

I got that bin down and finished sewing those up.

I chose the ones I wanted and put the remaining ones in the bin labeled HSTs of this size.

Here is my final few ready to press and trim.

I've been using Chunky Churndash (Free pattern at Quiltville) 

as my leader/ender project 

and made a bit of progress on it this weekend.

Whenever I needed to take a break, 

I sewed a l/e seam.

Today I'm linking up with 

Quiltville-Monday Mystery Link-Up

and

Small Quilts and Doll Quilts Design Wall Monday.

Enjoy your day in Blogland. 

Design Wall Monday

I chased another squirrel! 

There is a super fun Block of the Month that started this month.

Eleanor Burns is doing Fun On The Farm.

Search for this group on your Facebook page.

 How stinkin' cute is block 1!

My piggie has a butterfly on her hip.

I cut more kits for my leader/ender project-Chunky Churndash.

The pattern is a freebie at Quiltville.

Sunday, 4 grands stayed while mom and dad went shopping.

We all had a super long, excited day Saturday so we were all pretty much a bunch of slugs.

Miss MaeMae sat out on the deck with me while I cut some fabric.

I needed to cut more diamonds for my Antique Start project.

I love the chatty chats that we have.

Talking about the new school year, going to a new school but with her same friends,
 how she misses her friends and how excited she is to meet her teacher.

How much she will miss summer vacation and

 how excited she is to take band and learn to play the clarinet.

We talked about the quilt I made her and we sat out here doing the same thing.

The deck is a magical place where peanut butter and jelly picnics happen
and in depth conversations with tow people or 12. 

Saturday was the wedding of our youngest daughter and our newest favorite son in law Vern.

(Old joke, they are all my favorites. All 2 of them.)

Her sister and my other favorite son in law Mike hosted the wedding in their back yard.

Oldest daughter Jenny was able to come from Texas to celebrate.

It was wonderful having all my adult children together for this celebration.

It was a perfect day, my heart was overflowing. 

Head over to Small Quilts and Doll Quilts Design Wall Monday 

for lots of quilty inspiration.

Beware of the squirrels.

Design Wall Monday

I'm late, very late. I have a good reason.

It was hot here so on Thursday, we went to the beach.

Any excuse to go to the beach but this is the best one.

I finished up all the blocks that I was using for my leader/enders. 

These were the blocks for the Triangle Gathering quilt.

I mentioned last week that I had been thinking of doing Quiltville's Chunky Churndash.

It's one of Bonnie's free patterns.

I pulled out the strips I needed, sewed a while, cut a while.

I have several blocks kitted up ready for leader/enders while I work on the next project.

Ernie had volunteer to help our friend Bill put new windows in their house.

So he was gone for 2 days and I sewed on Wild & Goosey.

I forgot to take any pictures.

We took a drive last night because I wanted to see the sunset.

No sunset to be seen, it was soon socked in with fog

The across the street neighbors were putting a new roof on their house.

I was so nervous watching them up there. 

I felt it was my job to keep an eye on them.

So lots of knitting happened. 

This pair of socks was finished and the next pair started.

Today on the way home, I set a couple goals on these socks.

First was to get the ribbing finished before we got to the Rainier bridge.

I finished the last row as we crossed over into Oregon.

Then it was just plain knit, knit, knit.

Love Opal yarn. 

This colorway is Robin Hood.

I'm late to the party but I'm still linking up with

Small Quilts and Doll Quilts Design Wall Monday.