Happy birthday, Kim!!!

Today is my Goddaughter, Kim's, birthday! That is a picture of Kim, DH Drew, and son Aiden! Aren't they a great looking family? I think so!!!

Love you, Kimi!!! I hope you have a wonderful day!!!

XOXO...

I know...shock of all shocks...me...blogging, 2 days in a row. Who woulda thunk it? LOL!!!

The last week or so, I've been working on some quilt blocks for the http://www.flickr.com/groups/bushfirequiltproject/ . This is spear headed by an American army wife, who is stationed in Australia. There are other quilt drives out there, but I thought...what a great thing for an American to do!!! They were asking for star blocks, in particular, the Maverick Star from Bonnie Hunter's site http://quiltville.com/maverickstars.shtml
...but they would take any star blocks. Good thing!

So...I decided to make some Friendship star blocks. See the stacks of squares ready to sew. And then..as you can see in the foto...I had the squares lined up wrong. Yes...I sewed them that way...didn't notice until I had the first two rows sewn together! Frog stitched about 4 rows, and then the middle row so I could fix the star points!



Here are the finished FS. 8 of the yellow and 12 of the blue.

Then, I decided to try to make the Maverick stars. The only thing they asked was that they have a light colored background. I could do that. Many on the site seemed to be brights, so went looking for brights in my stash so I could do these scrappy.



Once I got started, these were really fun to make. I finished 5 yesterday, and will pack these up and get them in the mail today or tomorrow.


So...if you are a quilter and have time to make a few of these, her goal is to have them by the end of this month. Since she has an APO for mailing in the States, it's a bit less to send. Or you could mail them to her directly in Australia. The mailing info is on the site.

Have a great day, and quilt till you wilt...

Sally

I know y'all are stunned that I'm blogging so again so soon! LOL!!!

When the DFW Quilt Gang got together for our holiday party, I gave each member a FQ of the black fabric with the flowers...with a challenge to make two blocks for a Project Linus quilt. Debi had hers done within a day or two...me, I'm a bit slower! LOL!!! Below, you'll see the blocks I've made...

Yes, I made 3...I was on a roll.

We are getting together for the Dallas Quilt show on March 14th, Saturday, and we'll pass our blocks off to Debi, and she'll assemble them into a top and quilt it for the group!

Brenda joined me again today at the quilt house, along with Ruth and Virginia. Carol stopped by for a bit to chat. It is so nice having the house to go to for sewing and meetings. I get so much done when I'm there!!

My friend Patty called while she was on her way home from work. She and I went to jr high/high school/jr college together. I was in her wedding, and we've managed to keep in touch through all of our moves, etc. She and DH Larry are now living here in northcentral TX...woo hoo!!! We're hoping to get together soon...

More later...

Quilt 'til you wilt...

Sally