A New Lucky Stars Block

Early this year I signed up for a block of the month thingy.  It is the Lucky Stars paper piecing one by Don't Call Me Betsy.

I signed up for this because I love stars in quilts and it looked pretty simple. It is easy to do, but I had so much (project wise) going on that I kept not making my block of the month. So I created a folder and stuck all my PDFs in there for later. Now I'm trying to work my way through that folder, and I'm only finishing February's block... in August. Oh well, better late than never! As this quilt will be for my bed, there really isn't a deadline either. After so much sewing, I was feeling a little burnt out and haven't used my machine much since being back from Tennessee. A couple days ago I did pull it out to make a couple things for a baby shower though. I will post those after the baby shower actually happens! So here is my February block.

The color isn't showing up well, but I'm using aqua and gray for this quilt.

 

 

And here it is with the January block.

 

On another note, this last weekend, Linwood and I went to a Yankee's game. That has been his favorite team since he was a little boy, so how could I resist that (he had never been to one of their games before). I am not a baseball fan, but we had a good time and I got to sit by a kid that wasn't tiny and not annoying. Both good qualities when you sit by someone for 3 hours.

The Yankees won, so Happy Birthday Linwood!

 

Last, I've finally started the moving process. It's such a big thing that I don't really know how to start. I work in one room, only to find myself in another room doing something not related. How does that happen?! Anyway, this is going to be such a pain. A hot move in Yuma's August is not something that I ever wanted to repeat. However, I'm thankful that we have the opportunity!

 

Hope you all have a lovely Thursday :)

~Rachel

 

 

Nautical Quilts, Finally!

I've been wanting to share these FOREVER! However, I always want to let the people they are for see them first. So, now that the quilts are delivered, I can safely show you all!
These were commissioned by a relative who has two boys, one of them just arrived! She wanted to do a nautical theme for them and chose some fabrics for me to work with, and I LOVED them! These have probably been my favorites so far. I felt like I wanted to add a little something special to these, so I found some paper piecing patterns online. I used anchors, a pirate, and a ship! These took a while to do, but I like how they turned out. The pirate/skull doesn't show up too good in the pictures, but I really liked him! I bought all of my fabric from Hawthorne Threads. I really like ordering from them, and will continue to in the future.
I pieced these, and the quilted them on my Janome before hand binding them and adding an Ellita label. Navy, gray, and white with a touch of red is just a good combination! I even found some good pirate sticker to put on the box before I mailed them.
I. AM. A. NERD.
Anyway, without further yammering, here are the quilts!
~Rachel