Come along on a picnic!

Hello Everybody,

Welcome to my picnic. We are a simple folk, who live a peaceful life in the Sierra mtns of beautiful California. There's nothing fancy about us. Just down home cooking, playing in the dirt, and enjoying the beautiful wildlife around us. If that sounds like a good place to picnic, then come along.

This beautiful Black oak is one of many around the ridge. It's a favorite spot, the kids enjoy climbing it and it puts off good shade.

 

We had a nice little picnic here today. Sandwhichs, carrot sticks, apples, raisins, lemonade and home made cookies. Simply good food :)

I made an I spy type of quilt for us. (You can read a bit more about it here.)

The two middle kids especially, love going on a picnic. And playing I spy is always a fun game. 

Educational too ;)

 We play various word games or maybe bring a frisbee or ball with us. Unless we are picnicing at one of the various creeks or rivers around the area. Then it's all about the sand and the water. Which is one of our favorite Summer time things to do.

But today, here is another view of the beautiful little spot we are in.

My daughter enjoys making baskets, and she made us this picnic one (which needs a bit of a repair after today :)

 

Thank you Samm for a fun blog hop.

Thank you Mary, for being a great hostess.

And thank you all for coming along on our picnic. Don't forget to stop by and see the rest the picnic's on the hop today.

A Stitch in Time

Quilting in a Not Shell

Just Let Me Quilt

Creativity Amongst Chaos

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Strip easy quilt challenge

Hello Everyone!

Welcome, those of you coming over from the strip challenge. For those of you who don't know what that is, go on over the pieced brain and check it out.

My project is also my May goal for ALOYF (you can read about it here). I had these 20 strips leftover from a jelly roll.

I was making an I spy type of quilt and was trying not to have any duplicates. But thats means I didn't have enough squares to make a lap sized quilt, which is what I was shooting for. So I decided to add these strips to it.

Right after I started work on it, Denise emailed me about her challenge. So I figured it was meant to be. LOL

The border strip is a 12" left over strip I had, that I cut down into 3" strips.

Isn't this binding cute! I thought it would be fun to make a two color binding, as there is so much color in this quilt. And it used up more of those jelly roll strips!

I used 17 of the 20 strips I started with. And I have a 3 or 4 little pieces left over. YAH! Less scraps in my fabric bin.

Thank you Denise for a fun challenge.

Thank you Melissa and Shanna for your monthly challenge ;)


Dont' forget to go look at all the entries. And come back on June 3rd to see this quilt being used on the picnic blog hop.

Have a great day.

 
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ALOYF 2013 recap

Hello Everyone,

I want to thank Melissa and Shanna for such a fun year of goal setting!

 Here are the finishes I had for 2013. I didn't know about this fun event till March, so thats when I started. In order to qualify for the final year finishes prizes, you have to have 6 finishes and posted about them, over the year. I JUST made it!

March goal finish.





April finish.










 

June finish.






July finish.




October finish.




November finish.




And they are doing it all over again for 2014, it's a fun way to make a goal each month, and the prizes they give help to keep me on track :)

Now I need to think of a goal for January!

WIP....Thursday

Hello Everyone,

I missed out on WIP Wednesday, but as I have only been posting once a week, I'm putting it up today. It's hot here, again, but it will cool off again next week. Between the heat and the baby, I just haven't been doing much sewing.

I did manage to get some of my windmills together.

It needs a good bout with the iron ;) I am not real happy with it, but I hope it will grow on me, as I add the rest of it.

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In other news. I have entered my I Spy quilt in the weekly Show and Tell over at The Quilting Gallery.

Tomorrow, July 26th, you can go over to the Quilting Gallery and vote for your favorite "quilts for little people".

If you are coming over from the Quilting Gallery, I welcome you and hope you'll enjoy looking around. You can find out more about my I spy quilt here,and here

Enjoy all the lovely eye candy!

 

BQF... voting

Hello Everyone,

It's time to vote for your favorite quilt at the Bloggers Quilts Festival! Now thru May 30th. Head over to Amy's
and read all about it.

These are my two entries, entered in Baby quilts and Scrap quilts.

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I also wanted to remind you that starting Monday is It's all about Flowers blog hop. My day is May 29th. I have 2 projects to share with you.

Have a great day!

Bloggers Quilt Festival

Hello Everyone,

This is my first year of joining in the fun over at Amy's place. I do enjoy seeing all the beautiful quilts every year. So decided to jump on board this year, with my I spy quilt.

Those of you who read me often are probably sick of this quilt by now ;) LOL Welcome to those of you coming over from Amy's.

You can read more about my quilt/process here , here.
Here's the binding.

 

 My little guy really likes it :) In this picture you can see him lifting a flap. All the colored squares are flaps, and you when lift them up there is a color co-ordinated animal or vehicle. He loves both!

Measures: 60"x60"
Fabrics: Sunkissed, Ten Little Things, Chevron
Designed, pieced and quilted by me.

Thank you for stopping by, and thank you Amy!

April goal...MET!!

Hello Everyone,

Another gorgeous day for us here. Looks like our usual rainy April is giving us a break this year.

Woohoo!! I am happy to say, that my I spy quilt is finally, completely finished!!

I bound it with this cute, color fabric...sorry, I don't know what line it is.

Little man approved!

 

He thinks those flaps are fun.

 

Thank you Shanna and Melissa, this is great!

Now to figure out what my May goal will be!!

Have a great day.

 

April mid-month check in

Hello Everyone,

I'm checking in with Shanna and Melissa.



 I've finished quilting my I spy!! woohoo... now it just needs a binding.

I thought I'd show you what was in all those peek a boo tabs. Here's one quarter of the quilt. I love the big numbered blocks too.

Second quarter. I messed up and put two of the same fabrics side by side here.

Third quarter.

 And the fourth quarter.  I found one block upside down, when I was quilting. grrr. But I did not see any need to stop quilting, do some ripping, and turn it around.  Panel 10 was too large, it was twice as long. So I just cut the number out and added trucks around it, to make it a smaller size. It originally had trees on it.

Animals and vehicles. Isaiah loves both. Anything with an engine is dear to him. LOL

Have a great day!

WIP Wednesday

Hello Everyone,

What a gorgeous day it is here in N. California! The sun is shinning, it's warm and we have lots of things blooming :)

I am having a Saturday Special on the Forum next month for my Pats' Gems pattern. (More about that soon.) So I am 'testing' my pattern again, as is my good friend Pat.

Here I have my background fabrics cut and ready to go. I'm pairing them up with charm packs of Simply Color. I've had these charms for awhile, just waiting for a chance to get this pattern done up.

 

I'm also still plugging along, quilting my I spy, I am half way done! Woohoo!

Those are my two main projects this month. Linking up with Lee.

Have a great day,

Thanks for stopping by.

Dorian

April goal

Hello Everyone,

I hope Spring has sprung wherever you are...unless it's Winter in your neck of the world ;) We have RedBud's blooming and wild flowers starting to show their faces. I love this time of year.

I know you are all sick of hearing about my I Spy by now, but it's my April goal. I need to get it finished. Meaning, completely quilted and bound. Thats my goal!

And then I can concentrate on Grandma's 90th birthday present, which is also my project for our Birds blog hop on Sew We Quilt in May.

And work on my oldest son's quilt.

Linking up with QuiltStory today also.(Darn it! Sorry Quiltstory readers, I meant to link you to my March finish post, as it has more pictures of my I spy. You can find it here, if you want.)