The bunnies say, "Happy Easter to you!" Instead of Easter eggs, they're hunting for hearts, and there's a basketfull.
Little Penguin Quilts Through the Year
Saturday, March 30, 2024
Slow Sunday Stitching
Friday, March 29, 2024
Scrap Happy March
And the Table Scraps Challenge...
March has been purple month for the RSC, and I started with these purples on my table.
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
I Like Thursday #381
Snow on Sunday into Monday...
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Midweek Update
Having nothing important on my sewing To Do list this week, I decided to play with the 2.5 inch squares from my Little Penguin Scrap Bin. I started making four patches out of them last fall, and have used some of those in other projects already.
Saturday, March 23, 2024
Spring Stitching
This week I finished up the Spring Stamp from Melisa so that I now have one for each season!
Friday, March 22, 2024
A little more with purple...
This week I finished up the alternate nine patch chain block in purple to go with the patchwork heart. I had made the nine patches earlier in the month as leader/enders, so it was pretty quick to cut the background pieces and sew the whole thing together.
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
I Like Thursday #380
Good Morning! Happy Spring! Last Thursday we got about 8 inches of heavy, wet snow. Mostly melted now, but still a little bit left. This was how things looked on my Sunday afternoon walk.
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Stay at Home Round Robin 2024 - my finish!
It has been another fun few months of sewing along with the Stay at Home Round Robin group, lead by Gail of Quilting Gail! Thanks to Gail and the other hosts for lots of ideas and inspiration throughout the weeks of the QAL.
This is my fourth year participating, and the third year in a row starting with an embroidered block as my center. Since my 2023 SAHRR was made in all cool blue and white, I decided to do something completely different this year and use warm reds and yellows, with a white for the background, as my color choices.
quilt-along always challenges me in a variety of ways, and this year has been no different.
Saturday, March 16, 2024
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
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I'm not Irish, but I do love green! Today seems like a good day to stitch with green, so I'll be adding leaves to the tree on my March heart design from PinkernPunkin.
Friday, March 15, 2024
Bits and pieces of purple...
In between starting a new project - the Pieces of My Heart QAL at Melva Loves Scraps - and working on finishing up my Stay at Home Round Robin (quilt parade starts soon!) I did sew with some purple scraps this week!
Two purple Hollow 9 blocks were hand-pieced to go along with the two red ones from February. I still need to stitch some green ones, too. This is definitely going to be a long term project!
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
I Like Thursday #379 - Flowers
Here is my flower garden in March! It's still needing the Spring clean-up, but things are starting to grow - like tulips and grape hyacinths.
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Midweek Update - a new start!
When Melva of Melva Loves Scraps announced her new QAL - Pieces of My Life - I was intrigued by the idea of sewing the story of my life into a quilt! Since I will be turning 70 this year, it feels like the right year to take on a project like this. And this week we're getting started! Check out all the details at the link above if you're curious about it, too.
I am the oldest of four - three girls and a boy - and was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in 1954, when my dad was in the Navy. When I was about two, my parents moved to Rochester, New York, where we lived until I graduated from high school. My parents both grew up in Iowa, where their parents were also born and lived their whole lives.
This photo is of my mom and me when I was two years old. Can you see my very curly hair?
Saturday, March 9, 2024
Slow stitching for this Sunday...
Over the last year or so, since I started cross-stitching, I've made some of Melisa's little stamp designs that are for each season.