Couple More Things

I finished my Dissapearing Nine Patch awhile back, Made a lung cake for class and made my dog a birthday cake this past Sunday :-)

BIG UPDATE

Sorry for the HUGE absence but school has been CRAZY this year leaving little time for anything else. I havent done a swap in forever *cries*. I have managed to get a few things sewed however so here they are.

For this quilt each class member gave me a piece of fabric that represented them. They also made a corresponding scrapbook page that included a square of the fabric they chose. I took them all and sewed this quilt for my friend Sara who is due very soon with her first daughter Brooke.

Pillowcase Dress For My Friend Kate's Oldest Daughter

Pillowcase Dress For Same Friend's Youngest Daughter

Itty Bitty Baby Dress For Sara's Daughter

Comforter And Pillowcase For Alden's Thomas The Train Bed

2 More Done Today

One left to go and I'll be done for this swap!

For KRB:

For Me:

1 More Block Done Today

This block is for Ritapizza. Enjoy!

LQ4 Received Blocks

These are the blocks I have received so far from the Craftster LQ4 swap. Very nice!

From Gordongirl:

From KRB:

3 More Blocks Done

I finished 3 more blocks today for the LQ4 swap.

For Klum78:

For 1b1g1k2:

For Gordongirl:

New Projects

Here are my 5 completed blocks for the LQ4 swap over at Craftster. Only 7 more to go!

For Sandy Bradley:For Laural:For Audrey1999:For Whoopdedoo_5:For Glittergirl94:

And we finally put the soil and grids in the veggie gardens! Woo! I finished up the trellises today for the climbing type veggies. The trellises are along the back 2 beds. I will post a pic tomorrow with them up. I also planted some sugar snap peas, yellow onions, and nasturtium flowers. Waiting on my tomato seeds, pepper seeds, and tomatillo seeds. I have strawberry plants coming as well. Im excited! We'll see how it goes....or grows:-)

UPDATES

I have been a slacker at this AGAIN but I have many things to post soon. I have to charge my camera and I will upload some pics of projects.

Square Foot Gardens

Well we dug up the old messed up vegetable garden and revamped it into four square foot gardens. They look awesome and I cant wait to plant some things and see how it goes. We still have to make the soil mix and Im killing myself looking for vermiculite. Apparently its hard to come by in large amounts.

50 States....Finished!

I have received all the blocks! YAHOO! I just have to make my 3 extras of Idaho, Vermont and Florida to be totally complete. I am just waiting for confirmation from one more participant to whether they got their packages and we are done. It was an awesome and very successful swap. Thanks everyone!

I will be posting the blocks I got from Audrey very soon I swear. They are beautiful:-)

Contest!

Old Red Barn is having a contest giving away 3 quilts. I found out about this on Audrey's site and I had to enter. I love quilts that are finished and free since I have never finished one to keep for myself ever! I will refuse to share if I win...well maybe with hubby. HAHA! Here are the quilts up for grabs. Pretty!

Wonderful

I just want to say how much I LOVE this. That's all. :-)

50 States Block Swap - Jenicat and McBenno's Blocks

Jenicat and McBenno also participated in the state block swap. They sent together so I will post together. Everyones blocks are so great. Thanks!

These are from McBenno: New York, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Maryland

Also from McBenno: Mississippi, Michigan, Indiana, Virginia

These are from Jenicat: West Virginia, Washington DC, Texas, North Dakota

Also from Jenicat: Nevada, Tennessee, Georgia, Ohio

50 States Block Swap - Love2Teach's Blocks

These blocks are from Love2Teach who participated in the swap. Thank you!

Wisconsin, Minnesota, Idaho, Arkansas

California, Kansas, Missouri, Wyoming

50 States Block Swap - Pertelot's Blocks

These blocks came from Pertelot who participated in the swap. Thank you!

Delaware, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Massachussetts

Louisiana, New Jersey, Connecticut, South Dakota

50 States Block Swap - My Blocks

Over on Craftster I organized a block swap where the participants were assigned 8 states (2 of their choice) to create star blocks for using fabrics which best represented the states. There are 6 participants creating 8 blocks for 6 people so thats 48 blocks each! We had 3 leftover states and we are making those ourselves to fill in the blanks. This was such a fun swap and I cant wait to get all the blocks and make something from them. These are the blocks I created for the swap.

Arizona, South Carolina, Oklahoma, New Mexico

Alaska, Maine, Rhode Island, Hawaii

Red And White Advent Calendar

I saw this project on Allsorts blog last year but it was too late to start. I swore I would make it this year on time so I started it in October. I am about half done sewing all the pockets together and just have to add the numbers onto the flaps. I am going to hang it on our mantle and find some sort of little treat to put in each day for the kids.