He likes a quilt!

He never likes my quilts. I hear him say "why do you cut apart fabric just to sew it together again? You could save time by just going to Walmart" How do you explain it to a ... (Well, the word I was thinking of can't be said here ) LOL. How to explain this to a ... Geez, can't even say MAN cause there are great male quilters.

This pattern started off as an idea for the 2012 New Project Challenge that CATPATCHES started. I shad the fat quarters, saw the pattern at OH FRASSON ( it's called birthday cake) took everything to retreat the first weekend in April and did the top in one day---cut it out and sewed it up in one day. I did just easy straight line quilting, nothing fancy, and it's done==Yee Haw!

And he likes this quilt.

I knew he would come around one day ;) <vbg>

 

April New Project Challenge

I was shocked when I logged in today and saw that the last time I posted was to talked about my March New Project challenge.  Bad Blogger!
But life gets busy, and in the way and ,,, well,,,  you know the story.

So, today is April 30 - last day of the month and I haven't done anything about the April challenge. I signed up for the challenge and I will follow thru.

Lucky me!! All I have to do is basically think about the project - well, pull some fabrics...  LOL! I can do this!

I really did decide what I want to do - and worked it up in EQ6,, looking at it again, I really do like it.
and, here are some fabrics I pulled to make it -- 

Not a real good picture, but you get the idea - blue and white, white and blue. Border will be dark blue.

This is my April New Project - and I like it!

New Project Challenge - March

March has not been a very good month for me - for quilting. I can't tell a story, I haven't really been very good at keeping up with anything - oh well, we all are entitled to months like this, right?

So anyway, my new project for March is going to be the Birthday Quilt from ohfransson.com. Mine is going to be in tans, cremes and browns. Tres Neutral.. and I think I'll do some straight line quilting on it so I can call this one completely done by me

2010 by Elizabeth Hartman / www.ohfransson.com

All rights reserved. This pattern is intended for personal use by home sewers and may not be republished or distributed without the permission of the author.

Here are my fat quarters, the ones on the top are for the light and dark stripes in the middle of the blocks. Whatchathink?  I think it will be a great looking quilt ( I hope! )

I have a retreat coming up in a couple of weeks. I'll get it cut out and take with me --  think I can get it done in a day?

What do YOU think about Pinterest?

So the debate is on - to Pinterest or not to Pinterest.  What do you think? I'm still scratching my head and going 'hmmm' about the whole deal.

On one hand, I hope EVERYONE pins what I have made from my blog so the whole wide world can see it.
On the other hand, I understand copyright questions.

And, if you have something on the internet, is it free for all or not?

See me scratching?

I LOVED going to all the different boards on Pinterest and seeing all the cool stuff that people found, all the great food ideas and recipes, all the terrific quilts and sewing thingys that people found.  It was a good addiction to me.

Does it hurt anyone? I don't know. I don't want to hurt anyone. I even closed my account so I wouldn't accidentally hurt anyone or make someone upset.

I don't want to steal someone's ideas. Or take money from their pockets.

But gee, I enjoyed seeing everything.
And I enjoyed "pinning" - it was fun.

So what are ya'll thinking about the Pinterest debate? To Pin, or Not To Pin, that is the question.

Do you See it?

this is one of the Just Takes 2 blocks ---  aarrrggghhhh --  do you see it??