Luigi is FINISHED!!!

Oh yeah, baby!  Luigi is DONE :)

He went from this....

...to this!!!

It only took my about 40 minutes to sew him up horizontally :)

Here they are together, hanging out on my wall :)

They are kinda WAY too cool to shove in a box :)

Next it's Goomba Time!!

this is Angela's pre-sewn Goomba over at Cut to Pieces :)  Her QAL is SO AWESOME!!!

I also spent about 3 hours today teaching my friend, Jean, how to crochet baby booties :)

Here is my example :) 

It needs it's strap and button.

My friend is having her first girl after 2 boys.

I am pretty sure these booties will be for her :) ..baby ;D

I Know What I Am Going To-Do Today...

I am still POOPED out from my weekend festivities :)  I guess I am an old lady and can't party like I used to at the ripe old age of 43 :p ...NOT!!! :D

Any hoots, lets see what happened last week.

Last Weeks List

#1 my nephews surf shop quilt... well, I cut it out, sewed ALL of the 24 blocks and sewed them all together :)  Not as much progress as I would have liked, but DARN GOOD progress, for sure!

#2 Mario and Luigi... FOR REAL this week! Mario is DONE and Luigi is pretty darn close :)

***BONUS**** I also made 13 candy filled pincushions for the ladies at my quilt retreat :)

This Weeks List :)

#1 Finish my nephews Surf Shop quilt

#2 Finish Luigi

#3 Maybe get Goomba done (the Mario Bro's block for this week)

AUGUST LIST-

Girl Gamer quilt for Emily (due mid August)

Melissa's messenger bag
Miranda's Quilt (June $29 quilt)
Chrisann's quilt (the AWESOME kindergarten teacher)

Will's birthday quilt (due December)

Back Burner Purgatory.... lol!!! ;) ...it's GROWING is CONTINUING!!!! :) !!!!

Mini Quilt for Konda

Alyson's Living room Quilt

Alyson's Bedroom Quilt

Mandy's quilt

2 Twin Size applique quilts for my nieces

The April $29 girl quilt 

the May $29 quilt

My bed quilt
My flea market fancy quilt...maybe hexies or a dresden plate???
Chevron fat quarter bundle quilt- Probably a quarter square triangle quilt as seen at market.

Blue bird quilt for me (still collecting fat quarters for this one... feel free to send me a blue and white FQ)

Challenge quilt for next year's quilt show
"Letters to my Daughter" block of the month

July $29 Quilt

Church Ladies Quilt Retreat

Oh baby, did we have fun at our quilt retreat this past Friday and Saturday.  April, Sue and I took off Friday morning for a quilt shop tour of Utah County.  It was fun to go to a few stores that I have never been to before :)  I was so good!!!  I only bought some batting and self striping yarn that was on clearance :)  We had lunch at Costa Vida (YUMM) and then headed over to the church about 3-ish :)

For fun, I made some cute pin cushions for all of the ladies.  I copied HaleyJo :)

 

 

At the retreat I worked the WHOLE time on my nephew's Surf Shop quilt.  I was able to finish all of the blocks and get them sewn together :)

I still have borders to add, but I am SO happy that I was able to do this much.  There are 24 different surf boards that make up the top.  I hope to get this bad boy finished and shipped off to California by Friday.  I was hoping to have the whole thing finished this weekend, but it took a TON longer to do than I had anticipated.  There are 9 more surf boards on this one than on my husbands.  And yes, apparently, nine more is a LOT more ;D

We came home Saturday evening TOTALLY STUFFED and exhausted!  Good times were had by all :D

Quick Progress Report :) ...60 words or less...

Cut out Luigi

Storage

Mario Map

Inverse Luigi Map by son.

LOTS of hand quilting

Sewing set up

Lay out for row.

Cross off row as I go

Ho ho jzzzee zjo (not words, don't count)

Getting there

Ready for horizontal rows to be sewn.

Getting ready for Quilting Retreat tomorrow.

EXCITED!!!!

Mario is FINISHED!

So, one of these blocks takes a good three hours to piece.  I hope to get Luigi done tomorrow and then from now on, I'll do the block for the week on Monday to keep from getting behind.  I'll to cut out all of the color when it comes up each week.  I have baggies of the 1.5" blocks in the colors that were in Mario.
Here of some fun pictures of the progression to Mario :)

Half of Mario

All of Mario one way.

the back underway

The front half way sewn.

  

Sweet Mario completed.

He is 18x18 of 1.5" blocks.

Oh the joy in my heart that he is sewn up!

I'm going to make Luigi facing the other direction :)

Angela over at Cuttopieces.blogspot.com is a block MASTER!  I am so happy she is doing this QAL!

Progress...

Mario is underway!

I Know What I Am Going To-Do Today...

***Don't forget to link up your super cool stuff at the bottom****

I am super happy that I finished two quilts last week :D

Here is last weeks list:
#1 Quilt for Aly's friend with end stage breast cancer- (done by Wednesday night) DONE!!!

#2 The granny square quilt top put together and basted.  I am going to hand quilt this baby :) DONE!!! All the way, Baby!!!

#3 The Super Mario Brothers quilt blocks.... ugh, this one makes me frown... millions of little 1.5" squares.  I need to just suck it up and get Mario out of the way... BE BRAVE!!! :D I cut out LOTS of little squares, but didn't get it pieced.  I am such a chicken! (I did print off the pattern)

THIS WEEKS LIST

#1 my nephews surf shop quilt

#2 Mario and Luigi... FOR REAL this week!

AUGUST LIST-

Girl Gamer quilt for Emily (due mid August) I bought the fabric for this one :)

Melissa's messenger bag
Miranda's Quilt (June $29 quilt)
Chrisann's quilt (the AWESOME kindergarten teacher)

Will's birthday quilt (due December)

July $29 Quilt

Back Burner Purgatory.... lol!!! ;) ...it's GROWING is CONTINUING!!!! :) !!!!

Mini Quilt for Konda

Alyson's Living room Quilt

Alyson's Bedroom Quilt

Mandy's quilt

2 Twin Size applique quilts for my nieces

The April $29 girl quilt 

the May $29 quilt

My bed quilt
My flea market fancy quilt...maybe hexies or a dresden plate???
Chevron fat quarter bundle quilt- Probably a quarter square triangle quilt as seen at market.

Blue bird quilt for me (still collecting fat quarters for this one... feel free to send me a blue and white FQ)

Challenge quilt for next year's quilt show
"Letters to my Daughter" block of the month

Ok everybody, now it's your turn!  Link up anything you have been working on or finished in the past little while.  The only rule is that it needs to be something you've made or are making.

Sunday Up-date

Yesterday while I was at Broadbent's I bought some cool stuff :)
I have been wanting to buy some 505 to try using the spray basting method.  Now I am all ready :)

I also ran out the the dye catchers and had heard about this product, Synthrapol, to use for washing fabric and keeping the dye from bleeding onto the lighter fabrics.

 So, how did it work?  Well, the instructions say to fill the washing machine with HOT water and add 1-2 teaspoons if Synthrapol to the washer.  I did it and CRINGED as I added my red and white pinwheel quilt and my Little Apples Dresden plate table runner.  RED RED RED!!!  ....I watched the water turn pink..... so I just shut the lid on the washer and ran away.
So, I know you are dying to find out what happened.  TWO red and white quilts in HOT water....

PERFECTION!!  Not a hint of pink anywhere :D  YEEHAW!!!  My table runner looks awesome too :)

I also washed, in separate loads, my Retro Flower Quilt and the Granny Square Quilt.  All on hot with a warm rinse.  Life it good!!!

I LOVE quilts after they have been washed.  They are so soft and crinkly :)

Now for today's adventures.  I woke up early and spoke in another church and visited another one.  Busy fun day.  I decided to try my hand at some hand quilting.  I have been wanting put some hand quilting onto Ashley's All Fenced In Quilt.  My fingers are sore, so I figured I'd blog :)  Here are some pictures of what I have done so far :)

It's going to been really cool when I'm done.  I just hope my fingers get used to hand quilting so I can do it for longer periods of time.