Thursday with the Busy Bees

One of Sally's Quilt of Valor quilt top using the stars like I made. She had two done to show today. I'm not sure how many our group will do by the end of the year.

Chipper helped by inspecting the second one.

This is what they did while I was away at the Bee Hive today. I think maybe they need a bigger place to lay by the window.

Warm Wednsday....

The temps here are in the triple digits.

The boys have been relaxing and I've been keeping cool in the air conditioning.

I finished the last four stars to take to my friend tomorrow. These blocks were already cut out and kitted, all I had to do was sew them together.

 I now have 30 bow ties made and 30 ready to sew. I also cut out some background squares. I just need to decide how big I want this quilt to be. Then I can do the math to see how many 3" blocks to make....

I'm way behind....

I promised to make eight of these stars for my friend Salley's Quilts of Valor project. Monday I got four finished.

 Today my Lisa's Flower Garden BOM part ten arrived in the mail and I had not even started working on part nine. So, I started on both of them by getting the nine patches done, now on to the wool flowers tomorrow.

 Then while I had the reproduction scraps out, I started making some leader/ender bow ties that Bonnie Hunter had on her blog a few days ago. They are like potato chips you cannot stop at just one. The finished size will be 3", I must be insane to start these.....But they are so darn cute and easy to make......I'll just do a few a month.

What about you have you seen the bow ties on other blogs?

Are you going to try some?

Great weekend...

It started Friday when I picked up my block 7 of the Tonga BOM. I met a lady (Linda) who is starting a focus group of Crown jewel owners at Jeff's Sewing and Vac in Augusta. The group will meet once a month at the quilt shop to share and support each other. The first meeting will be August 23rd from 10:00am-noon.

During the BOM I won a couple of door prizes. First was this Charm pack, I see a cute baby quilt from these.

I also won this Christmas panel. Because the day before was Jeff's birthday we all got to pop a balloon that had a piece of paper in it with an amount of discount on it. So, I purchased some border fabric to go with the panel. I love Jeff's BOM because they are so generous when we pick up our blocks. They always have snacks, drinks, door prizes and a discount on our purchases for the day.

On Saturday I was invited by Vivian of  The Whistle Stop Quilting Blog to come to a meeting of "Girls With Long arms". They meet at each others homes and Saturday was Liz of Frog Quilter Blog turn to host. There were about seven of us at the meeting and there were probably three or four that missed because they were in Knoxville for the quilt show. I had a great time meeting new people, seeing their show & tell quilts and sharing long arm quilting techniques. I am looking forward to getting together again with these ladies.

 Chipper just relaxed this weekend, I wish sometimes that I had a cat's life.....