Do you see the rainbow?

Angela from So Scrappy, asked those who are participating in the Rainbow Scrap Challenge "to admire your accomplishments and share your progress" so far this year. So this is my progress on making this block which I don't know the name (another one of those lol!).

At first there was

January blues, followed by

February pinks,

March yellows,

April purples ...


That's it?


At this point, I kind of fell off the wagon. At work, I was transferred to another department with a very heavy workload and I was just to tired to sew in the evening. Next thing I know, we are at the end of June and I've missed a few colours.

Yesterday, I had a day off and I tried to catch up a little bit. Here's where I'm at now.

Some greens ... two more still to do

But did two reds to compensate !  :^D

And a blooper ... well of course I had to produce one of those lol !!

That's it?


NO light blue?



Nope! I haven't done any yet and I think I won't. Why? Because I think I will go with teal and aqua instead. I have enough of light blue and dark blue on my Design Wall at the moment lol.


So all together NOW ...

Ta-DA!!

It is definitively not the final layout as there's waaaaaayyyyy to many pinks in the bottom right corner.   Hmmmm... I seem to be missing some blues. There are 7 in the first picture and only 4 in the group picture. Oh!  what are the pesky boys up to now? Smoking the boys' room again? LOL.

Do take a few minutes to check out more Rainbow quilt progress on Angela's blog,  right here. After all the rain we had, it is nice to see a rainbow or two!  :^)

Don't forget to check out Scraptastic Tuesday with Nicky, right here!  There's always a lot of interesting things going on at her place too.

Until next time ...

;^)

Helloooooooo!!

Yep! Still here. Been busy with life, family, volunteer works and some fun too. It can't all be work right? :D

Not enough time to blog but did have I had time to sew? Well no and YES!


Google was so happy to spit it out to my face point out that

my birthday is in June, a child of the Moon is what I am (as is Eleanor Burns, quilt in a day guru). Funny how the number I feel like never changes in my mind but keeps going up on my driver's licence lol.

Anywho! Unknown to me, I decided to buy myself a birthday gift. :D  It was really a fast and furious love affair right then and there, IN the store!

I spend my BD with my BFF and we went shopping. She needed a new sewing machine. We looked over the ones she thought of buying and I informed her of the good, the bad and the ugly points of them. When we got at the back of the store we saw the deal of the day!!! There was only three left. At 50% off, I suddenly found myself in need of a newer sewing machine too. So we each got one. A good friend never lets her friend have fun alone right? Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight!!

So if I hadn't blog much lately, blame her.

She is a Brother INNOV-IS NX 450. Not exactly a new machine since she is two years old (the reason why they were at the back of the store: they are the classroom's machines, all refurbished and comes with a warranty too!) but she is new to me and that means I have some learning to do. She is such a techie and automatic little thing that she kind of intimidated me at first. I spent most of my free time with her and now we are having so much fun.  Yes, of course I will show you what we've concocted but not just yet.  I am learning her language and my project aren't so ... shall I say, nice? LOL.

She has many accessories in her luggage, including a free motion foot. I am having fun trying them out and making a mess of it all lol. With the deal comes two days of free class time where they will show us how to use all of its options to the max but I can't wait. I have wasted invested an entire bobbin of thread already in my apprenticeship. Free motion quilting is fun but just like learning how to ride a bicycle, you do fall every now and again lol.

DH had fun too over the weekend, driving this little baby around  ...

and took this one for a spin too 

But what I wanted to drive was in my sewing room lol.

Last week was very intense with a lot of things on the "Commitment List" of things to-do, so today I have a day off. Yeah!! More time to sew up some simple blocks so I can FMQ them. Oh! Shot!! Just remembered I need to clean too. Darn!!!

Hope you have a chance to enjoy some sewing too.

Until next time ... ssssssSMiLE ... all the way to the sewing machine!

;^)

Design Wall Monday? I'm in!

Not much done this weekend but I did manage to sew a little bit every now and again during the week.

I try to keep a plate (or two) next to the sewing machine with the pieces of a star all laid out, waiting for me to find a few minutes to sew.

It adds up eventually and now it looks like this. 

I am running out of bed sheet; my wall isn't big enough! I guess I'll be back on the floor pretty soon. LOL.

Next is 

a swirl or Snail Trail block and some more cutting. 

Joining Patchwork Times to see more projects progressing and some inspiration too. 

Until next time ... 

;^) 

Some sewing done

I am slowly getting back into the swing of things. I kind of fell off the wagon there for a short while. There was a very upsetting situation at work that needed the supervisor's intervention. I am still hurt by the turn of events but not much can be done now. What's done is done!! It's like a bad haircut. All you can do is wait for it to grow and get another trim ... from another hairdresser!! Except, I still have to work with that girl!! I didn't feel like sewing nor quilting. Yep! it was THAT bad!  But life goes on and, although trust takes longer than hair to regrow, I will survive this too. Now, on to better things ... like another girl at the head office that was sooooo sweeeet to me I made her a place mat.

Remember this? I started to machine quilt it.

Some of you (you know who you are!) make machine quilting look so easy. Well it's not. It does take practice and a lot of it in my case!! Really don't like the mess I've made. So, out came the drunk stitches. 

Got out some very high tech tools to give me some guide lines. Back to the sewing machine it went. 

Better but still not happy. I was getting frustrated with things at home and things at work so, I wasn't in a happy place at all. Out came the stitches and ...

Got distracted by another colour ... aaahhh, this is fun and relaxing and ... 

OKAAAAYYYY!!! back to the blues!  

I decided to hand quilted it. There! Done! To my liking! At least something somewhere will go like I want it to!! LOL. I've been at it since Friday trying to finish it for today so I can post it in Le Challenge.

Binding Blitz with Julie.

Le Challenge : Single as in single colour.

The girl, it is intended for, lives on a farm and I chose this fabric for the backing, thinking she would like that too. There's plenty of hearts all over this place mat because she has become very precious to me. Even the heart has a blue heart. :D I love it!

We had a lot of rain last week and the humidity really took a toll on my spine and hips joints. I was sore all week and still am. So today I will sit outside and let the sun warm up my old bones while I stitch a few hexies ...

and do some bird watching too.

Joining Kathy for Slow Sunday Stitching, Julie for Binding Blitz (when it is time to link) and Lucy and Nat for Le Challenge and Cynthia for Oh Scrap!

Until next time ...

;^)

Still Alive ...

and ... still up to no good.

;^)