Haven't written in a while

I'm almost finished with my Kaleidoscope quilt. It has been challenging because I didn't really start out with an idea for the back. I knew I wanted to do a pieced back since I like the reversibility of having a pieced back. It is a nice surprise to flip your quilt over and have it be just as spectacular as the front, but not having a clue as to what to do was a little difficult.  I took last week off, basically to think about what i needed to do for the back. I decided to just make it really scrappy using all the fabric scraps from the front of the quilt. I also added in a few new patterns in the same black, grey, white, gold color combination that I found but didn't have the yardage to use any other way. I also found another fabric  that i had a decent quantity of that also incorporates a bold red. I like that there is another color on the back. I got a stripe fabric with predominately golds/oranges with some blue and also black for the binding. Now i just have to finish piecing the back and the quilt it. UGH!

I'm so ready to move onto my next project which is going to be small - mug rugs. There is a craft fair at work where the money goes to the Children's Hospital that I really want to donate to. I thought I could whip up a few mug rugs this weekend for that event next week. I also want to make one for my mother-in-law. I thought I could send her a mug rug a mug and some nice cookies for her birthday at the end of this month which is just around the corner.
I'm totally looking forward to making something small that I can finish in a few hours. It will be quite a different experience than I have been having lately on the ole sewing machine.

I'm also reading the Fifty Shades series. Sometimes it is difficult to get to work sewing when all I want to do is read. Reading these books also makes me want to do something else that I really need to make time for.There really needs to be more hours in the day.

~Green

Kaleidoscope Quilt

Okay... I've got all the pieces cut (well, except for the back) and I sewed together all my little triangle tops to make corner pieces and I sewed the first block. I think the best way to do this will be to set up all the blocks and sew first a solid to a pattern, then sew two of those together to make a half a block and then sew the halves together to make a full block. I didn't do that with the first one and it's a little wonky. Let's see if I actually frog it to make a new block. I'm so lazy these days and just think, "eh... it will come out in the quilting."  Will post some photos tomorrow. Too lazy tonight.


Miss Penn is starting to hit and to whine and throw things. Tonight she threw a cup at her father and a perfume bottle at me. I know she'll stop when she learns, but it's just so hard to explain it to her.

Photos of finished quilt

Here are some photos of the Mod Sampler Quilt after it was bound and quilted. It was my first foray into free-motion quilting and I loved it. I think for a third quilt it's pretty good. I have already mailed this quilt to it's owners last week and they received it and love it.