Looking forward to it! No kids home for Easter this year, so I should have lots of quilting time. But the beautiful weather today is going to tempt me outside for a bit. When I get back, i'll have to decide what's up - quilting some tops I have ready, or finishing off another UFO. I've been making progress on a bunch of half-finished projects over the past month, in an effort to get control of my sewing room.

I'm in- started out this morning with the big idea of spreading about 20 bags of mulch on the flower beds on one side of the house. I got about half done but I forgot it is the sunny side in the morning so I opted to finish tonight after it gets shady over there.
I would like to get the hanging sleeve and bindings on 2 Christmas advent wall hangings and a BOM block for my local guild meeting finished this weekend.

I'm in! I'm going to my parent's place for Easter eventually, but the forecast is for a foot or more of snow between now and tomorrow morning with high winds (that part has already started), so I'm staying put at least for today. Our snow had nearly all melted, but I guess winter isn't quite over yet.

I have a 3 year old ufo that I want to work on. I'm hoping to finish assembling the blocks except for the outermost round (I need to buy more fabric for them), and join the centre finished blocks into rows. I also have a new quilt that I want to figure out a colour scheme for, and a wall hanging to FMQ. Oh, and I have 2 or three quilts finished except for binding... they go on the "to do" list as well.

I'm in! Hubby and son are away on a camping trip (left yesterday ,home tomorrow). Had a friend over last night from 9 pm to 2 am. She and I had quite the giggle fest long about 1:00...you know how that goes. I'm tired today, naturally, but happy.

Today after I finish prepping a salad to serve the homeless at a local church, I'll probably nap, or work on an applique
and cutting binding for my fish quilt. Might start sewing it after our Good Friday service.

No plans for Easter with our adult kids. One's with his wife on a cruise, another is with a buddy on their 120-mile bike trip started an hour ago from Washington, DC to PA. The other is dog-sitting for her brother who is on the cruise. We have no grandchildren yet. Maybe next Easter?!

I'm not used to having all this "free" time. It's liberating, yet I have almost TOO many choices and am suffering from "analysis paralysis". LOL

But my machine will get some love this weekend. I'll try to post a picture.

Here are pictures of the fire island hosta quilts - so far. . .

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...psxaczg80k.jpg

I did my best to pull from my stash - but couldn't make up my mind with green or coral/red. So I went with both. This is a paper pieced pattern, but I'm not sewing on any papers, just using them as templates.

I still have the other half of the sawtooth leaf to go.

I've not decided what to use for the background with the green. I have a lighter fabric, and also more of the print in the larger leaf section. The green will be a gift. BTW - the fabrics go together much nicer in reality than they do in the picture.

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...psrwgtbyh8.jpg

I am using the lighter color in the sawtooth leaf for the background with this one. I may keep this one for myself.

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...ps8exhvls6.jpg

Watson, your pebbles look great!

MacyBaby, oh my gosh...that is going to be gorgeous! Had my eye on that pattern at the last quilt show I went to after seeing how beautiful yours is turning out may just have to buy it if it's at the next show I go to.

Jan

Nice, another VQW. I'll be working on my Allietare borders and hopefully start putting the top together.

Wow Macybaby!!! That's going to be beautiful!!!

i'm off today and i spent the morning deciding on which stencils i'm going to use on my next project.

This is the quilt. Because of the simplicity, I'm going to use wool batting and i want the quilting design to be perfect :D :

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The fabric:
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Then there's just continuing to work on my current project:

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I'm in again.
1. I'm still working on my BH mystery top. All 3 1/2" squares are made. This weekend I will be working on putting the 16 blocks, 40 blocks and background border blocks together. Part of step #7. Or....
2. Work on setting up a UFO on my quilting machine. Or...
3. make 2-4 quilting bee blocks, or....
4. make 8 more 2 1/2" log cabin blocks. So, I can finish this quilt by the end of next month. I'm curious how it will end.

Looking forward to see everyone's progress and completed items. Happy sewing and quilting everyone.

Most of my days are spent quilting since I'm retired. I am layering a small quilt/wallhanging today and hope to get started on quilting it. LQS has a Mystery quilt coming in June, so DD and I are going there to choose fabrics tomorrow. A quilt she listed for me on Etsy just sold, so want to get the fabric while I have the money. We have a table at local craft fair in June, so I'm trying to get a couple of simple quilts I've been wanting to make done for that. I'm not expecting much in sales there since it's also the town's garage sale weekend, so I'm expecting people will want to pay garage sale prices. But it will keep me busy and give me the opportunity to get a couple done. No plans for Easter Sunday since both daughters are going to their in-laws.