Burger Queen - Have It Your way!

That's the name of the Stashbuster's Yahoo Group new mystery quilt. I printed off the fabric requirements and the first clue last week but hadn't made any attempt to pull fabrics. Last night while blog-surfing, I came across Candace's oh-so cute blocks for Clue #1. They are so pretty. I decided to use up some more of my greens for this one and I have a BUNCH of the background fabric to use up.

Here's my Clue #1 Blocks - 5 each of 12" and 9"
We get to choose what block we want to make (hence, the Have It Your Way), but have to remember that they will be 3"-12". I chose a nine patch, as did several others.

More UFO's finished

This first one I finished on the way to Julie's Friday afternoon. It's all ready for Ashlyn's little baby girl who is due next month.



This one doesn't have a home yet. I got one similar to this to quilt a few months ago and while I was quilting it, I decided that I wanted to make one also. I knew that I had leftover fabric from a Gwen Marsten Liberated Strings bright quilt. The front looks like a great baby quilt, but maybe I shouldn't have used the black on the back??? Oh well, it's finished now. I think one of the names for this pattern is Happy Squares.

Baby Idol

One of our radio stations, Country 100.5 WWKI, is sponsoring a Baby Idol contest and my grandson Andrew is a contestant. The voting is on cuteness only and there are some real cuties there, but as a grandma, of course I think he's the cutest.

If you want to vote for him, go here. You have to submit your name and address info and his number is 5124.

Stashbusting Report - 7/14/08

Fabric Added This Week - 1 yard (Cloud Fabric)
Fabric Added Year to Date - 45.625 yards

Fabric Used This Week - 2 yards
Fabric Used Year to Date - 229.125 yards

YEAR TO DATE TOTAL: 183.5

Orange Crush With a Twist of Lime

That's what I'm going to call this Bonnie Hunter Mystery quilt.


I finally assembled the center of the top today, after putting it aside for quite a while. I didn't follow the color directions for using scrappy colors for all the nine patches and half nine patches. Instead, I used burgandy and brown scraps. Once I started putting the blocks together, I didn't care much for it and that's why it got buried for a while. It's growing on me now and Dan really likes it, or at least he says that he does.

I think I will do a narrow lime green border, some leftover half nine patches along with some burgandy for the second border and finish it off with the orange.

That's about all the stitching I got done this weekend as Dottie came over on Saturday to get help with a wallet and Janet was here today quilting this signature quilt made by Carole A, which will be given to Judy D on Wednesday.

Round Robin

Here is the round robin I finished this week. The 2 side borders are what I added. This round was titled Seminole or Southwest Piecing. I hope Cindy likes it. Her turkey is just about the cutest turkey that I've ever seen. The last round of these round robins will be done by the owner and we will have 2 months to complete it before the unveiling at our monthly dinner.

The "Jeff's Here!" Party

Julie and Jim hosted a party at their house on Friday for family and Jeff's friends. It was so nice to see old friends who live less than a mile from us, but we never see then unless Jeff is home. The hightlight of the evening was getting to meet his girlfriend, Dané. I hope we will be spending much more time with this lovely young lady.

Here's the good looking couple (hope it's OK that I grabbed this photo, because I didn't even take my camera out of the house.)

We left at a reasonable 10PM for the one hour drive home. I understand that some stayed well after that, which may have made for a long drive to North Carolina on Saturday. Love you Jeff!

Here's Andrew posing for a shot......


... before he took the camera and tried it out for himself.