February NewFo's

Due to the fact that my day to post in the It's All About Me hop, was the same day to

 post my NewFo Challenge , it's a day late. I apologize to all the other Newfo participants for that. 

"Sew", let's see I finished some things I started last year and started some more ! 

That's kinda how we all roll isn't it !

Tidbit:

The reason I say "sew", "sew" much, is because of my three sisters, (We also have a brother, Harlan, the oldest and wisest, who is a farmer in South Dakota ) We all live very far apart, Yvonne in South Carolina, Bonnie in Washington state, Barbara in South Dakota and me in Texas. We've been trying to get together every 1 or 2 years. As a matter of fact we're getting together again this year in June to celebrate our Mother's 89th birthday ! As long as that precious woman keeps having birthday's, she deserves all of her children there with her. (Sorry Mama), I think she quit having birthdays at 80.

 In Helen Turners words, " I will be  80 + 9." She's probably going to kick my rear end for divulging that info and believe me she can do it.

Us girls Easter morning 1960,  I'm the little one.
 Mom made our dresses.

Oops...chased a rabbit ! 

Anyway, for some reason we start our conversations with "SO", blah, blah,blah. Of course then, we have to laugh because we don't know why we say it ! When we get together it's just a laugh festival !

Harlan just laughs at us cause we're laughing ! I LOVE YOU BROTHER !

Then, since I blog about sewing.....

 "Sew" that's the reason I write "sew" so much...... is in honor of my Sissies !

Other than making an It's all About Me Hussy......

Here's what my February looked like....

I put the binding on "Santa Anna's Star Cake and Cuttin the Cards".

 Made a Trip Around the World using this tutorial.

   

Finished piecing the tops of "Comanche Stars" I started in 2012 

and "Blueberry Cobbler" I started in 2011.

  I made this for my best friend Nancy. 

I started restoring this quilt for my Son. I think his Great Grandmother Stella  made it. That's why we need to  put labels on our quilts, so we'll have documentation for future generations.

Cotton was used for the batting and it was falling out through all the holes I'm in the process of patching.  

 Made two more blocks in the 2012 Designer Mystery Block of the Month

 Started a Boxy Star graduation  quilt for my Daughter-in-law's younger sister, using Bonnie Hunter's tutorial.

 Finished this flannel top I started for my granddaughter ....when she was about 6 months old.  It's going to be a donation quilt for the  Wee Care program our guild supports.

Added these tumbler blocks to this.

Hand quilted my February "Little Jo's Club"  project.

Whew, I think that's it ! 

Once vegetables and grass get growing,

this much sewing won't be happening !

Visit Cat Patches for the link 

to see all the other projects that members of the 2013 NewFo Challenge  have made.

Have a wonderful day and God bless You !

The Little Things

Last Wednesday I traveled to  Quilts With a Heart  in Priddy, TX . 

The owner and long arm quilter, Angela, hosted Jo Morton's, "Jo's Little Women" Club 12 

at her shop. She prepared notebooks for the patterns and had our fabric towers neatly folded and packaged up in handy white trays. She had cute little Valentine gift baskets made up for each of us and some delicious warm cake she baked  using her Grandmother's  Western Cake recipe . Everything was so nice, I wish I had thought to take pictures.

The pictures I do have are borrowed from Quilts With a  Heart  facebook page.

Information about "Jo's Little Women" Club 12 can be found 

 Here

The pieces for February's wall hanging project are small, 

so she made the demo blocks bigger and easier to see....

 she shared some tips about putting those little buggers together.
(Side Note: I've put 24 blocks together, it's easy and FUN.) 

I really enjoyed visiting with these seasoned quilters and I'm looking forward to getting to know each of them better!

Everything new that I've been learning is from all of your wonderful sewing blogs .

I took her the honkin big  No Diamonds in the Sky and  Butter and Marmalade 
"sew" she can do her quilting magic to them. 

The No Diamonds turned out to be 95" x 112". Ranch Man REALLY likes it. Sew, from now on it will be referred to as Ranch Man's Star. ( Ha! One more star at More Stars in Comanche !) It's future home is our bed. The "bedspread" we currently have on our bed is "so"  BIG and HEAVY it absolutely crushes you from the weight of it and has never been slept under... since we like to be able to breath !

  I also won the door prize ! A package with 6 spools of 50 wt  Precencia   thread. 

AND That's not all....the same day, I won the giveaway at Just Let Me Quilt !

 And get this, it wasn't even the correct day for Carol to draw, but that  sweet girl said I'm going to give it to Vickie anyway and have another drawing. How great was that ! 

Thank You Lord, His favor was certainly with me that day. 
GOD knows all the little things that bring enjoyment to our lives, even if it's a little thing like thread. My mind can't even imagine how wonderful He is, all I can do is believe His Words and ponder them in my heart.

Y'all have a great day and may God bless You.

2013 NewFo Challenge

Hi Y'all ! First things first! I would like to thank everyone who visited More Stars in Comanche during the Dare to Dresden hop. I got "sew" many wonderful and sweet comments on the quilt I made.

 I will reply to your comment if I haven't already..

To the new followers, I am very humbled, Thank You !

Today I took time out to go shopping with my bestest friend.
 Can you guess where we went ? That's right, we went to the quilt shop. 

I'm new to the NewFo Challenge world, but I think I'll fit in just fine. Since January 1st, I've started 4 new things! I love new projects. I want to make almost everything I see ! 

 I get excited  knowing I might need to go to the quilt store...
I love the thrill of the hunt !  

NewFo's hostess with the mostest is Barbara from Cat Patches .

She has a really cute blog ! Go check  out everyone else's new projects there.

Thank you Barbara for the work you put into  NewFo.

This block is for the Quilting Angels Online Club - 2013 Online Sampler Challenge,

 hosted by Angela at Quilts With a Heart .  

I've decided I would not by new fabric for this, I'll just pull from my stash. (Sad face)

This block is the December block for the Liberty and Justice Bee.  

(I made it this month, because I'm new to this group too.)

This is January's L&J block. The finished quilts will be given to someone in the military.

This months Queen wanted us to write some encouraging words in the block, wasn't that a nice idea!

Next month I'm the Queen and I get to choose the block everyone will make for my quilt.

You've seen this quilt, No Diamonds in the Sky. It is not finished yet, I think it was my first new start for the year. I am thinking about what I want to do next, "sew" it's been put aside for a while.

And this quilt I made for the Dare to Dresden hop.

 My last post was about it if you would care to go take a look.

I must get going, I promised the "Ranch Patrol" we would go walking .

Thank you for stopping by! 

Have a wonderful rest of the day and May God bless You.