new-to-me fabric

This would be easier to explain if I had more time to lay it all out and take better pictures. But you'll forgive me if I spend the time that I do have sorting it and cutting it up for baby quilts instead of posing it for pictures, right?

 

 

There was an ad on Craigslist. Actually two ads on Craiglist, but one was for a sale last weekend that I couldn't make it up to.  A lady was selling off the contents of her craft room "cheap." 

 

After running into too many sellers who are trying to recoup what they spent on fabric and yarn a decade earlier, I'm a bit wary of that word.  I know people have a lot invested in their fabric stashes, but if I'm going to buy fabric out of  someone's garage, I think it should be cheaper than I can get it off the sale rack at the store it originally came from.

 

When this gal said cheap, she meant it!  I sorted through three huge tubs of fabric and came up with this pile. It's all cotton, all large pieces, all in my taste, except the frogs and bookworms and those are for baby quilts.

 

Mom made it to the other sale and between the two of us, we added 110 yards to my stash, most of it in those vintage small scale prints that I love so much. The fabric fumes are making me giddy...



Weekly Stash Report

Fabric Used this Week: 1 3/4 yards
Fabric Used year to Date: 40 3/4 yards
Added this Week: 110 yards
Added Year to Date: 197 1/4 yards
Net Added for 2013: 156 1/2 yards

Yarn Used this Week: 0 yards
Yarn Used year to Date: 1550 yards
Yarn Added this Week: 0 yards
Yarn Added Year to Date: 7100 yards
Net Added for 2013: 5550 yards

To see more weekly stash reports, click over to Patchwork Times. And to see more  fabric, visit Sunday Stash at Finding Fifth.

Free Kindle Title -- Snow Day by Dan Maurer

I was going to write about this one in my weekly Yarn Along post, but then I saw that it's free through June 9. And I assume that if I'm going to recommend a book to you, you'd rather I did it while you can get the book yourself for free, right?


I found Snow Day on Amazon this morning when I was browsing for Kindle freebies and wound up reading it on the couch while I nursed a migraine and Hubby made dinner. (Do I even need to mention how thrilled I am that, not knowing I felt awful, he decided to cook tonight?)

Here's the book's Amazon description:

 

It happens each winter, and has for over 35 years. Every time the snow starts to fall late in the evening before a school day, the dreams begin again for Billy Stone. They are always the same – there’s a dark tunnel, and there’s blood, lots of blood, and someone is screaming.

 

In this chilling childhood tale, Billy, recounts the events of one unforgettable day in 1975. On that day, he and his friends played carefree in the snow, until an adventure gone awry left him far from home, staring death in the face, and running from a killer bent on keeping a horrible secret.

 

Set in a time before Amber Alerts, when horror stories were told around camp fires instead of on the nightly news, Snow Day is a blend of nostalgia and nightmare that makes us question if the good old days were really as good as we remember.

 

I love horror novels, but not quite as much as I used to. As I've aged, I've gotten more squeamish. It took me a couple of chapters to really get into this one, but once I did get pulled into the story, I read the whole thing from beginning to end without stopping. It kind of reminded me of Super 8 and It by Stephen King. Not because those stories have anything in common with Snow Day, but all three are about children running around like the author of the Free Range Kids blog seems to think kids should still be able to do -- except in this story and the ones I'm comparing it to something bad really is going to happen.  I'm keeping this one on my Kindle, because I can definitely see myself reading it again someday. This is the kind of creepy horror that I really enjoy.

 

{Whatcha Reading?} Accidents Happen by Louse Millar

Kate Parker's parents were killed in a traffic accident on her wedding night. Her husband was murdered in a home invasion. Five years later, her only focus in life is keeping herself and her son safe. She endlessly plays statistics through her head, planning their daily lives to keep them both as safe as possible.

But her life is steadily unraveling. Her late husband's parents are showing more and more concern about her and her son, threatening to seek custody of him if she doesn't start living a normal life. When she meets Jago, author of a book about how to make life safer through the use of statistics, she starts to believe that she can change, that life might not be the dangerous nightmare she's convinced herself she's living in.

Accidents Happen scared me. Not the "I'm reading my Kindle in a dark room and heard a sound outside scared" -- I was afraid to keep reading and afraid to stop reading, because I was so wrapped up in the lives of Kate and her son. Honestly, I'm dying to tell you more about this one, but it's one of those books that you'll have more fun reading if you don't know where it's going. I hugely recommend this one!

This review is based on an electronic review copy provided by the publisher. 

Let's Make Baby Quilts! {week 23}

My baby quilt for this week is Billie.  I've got three more in the works, which you can find here.

 

Have you seen the new quilt pattern that Bonnie Hunter added to her blog yesterday, Dancing Nines?

 

Let's Make Baby Quilts Linky Party Rules:

Link directly to your post or specific Flickr photo. Your post can be about a baby quilt that's finished, or in progress, or you can be writing about what you have planned, but it's got to be about baby quilts. While we're still gathering steam, you're welcome to link to baby quilt posts that aren't brand new, but please don't submit the same post or picture more than once. I'd love it if you linked back to my site, either with a text link or the Let's Make Baby Quilts! button.

planning more ambitious scrap quilts

This quilt with the scrappy hearts was one of the first baby quilts I made, and it's still one of my favorites. I gave it to a pregnant friend and then threatened to steal it back if she hung it on the nursery wall instead of using it.... Not long ago,  I visited their house and saw it wedged in the cushions of a chair, where I assume one of her little ones had been using it. It gave me a warm and fuzzy feeling that my little utility quilt was being used exactly the way I'd hoped it would be.

The pattern came from my stash of old magazines (sorry, but I didn't keep track of the name or issue.) This version used 2 1/2" squares. I've also made one with a blue background and border, and a third version using 3" pink squares.  And it's always been the plan to make a big one for myself to keep.

Somewhere along the line, I decided to see how small I could make those hearts. I think this is the limit, if I'm going to make a quilt that's large enough to snuggle up in.

Here it is again with my rotary cutter for size comparison. The squares are cut at 1 1/2", and the heart block should finish at 5" square.  The cutting will take forever, but it's going to be a great way to use up some tiny strings and scraps. I've been cutting everything that's small enough into strips for the Lego quilt, so it'll be easy enough to trim of squares for this quilt at the same time.

 

 

These scrappy quilts with the itty bitty pieces are my absolute favorite!

{yarn along} the Myrtle Crumb Mysteries

I think I'm tired of knitting socks, or at the very least, I'm tired of k2p2 ribbing. I need some lace or cables or something!

Since we got back from the trip, I've been reading up a storm. First was Between A Clutch and A Hard Place, the first in the Myrtle Crumb mystery series by Gayle Trent. I'd bought it for my Kindle right before we left.

When Myrtle's friend Tansie comes home from the consignment shop with a Louis Vuitton pocketbook, Myrtle heads straight down there to see if she can find something just as good for herself. What she comes home with is a black clutch with "a couple of little zippered sections. 'Couse you couldn't put too much in them or else it'd pooch out on the sides like a pregnant cat."

And a note inside signed by Flora Adams that reads "If anything happens to me, look to Jim. He did it."  Jim Adams is easy to track down. And his wife Flora is missing...

It's a quick, funny read. Myrtle has a very distinctive voice and very strong opinions. (Do I even need to tell you that after quoting the bit about the pregnant cat purse?)  As soon as I'd finished this one, I downloaded the next in the series, When Good Bras Go Bad. I liked that one slightly less, probably because the mystery is centered around some thefts at Myrtle's granddaughter's high school and didn't capture my interest as much as the note in the purse did.

I haven't read Gayle Trent's other books, but I'll be looking for her cake mysteries and a series of embroidery mysteries (written as Amanda Lee). There's also another Myrtle Crumb book scheduled for this fall.

She's hosting a beach party on her Facebook page today. Here's the invitation --

I'm hosting a beach party on Facebook on Wednesday, June 12, from 6 - 9 p.m. ET with lots of giveaways. The grand prize is a $50 Amazon gift certificate, but other giveaways will be held randomly throughout the event. Additional prizes include a mani/pedi set, books, Kindle downloads, notebooks, totes, and gift cards.

To join in the fun, like my Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/GayleTrentandAmandaLee, then click on the Events tab, and join the party.

Hope to see you there! We'll have a blast!

Maybe you can win yourself a book!

For more fun knitting projects to drool over, check out On the Needles at Patchwork Times and Work in Progress Wednesdays at Tami's Amis.


Silly disclosure -- I bought both books myself and found out about the beach party just in time to add the details to today's post.
 

Meet Billie

Most of my fabric stash has a dubious pedigree. I'm rarely sure exactly what it is, or where it originally came from. Selvages might offer clues, sometimes confirming that it came from a quilt shop or big craft store.  Buttonholes or hems might suggest that it was originally clothing -- I've even had hunks of fabric still pinned to the tissue paper patterns. Sometimes there aren't any clues at all.

That's what happened with this quilt.

Here's what I started with -- long strips of pieced fabric that looks like it was originally shirts. Some unknown quilter spent a lot of time cutting and piecing them. A few of the bars are pieced and patched. I haven't taken a ruler to it, but I'm guessing these little bars finish at about 3/4."

So how did this wind up at the thrift shop? Was the fabric from shirts? Was it the beginning of a memory quilt? The leftovers of something bigger that did get finished?  

I don't throw out decent fabric. There's always something to do with it, even if I'm not immediately sure what. My first thought was to piece the strips side by side into a baby or wheelchair quilt then (after Sadie, because she's got me on a huge tea-dyed muslin kick and I've got a whole bolt of the stuff) I decided to add sashing.

And cut one of the strips in half, because that would mean more seams and a quilt just can't have too many seams.

I used polyester batting from the Mennonite store and quilted curvy lines with my walking foot. The guide broke, so I eyeballed the distance and it's surprisingly consistent. It's puffier than I like my own quilts to be, but it's not for me.  And even though I think it feels like a boy quilt, it's got a lot of pink in it -- so I gave the name a feminine spelling and I'll let someone else decide whether it's a boy quilt or a girl quilt.

I'm linking up to Whimsy Wednesday, Ivy and Elephants, Finish it Up Friday, Can I get a Whoop Whoop?, and Freedom Fridays,

Do you make your own?

Some days I start to wonder if I'm the only stay at home mom who isn't making her own laundry detergent.  When I first read about the idea, it triggered the "you can do that?!" portion of my brain just long enough for me to track down and read the instructions, then I gave up on the idea. Even with as much laundry as I do, buying a big jug of detergent at Costco every few weeks isn't a big deal.

So when I saw that you could make your own foaming dish soap refills, I didn't pay much attention to the idea. I do a ton of dishes (think three meals a day for six people and no dishwasher) and I'm picky about my dish soap.  The foaming stuff lets me wash more dishes with less soap, and it rinses better so I'm using less water.

But I go through it fast. Everyone in the house uses it for washing hands, even when there's actual hand soap in a pump right beside it.  The grocery store doesn't always have it in stock. (They run out of the strangest stuff -- some days I think they're deliberately messing with me!) and some days I'm desperate and wind up settling for a bottle of the cheap stuff just so I can do the dishes until my next trip to the store.

That's how I wound up trying the DIY approach. I had an empty pump and was down to almost the last of the good stuff ,so I figured I had nothing to lose.  I poured about an inch of cheap dollar store dish soap into the empty pump, then gently filled it the rest of the way to the line with water. I swished it a bit to mix, then pumped.

It works! It's not as good as the brand name stuff (maybe I'd get better results if I wasn't using bargain detergent to make it with), but it's still nicer to use than the plain dish soap. And I've got a secret plan -- the good stuff goes under the sink for actual dish-doing, and the fake foaming soap goes on the counter for everything and everyone else.

Do you make your own laundry detergent or foaming dish soap? Bake from scratch? What's just too crazy for you to try making yourself?

I'm linking up to WFMW at We are THAT Family, Mop it Up Monday at I Should be Mopping the Floor. I Gotta Try That, Give Me the Goods, How To Tuesday,

my overflowing design wall

Some weeks, I have a hard time finding something to use for my design wall post that I haven't already shown you. This week, I don't have that problem. Take a look at what I've done over the past two days --

 

 

I had so much fun with the pink prints and tea-dyed muslin combination I used for Sadie that I decided to make a scrappy blue version of Laura.

 

I've been playing with the idea of a two-color version of Priscilla (or is that three-color, counting the background?) , wondering how I'd get the checkerboard effect I wanted. Turns out that it was easy.

 

 

 These shirting pieces came in one of the thrift store scrap bags. Some quilter put in a lot of time and effort cutting them and piecing them into rows before getting rid of them. It hardly took me any time at all to assemble them into a cute little top.

 

Have I mentioned that I'm glad to be home and have time to sew again? To see more design walls, hop over to Patchwork Times.

where did I put that?

I had a new baby quilt planned using someone else's UFO. I worked out the design in my head while we were driving through the desert toward home, guessing at the measurements of the existing pieces and coming so close to the actual numbers that I surprised myself once I actually did measure them.

The only thing that worried me was the backing. I knew I had a piece of yardage that would work and was sure exactly where I'd set it the last time I was up in the sewing room....

But what if I was wrong? What if it wasn't there? The colors on this quilt aren't going to play nicely with just anything...

Of course the backing was exactly where I'd pictured it in my mind's eye. It was the pieces for the top, the ones I'd had in my hand right before we left for the trip, that were hiding from me. (They surfaced about half an hour after I gave up and decided to work on something else.)

I'm so glad that I've found a use for this fabric. It's a backing sized piece of fairly nice cotton, but I was worried about the snowmen. They seemed too seasonal, and maybe too Christmas-y for a baby quilt. I don't want to admit how long it was before it clicked in my head that this is the exact same fabric on the back of the quilt Quinn came home from the NICU with!



Weekly Stash Report

Fabric Used this Week: 0 yards
Fabric Used year to Date: 39 yards
Added this Week: 0 yards
Added Year to Date: 87 1/4 yards
Net Added for 2013: 48 1/4 yards

Yarn Used this Week: 0 yards
Yarn Used year to Date: 1550 yards
Yarn Added this Week: 0 yards
Yarn Added Year to Date: 7100 yards
Net Added for 2013: 5550 yards

To see more weekly stash reports, click over to Patchwork Times. And to see more fabric stories, click over to Finding Fifth.

{Whatcha Reading?} Organized to Death by Jan Christensen

From the book's Amazon description --

Back in her hometown of Newport, RI, Tina Shaw, twenty-nine, is picking up the pieces of her shattered life. She begins her first job as a professional organizer in a house filled with cardboard boxes and clutter, only to discover a dead body in an eerily neat baby nursery. She fears this career move may be a short one until the handsome but spooky new doctor persuades her to reorganize his office left in disarray by the former physician.

Ignoring the doctor's obvious interest in her, Tina begins seeing her former boyfriend. When he protests against her new profession, she realizes what a control freak he is. Then there's another old flame who is making her hotter by the minute. As she works through the office clutter, she learns the doctor has a possible motive for the killing. But when someone else is shot, the doctor has a solid alibi--Tina herself. Drawn unwillingly into the case, she searches for answers as her list of suspects multiplies. When the killer begins targeting Tina and her friends, she works harder to learn the murderer’s identity before someone else is found dead.

An eerily neat baby nursery? That was definitely enough to catch my interest. Abandoned nurseries are one of those things that always makes me stop and pick up a book. And while I'm not about to hop on the decluttering bandwagon, I did find Organized to Death extremely entertaining. It's less about throwing things out and more about the mystery, which involves the murder victim, the homeowner, and Tina herself.

Disclosure -- my copy of the book was provided by the publisher.

Let's Make Baby Quilts! {week 22}

De-cluttering my sewing room is not one of my goals. Moving things around so that I can get at them? Sure.  Getting rid of the fabric that's just never going to make it into any type of quilt? I'll do that -- but for me, most fabric isn't that hopeless. Unless we're talking about metallic spandex.

I'm not aiming for a Spartan, picture perfect sewing room. I'm aiming for a room I can work in and maybe take an occasional picture in.

But even if I'm not trying to de-clutter, I can't avoid the de-cluttering tips. They're everywhere. And one does fit my situation --  Give back everything that isn't yours. The author was talking about borrowed items and library books, but I see another possibility here.

If I gathered up all of the finished baby quilts, gave them a trip through the washer and took them down to the pregnancy center, I'd free up a lot of space. I won't take all of them, because every time I've done that I suddenly needed a quilt in a hurry, but I could take at least  three quarters of them.( It's an errand that I tend to avoid because I feel weird going to the pregnancy center with four kids in tow.)

If you donate your baby quilts, who do you give them to? Do you donate locally, or ship them off?

Let's Make Baby Quilts Linky Party Rules:

Link directly to your post or specific Flickr photo. Your post can be about a baby quilt that's finished, or in progress, or you can be writing about what you have planned, but it's got to be about baby quilts. While we're still gathering steam, you're welcome to link to baby quilt posts that aren't brand new, but please don't submit the same post or picture more than once. I'd love it if you linked back to my site, either with a text link or the Let's Make Baby Quilts! button.

Pooling Sock Yarn Challenge -- my final report

I've had so much fun with Judy's Pooling Sock Yarn Challenge! I enjoy knitting socks and have tons of sock yarn in my stash, but it'd been forever since I cast on a pair. And there were some yarns I'd avoided using because, based on my previous experience with those yarn lines, I was afraid that they'd pool.

I'm not a fan of pooling yarn, but Judy issued the challenge and I had yarn that I was sure would pool, so it seemed like a great excuse to cast one some socks and see what  I could come up with.

The first pair, after a false start with the first foot, did exactly what I thought it would do.  The colors pooled and spiraled and did all of the interesting things Dancing did the first time I knitted socks with it. Here are the details for this pair, including my picture of the yarn on the March 2013 calendar page.

 

The pair I knit with Knitpicks Zinnia didn't pool at all.

 

And neither did the pair I knit from Knitpicks New England Foliage.

But I've got three brand new pairs of socks, and a fourth pair half done.  I've sorted through all of my sock yarn stash and pulled out my sock knitting books and made lots of plans for upcoming pairs. Like I said, this was FUN!

thinking about heels

I finished a pair of socks on our  road trip -- and started another.  When we got in the car, I  was just past the toe increases on the second sock. A day and a half later, I was binding off the sock. That's got to be a new record for me.

The yarn is Knitpicks Landscape in the New England Foliage colorway.... 64 stitches on size 2 (I think) dpns...k3p1 ribbing on the top of the foot, short row heels, k2p2 ribbing on the legs.

I'm starting to wonder if there might be a better heel for knitting in the car. I can do just about everything on these basic socks except for turning the heels and starting the toes without staring at my knitting. Maybe heels with flaps would free up my eyes for watching the scenery.... any suggestions for me to research?

This post is linked to to Finish it Up Friday, Can I get a Whoop Whoop?, and Freedom Fridays,

{yarn along} a different way to knit socks...

I'm becoming more and more convinced that Knitpicks Dancing and Patons Stretch Socks are the same exact yarn, except for the colors. The fiber content is the same, and it definitely feels the same. I wonder if the Patons yarn pools....but it's too late to start wishing for pooling now!

 

I've been reading about socks, too, and found a neat book to share with you.

When I first stared knitting, I made myself a pair of socks on straight needles. They were a disaster. In her introduction to Knit Your Socks on Straight: A New and Inventive Technique with Just Two Needles, Alice Curtis says that she tried several patterns for easy to knit socks on two needles and "The results were nothing I would ever want to wear! They neither looked nor felt good." It makes me wonder if we tried the same pattern.

When I got the chance to review her new book, I was intrigued. I love sock knitting books and have a huge collection of them. But socks on two needles? Nice socks on two needles? I was skeptical.

Alice set out to create two needle socks for her students who were determined not to use dpns -- and boy, did she succeed! The one thing I don't like about writing reviews from digital copies is the inability to share pictures -- check out the book's Ravelry page to see what she accomplished. It's way more than I ever would have thought you could do with straight needles (at least as far as socks are concerned.)  There are socks in a variety of sizes and styles, and using different weights of yarn. 

I'd be tempted to try a pair myself, but I can't quite convince myself to do that much purling. Not when my own fear of dpns is so long gone. For knitters who still don't want to use them, and don't mind seaming, I think this book would be a goldmine. And also for more experienced knitters who want an interesting challenge.

For more fun knitting projects to drool over, check out On the Needles at Patchwork Times and Work in Progress Wednesdays at Tami's Amis.

{Whatcha Reading?} Island of Lost Girls

I think the online card catalog suggested Island of Lost Girls when I was placing my reserve for Still Missing.

Here's the publisher's description:

While parked at a gas station, Rhonda sees something so incongruously surreal that at first she hardly recognizes it as a crime in progress. She watches, unmoving, as someone dressed in a rabbit costume kidnaps a young girl. Devastated over having done nothing, Rhonda joins the investigation. But the closer she comes to identifying the abductor, the nearer she gets to the troubling truth about another missing child: her best friend, Lizzy, who vanished years before.

The book opens with a little girl playing submarine in an abandoned car, her game interrupted when a body is discovered in the woods nearby. Then it jumps back a couple of weeks and  after that it continues to alternate between the character's lives in 1993 and 2006... it took me a while to figure out who was doing what when. In hindsight, that was partially because that little girl in the submarine car immediately faded into the background.  And there are quite a few little girls in this book -- the one who was kidnapped by the giant rabbit, another one who was kidnapped and made national news, one who died years before the story started...  Compared to some of the other books I've read lately, this one felt like a bit of a dud.

sweetened condensed milk again

I made Honey Walnut Shrimp for lunch, this time cutting the mayonnaise by half and doubling the honey and sweetened condensed milk. It made a HUGE different -- no odd mayo taste to this batch!

The only other problem with this recipe is that it uses a tablespoon of sweetened condensed milk, leaving me with the rest of the can. It's too expensive to throw away and I really didn't want to make another bath of those peanut butter and biscuit mix cookies...

Luckily Jo's daughter Kelli has a recipe for Yummy-Yummy Monster Bars that uses a can  of the stuff!  I gambled that it would work with the missing tablespoon and they came out just fine.

I think I've got a new favorite lunch and dessert combination!

sheets and knees and sock knitting

Something has changed...something good. Or my knee is just playing with me and I'm going to wind up in trouble after letting my guard down. Last week, I was at Carlsbad Caverns with my husband and kiddos. Before they let you go down through the natural entrance, they go through the list of rules and warn you to use the elevator if you've got a heart conditions or knee injury...

We've gone through the caverns at least once since the first knee injury, maybe once since the second.  I knew I could do it, but figured I'd be pretty sore by the end, so I figured I'd go slowly and take a bunch of Advil once we were done with the three mile hike. By the end, I was tired, but me knee didn't hurt.

Yesterday, I was helping a friend pack to move. She lives in the most gorgeous 1930s house, complete with a flight of steep stairs that twists halfway up. I was up and down and up and down (get to the top and the cell phone, which I'd just thought about stuffing into the pocket of my jeans rings at the bottom) and thought about telling her halfway through the day that I was going to have to limit my trips. But  I didn't. And I can still walk this morning... I'm daring to hope that this means my knee has finally decided to settle down and stop making decisions for me. Or I'm jinxing myself by even typing about it.

Weekly Stash Report

We spent the past week on the road. Hubby set a new record for miles driven in one day, and I set a new record for biggest chunk of sock knitted in one day...both on the same day, of course! 

Fabric Used this Week: 0 yards
Fabric Used year to Date: 39 yards
Added this Week: 0 yards
Added Year to Date: 87 1/4 yards
Net Added for 2013: 48 1/4 yards

Yarn Used this Week: 400 yards
Yarn Used year to Date: 1550 yards
Yarn Added this Week: 0 yards
Yarn Added Year to Date: 7100 yards
Net Added for 2013: 5550 yards

I'm not counting sheets as yardage this year. The plan is to keep track (I've added three)  and add them at the end of the year in their own category, instead of converting them into yards the way I have in previous years. It makes sense to me.

Before we left on the trip, Grandma gave me this sheet for a project (not a quilt) I'd told her I needed to start. It's one of my favorite vintage sheet prints, and I didn't realize that it came in brown. Except for the fact that it's a fitted sheet and not quite big enough, I think it's the perfect backing for my drab postage stamps. I'll just have to piece it with something else and explain the change in plans to Grandma, who I'm sure will understand once I show her the front of the quilt.

To see more weekly stash reports, click over to Patchwork Times. I'm also linking up with Sunday Stash at Finding Fifth.

my fabric choices from 20some years ago

I got a surprise a few weeks back when I walked into  Grandma's pantry and saw her new apron hanging from one of the hooks. I'd managed to completely block this fabric from my memory. It's yellow. Really, really, yellow. And it's bright.

I bought the fabric when I was a teenager and sewed a matching top and pair of shorts -- and yes, to answer Teenage Daughter's question, I did do it on purpose. In my defense, it was the mid-80s and I'm not sure I wore it more than once or twice.  

 

Now I'm wondering how many yards I bought, if I made a top and shorts and there was still enough of it left for it to resurface and for Grandma to make her apron. It's got sailboats. And squiggles that I think are supposed to look like words.  



 

I'm sure it was cheap. That must be the explanation, right?

Let's Make Baby Quilts! {week 21}

I decided to pull out the yellow scraps again and make a checkerboard baby quilt. They're cute and go together quickly, especially if you use strip piecing for that first yellow and white section.

 

Of course, as soon as I got that part done, I came up with an idea I like better. One that uses yellow squares by themselves. Back to the ruler and rotary cutter....

Let's Make Baby Quilts Linky Party Rules:

Link directly to your post or specific Flickr photo. Your post can be about a baby quilt that's finished, or in progress, or you can be writing about what you have planned, but it's got to be about baby quilts. While we're still gathering steam, you're welcome to link to baby quilt posts that aren't brand new, but please don't submit the same post or picture more than once. I'd love it if you linked back to my site, either with a text link or the Let's Make Baby Quilts! button.