Design Wall Monday 4-16-12

I was all set to pay up to keep photos on my blog but I also removed some excess photos so all is good as of this moment.... we'll see whether I can post the few pictures I have for today!  

 The Quilt Bee group I joined is making a block a month for the Queen Bee of the month.  April is Jenny and she wanted string blocks.  She gave everyone the green with navy blue dots and a list of colors to use.  Here's the first block I made for her.  I volunteered to make 6 blocks so I need to do a few more.  But I'm having a heck of a time getting the paper foundation to feed smoothly.  I'm trying telephone book paper next if it's wide enough.  I'll scour the house and see what other thin paper I might have around. 

Remember last November when I went wild and bought way too much fabric from the quilt guild's auction?  Well these little Winnie the Pooh pages were in the collection.  I've bordered them and now will square them to the same size.  Except... the purple is really strong compared to the other colors.  There really isn't much of a story line so I may run the purple and blue diagonally and fill in with yellow and green... it might look better than scattered.  I need to buy more purples -- I really like the color but I don't have all that many pieces of it. 

Week of April 8, 2012  How did I do last week? 

Continue on Scrap Squad #2 -- finished center √

Find a leader/ender quilt to work on√

Load and quilt Charity Baby quilt √

Package and Mail quilt to Alycia @ Quilts of Valor Well, quarter of a check mark -- I found the box

Make a mail heart blocks.. oops! 

Week of April 16, 2012

Get 3 borders on Scrap Squad #2

Prep backing for SS#2

Tea with neighbors/shoe shopping and lunch out

Load and quilt FCQ charity quilt

Finish 9.5" blcoks for FCQ Equilters charity quilt

Backing for flamingo quilt

Make misc. blocks: Jenny's strings, heart blocks, FCQ bom

Mail quilt to Alycia @ Quilts for Valor

Embroidery class with Bubbles, the new Bernina

That should keep me busy this week.  Word on the street is the gal pals will be shoe shopping on Thursday... I really want some new shoes... I plan on dumping a pair or two if I actually find any.

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