Sew,sew,sew,

Hey all,did you miss me in blog land?  I sure missed reading my favorite blogs,and am hoping to get caught up soon!  The first week of vacation was a lot of driving,and visiting family.  The visiting part was great,the driving part not so much...

This week I have been trying to stay off here and get some of my sewing goals completed.  Which is going pretty good :0)

Before I show my progress so far though...  One Happy Mom and her quilt!!  The lighting where we stayed was not very good,but good enough for a couple of photos for my album :0)

Magnum Block for the skill builder QAL I joined,both this one and the Sound Wave block still need to be quilted,but at least they are pieced!

My February Bee block,Pippi Longstalking!  Even though I chopped off her feet (oops) this one is still super cute :0)  I plan on making more Pippi blocks in the future.

Row 10 in my row along,little Houses.  Although the blocks themselves are about 6.5x8.5 there are 20 little pieces that make up each block.

Welcome to my "Quilters Neighborhood"!  Only five houses on this street,mine is the one at the right end.

Surprised that my house is not in  the green prints?  Me too,but as you can see there are still plenty of green prints on some of the other houses.

Row 11,something that all us quilters use by the Spool!  Yes,Spools of Thread.

I decided to make my thread spools look like antique wooden spools,they turned out rather nicely.

Last night Jolene,helped my with some things on my computer,so this morning while typing up this post I decided to play around a bit with the photos.

Lastly,a tease photo for my swap person on FB!  Hope everyone is having a super week with at least a little sewing thrown in :0)

Projects

This is my clothes pin keeper!
I have been wanting to make one of these since first seeing
the tutorial over at Spontaneous Threads.
So yesterday this was the project that I worked on in
the morning :)

There is a great tutorial over at SewHappyGeek :)
This is one of the Stashtactular tutorials!
It can be for just about any smallish electronic
device that you have.
The tutorial was for an I pod/I phone
since I have an I pod that is the project I did :)
The nice thing is that the tute is very easy to
follow! 
I was able to whip this baby up in no time!

If you are a follower,you probably know that my parents are
visiting from California for this and next week :)
So,this is a project that my mom is working on!

She saw my Maxine napkins and decided that she would like
to make some for her and &dad to use at home.
Here is the fabric she started with.

A close-up of the above photo.
I used the applique stitch on my machine to attach the smaller
pieces of fabric to the block.

Mom kept asking me "do you think that this fabric goes
together?"
To which my reply was,mom if you like it then it goes just fine!
They are for you so make whatever you like :)

Last night I was able to get the smaller blocks all appliqued onto
the larger blocks.
The duck print is going to be the back side of the napkins.

That will be done today :)
Then it will be on to the next project!
Did I mention that I LOve VACation?!!