Day 119 - Little squares...

Look what has happened outside my backdoor....

It's SPRING in Minnesota!!!

This morning I sewed some of the strips into 12 block strips.  Have them about 1/3 done this way. They still need to be pressed.

Day 118 - Sewing little squares...

Did some power sewing with some of those little blocks I sorted last night.  These are pre-cut blocks- about 2" "sissors cut" that were given to me by a friend.  I decided to get some of them together tonight.  I am randomly selecting pieces and chain sewing them together. 

And then we have Pete laying on the white shirts on the ironing board that I should have been ironing tonight but instead I was sewing little uneven squares together....it was a good choice.

Day 117 - Organizing

A tough day today so spent some time going through some little blocks.  Got rid of a pile of these and I think now I would be ready to actually sew these up! Yes, all 3 jars contain different size squares.....

Day 116 - 3 More Rows

Sewed 3 rows on the top of the camping quilt tonight.

Day 115 - Camping quilt

Got 3 rows of 17 blocks each sewn together tonight.

Day 114 - Camping Quilt

I got the other side of the quilt together.  I have to measure as I only need it to be a bit over 72" wide to fit comfortably in the trailer.  Will measure tomorrow...

Day 113 - Another yo yo night

You guessed it...

Day 112 - Camping Quilt

For the 3rd time this week I was called in early to work.  3 hours early.  So my morning plans went out the window.  Before I left this is what I got done sewing for the opposite side of the center panel.

Day 111 - Sewing

Added one side of the camping quilt tonight.

Day 110 - Try try again...

Tackled it again tonight with a bit more sucess...

Look who joined me tonight...

Day 109 - Camping Quilt

Having trouble getting things to fit tonight....

Day 108 - Camping Quilt

Wow, it's been a long time since this project was worked on!  I put a border on the center block for the camping quilt.  I am excited to be working on this again!

Michael installed another section of the basement ceiling.  The little hole is where the heat vent will go.

Day 107 - Church Work

Spent my Saturday from 9:00 am to 3:30 pm at church working on the mission quilts. Here are a couple of snaps of the group that was working today.  I think we had 10 all together.

This is where I worked all day- laying out batting, choosing backing, laying the quilt on, pinning then cutting the entire thing out and sometimes enlarging the batting by hand sewing pieces together....

Also had to turn those quilts right side out...

One of the gals has a pen pal from Taiwan she has written with since 1958 and she brought us each a gift of a magnet, thimble and a Taiwanese green rice tea bag.

Another sign of spring in the yard when I came home:

And Michael worked a couple hours in the basement and got up some more ceiling tiles!!!

Day 106 - Yo-yo's

Friday night. Just sat and made yo-yo's.

Day 105 - Church Quilts, Craft Group

Finished the last of the 4 baby quilt tops for missions this morning before work.

Monthly Craft Group tonight and we all worked on similar projects out of paper from a book called Soul Dolls.  Verna worked on some of these at home before she came.

Here is one that Lois worked on:

Carol worked on two different dolls:

And these little soaring gals will be hung from the ceiling when the basement gets done:

Day104 - Church Baby Quilts

Another night of baby quilts!!!  Almost done with this green flannel quilt (I will add some borders to it)

Added the last little red border to this blue baby quilt

Then I did did strip quilt of the long extra fabric pieces

I am tired....

Day 103 - Mission Baby Quilts

Another day of working on Mission quilts for church. Both photos are kind of "washed out" as far as the colors go.  This first quilt is lavender and pink and all ready for the backing and batting on Saturday.

This second quilt is all blues with red accents.  I will add one more thin red border on the very edge.  The last border is a pinstripe of blue and white.

Day 102 - Church Quilts

Spent a couple of hours at church tonight working on getting some of the backing and batting pinned together for the all day quilting on this coming Saturday. 

Day 101 - Church quilts

Added a border to one of the completed mission church quilts:

Then I made these into a mission quilt:

Then I put together a bunch of odd 4" blue flannel squares and will see if there is some plain flannel tomorrow night at church to add some borders:

Then mixed some more 4" flannel squares to do this little baby quilt and will also look for some border flannel tomorrow night at church:

Day 100 - Milestone in 365 Days of Crafting...

Spent my morning at church working on mission quilt kits.  Figuring out which ones were done and seeing if we had backing material or not for them.  I didn't get a photo of that but I did work on straightening out several of our cupboards when the quilt work was done.  ( I should have taken before and after photos)  Here is the cupboard:

This one I did clean out the top shelf and bottom. At the very bottom are all of the quilt tops and backings ready to be sewn together.

I cleaned the top shelf in this cupboard which was a mess!

And this section didn't need much of anything done.

When I got home some work had been done on the basement ceiling by Michael and my Dad!

These shots are from opposite ends of the basement!