Easter swap

Lookee what came in the mail yesterday! These are my goodies from the Easter swap on the "quilted table" group. The candle was not included but it looks pretty darn good right there. I have wanted one of these dresden plate centerpieces for a long time but have been too chicken to actually make one. But now that I have this one-i want more! i'll have to see if i can figure them out now. Maybe a red/white/blue one for fourth of july?

The candy is already gone...the kids are FAST!

Second Verse

Same as the First! remember that song? thats what it feels like areound here. This set of photos was taken after our 2nd blizzard of march-last monday/tues. I'm a little tired of snow. And they are predicting more for friday(tomorrow) and saturday. Yuk

Another blizzard

This was the view out my garage door at about 10 am on Tuesday morning. See the house across the street? Nope? i couldn't even see the street! This is the third big blizzard we have had in the 2 1/2 years we have lived in South Dakota. Last May was the first, last november was the second(and the worst of the 3).

Isn't this drift neat? Hubby thought the pic looked like I was in a Helicopter flying over the desert. He would know, he's been there!

Sunset Tuesday evening. I love this picture!

This is facing our house after the storm. I climbed over the drift to take pics and see how bad it was once we got away from the house.

How tall are yield signs? 8-9 feet? They completely buried that sign when they were digging out the road that Sami is standing by.

Now you would think that with all this snow i'd have spent some time sewing, right? nope! There are gaps in the basement walls caused by poor craftmanship when building this house, so we had snow and wind in the basement while the storm was raging. And by the time the storm quit we still had 40 + MPH winds so that basement was COLD!! Thanks goodness the rest of the house hold heat well. I did however cut out several scrubs tops for my mom and perhaps my SIL to wear to work at their hospitals. And I cut out some more summer dresses and sleep pants for the little people I know, like my neices and nephews and a neighbor girl.

Stash report week #12

I missed a week so here goes for the last 2 weeks:

Fabric in: 10 yds
Fabric used: 22 yds
Finishes: 3 bags

I also worked on a bunch of tops-i need to start finishing stuff again!

Year to date:
Fabric in: 67 1/2yds
Faric out: 199 1/2 yds
Net fabric used: 132 yds

Total quilty finishes YTD: 48

Easter runners and stash quilt

I was following Judy L's stash quilt instructions and got a music quilt this week. This is bigger than she wrote the instructions and I ended up with a long narrow quilt. Not quite what i wanted so i added large side borders and then an all around smaller border and it ended up 66x86. Perfect for a Twin bed even if i dotn know whose twin bed that will be!

This is the pattern from our once a month "sunday brunch" at the LQS. We get together and eat and then she hands out a runner pattern. I have not had a chance to make any of the other runners but this one seemed to need to be done before easter. This is not the colors the teacher used-she used greens and purples which was very cute but in the intrest of being a Stashbuster I used fabrics i had at home-except the dark purple which will be the binding too.

This runner was from the leftover bits from the first one-much smaller but still fun. I'll use the dark purple i used in the other runner for binding.

candy cakes

I've been a follower of "the poineer woman" http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/ for a while and i've learned a bunch from her. But now she's helped me go a little crazy. She had "bakerella"http://http://bakerella.blogspot.com/ over to visit and made what she called cakepops. Very cool! So I decided to give it a go.

Here's the shredded cake mixed with frosting and rolled into balls.

And dropped into melted white chocolate......Or Regular chocolate....These were supposed to look like pots of gold for St. Patricks day.

And these were green in honor of St Patricks day too. They are a lot of work..but a lot of fun. The kids love them and so do my co-workers. The most amazing thing is-I dont like them! And I like just about anything made with this much sugar! Very wierd.

this, that, and the other thing

I haven't blogged in much too long so I have lots to show and its easier if i just lump them all together. This Easter snoopy runner is just a top and will go in to the gift stash probably as soon as i get it finished.

Qov #1-i've got about 4 more in the works. When i've got them all lined up i'll tell the story of why i'm doing so many all of a sudden.

Judy L's quilt along-i'm behind again as usual! but i love this quilt so far!

This is for a swap. The gal i'm sending to collects vintage fashions and the fabrics have old pattern covers on it. I'm pretty sure she does not read my blog but if she does i'm busted.

And miss sami modeling the bag she made mostly by herself. And her too big pj's too!