May Blocks & Cat-Mom Day

I hope everyone had a great mother's day yesterday.  I celebrated Cat-Mom Day since I had a rare mother's day Sunday off from Starbucks.  The cats decided to celebrate Cat-Mom Day by waking me up every half hour beginning at 4AM and continuing until I finally relented and got out of bed at 8ish.  Apparently, the cats did not get the memo that the only thing I wanted to do was sleep in for a change....

Of course, being cats, they were all back to sleep by mid-morning....
Case in point:  Remy basking in the sunlight.  I *may* have woke him up after taking this photo.

Remy Kitty 

Nameless Star

 I did get some sewing time in this weekend and since it's nearly halfway through May, I thought better get caught up on those BOMs and BOWs that keep rolling on in.

First up, this week's Votes for Women block. An easy peasy one for a change.

The Civil War Dixie Diary BOM for May and April (below)

Country Threads BOM Sampler 12" block and 6" block (below).

Centennial: New Zealand Victory

More Votes for Women:  catch up blocks from December. There are 10 more blocks to go and I am still 9 blocks behind so it is a race to catch up to the end.  I hope to get more done this week.  

Capital T:  Sarah Pellet

March Blocks

I am keeping up with the (several) Blocks of the Month that I'm working on this year.  Here is block 3 for Barbara Brackman's Dixie Diary quilt.

The Country Threads sampler with blocks in two sizes is lots of fun.  I am making mine in colors that remind me of each month.  For March, of course, green for St. Patrick's Day with some vaguely shamrocky looking fabrics .  

March 12" block

March 6" block

March is also Women's History Month so I used Jo Morton's "lady" fabric for the second 12" block.

Block 9 for the Fat Quarter Shop's Designer Mystery quilt.  I better get hopping on the finishing kit and get some rows sewn together.

More Blocks of the Month

I hope everyone in the Northeast is snug and warm and/or digging out after the big blizzard!!  I've been looking at photos of the amazing amount of snow dumped on you in  just a few hours. Up to 30" in some areas WOW!

I spent yesterday afternoon working on some 2013 blocks of the month from blogland.  (Like I need to add more to the list...)

Remy was an excellent supervisor.



Country Threads is celebrating their 30th year in business this year with a free online quilt sampler. Their designs were some of the first that I made when I began quilting in 2001.  In keeping with my theme this year of joining in on too many blocks of the month using up fabric, I got out my bag of Jo Morton fabrics and am using those for most of these blocks.  For this sampler,  a 12" and 6" block is made each month. For a color theme, I'm picking colors that remind me of each month of the calendar.  Here are January's blocks in blue; January is either dreary and cold or clear skies and sunny so to me, that says blue.

I also think this sampler would be great in solids or bright modern fabrics (I'll just stick with making this one version though).






February's blocks are red for Valentine's day.

I also finally decided on the fabrics for Barbara Brackman's 2013 Civil War block of the month, Dixie Diary  I have a fat eighth bundle of Barbara's Metropolitan Fair line.  Does anyone remember why I purchased it?  I couldn't remember so I decided to use it for this quilt along with some assorted other reproductions.  I decided to make the 12" versions of the blocks and use the recommended on-point layout to make a full-size quilt.  Again, trying to use up that stash.Here is January's block.  

And February's block.  I am making only stars for the appliqué (not a heart-kinda girl) and decided to do machine-applique, figuring I was more likely to keep up with these blocks with a quick appliqué method rather then needle-turn.  I also found fabric for the setting blocks and triangles in my stash. 

More shopping in my stash and I have the backings and bindings for two quilts that I need to get basted and quilted on my days off next week. Hooray for a productive Friday.  Today was a long, busy day at Starbucks and I got nothing done this afternoon except a taking nap and watching The Walking Dead marathon.