Weekend Quilt Warrior

So I made block #7 of the Sew. Happy. Quilt. QAL this weekend. I really wish I had found this when the others started because I am not finding it hard AT ALL to keep up the block a week pace like I thought I would. This week's block was the Flying Geese pattern. The astute quilters out there will notice that my triangles don't exactly line up like they are supposed to, but I don't really care. This is my first quilt EVER and I am really quite amazed that I seem to be halfway decent at it. I think it's probably that Jenna's instructions are so easy to follow, but we'll just call it awesome skills on my part. (HAH!)

I've also been doing a Pleated Boxes Pillow sewalong that you can find over at Craft Buds. It doesn't require a lot of time, so my sewing stalkers (friends?) who have 3-4 hours and some scraps laying around should give it a go! It doesn't end until March 23rd and you might be a prize winner! And even if you aren't, you'll have a super cute pillow to show for it. Seriously, some of you who are actual sew-ers could probably knock it out during naptime one afternoon. (How do you spell sew-ers without it coming out sewers?) Anyway, here's my pillow front. I'll post another picture when I get it completed (probably this coming weekend).

I cannot WAIT to finish this and put it on my couch!!!

So what did YOU do this weekend?

When quilting goes wrong...

So here's the thing. I followed the pattern! I swear I did! Well, I thought I did. But apparently, I cut the pieces out backward. Can we call it a ninja star?

Is that....a....oh. Crap.

New Quilt Block

Another week, another finished block. Yay!

I forgot to print off the template for this week's actual block (oops!), so I just jumped a week ahead and will go back and get the other one next week. Plus it looks kinda hard.

So, the block this time is called a Fireflies Block. It was really fun to make!

I wasn't all that pleased with it in person, but I think it looks AWESOME in that picture. So I'm not really sure what that says about it. That probably plays into my theory that it's not that I make crappy crafts, it's that other people take REALLY good photos of their crappy crafts.

Maybe it's the blue ironing board? I don't know.

More Quilt Blocks! Yay!

So it's that time again! Gotta do my block for the week for the Quilt Along I'm doing.

So next on the list are blocks 3 & 4. I am now in love with spray starch. Why, you ask?

Well I WAS president of the Future Homemakers of America, afterall...

Recently I decided I was going to learn to quilt. Because, um...yeah. I just did. So I'm doing this quilt along by Jenna at SewHappyGeek. I was late to the party (they are already on their 8th block), but that's ok, because they are going a week at a time and I doubt I can keep up with that pace once we get past the easy blocks anyway. So it should be fun. We'll see...

Here's my first 2 blocks! You can find the directions and a step-by-step tutorial on how to make them here.

(Yes, I am super proud of them. And they only took me like 5 hours total to cut and piece both of them)