Adding to the "TO DO" List

I thought I would show you a peek at my new Block of the Month

"Rosie Tweet."

I am off to deliver them to Quilts Etc. today for display if you would like to stop by and take a look at them. Pictured here are January through March blocks. I hope to have the rest ready to show you soon along with some other little projects. If you would like to join my Block of the Month, you can go here and sign up!

In the meantime I have a little addition to my "TO DO" list. I found this great rug recently and just had to have it. Little did I know what an amazing amount of work this little number was going to create! Upon it's arrival in the room, I decided that everything made of material in this room just had to be recovered. So... I spent this past weekend doing just that.

Recovering, in more ways than one!

I added this chair and ottoman that I found second-hand, and recovered it in this really pretty paisley. I am not sure if I like it, but when the fabric was on sale for $1.50 a yard, and matches the couch which I also recovered in green. I figured I could live with it for a while.

On the whole, this was a pretty inexpensive, but labor intensive project.

I will show you the whole room when I get it cleaned up. I plan to do some finishing touches before I show it all. Including cleaning the few paint drips on the floor captured in this picture!

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Now for the second part of the recovering... I was painting this beautiful frame given to me by my mother for my new room, white of course, and saw a little problem with some molding on a corner of the frame. It was beginning to separate.

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Being concerned, I decided the best way to resolve the issue was to give it a little whack. I got a board, and because I couldn't find a hammer, decided a wrench would do the job. It was a pretty big one, but the only thing handy. So I placed the small board on top of the frame, and with all my might swung the wrench to whack that little gap back into place. My ring finger caught the might of the blow instead of the frame. Just figures.... I whacked my fingernail it half... broke it right off - sort of, it is still attached but has a bleeding crack and it is swollen and bruised. I now look as though I have a fingernail fitting for Frankenstein.

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I have successfully added another "idiot" moment to my already bulging book of idiotic moments. I would show you a picture, but even my kids get sick looking at it, so it must be pretty awful!

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As I heal, I intend on taking it easy for a few days,

and only applique a few pillows for the new room!

Spring into Halloween!

This is my block highlighted on the cover
of this really great issue of Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks.
(Some of you were asking which one was mine.)

Here is a red version of the block.
The magazine features my block in blue and has so appropriately named it
Spring in the Square.
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I received the magazine a few days ago.
Those ladies at Quiltmaker make you feel spoiled rotten
with all of the sweetness they sent me!
Thank you so much Quiltmaker!!!!
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Along with all of the block/ magazine excitement,
Halloween was a wonderful highlight for me these last couple of weeks!
This is the time I get to indulge in my "fashion designer"
dreams and create some fun stuff for the kids.
This is a picture of my oldest daughter Madi in her witch costume.

Brin decided to have me make a masquerade ball gown
for her great mask she found at the costume shop.
(Too bad you can't see the mask better in this picture. She just was not cooperating for the camera.)
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The mask has a painted gold and red leaf on it.
I decided to have hanging leaves all over the bottom
of her gown and on her sleeves. She loved it.

My youngest daughter Brook has been learning about the ancient
American culture in school.
She has been intrigued by them and decided to be an American Indian for Halloween.
This costume was especially fun to create with all of the fun lines.
Watching project runway really came in handy this year!

My boys decided to be the Super Mario Brothers, Mario and Luigi.
I made them both overalls out of bright blue corduroy.
They were adorable in their mustaches!
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This week I am back to quilting.
I have been working on a kitty/butterfly quilt I hope you will like.
I will post a sneak peek soon.
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Thanks for visiting.