prom 2011...

this was fun......

We got the color on the flags right this time!!

The teacher and I set up the table for our tea party during rest time. The lights went on and the shades went up & the kids came walking over to see what we were up to.....

Real dishes, real silverware and fancier food....

One of the girls paused and said breathlessly,

"It is so beautiful!"

A couple of them were exited that they actually had knives at their place settings.

Even our local press heard about our party...and came to take pictures.

All in honor of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge

celebrating.....

Preschool will be celebrating the royal wedding tomorrow. 

Instead of snack time we are calling it "tea" &

if they choose, they will be dressing up in their finest clothes.

We will fix the colors...we messed up!!!! (4-29-11)

To top it all off they have made luscious crowns....

Final fitting will be tomorrow, all that glue needed plenty of time to dry.

Only the finest sequins, feathers and glitter was used.

Whoa! Somebody really went over board with the gold glitter. 

The boys basically went through the motions to create these and decided they wanted to be kings, being a prince didn't seem very exciting.

But the girls, oh my, they could hardly contain themselves. 

They LOVED these absolutely

BEAUTIFUL crowns they had made...and were very happy with the title of princess.

two finishes.....

The penguin quilt for Zoey is ready to go. I took these at my mother-in-laws last Saturday. We had our Easter dinner and it was HAM BALLS. 

I love them!

It was cloudy, but she has a handy clothes line to hang it on. You can see that some of the penguins are blue and purple, not all of them are black.

Zoey's parents are going to get a quilt too....and it is ready to go.....

 It is my wavy quilt....one I made a while ago.

I put on a super small border. All that bias on the edge of it, did me in. 

The bigger the border the bigger the wave became. But, oh well, it will still keep a person warm.

 It is perfect for a couch quilt, laying on the floor for a baby to play on

or for a cat to pounce on then get spooked by a squawking bird out in the yard.

this picture look more like it's name.......old tobacco road (at quiltville) by Bonnie K Hunter.

border options, mail & binding.......

I went shopping yesterday and bought some nice lime green marble fabric to use on the border of Zoe's quilt. The shop owner was pulling all kinds of bolts off the shelves and this is the one I fell in love with.

After I left, I remembered something.....

I had thought about adding some black and white check for an inner border. So off I went to the other quilt shop. What I really, really, wanted was a black and white stripe about 1 inch wide. They didn't have anything like that. I did find a checkered fabric......

I think having 3 rows of checks showing made it look like NASCAR, and more boyish.

The 2 rows of checks showing looks more girlish. I like it better. It would finish just shy of 1 inch.

I haven't decided yet.

I got more cool mail from my sister......

The outside was more Easter things.

But the inside, well that was the best part.....

She put the sweetest message inside.....

(I am the oldest)

I have the best little sisters!

(I need to make that plural, Mom had 6 of us girls)

And last, but not least.....

The penguin quilt! The backing is pretty wild for me....but the colors are so close to the front of it.

I had to use it!!

The binding is on and completely done!!

That  is what I did today!

the card and the center......

My sister made me a card for Easter. It was in the mail yesterday......

Lovely front. Traditional Easter things.....
Then I opened up the card.
It cracked me up....

She says George Lucas stole the words we use and changed them to say "the force"....so...

she is stealing them back.

I finished the center of Zoe's quilt.

Now I need to figure out the border.

postcards...

It snowed last night. That's all I will say, I won't go on and on complaining about cold weather or even post a picture of snow.
We are still in spring mode and Easter will be here soon!

Last week I cut up the Sunday ads. I don't remember who had a bunch of stuffed animals on sale, but they were cut out. A ton of letters joined the pile too. I think I need a better system for saving cut up stuff like this. Cereal boxes were also cut up and painted.

The fourth one is my favorite. I can't help but smile when I look at it. It is the special one.

My Mom will be getting this one. I am 99% sure she will laugh out loud when it arrives. They went out today. The post office window is only open from 10:30 to 11:15 am....and I was able to get there to purchase some stamps! I used regular stamps, these cards are slightly bigger than true postcard size.

baby name and green grass......

It is slow going with this baby quilt. I have her name....I am not sure I like the dark pinks in it. I went with what I had.... and this is what I ended up with.

I have some butterflies from last summer and the wonky flowers.

Just need to make it all come together.

It is finally getting green here. 

We had storms go through last night. Lots of wind and rain. No major damage here, but it seems that the grass got a whole lot greener since yesterday!!

picky, not so picky...

This month it is Clover flowers at Block Lotto  (the picky)

I was working two things at once....the clover flower heads, which needed to be exact

and then wonky flowers, that didn't need to be exact.

My wonky's were based on these free-pieced flowers (the not so picky)

Mine don't exactly look like the example, but close enough. 

It is putting the centers in that help them say flower.  These are going to be in a baby quilt.

They all look like this yet.

But the block lotto flowers are done.

I can rest easy with block lotto for the rest of the month.

I couldn't decide on what colors to use for sewing letters to make the name on the baby girl quilt.

Then I remembered.....

The Quilted Forest, in Forest City, sells cotton candy packages of precut 2 1/2" strips. A few years ago I bought the pink one. I had no plan for them, but they were pretty.

These will be perfect for the letters in the baby girl quilt. 

2 1/2 can be cut in half....1 1/4" strips 

or

1 1/2 & 1" strips....the size cuts I most often use for wonky letters! 

I don't know if I will get to sewing letters today or not, but the fabric is ready to go.

wonky town blocks.....

When we were at the auction, I noticed this real-life wonky shed. Since I was thinking about sewing a wonky house, I thought it might be good inspiration for this........

border town ....a town made of Halloween and Christmas fabrics. There will be a drawing and I could win blocks made by others at the UnRuly Quilting Blog. 

At first, I couldn't see mixing the fabrics.

In my mind these two holidays didn't mix. But I fought my perpendicular ways and went crooked and contructed some houses with the two fabrics.

And, I thought some more......and made the wonky houses as best I could.

With all that thinking..... an idea came to me.....why stick to just Halloween and Christmas?

Why not mix Valentines and the fourth of July?

Turkeys and Easter?

So, if I win some wonky town blocks.....

I will make more blocks with other seasonal fabrics....and then add the words.....

HAPPY TOWN ALL YEAR LONG

maybe add my city and state too