I went with the lime

I apologize for being gone for a little over a month.  Lots going on here.  I have been busy sewing and working on getting my swap items done.  I joined 3 swaps on Instagram; 2 group and 1 personal and they are all due at the same time!  What was I thinking?!  I am in good shape but I had a little lack of sewing for about 9 days or so.  Playing catch up now.  And I was asked to make two more personalized pillows and I need those both done by next week too.  UGH.

I had some surgery at the beginning of November so I spent some time in the hospital.  Never had surgery before.  My c-section doesn't count.  I had no choice in the c-section.  Before surgery, my mind was elsewhere and once I got home, I was so wiped out. I had no desire to sew for about 9 days.  I have never been under anesthesia before.  Instead of being wake after an hour in recovery, it took me 2.5 hours to come awake.  My husband was a bit concerned for sure.  The pain meds they gave me in the hospital knocked me out too so once I was home, I slept for days and had no energy.  Surgery is behind me and I'm all recovered and feeling great.

I did finish my navy dresden and I went with the lime accent.  I love it!

I did a simple echo straight stitch for quilting in all the negative space.  I am going to make one for myself.  Either turn it into a pillow or mini wall hanging.

I hate to give it away.  I hope my swap partner loves it as much as I do!

To those here in the U.S. - Happy Thanksgiving this week!  Eat lots and lots of turkey!  Gobble!  Gobble!

Enjoy your day!
Jen

Scrappy Crossroads

Lori Holt did a quick tutorial on Instagram on a scrappy crossroads block.  Since I had nothing else to do (haha), I joined in the fun and TRIED to do a bit of scrap stash busting.  I didn't even make a dent BUT I have a very cute wall hanging for my efforts.

I only made four blocks since a big quilt is just not in the cards for me right now.  I have enough larger quilts in various stages of finishing.  The four blocks only took me a week to do; I worked on them a little bit each night.  Things went much faster once I found my box of 2.5" squares that I had already cut a while back.

I also added a 2.5" outer border to finish it all off.

I can't wait to get this one quilted!

Hmmmm.  Now I wonder what I should work on next?

Enjoy your day!
Jen  :)

Nesting

Last day of school today!  WOOHOO!!  I am ready for lazy mornings.  So ready!  So is my future 4th grader.  4th grade.  Where did the time go?!??!  Tomorrow we are off to Hershey, PA for some fun time.

I'm not a big Instagram user (jenwith01); between blogs, Facebook, Pinterest... I just forget about IG but every now and again I will pop in there and check things out.  About a week ago I popped onto Instagram and got sucked into a new project.  :P

It all started with this:

Evolved into:

I just kept going.  

#nestedchurndash is the quilt along happening on Instagram.  They are big blocks too.  24" finished so only 9 blocks with sashing will make a very nice sized quilt.  I haven't decided if I am going to keep this one for myself or give it to Amelia.  I think if I give it to her, we'll have to share it.  I'm going to have a hard time losing it.  I'm sticking with a 2 block palette for each block and I'm really loving it.  I'm just not sure what to do for the last 4 blocks.  I'm going to have to start repeating colors.  I'm thinking more a lime-y green with aqua or yellow as one combination, red and yellow as another.  After that, I'm stuck. I don't want to do another pink block since there are 2 pinks already (pink and green/pink and orange).

What I have right now is:

pink and green

aqua and red

purple and gray

navy and yellow

orange and pink

Any 2 color combo ideas?

enjoy your day!

Jen  :)