More Tagging Honors

I was tagged by Lori from Bleak2Unique.

 It's always nice to be chosen, and it warms the heart to know folks are actually viewing your blog enough to actually tag you. I have answered most of the questions before, and so I am uncomfortable repeating it all. I know Lori won't mind.

Hop on over and visit her! I know she will be delighted.

Funky Chicken Leg

That is the name of my latest charity quilt. The reason behind it is the fabric I used. Here's a close up.

I love it! And I made things easy, but using it for the backing as well as the piecing. I found it on clearance at Hancock's for $1.00 a yard and bought two yards. Probably should have bought more. And here is the finished quilt.

I had a little issue with stretching for some reason. I don't know if it was because the fabric had a lot of give, or if the batting I bought at Hobby Lobby was the culprit. It's different from what I've been using.  I'll have to be very careful with my next project because I bought enough to do a large quilt too.

The lighter piecing is a vintage fabric from my mother's stash. I'm so glad to be able to use it. I've been holding on to it for this kind of thing.

Now, let's do the Funky Chicken Y'all!
Linking up to Minutes for Me at Marcia's blog. And The Shady Porch's Rock 'N Share #20.

B-I-N-G-O

I finished my Bingo card! Yayyy for me! Wanna see? Well do ya??.... Ok, here you go.

I had a blast making this. And it was such a good use of scraps. I really need to get those things worked up into something because they are taking over my fabric cabinet.

I tried some new things with this because it's mine and no one else would care if I messed it up. It's the first time I've tried a criss cross grid and I loved it. I also practiced on my FMQ. It's a bit messy, but goes perfectly with the messy style lettering I appliqued. 

No Arkansas Bingo card would be complete without a Razorback... *grin*

Now, bring on May for Me!!!
You can see all about it here, here, here, and here.

Wednesday Work

I finished a NICU charity quilt this afternoon. I have one more to go and I'll be ready to take them all to St. Vincent's Infirmary.

I just kept it simple with this one. I needed to get it done and get the next one taken care of because it's been a while since I delivered any. Straight lines and stitching in the ditch made this fast work.

 The next one is sandwiched and ready to start quilting tomorrow. Hopefully, I'll be able to take them to Little Rock next week.

And maybe tomorrow, I'll get my Bingo Board finished for the May For Me Bingo Celebration I'm participating in.

You can check out my post about that here. 

I Hear Something....

 

 What was that? Please repeat yourself....

That's what I though you said!

This is what I worked on finishing up today. I really wanted this little area above my desk finished so I could focus on other things.

I finished painting the board today. I saw something like it while perusing beach cottages online one day and decided to do one for myself. I added the shells and starfish to make it my own. I have to say I'm pretty pumped at how it turned out.

I thought about doing the master bedroom entirely in a beach motif, but decided Mr. BLines wouldn't really love it as much, so I will stick to this one area along with my "Swimming Sea Turtle" colored walls. I finished painting the bedroom and bathroom this week. When I get everything just so, I'll share the before and after photos with everyone.

Christmas in February

Here is my monthly installment of what I call Twelve Months of Christmas. Well, at least it's my second installment. Who knows if I come up with more?? Anyhoo, let's revisit my inspiration ornament, purchased at Cracker Barrel.

L O V E it!!  Now, here is the first attempt at something along these lines.

It's a little quilted circle with an appliqued Chickadee and holly. A bit of embroidery and some jewels add to the simple design. The back is the same fabric, one I just pulled out of the cabinet because it was neutral.  I tried adding some Diamond Dust, but it really didn't add anything to the black part.  It was not a big hit, but will be put on the tree anyway. Neeext...

Mucho Better!! Here's what I did. I took a small embroidery hoop and muslin, and painted the design on. I added little pearly beads for dimension, and a bit of glitter acrylic paint to the word Joy. I painted the hoop white around the edges, hot glued rick rack on the top and sides of it, and then added the little bow with some do-dads I bought on clearance at Walmart after Christmas. This is the back...

Just a round cut of green fabric to give it a finished look. This one I am very happy with. And it gives me another idea for using the little hoops. Maybe that will be next month's idea!

Puff Two

Here is the second painting I've done which is inspired by a Puffs tissue box design.

My brother created some 10x10 box frames for me a while back, just so I could add canvas and paint on them. Unfortunately, I didn't have any canvas handy, but what I did have was Aida cloth that Snoodles awarded me. (I told you I had other things in mind than cross stitching, didn't I Snoodles?)

This little painting didn't take long at all, and I was very content while doing it. Peace and happiness filled my soul as I welded the brush. Oh, it's not the stuff of Van Gogh, but it suits me just fine.

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