The Mini Me Half Pint Quilt top...

is DONE!  I finished it last night.  I would show you a picture of it but you'll have to wait.  I want to be able to take a picture of it outside and that won't happen until Saturday.

Hope everyone has a great Friday!  Is it 5 o'clock yet?

Joan

A couple of weeks back, Joan (who was hosting our CGQC club last month) asked for recipes from us Charming Girl's and for those who submitted one - she had a giveaway.  And my name was picked...whohoo for me!  Well, I got my prize the other day.  It was like Christmas...but different.  Anyhoo, the book was signed by Karen (AWESOME!), I can't wait to have some alone time to enjoy each page.  Then there is The Quilter's Angel kit.  Joan even labeled the material in the kit!  I'm looking forward to completing it.  Then she sent me the neat towel.  I'm going to hang it in my sewing room.  And then of course, the card - it's a picture of The Quilt Taffy quilt she made.  Joan has the most elegant hand writing.  To Joan, thank you for such a sweet prize.

CGQC November Projects

I can't believe we are less than 2 months away from Christmas!  So with that in mind,there are only 2 items I want/need to finish and that is the Dinosaur Uproar & Simplicity quilts.  I prefer to get those done before anything else, since they are Christmas presents.  So for November I would like to complete the following:

1. Fix the quilting boo-boos & bind Simplicity.
2. Quilt & bind the Dinosaur quilt.  This might be a little tricky because I changed my mind and now want to find a flannel backing. It's not like we have a quilting store near by so I either need to go to Monroe, LA, Little Rock, AR or shop on the net.
3. Quilt & bind Half Pint.
4. Make a Mini Mini-Me Half Pint wallhanging (for my work).
5. And a table runner - just for ducks.

I wish I was one of those people who only need like 4 hours sleep. The things I could get done. Well, I'm looking forward to seeing everyone else's projects. I also can't for us to finish Half Pint. :)

Half Pint Quilt Along - Top

It's done!  And I'm just lovin' it!  (the picture doesn't do the fabric any justice)  I love the pattern, the fabric, the little square borders - EVERYTHING about it!!! But the most bestest part is - I'm making this quilt with a bunch of talented ladies.  I can't wait to get this quilted.

It just keeps getting better...

There is a tad bit of sarcasim when I say that.  Well, as I was arranging my blocks and started to sew the rows,  I noticed that some of the colored blocks looked a smidge smaller than the solid blocks.  But I kept sewing.  When I started to sew the rows together...just out of curiousity, I measured some of the smaller blocks - they were approx. this much off, my thumb & pointy finger are touching!  Needless to say, as I was sewing the rows together, at the same time I was redoing sections of the row so they would line up.  I'm done with the center and am pretty much happy with how it turned out.  There are a couple of squares that are not matching up but I got over it.  The inner border is a saw tooth border and it's not speaking to me (not really my style).  But have you seen Kelly's?  - it looks beautiful!  So I still have some time to figure out how I want my border to look like.  This is going to be a wall hanging so I really don't want to have a big border.  I'm just hoping I don't hit anymore speed bumps with this quilt.