It feels really fantastic to get so much sewing done lately! It makes me one very happy person.

On Friday I pieced together the light Teal block for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2014. The dark version was also laid out on the table but due to the evening lack of decent light, I wanted to wait until morning to see how it looked and if I liked it the way it was. I found this a really tough color to work with, some bits look more blue and some look more green. Here are my completed blocks for March. I love being all caught up.

The sashing and backing fabrics for the 2 baby Hands2Help Charity Quilt Challenge quilts arrived on Thursday so I was able to also complete those tops on Friday.
Sorry for the not great indoor pictures. It was late and it is pouring rain right now.
Here is the girl version. I chose Bella Hyacinth to coordinate with the charms and I love the look.

And this is the boy version in which I used Bella Clover.

This a great pattern for quickly whipping up a top and I'll definitely use it again.
Then the border fabric for the 3rd H2H quilt arrived yesterday and after attending a birthday party for Sunshine's classmate I completed this top too.

Now all 3 tops are ready to be quilted on my Penelope longarm machine. They will be the 1st quilts that I will complete with her.

The only other things on my To Do list today is to get the clean laundry put away so I'm hoping to get a bunch more sewing time in. Sunshine wants to get her Primary Bee block done and Jammer needs to get his done too. Sunshine is the Bee Princess this month so they don't need to get mailed anywhere. A few of the blocks from her bee mates have arrived and we need to take pictures so that we can show them to you.

The next quilt up on the list is the EMS/Fire raffle quilt. It should go together fairly quickly which will be great since it needs to be done by mid June. Plus I have another commission quilt on the schedule. It will be another kids' art quilt, this one for Sunshine's school. We are doing things a little differently this time but it is going to be equally fun putting it all together.

And last but not least, it is time to announce the winner of my Follower Giveaway for the half yard cuts of Petal Pushers by Whistler Studios for Windham Fabrics.
The magic winner selector chose

Nothing stocked in my sewingroom. But the kitchen is just a few steps away!

Congratulations Cynthia! I have sent you an email. She blogs over at Quilting is More Fun Than Housework and is a frequent showcased quilter in my Stunning Stitchin Sunday series. What I also didn't realize previously is that she is also involved in Quilts are for Giving. It is a great charity dedicated to putting quilters and those that need them together.

Go check it out. If you have a quilt that needs a home, they have a whole list of charities that you can donate it to. I love this idea and will most definitely be helping out in the future.

I hope you have a great quilty day!

The sun is shining, the weather is warmer and spring is on it's way.
Well...so the weather hasn't been that much warmer but to me 30 degrees is a lot better than 4 below zero.

It's been a while since I've done a giveaway and since I've been feeling really good lately, I think it would be fun to make someone else feel good too. Besides the other day I noticed that my follower count through Google Friend Connect finally reached 400. Whoo hoo! Now I know that I actually have more followers than that through all the other various means but I can use it as a reason to celebrate if I want to. 

This pretty half yard bundle of fabrics is looking for a new home and that new home just might be yours.

They are from the Petal Pushers collection by Whistler Studios for Windham Fabrics.

Don't they just evoke thoughts of nice spring breezes and warm sunshine? Truth be told...I've been really tempted to keep these beauties for myself. They are very me but I've got more than enough pretty fabric to keep me happy for quite a while so I'm willing to sacrifice my wants and let you have them instead. 

To enter the giveaway:

1) Leave me a comment telling me the ONE treat you keep stocked in your sewing space to nibble at while you stitch. For some reason, I've been pondering this lately and although I've kept nothing in my studio, I'm thinking about what I might want to stock in there.

2) My followers get a 2nd entry. Tell me how you follow and if you aren't also a follower through Google Friend Connect (over there on my sidebar) go ahead and join that way too. Who knows...I just might have a need to celebrate the next milestone number that reaches.

Entries will close at Midnight on Friday, March 29th and the winner will be notified over the weekend. I do love to read all of your comments and will try to reply to everyone. If you don't get a reply from me, you should make sure you aren't a No Reply Blogger. You want to have your chance to win, don't you? To fix this problem for regular Google users, go to this tutorial and for you Google+ folks, use this tutorial.

Good luck and have a very happy Wednesday!

Instead of boring you with tons of photos of what the kids did the entire time we were there, I'll just give you a little taste of what was inside. I'm always amazed by what can be created with those little bricks.

Any of you a football fan?

A few billboards on the sides of the buildings caught my attention. This one was about 3" x 4". I just might have to recreate this one for my own house.

Don't you love this one?

There were a few different areas for the kids to explore including this Lego City Fire Academy play area.

It is where Sunshine spent the majority of her time.

Jammer was happiest continuing to make different cars and racing them down the track.

Even the Daddy-o spent a bunch of time creating his various race cars.

Granted they are Pink which was the color for February but at least I got them both done.

Then I started on the quilts for the Hands2Help Charity Quilt Challenge. Knowing what else is on my plate for the coming months, I purposely chose patterns that are very quick and easy to complete.

You'll remember that I'm using 2 charm packs of Moda's Grow With Me.

I picked the adorable and very popular Charm Pack Baby Quilt patten by Elizabeth of Oh Franson! I split up the charms because I want one of the quilts to be decidedly girly and the other to be definitely boyish. This is how far I got with the girl version that evening. Now I'm just waiting for the sashing/binding and backing yardage to arrive to finish this up.

Sunday morning, after a relaxed breakfast and some catching up on emails, I quickly pieced the rows together for the boy version. Sewing these up took no time at all. It actually took longer to decide which piece would go where.

We had no plans to go anywhere so right after lunch I started on the 3rd quilt for the challenge. I'm using this fat quarter stack of Pat Bravo's Spellbound by Art Gallery Fabrics.

I'm using the Yellow Brick Road pattern from Atkinson Designs. Now I totally understand why so many people say that this is a great 1st quilt pattern for new quilters. It is so simple and fast and it produces great results.

I was able to put together all of the blocks in a matter of a couple of hours. Now all I need to do is to lay them out in rows and sew them all together. Of course I'm waiting on another package to arrive with this quilt's coordinating border/binding and backing fabric so once it arrives these all will be on their way to completion.

I hope you too had a great weekend. It felt so good to get so much accomplished. I'm linking up today with

This finish calls for a huge Whoop Whoop because not only did I finish this but it is the very 1st purse/tote/bag that I have ever made and it turned out great!

I started with the pattern and these 2 Kate Spain Terrain fabrics. If you want your own copy of Bobbi's Just Right bag pattern, it can be found here.

It's that time of year. The annual Hands2Help Charity Quilt Challenge hosted by the fabulous Sarah of Confessions of A Fabric Addict.

This time last year I was knee deep in making a boatload of quilts...2 for the school's annual silent auction fundraiser, 1 for a new baby and 4 for the teacher end of year thank you gifts so I wasn't able to help out with this challenge last year. But I'm definitely participating this year.

Since I've got a few other projects on the burner, I know that whatever I plan to do, they must be fast and relatively easy. I started where I typically do at times...flipping through my 3 binders of patterns purchased, downloaded from the internet and saved from magazines, for some ideas and inspiration. Using a pattern designed by someone else is definitely faster than designing one myself.

I pulled out a stack of options and then took a look at what fabrics I already have to work with. This is the precut and coordinating bundle drawer of my stash dresser.

This is my bigger yardage and coordinating bundle overflow drawer. I already have plans for some of these fabrics but not all of them.

And this is my general stash drawer filled mostly with fat quarters and half yard cuts. I'm not even showing you the final fabric drawer filled with Asian prints, my Halloween fabrics and my small amount of Christmas fat quarters.

I've decided to use these Grow With Me charm packs. I can get 2 baby quilts from them without having to purchase a large quantity of coordinating fabrics.

This fat quarter bundle that I recently won from Heidi at Red Letter Quilts  is also going to be turned into a quilt to send off to one of the charities. I was able to hunt down on Etsy the remainder of the fabric needed and it is already on its way to me. I can't think of a better way to Pay It Forward from this giveaway win than to use them for a charity quilt.

Because I typically plan big, IF I can finish the others up quickly, I'm also going to try to squeeze in before the deadline another quilt made from these pretty Pink and Brown fabrics.  

I had originally purchased them to make a baby girl quilt for a  neighbor but I ended up giving her the Dots in the Wind quilt instead.

Keep your fingers crossed for me that the quilting gods will shine down on me and I'll be able to whip these up speedy quick. And I'm going to quilt them myself on Penelope.

If you aren't aware of the Hand2Help Charity Quilt Challenge, hop on over to Sarah's place and read up on all the details. It is a fantastic way for quilters to give back and it doesn't take much to participate. Just commit to making 1 quilt (or more if you are able) and send it off to one of the featured charities by the June deadline. We all have UFOs or miscellaneous blocks laying around waiting for a reason to get finished so now is the time to dig them out and turn them into a beautiful quilt to keep someone else warm and wrapped in love.