Finished Quilts!!

I finally got around to placing the binding on these three quilts. I don't know why I was procrastinating so much. After I made my own binding and put it on the first quilt, it just clicked. Now it goes rather quickly and smoothly. The Barbie quilt has a binding made from all the pieces that are in the quilt. The two ABC quilts have a turquoise color binding that I made from the remnants of a sheet that I used to make my nieces quilt.

The only thing that gave me a hard time was squaring up the Barbie quilt. I learned (the hard way of course) to square everything up BEFORE I quilt it. Since both the front and back are pieced neither matched up. I laid it out on my kitchen floor and used the 12 inch ceramic tiles to help me square it up. Not saying that whoever laid the tiles got them square, but it was close enough to work for me.

I'm pretty sure one of the ABC quilts will be going to our Grandson Nathan for Christmas. He will be one in June and I think this would be a nice quilt for him. I have no idea about the other two. I guess they will be put in my ArtFire shop later this week.

You Can Quilt This

The crafty people over at You Can Make This are starting up a new website called You Can Quilt This. It is scheduled to be up and running in April. While we wait, we can take a chance at winning a Marie Osmond Quilter’s Companion sewing machine from Janome. I love YCMT and I'm sure the new quilting site will be just as informative.

Chemistry

Freely Educate is hosting a give-a-way from Friendly Chemistry. We love to do chemistry experiments and this would be a great resource. There are so many fun things to learn about chemistry/science that it is nice to have some guidelines to go by. Although it has been fun learning as we go. It has made for some very interesting days.

I like how they have this saying on the top of their page:

Because everyone wants a "painless" way to learn chemistry.

Kenny the Frog

Robbie always likes to make a weird face when I take his picture. Crazy kid!

I have a few skeins of spring green yarn sitting around waiting to be made into something. I looked at it one day and decided...DUH!! It needs to be a frog!

I love Kristie's patterns and was lucky enough to be a tester a couple years ago for her Piggy Back Pals 2 pattern. I highly recommend any and all of her patterns - even for beginners. She designs some fun and easy to follow patterns. Her Backpack Baby is a great pattern for the little girl in your life. With Easter coming soon, it might be a nice alternative to all the candy the kids are hoping to get.