Busy sewing

Wow, for February I will have two posts!  Just barely, but the month isn't over yet!

Let's see what I have accomplished.  First, I have the top for the Scenic Route 66 quilt all put together.  This one will go to a friend of a friend to quilt on her long arm.

When this pattern was chosen for the raffle quilt for the conference next year, I was a bit apprehensive about making it.  The large center piece, cut on the bias and the four large corner blocks, also cut on the bias had me worried.  The top looks a lot more difficult to put together than it really is.  Following the pattern carefully, everything went together smoothly.  I took my time on the log cabin blocks that go around the center, measured as each new piece was added and they are perfect.  The dashed border wasn't too bad either.  The black border around the outer square wasn't really included in the quilt pattern, only a mention of adding a border to make the size of the square to fit directions.  It turned out OK, too with a bit of math and guesswork.  After that, the outside border was a piece of cake.  I had fun fussy cutting all of the blocks.

The backing looks like this:

The front of the quilt fits the Southwest theme and the back brings in the motorcycles.  Once it is quilted and bound, I will share another photo of the finished quilt.  This one is 48" square so it will be a nice throw or wall hanging.

I found some small churn dash blocks from a block exchange that I put together and I am quilting it now.  I started on the border last night and will show a photo of that when it is finished.

The Sunbonnet Sue baby quilt is almost finished.  I stitched down most of the border, just left enough undone to fill in the label once I find out the baby's name.

It turned out so cute, I have started cutting out some more Sunbonnet Sue's to make my DG a cute little quilt, too.

Next, I decided to join in a mystery sew along on the Small Quilt Talk site.  The first two clues have been posted and I have this much done:

Clues are released every other month and it is free.  If you are interested, you do have to join the group, just go to the site and request to join.

This past week I have been hunting down some things I needed for projects.  One was vital wheat gluten to make whole wheat bread.  Adding the extra gluten made the bread nice and soft.  Then I want to try to grow some Black Diamond watermelon and some Tendersweet carrots this summer.  I finally found seeds for both so I didn't have to order them online.  Yesterday, I found a store in town that sells sewing machine needles for stitching leather.  I added a patch to DH's leather vest and a pretty patch on the back of my vest.

I can't wear the club patch because the club is for police officers, so I found something pretty for me.

I have another quilt project for my oldest daughter.  She is the only one I have not made a quilt for yet.  I am going to use the patterns in the Farm Girl Vintage book that I got for Christmas to make hers.  I have cut out a few blocks and hope to start sewing as soon as I finish this post.

Today, I ventured out to the other side of the mountains to a quilt shop having a fat quarter sale.  Their fat quarters are on sale for $2.00 each, so I stocked up:

I need some pretty colors to play with for the Sunbonnet Sue and the Farm Girl quilts.  These should do nicely.

That's about all for now, I am ready to go sew!