Happy Birthday, Park Ranger Husband!

Happy Birthday to my Park Ranger Husband -- my sometimes quilt spirit guide and always best friend.

Even though he can't bear to listen to the hum of the sewing machine all day, it's probably preventing me from going deaf as young as I might otherwise so I appreciate it, sort of.

April Sew Kitschy Block

This month's Sew Kitschy Block is a teapot!

Here are all four of my finished blocks!

Linking up at Quiet Play for the Sew Kitschy Link up and Paper Piecing Friday!

WIP Wednesday: Piles and Triangles

I have all of my triangles for the Triangle Quilt Along cut! Hooray!

I am so excited to start putting this together soon! Join the Triangle QAL if you haven't yet!

I also undertook a project of re-folding all of my fabric and reorganizing my craft shelves and clearing out things I won't use before my husband and I move to Maryland in less than two months (!!!!). 

Here's everything pre-re-folding and sorting all over my floor:

I got everything refolded this weekend while my husband watched the hockey game (napped) and I was able to "Frankenstein" together that pile of batting scraps one evening. See that pile of plastic zipper bags? Does anyone else have a stash like that? Or is there something wrong with me?

Here's everything back on my shelves:

It's like there's twice as much space as there was before! Holy wow! Before every single cube was full and there was piles on top of the rack! Now there isn't anything on the top and I can find anything I might be looking for.

I'm still trying to decide if I am going to destash anything before we move, so stay posted. I will definitely let people know if I have anything good to sell or trade. :)

Happy WIP Wednesday to you! Today WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced is hosted by Sarah at {no} hats in the house, whom I totally love!!

Wishes Quilt Along Block #4 -- Broken Dishes

Holy wow, it's April! That means it's time for the next block in the Wishes QAL -- Broken Dishes! You can get the tutorial here!

Here's my block:

Here are all four of my blocks so far:

Happy Tuesday! Sharing at Linky Tuesday and Fabric Tuesday!

WIP Wednesday: Rows on Rows

After a busy weekend, I'm back to working on my Firewheel 2014 Stash Bee Quilt.

Getting the blocks together into rows with the black sashing went together very fast!

I cut my yellow cornerstones and sewed them to the sashing strips for the horizontal sashing rows. So much chain piecing!

Here's the beaut all together (of course, it was dark by this point and picture taking options were poor!) I am really loving all of the different backgrounds and shades of yellow and grey that everyone used in their blocks. Surprisingly, I only had a little bit of easing to do when I was sewing my blocks together -- which is a miracle when 11 different people made these blocks and now much I had to do on my other Stash Bee Quilt.

Right now, this quilt is approximately 70 by 85. I don't think I'll be making it any bigger!

Sharing at WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced!