stash report #3 and query . . .

My stash report final numbers are much the same as last weeks.  Nothing in, nothing out, so there you have it. 

Used this week: 0.0 yards
Used year to date: 0.5 yards
Added this week:0 .0 yards
Added year to date: 4.0 yards
Net used for 2012: -3.5 yards

Hopefully I'll have a finish this week and there will go a couple of yards!  Per usual, linking up with Judy Laquidara's Patchwork Times. 

I have almost finished the stitch in the ditch quilting on Ellie's quilt.  I only have the two half blocks on the sides and the quarter block in the top right quarter to go.  Then I'll do the hearts in three of the large blocks and Ellie's initials in the fourth.  But I got to looking at it and thinking that little hearts in the sashing would be so cute ... I kind of drew it out ... of course I'd use white thread and not black (hahaha!) so it wouldn't look as heavy and dominant as it does in the pic below.  

I dunno.  It would add a couple of days, but as long as I have it done by Thursday, I'm okay.  Any thoughts?

Kim sent me this photo the other day ... Sawyer wearing his fleece hat!  Yay!!!  

He's such a precious little fellow.  And yes, that's snow on the car.  We had enough flurries to give us a little excitement!

Here's another Ellie capture by our friend Mary Ellen, from Lighthouse Photography.

I think definitely this pictures says it all.

:)

rulers and grandkids . . .

Yesterday was a day of rulers and projects for my grandbabies (two of my favorite things). First I pulled out my June Tailor Fancy Fleece ruler . . .

And I finished up Sawyer's fleece hat!

This was so much fun to make ... and so easy! I used the ruler to cut the triangles and the wavy strips for the pom-pom up top.

Less than 45 minutes! Gosh I hope it fits his little head. LOL!

And then I pulled out my June Tailor Shape Cut ruler . . .

Because -- YIKES -- I haven't yet made a quilt for Ellie. Partly because this time Joc didn't have me make all of the crib bedding and what she got included a quilt, so there wasn't the need for me to make her a quilt that matched everything. But then I saw this baby quilt that Michelle at Michelle's Romantic Tangle had done, and I fell in love with it. So after a couple of quick e-mail exchanges with Michelle, I pulled a couple dozen different pink, purples, and blues and started cutting 3" squares.

Michelle used a solid white as her border fabric, but I had this Kona Medium Pink that I want to use. It's the fabric we used--along with this darling pink and white--for the nursery curtains.

Isn't it sweet?! We also used the combo to make a cute little accent pillow, too.

So, here's as far as I got. Well, not really ... I've got about half of it pieced.

The hearts will show up better (I hope) when the solid pink is bordering all the piecing. There are some really nostalgic pieces of fabric; I used three different purples from Joc's wedding quilt, some blue and violet fabric and a dark pink fabric I'd used for a sister's craft day, before Todd and I got married (sixteen years ago). I also included some of the print from the nursery curtains, and some from the blocks I made for my mom's Grand Hands quilt.

Now I have to decide if I'm going to do like Michelle and use the halved and quartered 9-patches or the solid Kona Pink around the edges. I'm leaning to the solid ... just for time's sake! This baby will need a quilt from her Neesey next week!!!

Linking up with Katherine's Corner and her Favorite Things blog hop! :)

:)