QuiltUber Fest (block1)

So if any of you follow Scott Hansen of Blue Nickel, he is hosting an October Quilt along. it is madness and there are new patterns like the first 16 days of October! Well I decided that since it is October... and I have scored all of these Halloween Materials! What is one more WIP!
Quiltdad had the first block. They are all 12 inch (finished) and incorporate half square triangles and log cabin. Well here is my halloween block 1 anyway!

Some of the material is from Mom's sewing room and the rest I have purchased! I have two others cut and hope to get them stitched up yet tonight while Honeyman is at the station! Here's to a quite evening of stitching!
J

I love blog hops!

So I like it when I am turned on to new bloggers! I have been following sewcalgal and they had a fall AccuQuiltGo! Baby! ummm how fun is this thing! Fo those of us who do not have a steady hand (me) or just for accuracy it is awsome! Have only seen it in the blogs and not in action but I am in love with it! go check out a few of the fall projects! There are great tutorials walking you through each one! I like that they are small and easy to get through!  Connie at Quilting by the River has a sweet center piece for your table! And there are bags and small quilts! Check out all the links with sewcalgal!!
Cool,
J

QC Marathon

So for the second year in a row my Lillian was part of the QC Marathon! An amazing group of relay runners

Sarah, Ellonyia, Laura, Carrie, & Laurel

Lillian and Laura

push special needs kids in a very special wheel chair through a leg of the race! Lillian was the first leg of the race! And I was a little scared! Her pusher was smaller than she is!! but she was amazing! Of course the first leg takes the ongest because they have to start in the back of the pack due to the wheelchair! But the first of the runners came through right at a half hour (five miles in) she was in right around 55 min!! What a trouper!!

the last bend for the first leg!

Now this would have been a great start if the wather had decided to cooperate!! We live just up the hill from where the start/finish line is so we returned home for 2 hours so I could feed my starvin kid! In that time the second leg had gone and the third hand off was a success as well!! then disasture struck in the form of Mother Nature herself!! It did not rain... it POURED!! The rain began during the third leg and the poor little guy who was being pushed was in tears! They got under shelter to see if it would let up, but alas it only got worse! Parents were waiting for him about a mile up the road so they decided to push on! The gal they had scheduled for the fourth leg had a Trach and because of the rain, and by this time the VERY cold weather, could not be pushed. So Bless the runner she had to run in the downpour and push and empty chair! (there was no other way to get it to the next checkpoint!) Her strech was nothing but rain!! But she made it through like a trouper!!
By this time the rest of us were gathered together so we could cross the finish line together! The rain stopped for the fifth leg and they were able to push the final kid in the chair! We all met up about 200 yards away from the finish line and all crossed together!!

We can see the finish!!

The crew! (minus the gal that went home due to weather but have no fear she still got a metal!)

The runner on the end is a local columnest for our newspaper (and the one who had to run in the rain)! There was a write up in the local paper and a nice pic of te team crossing the finish line! Pammy's Team article! Lillian (although they misspelled her last name Sikardi not Sikarvi) is my angel and loved every minute of it! Let's hope she gets to participate next year (she's geting a little to big) and that these wonderful people will still take their time to help!
Thanks!
Proud Mommy!! J

B-1

Round and round we go! Forgot to trim this one down, but I think everyone gets the drift!  You are all so creative!!

I think I got a littel tight with my stitches! But Shhh dont' look that close and it just looks like part of the pattern! I think this is a 6 inch square so it will need cut down yet before I put it into the done box!!
J
Squares:55
Triangles:
Kites:
Pieces:1025

G-3

I really do love this little guy! Not sure if the method i used was the most efficient! Btu I thought the end result was great!! (And the spots spoke to me!!

Every time I look at this I think of my honeyman saying he wants to build a moat around our house! LOL
J
Squares:54
Triangles:
Kites:
Pieces:1020

J-8

I liked this little guy! Even with all those tiny pieces!  I prepped it and worked on the applique while Honeyman was driving!

J
Squares:53
Triangles:
Kites:
Pieces:1016 (milestone! Broke 1000)

D-6

Hey, I'm back with another block or two! Truth be told these are the ones I had ready to take to TX with me to see my baby brother! I go two done then and have gotten the other two done here... well there was a fourth, but I made very poor choices! OK OK later blog for that one!!

Zip pop, done needs a darn good pressing! One of these days I will get those pesky little 1/4 inch bars right! Here's to trying! hehe
J
Squares: 52
Triangles:
Kites:
Pieces: 994