Sunbonnet Sue and a pretty beetle

Here is the Sunbonnet Sue quilt.


And here is the back:


OK. I quilted these blocks one at a time for a couple of reasons.

1. I wanted a portable project
2. I didn't want to baste it

You can't really tell from the pic, but there are about a billion pins in the back of this. I hate pins!!! But how else do you put these together??? Sewing the fronts of the blocks together by machine wasn't so bad in spite of having to negotiate the batting and backing. But then trimming the batting to match exactly, whipping it together and folding the backing down was a huge pain! And I think the front has buckled a bit despite my efforts to pull it out as I was working on the back. Moral of this story - basting is not so bad!

So working a block at a time is not so much fun. Actually, quilting a block at a time is, I just haven't figured out a satisfactory way to join them that I can enjoy. I'll have to keep working on that.

Not so quilty but very fun - check out this way cool bug my way cool kid found on the way home from school! Isn't he pretty? See his monster horn??? He's about the size of a dime. We looked him up on the web and he's a rainbow scarab. Cool, huh?

Way behind....

Well, not doing so good with my posting every day thing. Anyhow, here's a pic for today. No new pics, so this one is old.



This is a precious little person with a row by row quilt I took part in several years ago. A group of us decided to do a row by row quilt project. We each made one row and sent it on to someone else, they added a row and sent it to the next person, etc. We all had a row to do every month and our quilts had 12 or so rows when they came home, one by each participant. I took this pic to show the group the row I had done and this precious little person insisted on being in the pic with his cars. Is that a sweet face, or what? He's much bigger now, and still very sweet.

I've actually finished all of the first wave of Sunbonnet Sue blocks and even got them all stitched together! Woohoo! The back of the blocks needs to be stitched down and it needs a binding. I need floor space to do that and I can't keep my lovely assistant off of it if it's on the floor, so I haven't gotten that done yet. I was going to do it today while she slept, but I was so tired I slept with her! Maybe this weekend.

I'm here!!!

Ack!!! Today is almost over and I haven't posted yet!

Really quick - more Sue's! These are block at a time Sue's, they are almost finished and soon they will be one big quilt.

To post or not to post...... that is the question....

So I've been thinking that since I haven't taken pictures of what I'm doing and I haven't really had time to do much of anything that I didn't have any reason to post. Pfffft! I have tons of pics of stuff I am working on or have done in the past or want to do in the future. I can post about that! It's a good thing to have those pics up and a good thing to get those thoughts out. So now my goal is to post every day for the rest of this month about whatever projects I already have pics of. I might even get around to new pics of current stuff. Don't hold your breath.

Today's dealio is Sunbonnet Sue. I love Sue! She is just so sweet! And there are so many of her! I like stuff easy, so I focus on simple Sues. Here are some that have inspired me and/or that I would like to make some time.

A dresden Sue! Found another pattern similar to this one recently. One of these days I may do some. Would be a fun scrap user upper.


I like this one cuz of the baby. I love babies! Will definately put this one into production sometime.



Just some simple Sue patterns that appeal to me. I like basic shapes and fewer pieces. You would think that would lend itself to very little variation, but I find the subtle differences fascinating! Maybe I'll make a Sue Sampler.....

Check out this bulbous Sue at klein meisje quilts.

And here are some more super simple Sues that I found in an ooooollllldddd "Quilt" magazine, circa 1980. OK, maybe just sorta old.

Can you see Sue up in the top picture? There was no pattern for her in the mag, just this pic. I'll have to put my artistic skills (or lack thereof.....) to work and come up with a pattern for her. She's so cute!

Tomorrow will be Sue's in progress at the knottypine underground.