Just dropping in . . .

Sorry it has been so long since I last posted.  Don't know what took me so long.
Life has been busy and I have been finishing a lot of projects.

First up, a Halloween table runner is done.

I bought the panel a couple years ago because I love it.  It has been patiently waiting to be made.  I decided I will have it for this Halloween, so I pushed to get it finished early!   The panel was a Queen of Ween design and I already had the orange tiny spider fabric and the black and orange larger spider fabric so it was fun to make.

Next, two more I Spy quilts, one for my two GD in Colorado and one for my two GS in Montana.  They will have to share and play together with the quilts.

 Unicorns for the girls.

 Close up.

 Emergency vehicles and trucks for the boys. 

Close up. My DSIL was a firefighter and EMT, so the border fabric is a nod to Dad.

Hope they all enjoy and have fun with their new play quilts.  These two are also backed with fleece and machine quilted with a serpentine stitch on my sewing machine.

Here is one of the free BOM's I participated in last year.  It is from Buttermilk Basin and called "Buttermilk Homestead".  I love the primitive look so much.  The pattern called for a plain outside border but with all I went through last year with the cancer treatment, I stopped with the appliqued border.  With all the quilting it is a little wavy along the edges but that's OK with me.  It is finished and I can enjoy looking at it up on the wall. 

Now I am almost finished with the second free BOM I worked on last year.  It is "Gnome for the Holidays" by Fat Cat Patterns. This one is bigger than the other one, so taking a little longer to finish.  I have one more side border to quilt, then bind.

It is pretty cute, too.  I have a thing for Christmas, Halloween and Fall themed quilts.  After this one is finished, I hope to work on some smaller projects before starting another big quilt.  But, I do have a pattern from a magazine I got a few months ago that I keep thinking about.  It is a big quilt, so we will see how long I can ignore the urge to start it.  

One more fun thing to look forward to:

I bought this little kit at a quilt and sewing show put on by The Rusty Barn a couple weeks ago.  I have seen the kit at the show in past years and resisted buying it but this year gave in.  It is a tiny quilt, about 10 X 12 inches with snowman and snowflake buttons sewn into the little snowball blocks.  It is adorable and looks like fun.  I'll let you know how it goes working on those tiny little blocks!

In other news, we had a visit from DH daughter and grandsons, ages 2 and 5.  That was a busy week with two little guys in the house.  They wore us out but we had so much fun!

I also went in for a three month follow up mammogram and it is normal, no sign of cancer at all.  That was such good news.  Now there will be more follow ups at six month intervals for a couple years, then back to yearly after that.  Praying each future one also is normal!

That about catches things up.  I'll try to post more frequently from now on, time just flies by!