From full to finished...almost!

I've spent the last two days cutting scraps into strips and sewing those strips into wide strips.

And then what did I do? Cut the wide strips into blocks, of course. I've been meaning to make a strip quilt using scraps, which (let's face it) I have plenty of. Out came the green scrap bucket and I cut strips of 2½", 2", and 1½". 

This is what the green bucket looks like now. I forgot to take a before picture, but the yellow bucket is a good example of what it looked like.

  
 I tossed a few of those yellow scraps into the quilt, and the quilt found it's name:

X's and O's.

And a project is well on its way to the longarm. Hopefully they will begin their visit tomorrow.

Pin It Weekly #201

Pin It WeEkly #201! the four year AnnIversary is only 7 weeks away! So we're shooting for 25 pins a week until the anniversary! Stick with us.

Let's start with Selma Tellez. This girl has a huge wish list and very good taste!

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Mildred Cappelli is a pinning bom! Check out some of her pillow pins.                                              9

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Donna Ferguson has a cheesecake board! Really! Check out these pretties...

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Special thanks to the many followers and pinners who keep adding to the huge collage of pictures on Pinterest. 
If you would like to be featured on Pin It Weekly, just send an email to mary.marcotte@gmail.com. 

Easter Dress?

When we were children, mom would make Easter dresses for us. Keep in mind that she had eight, all girls, so there were many dresses to sew. Truthfully, I can't remember whether there were new dresses every year or not, mostly I remember the idea of Easter dresses. 

Perhaps it was the only time we even got new clothes. My memory gets rather fuzzy somewhere along there and it's possible that the talk was new dresses but really they were new to us...as in handed down from an older or bigger sibling. 

Anyway, it seems that even now I should be getting a new dress around Easter. Handed-down? Why, yes, please. Especially since it means I won't have to go shopping. I loathe shopping, especially for clothes. I decided to sew one using whatever I had on hand. I found some nice linen and a couple of patterns I liked. There would be only a few minor problems: I didn't like the thin straps of the dress pattern (there were no other options), and I really liked a top pattern but a top is not a dress. 

So I decided to combine the two and make one dress. Hopefully one that fit since neither pattern was the correct size. Have I mentioned that the patterns were way too small for my body? No? Hmmm. 

I know, right!? Who does this? But I wouldn't be wasting fabric as I could toss it all in the scrap bin and make a quilt. See? THAT is how my brain works. So I got going on Saturday around noon, with the kids coming for supper Saturday evening. Let's just say I couldn't see the pressure for the idea. Don't cha love an idea?

The idea worked. Quite well, surprisingly. By Sunday evening I had a dress. Not a completed dress since I've decided to wash it before hemming. Who cares at this point if it's another day or three since I haven't worn it yet?  

I did put it on and it covers my body without showing my bra straps or much of my skin. (Can you believe I'm modest? Good. Because I'm not.) But clothes should cover your body. Otherwise what's the point? Go live in a nudest colony so the rest of us are not distracted by your perfect beauty, wrinkles, tatoos, rolls, whatever. Some of us have ADHD. 

Oops, I digress, back to the dress. I'm perfectly happy with it, except it needs a belt or a waistline of some sort, but it's basically D-O-N-E, complete. If it's finished on Easter Sunday, doesn't that make it an Easter dress? 

Linking up with

My Quilt Infatuation

Confessions of a Fabric Addict

Crazy Mom Quilts 

Sunday Quilt Inspiration: HONEY

Yes indeed, honey and honey bees! (of course) Starting with little honey-colored fabrics, accessories, even a honey covered barn...

You know it...honey-colored, honey covered, honey bee, honey everything in the way of quilts.

Lots of honey on Pinterest, y'all. Go take a look!