Easter Crafts At Grammas

Yesterday was Craft Day at my house.
I remember making these string eggs when I was a kid.

But I don't remember having as much difficulties as everyone was having that day. Aunt Tammi had found this idea on the internet and they called for yarn cut in 36" pieces that you dipped in a mixture of glue & water.

Well the yarn kept slipping off the balloons and then they would have to start all over. And the balloons became so slippery from the glue that they were hard to hold onto.

It was funny at first, but then the kids started getting very frustrated. I think our problem was that we shouldn't have cut the yarn into pieces but left it in one piece to wrap around. Maybe a string would have worked better than yarn too. Anyway, they were planning on doing all these balloons that they blew up. hehehe

Everyone decided that one a piece was plenty!

All the grandkids will be stopping by on Wednesday to let the balloons out of their creations.
We will see how they turned out then.

AlphabeThursday!!!!

Todays post is for the letter "J"

J is for JORDAN !! My youngest granddaughter... the Diva Princess of the family.













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More of my BOM work

Snowbound block #3


Simple Thymes block #3


This is a Bronwyn Hayes quilt along called Catalicious. Block #1


Catalicious block #2

Remember the placemat swap??

Awhile back I posted about a placemat swap that I participated in. I showed you this placemat that I received from my partner.
I couldn't show you the placemat that I made for her because I hadn't sent it to her yet. Well...I'm a little late on posting about it, but she received it and she really liked it.

She hung hers up on her kitchen wall! Here is a couple of pics that she sent.


This month our group is having a pincushion swap. I only have one more week to get one finished & sent out. So I better put that on the top of my "To Do list". I'm hoping to get some more sewing done this weekend, but I do have 2 milkcans that I need to paint for a friend also. I should get those base coated this weekend. I need to spray paint them outside and tomorrow it is supposed to get cold outside again. Darn it! I was so hoping it would stay warm until Summertime. But I should have known that Winter wasn't through with us yet :0{
Well if I don't head for bed soon, I will be too tired to do anything.
Good night

This is what I've been busy at lately...

These are the BOM's that Ive been working on.
If you aren't familiar with the sewing jargon...BOM is for 'Block Of the Month'. These are projects that designer have where they will post a new pattern each month for a particular block on a quilt. At the end of the 9-12 months, you should have a quilt top ready to assemble & finish.
I thought if I did a little at a time on each quilt I wouldn't get too tired of it. I'm hoping this will help me get some things finished for some Christmas gifts.

This is my first attempt at trying to do redwork!
I can see where I will be doing more of this. The embroideries are going fairly quick.



These are blocks 1 & 2 of the "Love is" BOM and



blocks 3 & 4 of the "Love Is" Bom.



I have used gold and tan cotton fabrics for the backgrounds on the "Simple Thymes" BOM and wool or wool felt for the appliques. The sheep is a white minky fabric.

The "Snowbound" BOM is coming along nicely also. I'm using my three favorite colors: aqua, pink and red.


Block number 1


Block #2

Now on to the next blocks and I have a couple more that I would like to start also.

prim2pink ~ letter G

GODSPEED sung by the Cactus Cuties!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czmHZAyAVUI

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