Well, I had a very productive weekend in the quilting department, and I'm not done yet! I got month three of the Simply Sophisticated BOM from Fat Quarter Shop and promptly got on it last night. I finished up all the blocks today. I enter the drawing every month that Vicky puts on on behalf of the Fat Quarter Shop for a $25 gift card. I haven't won yet, but it still has a long ways to go, I could yet! I have to post a picture here on my blog to prove I did the blocks, so here they are. I'm really getting tired of 9 patches though, last month's had the same ones only in different colors! I *hate* doing 9 patches!

You can see a wee bit of another of the gazillion projects I'm working on, it's Sweet Land of Liberty by Cheri Saffiote Payne. Her stuff is labor intensive but worth it. I might work on that some next. I used to have a blog-along for it, but I decided to take it down, there were some disagreements going on and some quilt shop bashing that I didn't like going on on there, so it went poof. That's ok, I'm still working on it as an "along" with Colleen and Kim.

Then I decided to make my mom a little table topper quilt for her Christmas gift. Times are tough for everyone right now, so hubby and I decided no gifts for anyone this year. Well, I told him we could buy our own gifts, and he can give his daughter something if he wants, and I will take care of a gift for my daughter. So, I actually ordered my gift the other day and got the first installment. I am getting the ABC Sampler, another Cheri Saffiote Payne quilt as a BOM from The Buggy Barn, that's actually where I got my Sweet Land Of Liberty BOM. They are fast, I just signed up like on Wednesday last week and already got the first block! I know, stop laughing, anyone who knows me knows I am a sucker when it comes to BOMs. I now have 5 of the danged things again! Anyway, here's a picture of mom's quilt, nothing fancy, made from a charm pack of Oak Leaves and Reel, and I had some fat quarters of it that I used for the border and binding. The red is just some random red I had in my stash. I think it's some cheapy stuff from Joann's, but mom won't mind. Here's a picture. I just have to sew the binding down on the back.

Ok, here's the reason I have been spending so much time in the sewing room today. My daughter got a little rescue doggy the other day, she is the sweetest little thing, her name is Bella, the vet says shes a chihuahua/beagle mix of all things. I am babysitting today because she has work and her roommate was going to set off a bug bomb before she went to work. The poor little thing is crawling with fleas, I hope the flea stuff worked a little before she came over here. She's doomed to the sewing room in her crate for now, the roommate is picking her up after she gets off work, my kid went to a concert when she got off work tonight. She informed me this is the closest I'm getting to a grandchild. That's ok, I don't think I'm grandmother material anyway. I better go check on the baby now, it's probably potty time again. And I have some more quilting to do.Tootles!