Super Bowl Sunday 2015

You can find my Grow Your Blog & Giveaway post here http://tanyaquiltsinco.blogspot.com/2015/01/grow-your-blog-2015-giveaway.html 

The giveaway is open until February 15.

 It rained all day yesterday, so I could not get outside to get a picture of this awesome top I finished this week! It is sunny and beautiful this morning, so I dashed out to my garden fence to get a picture. Our garden fence is tall to prevent the deer from getting in and can display my bigger quilts. There was still frost on the fence, but the quilt sure looks amazing! I think I am going to call it Peppy Patches and Pinwheels.

I am participating in the Sweet 16 Quilt Along 2015 and this design was featured a couple of weeks ago here 

http://confessionsofafabricaddict.blogspot.com/2015/01/sweet-sixteen-quilt-along-sixteens.html

I love love love this quilt. Sarah who is hosting this Sweet 16 Quilt Along also organizes charity quilts in the spring and I want to donate this one. I think it would be a perfect chemo quilt!

 I was thinking of a black print with white for the backing, but really did not find anything. I picked this up instead for the backing. It was less than $5 a yard on clearance at my LQS. I think the color is cheerful and will hide my ugly machine quilting.

I cut these strips to use as a scrappy binding. I hope to piece and label the backing and pin this today. I think I am just going to straight stitch along the diagonals with my Pfaff and walking foot. I don't want to wait to quilt it!

I worked on lots of projects this week and all day yesterday. Here is Block 2 for the Charm Square Sampler Quilt Along

and Block 3. Join this quilt along here http://moderntraditionquilts.blogspot.com

My quilt is going to be a tablecloth!

The color for the the January Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2015 was blue and here is my last blue Medallion Log Cabin block. I am thinking of putting all my Medallion Log Cabin blocks together for a quilt for our bed. I have been making quilts for 20 years, but have never made a quilt for my own bed! This is going to change this year...

February's RSC15 color is pink, so I dug into my pink scrap bin and made a bunch of Medallion Log Cabin blocks. Here is the link to that party http://superscrappy.blogspot.com

I am using Kona white for the background and picked up 12 more yards of it at Joann's with a 60% off coupon! It was a great buy, $3.60 a yard and will be put to use with all my scrap projects.

I have so many shades of pink in my scraps--petal pink, rosy pink, pastel pink, watermelon, etc!

These blocks are really good for the big print scraps too! You can find my tutorial for these blocks here http://tanyaquiltsinco.blogspot.com/2015/01/scrappy-2015.html

2 yards of the Kona white is going to be used for the background for this Elephant Parade quilt! I think my elephants are going to be more scrappy. This week, we are making the big elephants. You can find the  information and free pattern over here http://sewfreshquilts.blogspot.com Lorna just posted the directions for the big elephants late last night. I know what I will be working on before the Super Bowl today!

Here are some of grays and I grabbed the same print for my backing, but in green for the Elephant Parade quilt.

During the Super Bowl and for Slow Sunday Stitching, I am hand quilting the border of my Journey of a Quilter quilt. Here is the link to that party http://kathysquilts.blogspot.com
I am really looking forward to the big game and to seeing Katy Perry's halftime show! She puts on an amazing show--my daughter and I saw her in concert several years ago and we are all in for a treat with her performance!

I am making my fried chicken tenders for our Super Bowl feast, so I better get outside this afternoon for a walk in the sunshine! I will link this post to probably all the linking parties featured on my right side bar!!!