Finish It Up Friday-Pillows, Skirts and a bit of Dallas Fun!

I just finished these pretties just in time to brig them with me to Dallas to give to my sister and Matt!
When I was here for the Dallas quilt show Val eyed the fabric I intended to use for a project for my friend Destinie. They also needed couch pillows that matched their decor. I took some of the pillows home with me to use as reference. Then I used scraps from Destinies quilt to make these cases. Look how good they look in their Living Room with her Pinterest art and Live A Colorful Life's wedding quilt.
Our dolls have been reunited as we are going to have an American Girl adventure tomorrow. They are looking a little loved and disheveled.

So I finished some skirts for them to wear.

Val is one of my favorite sandwich makers. They taste like home. She made me this one for lunch.
This evening we went on an adventure of the golf nature to Top Golf. There are two stories of driving ranges and you play games where the balls have GPS trackers in them and track if you hit certain targets and how many points you get.
Matt's friend Graham joined in too and it was great to have him with us! He's a new golfer and he's picking it up quick!
The orange sections are the ones Luke hit. Shortly after he hit his ball in the 9 target.

It's like bowling. And they have giant lawn games, snacks, meals and grown up beverages.

So much fun!!!

Linking up with Crazy Mom Quilts and Finish it Up Friday!

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Finish it Up Friday

I finished a whole handful of skirts!
These two were made solely for the purpose of having a reason to wear these shoes.


On the left is Flora in the Alchemy line by Amy Butler. On the right is Stella 203 by Dear Stella.
The right skirt is inspired by this Pleated Chevron Skirt tutorial by Crafty Cupboard. I say inspired because I follow tutorials and patterns the way I cook from a recipe. Barely. By the time I'm done I've fudged so much it can hardly be from a pattern.  The left skirt is loosely based on a bunch of shirred skirt tutorials from Pinterest. Then I slid some elastic between the top two rows of shirring to make it sturdier. All have pockets inspired by the Chevron Skirt.

This next one is because I LOVE this fabric! Okay really I love all the fabric but these colors are me to the Nth degree.


I made the skirt and the bag which was supposed to be just a simple little project bag....that got a zipper, decorative stitching on the straps etc. Pat W's picture has better lighting.


I have a small square of this fabric left and I'm saving hoarding it for something special!
The binding on this crib size quilt is finally finished! Mary started it a while back, passed the blocks to me recently, I assembled and quilted this project and Val and I both worked on the binding this weekend so she could practice!


It's a group project! It will go to Kansas or Fresno MCC world relief auction.
Another WIP that has been going on for some time has been our lawn. It finally feels like a finished project as I picked up our cute lawn mower today! I kind of want to call her Poppie because of her bright orange coloring! She looks like a beetle all collapsed to go in my car.


Luke came home to change shoes just in time to help me unload her and got to take her for her first run around the lawn.


He did the edges and then I took care of the middle when he went back I work. She drives like a dream!


Maybe someday our lawn will be strong enough to apply weed killer! Yay Kansas weeds!
Dad, Cheri and Cindy are coming out this way so I picked up some grown up soda from the liquor store. (No you can't just buy it in the grocery store here.) I found these fabulous ideas. Has anyone had them before? Am I the las person on this planet to discover them?


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I'm linking up with Crazy Mom Quilts for Finish it Up Friday!

WiP Wednesday-Skirts Season

The weather is heating up which means its skirt season! Though with all this Kansas wind, I've discovered a need for less full skirts so that I don't "get lipstick on my hem!" as my friend Pat says.
Speaking of hems...


I got creative on my hems! I learned a new skill of shirring.


It wasn't as elastic as I had hoped it would be so I stuck a ribbon in for a casing for wider elastic.


Unfortunately that made it too tight. Off it came. I worked out another way to add some 1/4 inch elastic.


Here's the last skirt in progress!


Non material WiP's include recovering from this poor sunscreen application,


and project garden.


I'm linking up with Lee from Freshly Pieced for WiP Wednesday!

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