Consider Yourself Mooned

Well, I have been having the best time in my sewing room this week just doing blocks.  Lately, I've been working an awful lot on finishing things up, and so it's nice to start two new projects this week and just have fun with them.  Today I made the first four blocks for the Hello Moon QAL.

These were so much fun, and they went together fast once I had the strips sewn together to make the moons.  This is the January block.

February.

March.

and April.

I used a Sharpie paint pen to color the nose on the hedgehog.  At least I think it's a hedgehog.

Okay!  Ready for May!

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Poor Gracie is having a terrible day.  There is a man here washing our windows and Gracie does not like it when Mans come to visit.  Mans are never a good thing in Gracie's book.  She's been spending the day hiding out and helping me.

If you'll recall from Monday's post, I also made five blocks for the new Mulligan Stew quilt I started this week.  The quilt is from the book Hobo Quilts by Debra Henninger.

I mentioned that I discovered a mistake in one of the blocks and that I was having to remake it.  One of you emailed me to say you'd read the reviews of the book on Amazon.com and discovered that some folks had written to the publisher to get the errata.  I can't recall who told me that now, but if it was you, then thank you.  I too read the reviews and saw that several people had been successful with that.  So I tried it myself by writing an email yesterday.  Less than 24 hours later, the errata arrived in my email inbox.  I was thrilled!  That is some great customer service!

If you're interested in the book or if you already have the book, email me and I will be happy to send you the errata for your own use.  Very cool.

Finally, my partner Diane has her April doll quilt now, and so I can reveal the whole thing to you.  

This month's theme was "Happy Birthday" to celebrate the one year anniversary of the Doll Quilt Swap.  Diane and I both have May birthdays and so we decided to stick with the theme.  Here's what I made for Diane.

This is a free pattern by Patrick Lose that is available online.  Just know that if you want to make it, you'll need to increase the size of the applique pieces to 200% to make them full sized.  Also, the pieces are drawn so that the "fingers" in the frosting match up with reverse "fingers" in the two cakes.  Well.  I'm not an accurate enough tracer or cutter to make that work, and so I ended up making the cakes into whole pieces and then fitting them together.  Just sayin'.  Maybe some people are that clever and talented at putting puzzles together, but I am not one of them.

So that's my day of sewing for Wednesday.  I'm hoping my window washer guy will finish up soon so I can get in a quick nap before I need to start dinner.  For now, I'm going to work some more on the binding for the Plain and Simple quilt.