Jo of Jo’s Country Junction starting hosting Waste Not Wednesday posts and this is my first one. I use phone book pages for string pieced blocks, lot’s of folks do this, but then I use the papers after they are removed for worm bin bedding 
It’s Design Wall Monday and the theme of this post, by pure coincidence, is Red, White & Blue. I cut the fabrics for my First Saturday blocks and a couple Civil War blocks. For this civil war block, I used one of the fabrics I received from Vicki…..as soon as I saw the blue fabric with stars, I knew it was perfect for the flag block!
My design wall has more red string blocks. All of the blocks are sewn but I didn’t trim the rest of them because Bonnie pointed out on her blog that it was double work to trim them square them up, cut them in half and then trim the triangles again, duh I’ll work on getting the triangles cut later.
On Saturday we went to the parade in downtown St Louis to honor the Iraq veterans home.
Stash Report:
Happy Quilting, Cherie
Yes, Bapron as in baby apron I found a tutorial to make this Bapron on Ucreate. It was easy to follow. I made one for Lily Bean and forgot to take a picture before it was put in the box to send…….so here is the lovely Lily modeling the Bapron
Because the Bapron has arm holes, it stays in place better than a bib and doesn’t Lily look adorable?
It’s Monday Design Wall time Click over to Judy’s DWM post here to catch what other quilters have on their design walls. I’m still working on the SAHR quilting…….I’m just showing the new stuff 
It’s coming along but not fast enough!!
Have you seen Jo’s Crumb-a-long? I’ve added her button to my blog in case you’d like to click over to her “Jo’s Country Junction” blog and get the details!
And totally not quilt related, here’s a picture of what was in our basement yesterday. Unlike the one from several years ago, I was not the one to find it, thank goodness!
Our friend Terri from Oklahoma was visiting St Louis so we got together for the first time in years. We had a great time Terri gave me flowers, the roses are blooming out so nicely, and us a bottle of wine. Check out the wonderful wine wrap….it’s a sock monkey!! Isn’t it GREAT??? It’s too funny…I love it.
The bits in front are size 12 pearl cotton for quilting my SAHR top and two packs of grab bag wool pieces. These goodies came from Piece-O-Cake and I can’t wait to start using them.
……………this can happen at the First Saturday club at The Quilted Fox Darlene & I think alike!
Hot, hot, hot!! It was an excellent weekend to spend some time hanging out in the cool basement I finished cleaning my sewing room. There are a couple of more thing I want to do (get the mattresses out, refold some reclaimed fabric, etc.) but I declare the cleaning done. For Design Wall Monday I forgot to take a straight on picture so here’s one cropped from a cleaning picture.
Those 9 patches on the left side are made from 2.5 inch crumb blocks that I found while cleaning……I vaguely remember working on them
Here is the conference table before:
And after:
There’s still a lot of stuff under the table, including 4 sewing machines and 4 boxes of stuff from the quilt guild quilt show but it doesn’t hurt anything.
The cutting table was cleaned up and then a few projects were strategically placed.
Cutting Table before:
And cutting table after:
The fabric shelves before – notice the stacks of fabric on the floor as well as several bags of reclaimed fabric:
Fabric shelves after – nothing on the floor in front of the shelves now :
And last, before a recap of the chip racks, I have to say there’s a rumor running around my house that one of the chip racks may be recalled. 
Chip Racks Before:
And chip racks after:
Happy Quilting, Cherie
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Stash Report:
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Lily Bean is chillin’ at an Italian beach on a quilt my mother, Lily’s great-grandmother, made quite a few years ago.
Cute, no? Lily’s mommy says she likes putting her hands in her mouth and thinks her toes might be next Check out this picture! The flower is almost as big as cute miss Lily’s head, lol.
And now something sewing related…one of the boppy covers I made in action
Okay, enough of the pictures of darling little Lily Bean…….I finished up the June & July First Sat main blocks, woo hoo. Only the three alternate blocks and I’ll have all the blocks done.
Happy quilting, Cherie
I’m working on a new rag rug. The hardest part is trying to judge how far a ball of “yarn” will go. The picture is a bit dark as I took it this morning before leaving for work. The bottom part is from a sage green sateen sheet, followed by a gold jacquard striped sheet and topped by a cream print cotton/poly sheet. It’s much nicer to crochet with the sateen & 100 cotton sheets
Another design wall Monday and another week of not much sewing going on. I haven’t even worked at catching up on the civil war BOW, my first Sat blocks are waiting as is the award ribbon AND several projects in process. It’s due to a combination of the weather being nicer and being bitten by the reading bug….I’ve finished off about 4 books in the past two weeks. If you’re reading the old fashioned way rather than listening to them, then you can’t be sewing!
Here’s my wall which is the same as last week. Check out Judy’s DWM post for other design walls
I did finished a rag rug I started crocheting eons ago. It looks pretty good on kitchen floor.
I sewed some on the Zigzag 9 quilt too but there’s not much progress to show. I’m sewing the second half of the quilt together and making a few more 9 patches since I didn’t have quite enough.
I’m prioritizing my projects as I have some deadlines coming up. Here’s a start:
Quilt Show Ribbon – due middle of July
SAHR project – must be completed by Sept 11
Crumb Quilt – must be completed by Sept 11
AAQI Priority Quilt – due middle of Sept
Hope this helps me focus. I do want to catch up on the civil war blocks before it’s get too daunting…..if I get them cut, they can be my leader/enders.
Happy Quilting
