100 Blocks winners and May BOM links

Hi friends!

My mother's day goodies — My mother’s day goodies

Did you have a good weekend?

I hope everyone did.

On Saturday, I went down to Castle Rock to a lovely quilt shop Sew-Ciety to chat with the ladies who come to her monthly Weekend Sampler meeting.

They hear about new products and I was able to say hi and show off my Braid Template and my new pattern Table Scraps.

It was fun!

Then I came home and sewed a few of my The Splendid Sampler blocks. I am SO FAR behind! I think I only had 2 blocks done before other things took precedence. That is OK.

Do you ever start something like a BOM and then get behind and never catch back up?

I have, mostly because, once I am behind, it feels so overwhelming to try to catch up. So I abandon the whole thing.

This time, I have decided to cut myself a break. If I am behind, who cares? It is not a contest for me; it is a learning experience. So I will make blocks when I can and be sure to at least download all the blocks so I am ready.

Here are the 3 blocks I made on Saturday afternoon.

This one I had all the fabric picked out and set aside. The large heart is for my family. The two hearts are on the right are Jim and I- mom and dad.

The 3 hearts on the bottom are the kids. And I made each of their hearts in two colors as each of my kids has a special someone in their life- Sean and his smart, lovely wife Rea, Scott and his sweet girl Jocelyn and Alyssa and her fun hubby Jeff.

This one was quick and easy to whip up- and fun!

red and white block — checkerboard block

And I like how this one came out.

And yes, it is true. I did not go in order! Uh oh, don’t tell the quilt police.

As for the other BOMS, well, I am behind on them too but here are some of the May links for you!

The Splendid Sampler page

Little Lovely blocks

Aurifil BOM 2016– this is the link to the April block- you still have time to make one and enter a picture of your block for a chance to win something- the deadline is May 14th!

Seminole Sampler