My version of Dancing 9-patches is complete!

I learn something every single day I sew. I also learn something every time a make a Bonnie Hunter quilt. My lesson this time was to be CONSISTENT when adding the sashings. I just slapped them on where ever... not a good experience. So there will be another quilt coming from this pattern that is wrong. I did not want to resew the blocks. I sew things with a short stitch length...

I also had a senior moment when I thought I had until September to make this quilt. Another big wrong! Great Grand Son's birthday is MONDAY!!! Glad I had already cut out the parts. I was going to use it as a L&E while sewing the Split 9-patch blocks that are this season's challenge from Our Bonnie.

I taught myself how to knit. So far only meager dishcloths. But I am getting good at them. So I decided to gift Our Bonnie with some dishcloths that were in Easy Street colors. I knew she had a busy schedule. She posted about them this morning. And she will be taking them up to her quilt villa. So as she is doing some housework tasks she will be using my humble dishcloths. I will sure be with her in spirit!!!
Click on the link below to take you to her blogpost and a photo of the gift.
http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2013/08/home-again.html

All done! Just need to get it pinned up and quilted. Okay...I have three days...whoops only 2 days as we are celebrating the birthday this Sunday! Yikes I need to get moving!!!!

A few of the units as I was sewing....

Our tomatoes this year have been fantastic. That is a full size dinner plate the tomatoes are sitting on. I do not see how the poor plant can hold on to them!!! Of course DH gets all my selvedges to tie the plants up. I just checked his container and he is almost out!!! I will get it filled up again!

Maggie Mae and I watched Quiltcam last night. You can barely see Bonnie but she is there!!!
XOXOXOXO Subee

A "DUH!" moment...

I have 72 4 1/2" neutral string blocks made. I decided to just cut the remainder papers needed so I would "know" when I was done. But who wants to count phonebook pages? Then I had a "duh!" moment...the pages are numbered! WHOOOHOOO! I ended up using every single page in that phone book. I have 10 extra pages left over. How satisfying to have an empty phonebook cover!

Have any of you ever used an entire phonebook up? I am sure Bonnie has. Hummmm.....makes me wonder if she ever takes pages from phonebooks in her motel rooms. HA! We will have to ask her!!!!!

The fabric in the background is scraps waiting to become strings and corner triangles.

 A few hours later and I have:

 A bagillion strings and corner finishing triangles cut and another BIG stack of 2 1/2" strips cut for the HST in Jamestown Landing. I still need to use the Easy Angle on those strips. But right now I am in string piecing mode. These 4 1/2" string blocks finish so fast compared to the 8 1/2" neutral string blocks I made over 200+ of! I made 36 yesterday. All trimmed and the paper torn off!

 Tomorrow I need to grocery shop then will spend the rest of the day sewing! WHOOOHOOOO!

We have been getting small tomatoes and cherry tomatoes for weeks now. We are finally getting the large meaty ones. Oh they taste soooo good. I told DH that he needs to write down what kind they are and buy them again. Despite the terrible heat and NO RAIN for the last month the tomatoes are doing fine. DH keeps them watered and they do not get the hot afternoon sun.

YUMMMMMMMMMMMMMY!