Cape Cod pictures and Dresden blocks finished

It  feels so good to be back! I haven't even noticed until recently that it's almost been a month since my last post. I can't even remember when was the last time I did any sewing. It's been over 90F here for a while and when it was cooler we were away on Cape Cod. I needed  the few days of relaxation and mostly the uninterrupted sleep. We stayed at a Bed and Breakfast (Inn at the Red Oak in   Eastham, MA) for the first time. Our sink had two separate faucets for hot and cold water. It was kind of interesting :)  We were on the beach a lot, Fiance fishing and I was reading and walking. I  took some really nice shots. It was low tide when I was taking the pictures and saw some really cool stuff that the ocean revealed.

The rocks looked like this:

The house on the beach had an incredible view:

I loved the look of these  little "worm"-looking sand pipes:

The beauty of low tide, I adore the rippled effect:

If anyone could tell me what  this is... it's texture is like jello:

Since we got back the weather has been crazy hot and my sewing room has no A/C. Despite everything I did finish  the corner blocks I want to put on my Dresden baby quilt and did the sashing and the border lengthwise. Still have to do the horizontal ones with the little pinwheels.

Yesterday I finally got over myself and after coming home from a 3-day kayaking/hiking trip I dove into my sewing. As a relaxation I watched the 50 something minute video about the July BOM for Craftsy and decided to make the blocks. I turned my TV on and watched Daylight (never realized Viggo Mortensen played in it) and then  Bad Boys. By  the end of the first movie I could feel sweat rolling down my shins. Turning the iron on after that didn't help to cool down :)

Guess what month is it? YES! Dresden month! :) I made a regular Dresden plate block with machine blanket stitching, which I haven't done before.

My traditional Dresden plate  block:

My modern Dresden wheel block:

That's all for now and I'll be back soon with the finished pink and white quilt top.

'Til we blog again! :)

Small blog meet and the letter "D" finished

I was catching up with my blogs, as usual, and found Lynne's post at Lily's Quilts about a Small Blog Meet linky. Since I still haven't reached the magic 50 I thought I link up my blog to meet some people from blogland who struggle with the same thing. Not that I need a huge number of followers, but it would be nice to get a little more feedback on my blog. And the bigger the numbers, the more comments I'll get. Hopefully! Or should I say the more the merrier? :)) If you've been following my blog you know that I prefer quality over quantity anyways. But it doesn't hurt to meet more people :)

If you have less, than 50 followers and are interested in linking up here's her button:

On the sewing department I finally finished hand appliqueing the letter "D" for my Craftsy BOM for May  khm... April :). It's one of the 2 blocks that we're making, haven't started the second one. Bad me, I know!

Here  it is in it's full glory:

As I said in my last blog, I'm working on a Dresden Plate baby quilt and happy to announce that I'm finished appliqueing all 12 of the plates on the background, yoohooo! It took me all week and I worked on them every day. Yes, sometimes just for a half an hour or a little bit more, but finally it's done. I'm lucky because our meeting with our friends was cancelled due to her bad back and postponed it to next weekend. I'm kind of happy about it because it gives me time to finish the quilt next week and will have time to wash it too. And of course to take a picture before I give it to them. I was worried about that part in particular. I'm hoping for some nice weather for the end of next week so I could take my masterpiece outside for some really nice shots. I was kind of disappointed not to make it to the final 5 at Amy's Blogger's Quilt   Festival, but I think it was because I didn't have an outside shot of my quilt since it was raining when I finished it. Or maybe people didn't like it as much. I got a lot of compliments on it and that's what it counts.

Here's a sneak peak about the plates. I only laid out 4 of them since no more fits on the dining table :) Of course as soon as I started to take the pictures helper cat showed up and refused to leave. UGH!

A close-up on one of the blocks:

He's all comfortable now...

And the "rabbit paws" as I call them!

That's all for now, I"ll be back with the progression!


'Til we blog again! :)