Lots of sewing stuff

I know, you are so excited to see all of my sewing....all at once.  Well, it is Worldwide Quilting Day, so there!  I have an excuse.

I have joined the Vintage Quilt Revival Block Along.  This means that I am trying to finish a block or two each week, then uploading the picture to Flickr, and at the end of 10 weeks I'll have a bunch of sampler blocks for a quilt.  Each week they have a random drawing to win some quilt stuff...which I was pretty sure I was going to win one of these weeks, but haven't yet!  I was so hopeful.  :)  It has been fun.  Many of the blocks are paper pieced.  I've enjoyed learning the technique, but I do not love all the fabric it uses up.  It is nice to see all those lines matching up so nicely though!  Here are a couple of the blocks.

I am looking forward to spending more time on the quilt that is on my design wall.  I love this quilt -- simple and a little more modern.

I also wanted to make a new pillow cover -- I decided on a rainbow pillow as a nod to St. Patrick's Day.  I didn't have a pattern and just decided to do it "improv"style.  I am linking up to "Sewjo Saturday"-- a link party (I think that's what it's called. :). 

Lastly, I finally finished Tanner's superman quilt.  I haven't loved it -- Superman fabric is not something I get super excited about.  But I wanted to do something that he would like, and he does love his "Huperman blanket".  I machine quilted it with big wavy lines -- it was the first time machine quilting a large piece (only done pillows or table runners a few times.)  I have to say -- it was not very fun for me.  In fact, my sister called while I was doing it and I told her "I hate this!  It is so worth paying someone $$$ to do this for me!"  

After that big quilt I decided to "practice" machine quilting on this table topper.  I started this a while ago, did some quilting on it with invisible thread (read somewhere to do that.)  That did not work out for me.  So I unpicked it (ugh) and then just let it sit for several months.  Anyway, I pulled it out again and finished it.  I showed my boys, thinking they might this it was kind of fun to have houses on the quilt.  But when I didn't readily point out that they are houses, Eric said "Are those H's?" They do look like that too.

After all the pain of machine quilting Tanner's quilt, I am ironically planning on quilting another one....though it's not quite so big and I'm straight line quilting it this time.  This is a quilt I started over a year (or two?) ago.  Lots of little pieces and so I ended up taking several breaks from it.  I think it'll look great when it's finished.

So that's what I've been doing these last several months.  Thanks for letting me share.  :)