Sister's Choice Quilts

Busy Week, Busy Time of Year

Ok, so I am pretty sure this is the cutest mug rug I've ever made. I used an apple block pattern from one of Lori Holt's Farm Girl Vintage books. How adorable is the apple core block? This is teacher appreciation week and we wanted to give Miss Kelly a little token of our affection.

Eva is in a play this weekend. The Enchanted Bookshop. She has two roles, "the Lady in Red" and "Little Red Riding Hood". We were asked to bake cookies to be sold at intermission and to display them in a way that relates to our kid's part. We filled a big basket with Oatmeal Chocolate Chip cookies (pretty perfect recipe if I say so myself) along with a propped-up picture book of Little Red Riding Hood. I think it makes a  nice display. We made 100 cookies and placed them in 50 cello bags. If they sell for $2 a pop, that will be a $100 donation for the school.

Goodness, have we been busy. Lots of trips to her charter school over the past two weeks. It is about a 25-minute drive, so it's a major back and forth. She had state testing last week, every day, and rehearsals for the play every day this week. I won't be sorry to see the end of this school year!

I am taking a break from seeing my dad this weekend. My sisters are covering for me. We will attend Eva's play on Friday and Saturday and with any luck do absolutely nothing on Sunday.  Happy Mother's Day to all of you moms out there. I feel as if I don't have to do anything on this holiday because my mom and mother-in-law are no longer with us. Book of the Month Club did something kind of nice, I thought. They have had a very active ad campaign promoting that a subscription to their service would make a nice Mother's Day gift. They were sensitive enough to realize that not everyone has a mom anymore and that this could be a tough holiday for some. They told the folks on their email list that if they didn't want to receive these ad emails for Mother's Day to click a button in the email and they would not see any of them. I thought it was thoughtful.

Happy Friday, and enjoy the weekend!

February Mug Rug of the Month

Happy New Year! I started the year out right by putting away most of our Christmas decorations and getting up into the sewing room. They say if you start the year as you plan to continue it, you have a chance of doing just that. Fingers crossed I will be doing more sewing this year.

So here is the February Mug Rug of the Month. I am so done with the octagonal shape I had been using since fall. I wanted to work with small pieces and used my Little Crumbler template by Miss Rosie's Quilt Co. That template is great. You can make units as small as 1 1/2" and as large as 4". I went with 2" for my shapes. Four rows of ten units. 

The rectangular shape makes it so fast to machine sew the bindings! My January mug rug is in the picture below. Cute, but ugh, that shape was a pain to get right.

Every now and then, particularly in February, I get emails from readers wondering about the pattern I used for the heart runner in my blog header. If you are interested in how I made it, check out my post from February 5, 2018. 

I hope all of you had a terrific holiday. I have to say 2021 ended very nicely at my house. We had a fantastic visit with our son, and just hated to have him go home. He must have brought the Irish weather with him when he came to California because it rained practically the entire time he was home. He had a couple of nice days when he went into San Francisco and took photographs. I was happy that he could spend some time with my father as well. 

This week I will be attempting to ease back into a "normal" schedule!  We will see how that goes.