Another charm box mini quilt

 I really like making this charm box quilt pattern and the first one I made was smaller.  I posted about it last year.  This one is 18" square.  I am hanging it in the kitchen where I had the smaller one.  I have been working on it for awhile and finally finished it today!!  It is a free pattern from Fat Quarter Shop and is Lori Holt fabric. 
It is so good to have a finish it up Friday to push me along!!

 Joanne Sharpe has a new class online Draw Your Awesome Letters.  SUCH FUN!!

 I got a new palette tray and it is easy to swipe the little distress ink pads and then using a wet brush and water do backgrounds for my creative journals.  I got the idea to get this from Kathy at The Daily Marker.  It is fun to add all kinds of things to my creative journals!

 We spent a great day walking around at the Safari Park.  It is nice for my hubs to be able to walk easily without pain in his knee now!  Before his knee replacement in April the pain was too much to walk for any distance. 

 Here is another scrappy rectangle block. 

And in September we celebrated our 56th wedding anniversary.  We went to the Lake Cuyamaca Restaurant and walked by the water.  We spent time in Julian and Pine Hills...........some of our favorite places to visit.

Linking to finish it up Friday crazy mom quilts   and Linky Tuesday.

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

Placemats for summer

I used some more of the Sunkissed jelly roll and made some placemats for summer.

I quilted each with batting only....
I cut jelly roll strips in half for the outside borders...
Then I trimmed and cut backing fabric at the same time.

Then I sewed right sides together and turned....quick way to finish.

  One placemat is squares and rectangles.......

  The other one is squares and two strips.....

 Here is a photo of the June Sew Samper from Fat Quarter Shop....fun!

 Solstice block #6............from Solstice Challenge by Pat Sloan.

 Solstice block #7.   The challenge ended with 25 blocks.  I am slowly working on them!!

Smiles and hugs...............Caryl

Linking with Connie at Freemotion by the River  Linky Tuesday

and

Amanda Jean at crazy mom quilts  for Finish it up Friday

Some of my projects I am working on this month

 Joanne Sharpe has a class online at ruzuku.com "Paint, Stitch, Play".  I started this class last year and stitched muslin pieces together to form this fabric sampler journal.  I am now getting back to the class and painted the title!  The class goes along with her book, "The Art of Whimsical Stitching".

 I am hand quilting my 2nd charm box mini.  Pattern from fatquartershop.  Different quilting than the first one and this is a little larger than the last one.

 I am doing the blanket stitch on this basket for Solstice Challenge block 5.  A challenge project designed by Pat Sloan.  I am way behind on these blocks!!

 I am doing a scrappy quilt I call strips, scraps and squares.  It will have a lot of different blocks.

 I finally opened two bunches of 2½" strips that I have had for awhile.  I really like the look of black and white with colorful blocks.  So I am using Kaffe Fassett fabric for the first time.  These blocks are 4½" long.

And this is another block of the scrappy rectangles.  I saw these on IG and just had to make some!!

I like to work on a lot of different projects and jump from one to another!!

Linking with Connie at Freemotion by the River Linky Tuesday.

Smiles and hugs....Caryl