It has been a beautiful day here. I did some housecleaning, reading and crocheting today. It was sort of chilly for outdoor work though. Tomorrow 80's that will just great.

I am making Dotee dolls for a swap with two ladies. Well one of the ones I send too has accidently mailed one TO ME. She has said she wants me to keep it but I felt bad.

I have also joined a doll quilt swap on the same forum and am looking for patterns. I think I am going to do a basket pattern. They don't mind how big the blocks are for it either. Also 12 x 12" to 24" x 24" are the size req's. I found a new source for fabric from one of the girls it is called Whittlesfabrics.com. A lot of it is $3.00 - $3.50/yd. They are all brand names too. I want to find out if they do ½ yd cuts. Shipping is $4.95 for 6-7 yards which I think is reasonable.

I got a Clover rotary cutter but haven't tried it yet. Nancy Zieman uses one and she makes it look so easy.

Above are two counted cross stitch I did over 20 years ago and I want to get them framed. I am not good at framing.

It is a beautiful day today after three days of raining. We needed it but enough is enough. So it is 61° but windy.

I have started making a crocheted thing for a partner in a swap. It will be cute and not too much trouble to mail.

I am still thinking about what to make for the new mini swap. I have a few ideas I am kicking around but then I see something else and think well maybe this would be good. LOL.

Maggie's heartworm meds came today. I can't believe I saved $17 by ordering them online. I have also switched vets and he only charged $82 for shots and office call where we were paying $159.50 last year well no more I say. The new vet doesn't dispense the HW meds oh and they are generic which I take a lot of generics myself. All there is in his office is a desk, 3 chairs for patients' humans, a screen with a table behind it to put the pet on and that's it. My old vet there were 6 vets, about 30 women from assts. to receptionists and groomers. It was a class place but who needs it I was paying for all of that.

We went to a Kmart this week and I still like Kmart but they need to clean up this store where we were. It is old and you can tell it. Our Walmart is about 12 years old and they keep working on it still.

The mini quilt above is one I started in January and finally finished in March. It urned out pretty good. I satin stitched the appliques and everything.

My cute dolls. and a doily too.

This is the Pink Pineapple doily I finished last month. It is from Celt's Yahoo site.

This is from Quiltwoman.

This is from PamH. We all belong The Quilt Board.

These are the two dolls I received in the swap. The top one is from Quiltwoman and the bottom from Pam H. They are so cute.

It has turned cold here and we had flurries earlier this week. Warmup for the coming weekend in the 50's.

I didn't put out any Easter decor this year I couldn't get in the mood and there's always next year. Most of the stuff is from when I did ceramics.

We are going to have a nice dinner ham and all the fixin's.

I am working on my 4th block for the BOM at HGTV and it has a paper pieced part to it which I am eager to try.

These are the dolls I made for a swap at the Board. The ladies said they liked them I also made them each a bunny magnet for the frig and a flower pin cushion. I have received one of mine so far but will post both when I get the other.

I have been working on two CAL's and a quilt I started for the mini swap but changed my mind. I am almost finished machine quilting it and then will bind it.

I went to a LQS last week and had a bad experience. I bought two kits and 2 patterns. Anyway on the way home I disovered that the kits had no patterns. I was pretty upset but went online to Amazon.com and ordered the book. It came the other day and is very new looking. Bits and Pieces is the name it has 18 patterns. So I guess I did good huh? The book was half price online.

I am still in a BOM at HGTV and it is fun to see the different ways people make their own blocks.

It has been a weird weekend as far as the weather it was 76° Saturday, 70° Sunday and supposed to be 50° today.

I am still working on my mini quilt for the swap. I received mine from Holee Saturday along with some wonderful surprises. I msade a huge error but I think I have it fixed.

I read The Friday Night Knitting Club last week and it was so good even though the ending was really sad I almost cried.

I haven't crocheted much but will next week when they have another CAL at Eri's from Pam. She is really good at writing out the patterns for us.

I found out Walmart has jellyrolls and FQ's again so I went over yesterday and bought 1 jellyroll for $9.99 in bright colors for my stash.

Have a wonderful day and week

These are two dolls I bought at Walmart I want to make them some different clothes than what they have now. They have the cutest facial expressions like real babys'.
I have been working on my mini swap quilt and it is coming along better now after I had to completely redo the blocks. Also the doily I was working on is no longer. So now I am making a potholder for another swap for my Canadian forum lady.
The weather has warmed up to mid 30's and was sunny all day. Rain coming Thursday.

Just wanted to show you my new sewing table. I got it online from Sewing Table Shop.com in 4 days and my DH put it together in an hour and a half. My old one is going to the VOA next Saturday we got it at a Singer store in the 1970's but it is small with no table space. I like the new one with the drawers to keep everything in one place.

I have been making a Daisy doily that has motifs it says it takes 10 of them but I think mine will need more I don't know why this has happened.

Keep warm