Happy May Day - glad it is finally here. We have had a mixture of weather - sun and rain and then more sun. It is 70° but feels more like 75°. A lot of humidity.
I have been making more dolls. This one has a great pattern I found thru another blogging site.
Also playing bingo on another crochet site and am in two mini quilt swaps and a Friendship swap. A kitchen swap too. I can hardly keep up.
The big quilt show here in Columbus is coming up in June but I haven't made up my mind to go or not. I have never been to the Convention Center but it is downtown so it wouldn't
be hard to find. I am going to try to get a ride with a gal who lives north of me. I have never met her but those gals feel like friends they are so nice.
Fixing spaghetti tonight for supper and garlic bread. I bought some fresh green beans to fix for the weekend too.
I remember when I was a kid May Day was special we made little baskets in school and gave them to our mothers. I still have one my mom gave back to me with some other stuff I had made. She kept a lot of stuff. My babybook is full to the gills she wrote down everything. She waited 7 years to have me after my brother so I was really wanted.

These are the Dotee dolls I made for a swap and mailed yesterday. They were fun to make and easy too. Easier than the other dolls we made. A lady in Australia invented them.

I have been trying to decide what mini quilt I will make for the other swap. I have it narrowed down a little. At least I have the fabric.

I haven't decided if I am going the NQS here in Columbus in June. I want to see the other women from HGTV too if I do go. They are planning a great time for us all.

I have never been to a quilt show but I know it will be great since it is sort of an old show.

I hope my friend Holee is doing well.

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