Goodbyes and Winter Sewing Projects

My lack of posting does not mean a lack of activity in our household.

After being in NW Ohio for two weeks over Christmas we went back again this past weekend to say "goodbye" to my Brother and his family who live outside of the US. We had a wonderful time with them while they were here!

I've got several sewing projects going to pass the winter months.

Quilts for Kids quilt. I need to finish quilting it and put the binding on.

I used up some JoAnn's gift cards that I received as (awesome) Christmas presents. Here is some of my new stash (both of which will eventually become quilts). The JoAnns near my Moms house is closing so I have even more fabric that I didn't photograph! I am open to quilt pattern suggestions!

I am calling this grouping "Be Mine" even though there are no hearts involved. The reds on top are fat quarters and the others are yardage.

And this "Birds at the Lemonade Stand". I'm looking to add some green to this grouping. These are all fat quarters. I LOVE the birds and I wish there would have been more of them. (These didn't photograph well.)

I'm hoping to use some of my stash to do this quilt along and if I can scrape my change together to get the fabric for this one then I will do it too! Have you ever done a quilt along that you enjoyed?

And after seeing this quilt in a magazine, I played around on some graph paper.