It's a Mystery - Week 2

So I have been so excited waiting to see what week two of the spring mystery quilt would bring me. Package arrives, fabrics look promising. Sewing technique for the week is paper piecing. Fun, love it.

Look at the instructions...hum...paper pieced baskets. Not my favorite, but hopefully there will be some cute embellishments to go with these baskets. Once sewed, feel the blocks are a little bit cuter then originally expected. Cannot wait to see what next weeks mystery brings. Strange thing is, not all of the fabric was used from this weeks mystery. They said to hold onto it for next week.

Only three weeks to left to go! Here are photos of the fabric that arrived and the finished strip of blocks.

House Elves

For the past two years, my house has remained pretty clean due to House Elves. Each night or so, the House Elves come after we go to bed and they pick up whatever has been left out around the house. The agreement is, whatever is left out especially on the floor, is theirs to take...forever.

Big Buddy doesn't like it when the House Elves take things he has left out, so he keeps his things picked up. We never know which night the house elves are coming so it is good to always put things away.

This past week, Big Buddy has been asking me about the House Elves. Are they small? Yes. Are they nice? Yes. Can they come into my bedroom? No. Where do they live? In the house elves village. Do they have kids? Yes. Do they like toys? Yes. (As you can see, I try to keep my answers to a minimum.) Big Buddy is smart though. It is hard to get anything past him for too long.

He has been wondering if I could take a picture of them so that he can see what they look like. I have just been letting this one go as I do not want to scare him. I really like the mystery of not knowing what they look like. He asks me how I call the house elves to tell them to clean our house. I tell him that they just know when to come.

So the other night, Big Buddy started asking Mr. Big about the House Elves. Now I could hear them talking about it and figured that Mr. Big would also give short answers to any questions that came his way. Well, surprise! Big Buddy asked him what the House Elves look like, and so Mr. Big showed him. Before I could stop what happened, Mr. Big showed him this picture.

The look on Big Buddy's face, although priceless, was that of utter shock. I had to pull him aside and explain to him that this House Elf was old and friendly. That his name is Dobby and he won't hurt him.

For the last 3 days now, Big Buddy has been fascinated with Dobby. And the questions just keep coming. Why are his eyes so big? Why is is nose pointy? Can he do magic? How does he pick up big things and take them? If he takes the clothes I leave on the floor, how can he wear them? I just keep answering the barrage of questions in hopes that I can keep the House Elves around for a little bit longer (I love a picked up house). In the car on the way home from school, Big Buddy told me he has decided that he would become a House Elf knitter. He is going to knit little hats and sweaters for them to keep them warm. Big Buddy is the cutest!!! He also drew this picture that he has left out for the House Elves to take, to let them know that he is friendly. :)

It's a Mystery!

So I received an email from a long lost quilting friend of mine from Arizona. She turned me onto this really cute little quilt store in Logan, called My Girlfriends Quilt Shoppe. The coolest thing about this quilt shoppe is that they have really fun projects and you can even sign up for them if you live out of town...they will just mail the project to you. Get Out!!!

My Arizona friend told me about the "Spring Mystery Quilt". With just a little peek of the adorable spring fabric, I was totally sold! We both signed up. Now how this mystery quilt works, is each Tuesday, I receive a package in the mail with instructions to sew a portion of the quilt along with the fabric not knowing what the final quilt will look like. We must have our blocks sewn by 6pm on Saturday night and send the proof of our sewing via email back to the store. Once they receive the email, they ship out the next weeks block. There are 5 weeks of sewing total until finished quilt. I am sooooooo excited! I feel like a kid with a decoder ring.

For the next 5 weeks I will show pictures of what I am sewing. Here is what I received in the mail to kick-off my mystery quilt! This week we used fusible web to appliqué these flowers onto the background. Then we made these cute Yo Yo's for the centers. Super fun! Luckily, I was able to email my photo right before the deadline. Phew!