February's Colors~

I realized I didn't post our finished February blocks

for the Color Adventure.

That month sure flew by, didn't it!

Tammy's pretty "springy" one arrived with its soft colors.

It is a bit of Oregon's spring palette!

Our January and February blocks

are blooming against the winter's snow.....

Mercy~

February's Sugar Club Block was 

Mercy.

I had a little help with it ;-)

The directions for the block are very clear

and I love how it turned out.

 I like to wait until all of my blocks are done

to trim them,

so the extra points are still there.

It doesn't look great for pictures, but that is how I operate.

I am imagining different settings for the blocks.

There are still many months and blocks to go.

What is planned??

No matter which setting is used,

I think they will look happy.....

Half of February's Color Adventure~

For my February Color Adventure block, I wanted to do something

"Valentine-ish".

It is the Valentine month after all ;-)!

So I scrapped the block I  had started and pulled out three Kona colors;

mulberry, cardinal red and candy pink.

Finding a pattern that was Valentine-ish was harder than I expected.

I wanted arrows or flowers or???

but no hearts.

Through an online search I found about.com.quilt

and the Flying All Around block.

But it had a chunky 6.5" piece of fabric for the center...

I pulled out my BrANd New (thanks, Jane) 

Farmer's Wife book

and found Wild Roses and square to fill that spot.

My idea of a valentine..

Arrows of Love circling a bouquet of flowers.

(note- those are fox prints above)

I was so tickled to finish, and skipped out to take pictures before the sun disappeared.

And discovered I had a problem..

 (hear the music change?)

Oops!

So back to the machine and ripper I went.

Problem solved.

The wind was beginning to blow,

and this block set to fly off to Oregon!

I can't wait to see what the mailbox delivers this month.....

February's Lovely Year of Finishes..Finish~

At the beginning of the month I decided that a lens bag

would be my goal in February
for Melissa and Shanna's LYOF.

After thinking about what it needed to be able to do, 

this is what I came up with.

I gave it a square bottom to stand up,

a little loop to lift it with,

and two layers of Soft and Stable padding.

It also has a waterproof sleeve inside to keep

things dry,

cordura on the ends to protect from abrasion,

and a zipper closure.

It was a fun little experiment.

The Iditarod is starting March 1st.  Those dogs and all of the happenings

 will give us 

a great chance for this little baby's test run.....

Check out what everyone else was working on this month.....

February Goal~

For my birthday I was given a wonderful new lens.

It works really well, and I love it.

But, when I go places, I am concerned about damaging it

because I don't have a case to fit.

In February I am going to change that!

My goal for this month is to create a padded case

to protect the lens.

I am linking up at

A Lovely Year of Finishes-

Click to see what everyone else is doing.....