Jasmine lap quilt

A new project has been started!  I am not sure I can call it a squirrel since I had it planned since mid December.  Sometimes one has to wait for just the right time to start something. That was the case with this.  I wanted to piece a bunch of table runners before starting this one.  

The use of a jelly roll helped speed up this lap size quilt.  A lot of strip sewing ensued and then a lot of cutting. Before I could begin sewing up the block.  Still a long ways to go before it is ready to become a top. This would also be good for all those 2 1/2" squares that we seem to accumulate in our scrap bins.  A great leader/ender project.  The pattern is from Villa Rosa called Jasmine. 

There is no particular date that I have to get this done so it will be a little work here and there on it.  Recently I broke a needle on my Skyline 7 machine when the needle came down on my plastic 1/4" foot. Luckily it didn't hurt the foot, but something must have gotten screwed up as it was skipping stitches on the table runners I was sewing at the time.  It would skip right before and right after a thicker seam:( so the table runners got set aside for now.  But on these batik fabrics it is working perfectly, go figure!  At some point it will have to go get checked out.  

We had a little fun this past weekend, we went to an air show!  The best part was the Blue Angels.  Just love watching their maneuvers.

I know you all enjoy some pretty posie photos.  So I want to share these with you that we saw on one of our many bike rides.  Aren't these Bougainville just gorgeous.

Linking up with Monday Making, and Design Wall Monday.  Thank you ladies for hosting these linky parties for all of us to enjoy!