Polka Dot Squirrel

While at the Road to California Show this past January, I picked up a fat quarter bundle from the Connecting Threads booth.  Of course I didn't have a plan for them at the time. As I looked through my Pinterest boards I decided to try this tutorial. Wow can you believe it, I didn't let that fabric ferment long at all, LOL

Of course I didn't remember to get a photo of the bundle before I chopped into it!  But here is a photo of some clippings. Surprise, it has polka dots! Gotta love the polka dots:)  I think I will call this quilt The Polka Dot Squirrel!!!  Well it is a squirrel that I didn't need to make but just thought it would be fun.

This top was so fast to whip up, but still lots of fun to make. The blocks finish at 12" square, Here is a link to the tutorial.  At this point I have a 48"x 60" quilt, I think I might add a small border to it as I have lots of fabric left.

As you know I acquired a new Janome while at the Road show, a Skyline S7. After using it for the past month or so I can say I am getting more acquainted with it. I love the foot lifter pivot button. Once you have it set it will raise up automatically every time you stop. Granted you wouldn't want that happening all the time, but while appliqueing it is very handy.  The walking foot is great. I also learned how to set my favorite 1/4" seam setting so every time I go to the 1/4" quilt button it automatically comes up to my 'personal best' setting. Now if only this machine had the longer throat like my 7700 I'd only need/want the one machine, LOL  Granted I didn't need this machine, but hey it is only money and I might as well get something I enjoy and use a lot...right??  I really want to find time to play with it more and I am sure that will happen(at some point).

I am soon going to need to set aside a bunch of time to get my quilts on the frame and quilt them up. I haven't only been chasing squirrels, but you have seen my snowman runners so many times I don't want to bore you with more pic's of them.  I have pieced about a dozen of them in the last couple months also. And a few of the crazy tree runners too.  A quilt-a-thon is in order at my house soon!!

My squirrel will be in good company with a bunch of other squirrels over at Sandra's monthly DrEAMI party.

My squirrel

Ok so I admit I never had heard of these squirrel moments until I stumbled upon Sandra's blog a few years back. She kept talking about having those Squirrel's and once I learned what she was talking about, I realized I have them all the time, LOL. I just never knew they had a name!

So here is my squirrel or DrEAMI! moment for February.  Cheerful is a pattern by A Bright Corner that I had been admiring for quite some time.  One day earlier this month I was wandering around my sewing room, maybe doing a bit more cleaning up, and my eyes landed upon the fat quarter set I bought from Connecting Threads last November. I decided right then and there to go get the pattern and start in on it. Two days later I had the top sewn up!!  BTW the fabric is Amanda Jean's Good Neighbors line.

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