Sailing On Into the Blue

 Welcome to Treadlestitches!

Up, up, and away!  This cute panel was on the free table at my quilt guild's meeting a few months ago.  I finished the top, but it was lingering in the closet until I finally got it quilted this week.

Nothing too complicated here, just borders around the center.  Lots of panels are not printed straight on the fabric, and this one was no exception.  I liked that it had plenty of white around the design so I could cut it straight before adding the borders without wrecking the design.

As it turns out, I had some hot air balloon fabric on hand to add to the panel.  The inner border is a very light blue with smaller balloons, and the corners of the outer border are cut from a slightly darker blue with larger balloons.  I'm really hitting the theme hard.

Even on the back!  A kind person in my quilt group put literally yards of this adorable Hoffman fabric in the basket the group gave me.

In a nod to last month's Rainbow Scrap Challenge color, I bound the little quilt with an orange print.  It will be donated to Jack's Basket.

Since it's light blue, I'm counting it as a start to the RSC color for September.

Here are 4 light blue split nine patch blocks to join the rest I've been making all year.  Now for the hard part--I have to do some math to figure out how many more blocks I need, and if I'm making two baby quilts or one twin quilt.  Size will of course dictate where the quilt or quilts are donated.  What would you do?

All the blue squares in these blocks came from my 3.5 in. box, they were already cut and waiting for a project.  Here we have sharks, caterpillars, and the Bat Mobile.

These fabrics are VERY light blue.  There are trucks, lighthouses, and a scrap of one of the balloon fabrics from the baby quilt.

The blue squares in this block have kites, fire trucks, and flowers (with a bug peeking in).

It's fun to look at the fabrics and remember the quilts these scraps came from.  The prints this time are bunnies, butterflies, and Fischer Price toys.  The bunny fabric was left over from my littlest grandson's quilt, made before he was born.

Here he is now, at two and a half.  His brother had a day off school yesterday, and we went to the library for new books.  Our library is wonderful, with so many fun things for kids to do, including this puppet theater.

Did you notice the boys' weird hair?  Their Daddy gives them haircuts, and for a joke he only cut half of each of their hair the other night.  The kids loved it, but we got some strange looks at the library.

Our Buddy didn't have school yesterday, so their Dad left their hair like this, and fixed it after work.  (He would not have sent Buddy to school like this.)  Sorry about the tongue hanging out, he was being a goofy kid.

The weather here has been beautiful.  My Little Guy and I go to the park as much as we can.  In this photo, he is studying a leaf he picked up.

Here in the U.S. it's Labor Day Weekend, which traditionally marks the end of summer.  We should have a few more warm weeks here before fall and winter arrive.  I plan to make the most of them.

Have a lovely weekend, and a happy week ahead.  Quilting makes a good day even better!

Cheers for reading,

Sylvia@Treadlestitches

Linking up with:

Alycia at Finished or Not Finished Friday

Angela at So Scrappy

Cynthia at Oh Scrap

Frederique at Patchwork and Quilts