Productive Tuesday and To Do Tuesday

Yesterday I finished the Monster Truck quilt top.  It is off to the quilter along with my Tulip Winner quilt top.  I am hopeful to get it done pretty quick because I have a two year old grandson who will be happy to get it.  He loves Monster Trucks.

Today was a "git er done" day and it feels great!  Because I have recently been machine binding my quilts instead of doing them by hand, I got three bound today!  Hooray!  I only just picked them up from the quilter yesterday.  These are the same three quilts I started at Scrub Stitchin'.

Tulip Garden

Sports Braid

Buggy Barn Flowers

I used up all the rest of the fabric on the back.

It was fun seeing them all rolled up and stacked together.  Awe, finishes smell so sweet!

Furthermore, I sewed up all of week 1 and week 2 blocks for my Spring Mystery BOM.

This Gnome exchange block was completed as well.

To Do Tuesday Linky:

It has been awhile since I have participated in To Do Tuesday.  Here goes...

This week I hope to:

1. Finish Esther

2. Piece another Celestial Star

3. Piece two churches for Color my World

4. Piece two barns for Color My World

5. Sew up some star blocks that are already cut out for my Crazy Quilty Ladies quilt.

6. Cut out my Tula Pink Pineapple quilt kit I purchased a year ago.

7.  Bind the two quilts at the quilter if they return to me this week (she is pretty fast).

8. Make Week 3 Mystery blocks when the pattern is released

I am also linking up with Songbird Designs Monday Musings.

15 min & Quilty Ladies progressing and a new mystery

Daisy is done!  Hooray!  I love these Crazy Quilty Ladies, but I really want to get this quilt done.  

Esther is progressing as well, but not quite finished. She will get neatly pressed when I am done scrunching her up while I embroider her measuring tape hair tie.

I also started a mystery quilt.  My friend, Janice  @Jannimary.blogspot.com, posted about it and I guess I got sucked in.  I enjoy mysteries, but what I love more is doing them with a friend.

The free spring, Mother's Day mystery is hosted by Laundry Basket Quilts.  Janice says she likes her mysteries better than some others.

My fabric selected began by searching my stash for 2 1/2 yards of background fabric.  I found this homeless/projectless Batik piece that has 3 yards.  Perfect.

Step 2:  find some greens because the first week of the mystery calls the blocks "stems" and I know there will be applique' flowers.  This bit was a little harder as my green stash is pretty low.  I chose a black instead.  The first month's blocks actually split the leaves into two fabrics, so I pulled a brown to accompany my black.  

Step 3:  find stash fabrics to go with my background and greenery/blackery.

I think they will all go very nice together.  Being able to make something beautiful out of leftover scraps and homeless fabric purchases really makes me smile.  Also, I prefer not to go out and purchase fabric for a mystery in case I don't end up loving the pattern.

This mystery is not very time consuming yet. 

Cut pieces...

Last week an attempt was made to make another exchange block:  Trip Around the World.  The only problem was the quilter requested solid black and mine was no where to be found.

As I was rummaging through the stash looking for fabrics to make my mystery out of, wa la...  It showed up.

Exchange Block - check!

Driving over the mountain to visit grands had a nice view. We should have snow up there for awhile considering all the wonderful snow we received last year.

The lakes are still thawing out.

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15 Minutes to Stitch update:

My percent is coming up - yay!

Also, as you can see below, I have worked on a lot of different projects this month already.

I am also linking up with:

Patchwork and Quilts Linky Party