Crackers

 I'm a little late posting this morning but I will tell you all about that after I show you some quilty stuff.  :)

I was digging around yesterday and ran on to a plastic shoebox of come Cracker blocks that I had started several years back.  I know that I had a few pieced but they were not in the box.  I played around and pieced a few of them. 

 These little 4" blocks are paper pieced.  Not sure if this is a project that I will continue to work on or if I will just play around with them for a bit. 

 These are fun little blocks.  I'm not even sure where I got the pattern.  I keep thinking that they were in a book that I have but I will have to look for it when I get a chance.  These will work great with scraps since the blocks are so small. 

 I also loaded a scrap piece of fabric on the longarm and played around with some free-motion designs.  It was nice to do it even though it was just a small scrap piece.  I'm thinking that I will do this on a quilt of mine when I get a chance.  It seems like most of the customer quilts that I do end up being stippling or edge-to-edge panto designs. 

 Now on to family things...  I'm late posting this morning because this was Hunter's first day back to school after break and it was just hard to get back into the swing of things.  :)  Richard was getting ready for work and Hunter for school.  I felt like I was running behind in the kitchen and such.  Anyway...it's all good.  Everyone get to where they needed to be on time.  :)  

Yesterday was New Years Day and Richard went to work.  Well let me back up a bit....  We never do anything to really celebrate New Years.  We don't go out, we don't drink or anything so we just usually have a quiet evening at home.  Richard was in bed by 9:20pm the night before and I was sewing when it turned midnight.  I get Richard up at 4:30am, he goes to work only to call me when he gets there and tells me that he wasn't even on the schedule for that day!!!  LOL!  First time he has ever done that!  LOL!  It would have been his regular scheduled day but they had changed a few things around through the holidays.  He bounces around usually from Behavioral Health Unit to the ER to the Med-Surg floor and just hadn't double checked his schedule.  So that was a 90 minute round trip drive for nothing.  LOL!  Well not really for nothing I guess...he did deliver a customer quilt for me.  :)