"Wynken, Blynken , & Nod one night.....
Sailed off in a wooden shoe"........
......and there's the Big (or is it the Little ?) Dipper for them to follow and guide them through the night.......
....... (sigh) one baby quilt ready and waiting for it's little owner to make his grand entrance (coming soon in Florida to my niece and her hubby).
OK, it has already been established that I can't think straight when it's 96 degrees and a bazillion % humidity outside !!!! So, with that being my excuse, let me tell you about my little Boo Boo. Pictured up there on the left is the baby quilt I designed for my niece and her hubby's soon to be born little boy. Now this picture is just the quilt top.
......and here was my original plan for machine quilting . I planned to "appli-quilt" the boat, stars, clouds, and moon (i.e. straight stitch /applique all the shapes down through the top, batting and backing so the shapes would be appliqued and quilted at the same time). Then I planned to fill in the background with vertical line quilting.
.......soooooooo, I "appli- quilted all of the shapes and was getting ready to do the vertical line quilting .....
......when I noticed things were looking a little puckery ............ then it dawned on me that if I stitched vertical lines, as I would get close to one of the appliques .......
....those puckers would all smoosh up against the applique ..........RATS !!!!! Then it dawned on me that I should have done the vertical line quilting FIRST .....then the appli- quilting on the shapes LAST !!!!! DUH !!!! (told ya I just cannot think straight when it's so blasted hot and HUMID !). So, today the heat and humidity have ceased (temporarily I'm sure) ...... and my thinking cap was firing on a few more cylinders , so this is the solution to my boo boo that I came up with .......
.......machine stitching/quilting different size stars to fill in the background spaces ....... kind of the same idea as tying a quilt or tacking a quilt. What do you think ?? 
It has been REALLY REALLY hot and humid this past week here in Jim Thorpe, Pa .......I am NOT a fan of humidity .... AT ALL !!! It makes me tired and cranky and not wanting to do much of anything ......(don't know what my excuse is the rest of the year) Anyhow, doodling doesn't require a whole lot of energy and it's fun ! 
I found today's doodling inspiration in the dollar bins near the check out at Michaels' . This is a little notebook . I didn't need another little notebook, but I just LOVE that drawing on the front !!! My immediate reaction was "I wanna try and draw that !" 
I would love to give credit to the artist, but I couldn't find a name anywhere on the notebook. 
.....and look how cute the back of the notebook is !!!! Wouldn't that make great fabric !!!!!!
......... and here's the original reason for my stop at Michael's the other day ..... to pick up the latest "Mollie Makes" magazine (LOVE !!!!) ........ so, there you go , TWO lazy summer afternoon , low energy, too hot to do anything else activities ........ doodling and browsing the latest Mollie Makes !
Down in our basement, next to the drums, lives a not - used - very - often ping pong table. Tired of crawling around on the floor, yelling at people with big feet to pick an alternate route , and shooing kitties away when trying to baste a quilt, I had the brilliant (and you would think obvious) idea to baste my quilts on the ping pong table. It worked BEAUTIFULLY !!! What a pleasant , although short - lived experience .......because ......
....... "help" arrived .......
Anyway, after the basting, I decided to "appli-quilt" all the applique pieces . Being short on time and just all around lazy, I figured it would save me time instead of blanket stitching around each shape and THEN quilting . Since I used fusible web to anchor all the applique shapes in place, I'm hoping the fusible glue stuff will act like Fray Check . Besides, I really like the way this looks on the front AND .........
......on the back. 
Groovy man........
The first thing I thought of when I saw / read the word "Bloglovin" was 1966 and "The Lovin Spoonful" (these guys in this picture) ~~~ and all things hippie !!! 
