Leaving

On a little adventure

First I had a workshop last Saturday making a weekender bag I got this much done in the class and have not been able to finish it so I will be taking the suitcase.
The class was with 2 lovely ladies from Harebrained Happenings they have wonderful patterns but I have wanted to make this bag for a couple of years. I used only the scraps that I had some fabrics from my strip quilt that my dad has and strips left over from the Giant star quilt. I will make another one of these bags of course, but with a thinner batting I picked one that was a tad too thick, lesson learned.

I was also leafing through some old Quilters Newsletter mags  and found the layout for my baskets that I had received on a swap that I was in a couple of years ago. I have some great alternate fabric to go inbetween the 4 pieced blocks and boarders. This will probably be one project I will bring on one of my other retreats I am going to in the next 2 months.

i am procrastinating right now I want to clean up a bit and think what to pack as you can see my huge Ironing surface is suffering from no space, projects, project ideas, marking items, oops in the corner on the left is my Easy street, can someone please just find me more time!!!
That little filing cabinet is jammed, I mean jammed with patterns I want to get done!

So what to pack, projects or clothes, well as long as I have my toothbrush and warm pj`s I should be okay…I am going to bring my BOAF blocks and Basket blocks, and my Love Letters maybe I can get those all prepped.
I`m leaving on a jet plane, don`t know when I`ll be back again…another song to sing all day!

Love is in the Air

If you know my DH you would be just as surprised, he has only bought me flowers once in the 15 years we have been together, I come home to see these gorgeous Roses.

Love is in the air….everywhere I look around…(appologies to those that won`t be able to get this song out of their head for the rest of the day)

They are just starting to show their centers and I was fortunate that I found the vase (3 sided) they were in at a yard sale a couple of years ago, I usually have my dried hydrangeas in it but they got tossed in a flash.

I have been working on my BOAF block that is 2/3 done and also my baskets as you can see below I have them all appliqued on there is about 25 of them our of 2oo and some odd, and now I am doing the little square in the middle.

I will have to dig in my scrap barrels and get some more baskets cut and ready for travelling.

Next week I will going to Rose Marie`s house with Mary we are flying to North Bay, it is just so exciting! we are counting the moments!

It`s not that I haven`t been quilting

this was the start of our winters day yesturday

This is my first Sally post block love my fabrics, that orange is a Jinny Beyers 1999 that I found in my stash. love it I got to work on this at Irene`s sew day on Tuesday with my friend Mary. Lots of fun and a great lunch.

Birds of a Feather is moving along am working on the first block but halfway done got my doves done though

finishing a UFO hand quilting it, can`t see? here is the back I am doing the borders free hand design since you can`t see the quilting anyways  on the front I don`t want it to be perfect. colors are not just in this photo will try later on once I get the binding on. it is dark in the basement at 500am

Also trying to finish this one below with some hand quilting



Working on the next Love Letters above

Some snow pictures, we got alot more than this by then though I was in the house after all the shovelling

i loved how the snow piled up in our rain gage…almost like a snow cone you get at the midway
Stay safe to you all

Fun

another one prepped (I keep saying I am not a thimbleberries fan, but then I pull out a fabric and read the bottom and it says thimbleberries! how does that happen...the brown background)

and another block prepped. I have them pinned to the design board next picture I post will show ya.
Hope`n to get the applique prepped then it will just be grab and go…I still have to do the piec`n too…
Guild meeting tonight with Kindred Hearts how to keep your sewing machine in top shape, perfect for me cause I am `bout due for  maintenance.

time to shower and get some sleep beef barley soup on the stove...i think I mentioned i love barley

Birds of a Feather started

Well I did a bit of prep and pretty happy so far

Don`t forget there is some piecing that will pull all these together

got on a roll and

got all the way to block 3 prepped and ready

tomorrow after work and then the gym (yes I said gym) I will prep my Sally Post and my next Love Letters. I have the pieces cut just have to pick the fabric…Don`t even think I am going to post of my quilt room right now
Fabric is just piled everywhere but there was still room to have my friend Mary over she is crocheting a lacy scarf with some wonderful wool and she has family visiting. We are flying to Rosemarie`s house at the end of Feb for a couple of days.
It will be great for both of us to get away to our friends retreat, up north in the hopefully by then deep snow.  I will have lots of applique to bring while I am up there.

Right to the point

The winner is number 9- Peg who coincidently is part of the winter white exchange I am in!!

Thanks to the lovely comments and some of the great tips that were posted glad I can pass this win to share with someone else. now I am going to go applique some before the day starts.

This is the quilt that won the 2nd place vote I think there was some confusion on the one I posted earlier

I found these leaves i am going to set them as this

and then add these leaves on point as sashing so I will have to add some triangles so that the little ones are on point I hope there are enough. Plus I have to put the siggy blocks in some how, any suggestions. Funny the song that is on right now is `Making it work`good one radio

 

So Peg I will email you with the certificate this weekend...thanks again for all the followers, devoted commentors and people that just stop by to look

Don`t forget

I went shopping The Quilt Store in Newmarket had all their fabric, baticks, fleece and cotton fabric 50 percent off. Tomorrow is the last day. The 2 fabrics above are going to be in 2 quilts that I am working on. The blue one will be for the swap blocks that I had joined you can see the icon on the side Winter White.
The second fabric is going to be my opposite fabric for my sally post quilt…Gosh I just love it!!

Then I bought a bunch of 1meter cuts. That is it for most of the year my Christmas gift from my honey…he gave me money and I spent it wisely…

I also started my Birds of a Feather block that I am working on with a Yahoo Group called
 Applique Your Way all pinned and ready to applique my first block. We are alternating BOAF and Vintage Valentine each month. There are many other BOM`s that people are appliquing if you need a boast or want to finish what you have started.

I also got my fabric from my winnings from This n That fabrics I am not a purple person but I really like that one with the stars in it, I picked them and needed to get some new variety in my stash. I want to use some of that gold one at the end for my Sally Post blocks.
The Sally Post blocks is what I will be prepping this weekend and working on too this pattern is currently being posted again (with a twist so that they can coincide with Barbara Brackmans BOM Sentimental Stiches is posting them on the straight) . The Yahoo Group I belong to called
Prim Folk Art Quilts are making these blocks in their own special way. Some are machine applique some are needleturning some will be backbasting....each have their own technique and it is fun to learn from the members.
Remember you have till midnight tonight to post on the last post to win the 6month membership for The Quilt Show. I hope you get lucky, they have a wonderful BOM this year.
Well time to catch a nap just finished nights and doing some running around. hope there is a good movie on.
Oh shoot!! forgot I got a great Tshirt from my friend Mary (no blog) I will post that you will get a kick out of it, and I also got some great books I will post next time. Put it this way I think I have all of Black Bird Designs quilting books. Love their patterns I can`t wait to have one of their quilts hanging on everyone of my walls....and hopefully some Sally post blocks...
Until tomorrow for the draw…