Tuesday Night Sewing Date

Another Tuesday has come {and almost gone}.  Tonight's project was trying out my block for the "No Sew Block Swap" that I'm taking part in.  Got my fabric on Sunday during the quilty excursion, and decided to cut and sew today.  And let me tell you, it is adorable and went together so simply!  And I love the combo I picked (even though it was a last minute "how about this one and this one..." pick at the end of a long shopping trip).  Why does it always seem the quick picks are loved the most??

Anywho, I really want to show a pic, but am not sure if I can {or if it should be a surprise to the ladies in my group} so I'm going to go check other sites to see if others have posted theirs.

*Update:  Looks like others have posted pictures, so here you are!!

Other things purchased on Sunday were:

Fabric to make this apron from this awesome new book, One-Yard Wonders.

Fabric for a special baby quilt for my co-worker.

Fabric for my block in the block swap.

And a few other various pieces (owl fabric to match some other that I have in my stash for future use, golf fabric for a collection that I want to use to make a quilt for Hubby, a small ruler, and a Clover seam ripper-love it!!)

Such a great trip it was, now to just work away at things!

Happy Tuesday Night Sewing Date!  What did you work on tonight?

Always,

Slightly on a Fabric High!

What a great day it was (okay.. blogging late, so it's really still Saturday to me)!

(For many out there..sorry if you really don't want to see this)... It all started off when I woke up this morning. I looked out the window, and there was a bit of white on the ground! I know it's only October, but I am ready for some snow (can't wait to snowboard!), and absolutely love the Christmas season! Here's a little smattering of what I saw when I got to Mom's for our adventure day:

Love the red berries in the evergreen bush!


Beautiful flowers dawning a little snow cover!

And now that I got that out of my system (for today), onto the real plan of attack today! Mom, Dani and I planned a shopping excursion for, what else, fabric! Well...3 ladies, over 100 miles in the car back & forth and all over, 9 hours, and 7 stores later this is what we ended up with:

A ginormous amount of fabric, and multiple projects each!

I have fabric for so many different things, some in progress, some in planning, and of course, some new!
~ Binding fabric for a Nancy Halverson Christmas wall hanging
~ Fabric for a few Christmas gifts
~ A smattering of different fabrics for an out-of-the box quilt for me
~ A bunch of batiks for a batik quilt using the 4-Patch Flip pattern from Heather Mulder Peterson
~ Fun & whimsical fabric for a Christmas quilt!

Such a great trip, and many happy hours later I'm now home! Dani is here scrapbooking, I'm cutting some batiks for the quilt, and we're watching Elf (who doesn't love that movie)!!

Off to a bit more cutting! Hugs & Giggles

August projects and My Studio

Happy August! But where did the summer go??

I finished two different projects in July (and worked on many), so its now time to decided what will be finished in August. I know it will be a busy month- studying for my big exam, boot camp with the sisters-in-law, bridal shower for my hubby's cousin, and other random things here and there, so I'm going to shoot for a small project to finish this month. Unless we can finish the wedding quilt that is, but I'm not so sure that is going to happen. So, the project that I'm planning to finish is a baby quilt that the fabric was cut at the same time as the Water Animals baby quilt for the Habitat Auction at work. Same idea, just some different colors:

And as for the studio, I posed about it back here. I also added another couple little shelves that mom found for me at a garage sale. Great little storage for 50 cents total! Love it!

I'm now off to enjoy the last little bit of my weekend. Enjoy!

Always,

Sunday Stash #5

As you may have guessed, the Sunday Stash for today is all of the goodies that I got on my trip to the International Quilt Study Center and Museum this weekend! We stopped at 5 different stores, and of course, I had to get a little something from each! Some things were bought to go along with a project, for a new project, or just because they were too fun/cute and I couldn't leave them in the store.

Here is the whole collection of goodies!


This my for my kaleidoscope quilt I'll be making:


For a little table topper and for my lattice quilt that is waiting in line:


A few cherries I found for something, I'm not sure yet:


And the others that I just couldn't leave behind!


Now I just can't wait to start working on these projects! In addition to all of the others on my list. Next up --> the wedding quilt! (and continuing on the flower gardens). What projects do you have lined up?