and two become one....

Tonight the Binding Buddies (Mom's group) and the Young Chicks (my peeps) joined forces and had an awesome night of craftiness!  There were make-your-own baked potatoes, lotsa chit-n-chatting, fobs made for scissors, and some fabulous show-and-tell!

My fobby spot

All of our finished fobs!  (I think most of us made 2-must have one for the big and little scissors!)

Me (Young Chick) ~ Baby quilt for co-worker

Me (Young Chick) ~ Sewing Studio wall hanging

Me (Young Chick) ~ Disappearing 9-Patch/Flair quilt

Me (Young Chick) ~ Batik Grandmother's Flower Garden

Me (Young Chick) ~ Kaleidoscope quilt

Me (Young Chick) ~ I-Spy quilt (finished a few years ago-mom is using as a sample for class)

Sue (Binding Buddy) ~ One Block Wonder quilt with original fabric

Russ (Binding Buddy) ~ One Block Wonder wall hanging for Sue's cube (original fabric on back)

Russ (Binding Buddy) ~ Stars & Stripes Forever wall hanging

Dani (Young Chick) ~ Disappearing 9-Patch/Flair quilt

Mom (Binding Buddy & Hot Hen) ~ Fabric for her One Block Wonder quilt

 Mom (Binding Buddy & Hot Hen) ~ Disappearing 9-Patch/Flair quilt

 Cynthia (Binding Buddy) ~ Easter towel

Cynthia (Binding Buddy) ~ Homespun 4-Patch Flip quilt for her Godson

Cynthia (Binding Buddy) ~ Homespun 4-Patch Flip quilt for her Godson (Back shown here - love it!!)

  Cynthia (Binding Buddy) ~ Bag made for Mom (her birthday gift from Cynthia)

 Deb (Binding Buddy)~ Fabric for her One Block Wonder quilt

Phew!  What a night it was!  Hopefully you got inspired a bit, maybe added a project to your never-ending list, or (like me) that much needed kick in the pants to go and get some PhDs finished!! 

Always,

 

Tuesday Night Sewing Date!

Tonight we all finished the other half to our first pillowcase that we made a couple weeks ago (last week was the quilt show)!  I now have an adorable set, all I need is for someone to get married!

I also brought my finished Webby Quilt top to show!  I just need to get some fabric for a back and binding (probably a solid light neutral for the back and white for the binding).  {And there's Mom, my "Happy Holder" for the night :o) }

Here is one of my favorite selvages ("Here Comes the Sun" by Patrick Lose with the star by it)!

And I had a package sitting and waiting for me when I got home.  I got my other blocks for my "No Sew Block Swap"!  And of course, Miss Abbi thinks it was a little package just for her!  Aww...love her!

Well, that was my wonderful evening with the girls.  And I am now up to watch some Olympics with Hubby and cut some blocks for our next project for Tuesday Night Sewing Date next week!!

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

Tuesday Night Sewing Date!

What a great night! And quite productive! Tonight I got some batting from mom for a little project I'm working on (I have been told lately "come shop at my house before going to JoAnn's" by her), finished planning out the tea towel for a little exchange I'm participating in, and worked on the wedding quilt!

I know I've said this before, but I can't wait for this quilt to be done! It's going to be wonderful! Tonight, Mom worked on pinning, and I did some sewing. We have a total of 14 sets (4 blocks each) of signature blocks sewn. So that's a total of 56 blocks out of 150 or so. We have quite a bit to go, but we're hoping to get it done before my and hubby's first anniversary, which means we have 2 months to finish it. Eek! We'll see if it makes it there by then.


And I can't wait for Friday! More than others, because I have this Friday off! Woohoo! I plan to sew a bit (finish my little project(s) so I can show you all!), study a whole lot, and maybe read a bit outside...if it's nice that is.. Oh how I love having days off!

So what was your project of the day? I would love to hear about it!

Always,

A lil sneak peak...

So I know I haven't blogged lately...but here's one thing I jumped into!

Of course I had another little project I was hoping to finish this month (which I did some sewing on today, and still could finish), but typical me...I jumped into another little project instead. Here's a little sneak peak, and I'll show them when they are all finished!

I hope you all have a wonderful week!

Always,

Tuesday Night Sewing Date!!

What a great night! I love Tuesday's!

So first off....if you read the previous post, the "Stars of Wonder" flannel quilt is finished!

Quilt measures 58" x 80"

I made it using The Pointless Wonder pattern from Quilt Country. It is all flannel with the bright pink as the binding and backing. And I just love the yellow border fabric with all of the different colored stars!

It was mostly done to see if I could do a quilt all on my own, beginning to end, with little help. I felt that I was at the stage and that I had learned enough from Mom that I should be able to do one on my own, and I did! I did get a little help from her with figuring numbers and all (I'm not so good at that just yet), but other than that, I did it! So needless to say, it's not by any means perfect, but quite an accomplishment :o) I do love this quilt though it was a bugger to finish...but it's done!

The next little project (just a quick one) was to add extra padding to the ironing board. It's a great ironing board, and worked perfectly except for one minor thing... There wasn't enough padding and I felt like I was ironing right on the metal frame whenever I ironed. Thankfully we happened to have some extra badding at my house, took it all apart, made a pattern with some Christmas paper that I just can't seem to get rid of, put it all back together, and I ended up with a much nicer ironing board! Nice and thick!

And onto the last little enjoyable part of this post. If you remember this fabric that I found while on my trip with Mom to the Quilt Museum in Nebraska
(the group on the right, Soiree by Lila Tueller for Moda)
I decided tonight was just the night for the project with them! Here is a little glimpse! It is just about done, but not quite there yet...
It shall be done tomorrow or Thursday, then I'll show the finished product :o) Oh, the suspense!


Well, there is my fun for the night! What did you work on today?

My First Quilt

I have decided to post about my first quilt I ever made after reading Camille's (of Thimble Blossoms) post on her blog Simplify (if you've never checked it out, you shall!!

So here it is...my first ever quilt!

It was made 11 years ago, a simple patchwork with lights and darks. All scraps that mom had in her stash, no borders, yarn tied, nothing fancy. I was only 14 at the time, so needless to say, I was at quite the beginning stage. The quilt measures 52" x 44". I had to scan the picture into my computer (originally taken with a regular camera..yes, this was before all of the fancy digital cameras) just so that I could show it! I'm not sure where the quilt is now, either upstairs in my hope chest, or at Mom's for the kitty to sleep on, or in a closet somewhere...never can tell!

And my most recent finish!

My "Summer Fun" 9-patch that I finished a week and a half or so ago. Made with a mixture of my stash, and mom's stash of brights. Many of these fabrics have great memories, and some are just fun fabrics that I've been collecting along the way. With sashing, corner stones, borders, machine quilted, and binding. Quilt measures 69" x 56" Also, my first pieced back with a few extra 9-patch blocks that I had!


As you can see, I've learned an incredible amount about quilting, the process, and have developed my own skill along the way. Most of that thanks to Mom, love you much! And, also have to throw a little special thank you out to Grandma, without her teaching Mom, I probably wouldn't have picked it up either!

I can't wait to see all of the other blogs of those that decide to take this little journey as well! Be sure to check back to Camille's blog next Monday when she will have a list of all different people who have shared about their quilting journey!

A new set-up gives new inspiration!!

Or so I hope....

The bulk of the evening was spent re-arranging our second bedroom from a mish-mash mess into a much more usable space! And I am loving how it all turned out!

We also have a futon along the other wall for when we have someone come to stay with us (which isn't often) or for just hanging out to watch tv. We used to have some other things in the room that have since been taken out to be stored. It should be a great little sewing/crafting space (sans the sewing machine currently, but no worries, it will be back home soon!).

I also found this great little blog today that I decided to be a part of and will hopefully help push me along on some of my WIPs. I made a list today of all of my current WIPs/things that I have the fabric for but haven't started, and I have to use more than one hand to count them all.... Here is my project that I am working on and hope to finish by the end of the month:

I found the pattern on sale at a quilt show a couple years ago and found the yellow border star fabric soon after! All the fabric sat in a bin for a year or so, then I pulled it all out to work on over the winter. I have 6 stars left of the 30 total to quilt, then I just need to bind it. I'm so close I can taste it! So anywho, be sure to check out the blog and join if need that little extra push too!

I'm off to relax just a bit and work on some batik flowers, then sleep in tomorrow since we have work off for the holiday! Happy 4th of July!

The beginning of a great trip

This is going to be a quick post, but wanted to get something up quick!

Mom, a family friend, grandma, and I are on a little adventure to Nebraska to visit the International Quilt Study Center and Museum in Lincoln, and we got into town tonight. We stopped at a cute little quilt store on the way and I found these goodies:

(The three prints front the left in the right pile I previously had, I found the little fat quarters to coordinate. And the cherries are for another future project, yet to be decided.)

And...I finished this beauty in the car! My 9-Patch is complete and I couldn't love it more!


*Sorry for not the best pictures....what do you expect from not so good hotel lighting....ergh

Off to play a couple rounds of cards with the ladies!