On the Design Wall...

Yesterday I started another mini quilt project in preparation for The Creative Stitches Show in March in Abbotsford.  I used the paper piecing template from Amy's Creative Side for these small star blocks.  The blocks finish at 6.5" blocks.

I kept messing around with the layout.  I liked the layout with 9 blocks.  But then Husband came to see what I was doing.  I kept making blocks until I  had 13 blocks.  Husband gave his two cents in the whole process as well which is why I ended up making more, more, more!  And then I had to decide if I wanted all the same colours going in the same direction or random.  I went for the same direction.  And just so you know, these were a lot of fun to make.  Not too many pieces.  Just fun.  Linking up with Judy's design wall Monday.

Happy Valentine's Day

I made a few little Valentine's for my family.  Just about coaster size.  The half square triangles finished at 1" square.  Just tiny!  Popped in the mail for everyone but Husband.  I am sure our son will think I have lost my mind.  Mum already received her's and it made her so happy!

Happy Valentine's!  The smell of sugar and vanilla will permeate the school with a sea of candy and cupcakes.

The Best Night of the Month!

Tomorrow evening is quilt guild night.  It is such a fun time and a great group of quilty peeps.  We do a lot of show and tell and I am going to give a wee talk on Flickr and Online Swaps and Bees.  We also have door prizes.  Lots of door prizes.  I try to take something to each meeting for the door prizes.  This time I made something.... a zippy pouch with my little bitty scraps.  I stuffed it with some fun items and we are good to go.  Look at it sitting there with all that lovely Aurifil thread!  Fun!

Getting busy!

Yesterday I put together the February Lucky Stars Block of the Month.  It had fewer pieces than some of the other ones of late so it was a welcome change.  For some reason, the centre pinwheel is a bit off but in the big scheme of themes once it is in a quilt, I don't think it will be a big deal.  My husband didn't notice it when I showed him the block and that was a good sign!  He he he!  16 blocks and counting!

Then I worked on a little Valentine's project with some itty bitty half square triangles.  So fun!

I also put together a zippy pouch for a door prize donation at the next quilt guild meeting.  I used a bunch of my "sawdust"scraps and pieced them together with some Kona Charcoal.  And by sawdust I mean those little scraps that are too big to throw in the garbage but too small to go in the scrap bins.  I keep them all in a shopping bag and every once in a while a dive in a do something with them.  This was a good use of them!  I just apologize for the really bad photo that I took just prior to quilting the front and back panels.  What was i thinking?

Linking up with Lee at Freshly Pieced for Work in Progress Wednesday!

Bee Blocks... Cross patch

Kelli asked for Cross Patch blocks from the Vintage Quilt Revival book for February's That Stash Bee Blocks.  (Did I tell you how much I love this book?)  And this block was quick to put together and it looks awesome!  I am going to put this on my must make list.  So with the Family Day long weekend, I was able to take care of a few things on my list and I still have another day of sewing ahead of me.


Yippee!  I will be popping these in the mail tomorrow.  Done!  Linking up with Judy's Design Wall Monday.

In Progress...

I have been busy with Geometric Slide.  This is a quilt from the book Vintage Quilt Revival.  I used a Joel Dewberry print for the binding and I straight line quilted the heck out of it.  Just when I started to hand stitch the binding, I noticed that I had a pucker in the backing right near the edge... thankfully.  And of course, this would have been the last few rows of quilting when I was trying to get finished before lunch on Sunday.  Argh!  Bad words!   So... during the first bit of the Super Bowl, I got busy with the stitch ripper and ripped out a few rows of quilting in order to smooth the pucker.  I also had to undo the machine stitched binding in that area.  More bad words.  There is a happy ending to the story.  Pucker disappeared.  Quilting is done.  Binding is attached and hand sewn and of course, Seattle won the Super Bowl.

And as an aside, I really love Joel Dewberry's orange prints.  I am not a huge fan of orange and it is lacking in my stash but I have found that no matter what the line, if it is an orange and a Joel Dewberry, I am going to like it.  Maybe I should say that I am a fan of Joel Dewberry.  And I really like what he does with orange.  Just saying.

Linking up with Lee at Freshly Pieced for Work in Progress Wednesday.

Have you ever?

Have you ever ordered a scrap pack from Hawthorne Threads?  I have.  They are awesome bundles of  fabric goodness.  They had them on sale.  In fact, they are still on sale right now.  $6.99 for the equivalent of about 2 yards of fabric scraps.  I ordered several packs... and this is what arrived.  Look at the stack!  There scraps are most always width of fabric and are seriously good pieces of designer fabric.  It is fold-able fabric!   FUN!  I was talking about this at my guild sew in and at least one of my guild buddies ordered scrap packs and were just as thrilled with what arrived.