Saturday I decided to participate in the quiltathon over
here. Since I learned of it late, I didn't actually get the button on my blog, or even blog about it for that matter. I know myself well enough that I knew I would either spend the day on the computer figuring out buttons and blogging, or quilting, but not both lol so I chose to quilt! Anyway better late than never..here's what I accomplished on Saturday: I got two sets of borders on two quilts from last year. The first was my first
strip club quilt from
Cozy Quilts. Crossed Path made with Sunshine by Moda:
The second was a quilt I made from this
book:
the pattern is Sunny Lanes with the Fall Back in Time line also by Moda.
The next one is scheduled for March 18th and I will get my button and be a better participant then!
Saturday was also the first day of the
San Diego Cruisin' Quilters our annual shop hop! Monday and Tuesday were spent driving all over the county to 15 different quilt shops. I behaved myself pretty good...
Tomorrow we will do our last 4! I got my first peek at the new Mary Engelbreit fabric "Friends and Flowers" at our first stop in Fallbrook at The Quilter's Cottage-
-Here's Janine...modeling it? LOL!
They had charm packs and Jellyrolls and one fat quarter bundle which was tempting. I gave in to it and picked up a couple of charm packs and a jellyroll but I resisted the bundle and held out in hopes of finding yardage somewhere...and Tuesday that reserve paid off when I found the whole line in yardage at Rosie's who sells it at a 25% discount no less woohoo!!!
I'm planning on using it with this pattern:
from this
book:
I was happy to find this panel (1/2 off!) that I saw at Christmas time on someone's blog and coveted it, but couldn't find it anywhere.
Had to add to my Lakehouse collection
and I've got to use this soon before it becomes a 20 something yard collection like my Freshcut....which yes I actually bought 2 more that I didn't have yet!
And of course I can never resist shabby chic or "vintagey" stuff!
And lastly but not leastly :)
Kathie asked a while back what was on our design wall...so here it is:
I'm a little over halfway done, I think I need about 32 more blocks. So I'm off to go get a few more done! Have a great week!
Apparently I went a little too quick grrrrr. I'm tempted to just fold a square in half for a label and stick it there, we'll see.
I did manage to finish quilting a couple of other table toppers this week without totally screwing them up :) I started to cut another top and then took a look at my flimsy pile and decided I really needed to finish at least a couple table toppers before I started anymore piecing projects. I'm taking a machine quilting class at the end of April so I'm putting off some of my bigger projects till then.
I did do a few piecing projects mainly to use up swell scraps.
I made a deal with myself that I had to do something with some of my Sanctuary fabric before I can buy any Simplicity, and I really want Simplicity :)
This is the March Clothesline Club project that I'm doing through the fatquartershop.
And this is the March Stars around the Garden bom's from the Country Loft.
Oh and before I forget I got tagged by Amanda over at Busy little quilter for the 7 random things that I did here, so I hope it's not cheating just to link to last month's but I know I can't come up with 7 more things so soon :) Thanks for tagging me Amanda :) I think most everyone has been tagged, except maybe Wendy who has a new blog that is absolutely adorable so Wendy I'm tagging you and the rest of you go check out her blog! If anyone else hasn't been tagged consider yourself tagged and let me know so I can come read it :) Have a great weekend! I hope everyone gets lots of time to sew!
