Just popping in real quick. Janine will be here soon for our weekly sewing night so I've gotta be fast, my sewing room is a disaster and I'd like for her to at least have a place to set her sewing machine, am I considerate or what? Last week I had a friend come over to sew for the whole day, she has 7 children and doesn't get out much and
never gets to sew, so her goal was to finish a quilt top in a day. She bought a batik jelly roll and we looked at patterns that didn't take a lot of extra background or cutting and when the day was through she had her wish. Just needs borders and quilting and we're going to plan a day in the fall to finish it up. It's Jellystone park done in batiks and it came out so pretty...good work Heide!!

Another friend came over Monday with her daughter so I could teach her to bind a quilt and before she left, handed me gift certificate for Rosies. As soon as they left I hightailed it over there and added some more yummy fabric to this stack of (mostly) Kaffe Fassett goodness! Thanks Sharon :)

I've been wanting to start a quilt with this fabric for a while but it's so different from my usual style, I've been wobbling over which pattern to use---when I saw this pattern

in this book

I figured it would be a perfect way to get my feet wet and get a feel for how the colors play together.

I sent out my cupcake swap stuff on Saturday but she hasn't gotten it yet. Here's a little tease until it gets there
Cheryl :)

Carol put this pattern in the mail for me

after I swooned over the quilt she made (and
Sharon quilted) and donated for the Sew for the Cure at the Country Loft. I was in there for a class and Kathy brought it out to show me. I had to show it again isn't it beautiful?

I told her she's like my fairy godmother, it's the second time I've wished for something and "poof" there it is in my mailbox from her :) I'm thinking of making it using either Flirt

or Ava Rose. If you want to see this already in a quilt look here at what
Doe did with it-it's gorgeous!

They're both beautiful lines. O.k. I'm off to clean this mess!

Have a great week :)