And, And, And

This would look so great in my bedroom...

unfortunately it is not mine.

Donna from Bear Paw Quilts just finished this sweet quilt.

I love the scallops and if you look closely you can see that the lights are

log cabin blocks... modified.

And

I am nearly finished with my butterfly quilt.

I had asked on a previous post whether or not to make it larger...

it had been only 3 rows but with wider columns in between.

I did decide to go bigger.  (When in doubt always go bigger).

I like it better now. But it still needs an outer border on it.

I'm going to go with a black tonal for the outer border.

And

In a couple of weeks my quilt guild will be having a quilt show.

I am in charge of getting donations and making up raffle baskets for

the show. I have been so stressed out over it!

Unfortunately this year has been horrible for getting response from

companies. I sent out the same number of letters requesting a donation for our show...

 as I had 2 years ago, for our last show (60 to be precise).

In 2009 I had gotten about a 20 percent response from companies which I thought was

pretty good. I was able to make 8 baskets from the items that were sent.

This time I got 5 responses total.

I know that the economy is poor and that you can't expect the same companies to

give time after time.

 I am so grateful for the people who did send items.

Bunny Hill has always been extremely generous and so has Amy Butler.

Fig Tree and Co. was wonderful and sent a donation to me this year also along with Fat Quarter Shop.

Moda just sent a little something too!

What is really  great-- is that this time, the different "circles" within our guild

 got together and made up sweet little

baskets that we can raffle off at the show. I am so relieved,

I thought I might have to resort to raffling off my husband  stash!

Here is one with a table runner and some picnic type items.

Another one with a picnic theme... love the ants!

This one is a garden theme. It is filled with fat quarters of floral fabrics,

a table topper and even comes with a gnome!

This one has a garden theme as well... and blogger did not

cooperate with me... so you will have to turn your heads to view the picture.

People have been stopping by my office dropping them off for me, so I can package them up nicely

and prepare them for the show. I have several more at home ... one of them has an Italian dinner theme including a black and white quilt and a bottle of wine! The girls all were creative and certainly were

a godsend! I think the raffle baskets will be a successful part of the quilt show after all!

Shew! And I get to keep my husband!

And.... Now for my newsflash...

This is a new book by Carrie that will be released at the end of September.

Did you all already know about this???  If you did, then it's only a newsflash for me!