Back In Time: April 20 2009

I just realized that I had my 5th year blogiversary last month!

So I decided to pick an old post from 

when I started blogging and share that with you!

I am going to have to think of something fun for a giveaway to celebrate!

Hmm, since I am sharing something old... 

how about if I have a giveaway-a-day... (this week)

and share some of my vintage aprons with you?!?

It will be a bonus for me... because as you know, I have started packing so I can

move next month... and it's a good time to let go of things.

When I started blogging I thought that I would share more about vintage aprons.

I love them and have a nice little collection. 

I love sharing more... so leave me a comment and I will pick a name tomorrow

for a winner for an apron from my collection!

Thanks for being there and reading my blog!

The Debut

Okay, here it is... the big unveiling! I took some photos of some quilts over the weekend. A couple of them will be entered into my guilds' quilt show next month. Please excuse the photography as I get use to all of this. Shew I am breaking a sweat trying to get this all organized on here! Anyway, the first quilt is Star Patch. The pattern is by Jan Patek. I just taught this class at Cottage Quilts last month.

This quilt... I wish the picture came out better... is Figgy Pudding by Fig Tree Quilts. I will enter this one and the one above into the show.

I used the Quilt Soup fabric line "Ellery" for the houses. I had been wanting to do a house quilt for a long time... so this is Cotswold Cottages from Miss Fig Tree, Joanna's book.

Here is a happy spring-ish quilt. Huge flowers! This is from an older Fig Tree pattern. Virginia, a friend of mine did the quilting on all of these quilts... I just love what she does.

Okay, that is it for now. I have one more that will be entered into the show but that one is in my office (at my big girl job). I will take a picture of that this week.

Now, on another note... it is Monday and I have been happily in the sidelines yet still a part of Red Geranium Cottage's (aka Sharon) looser Monday group. I am happy to say that I did lose 4 1/2 pounds! I gave up drinking hot tea in the morning. This, if you knew me you would understand, was a hugesacrifice! Mr. Earl Grey: I still love you... I just can't have the caffeine

right now, you understand... okay not just the caffeine-the sugar, the cream, yada yada!

Thanks for stopping by!

Endings and Beginnings

I hope you all are planning a wonderful 

holiday weekend!

My plans for the weekend...

are to finish up my little 

Schnibbles!

(the end of the month is getting near)!

I also have made progress this week on

Layered Flowers...

I went from this...

to this....

I am going to be happy to have some hand sewing to do in the evening!

Normally I am putting out the flags and buntings outside and getting out

my red, white and blue decor for the summer and a little flower planting on the side.

But 

I have some packing to do so I might not get "into" my decorating this time!

The house sold and I will start the moving

preliminary routine now while scrambling to find another 

house in the area!
So that little quilt with the Layered Flowers is going to be my only gardening
for now.

I am in a 5 week countdown! 

Yikes!

(that's five times the trash service will be here...

boy, am I going to do some timed purging)!

Have a fun and safe weekend!

Midweek Mosaic: A Light Went On!

Okay, I am evidently pretty slow on the uptake!

I keep an eye out for those sweet little needle works but

I don't get out to thrift shops or antique shops very often.

I know that since I am pretty slow at learning my 

embroidery stitches... that I need another lifetime to even consider making

one of these!

I actually don't know if you call them cross stitch or needle work... or 

if there is a difference. 

A light bulb went off this week... and I thought... hey, maybe I could find a

sweet little sampler on EBay or Etsy.

Hum.

As it turns out... you certainly can!

I should be receiving one in the mail next week!

Turns out I am better off in the dark...

because I see trouble ahead!

Push Comes To Shove

 Well, I got my motivation back...

I had told the LQS that I would teach a few classes this quarter and

samples needed to be made a.s.a.p.

So the first one... very simple but fun... is the raw edge flower pattern.

I got this one made up over the weekend

 and just need to quilt it so I 

can wash it. That's the thing about raw edge. It isn't really finished until 

it's finished.  When a raw edge quilt comes 

out of the dryer is

when it really becomes cute!

The pattern is Layered Flowers

 and it's by My Red Door Designs.

I had purchased the pattern at

 Road To California and a friend

and fellow quilter, Cathy, 

had made up a super cute quilt using Lakehouse fabrics and I had to have

that group of Lakehouse Classics... so there was my match!

Of course it's past the middle of the month now so I have been thinking

of the AYOS quilt that needed to get made up...

this month is "X Rated". 

I had cut it out during the week... that was easie peesie...

This morning I actually put the pieces up on the design wall so

I could get it started!

I figure I can made a row here and there during the week and it will

be together before I know it!

I was compelled to work on something using Fig Tree & Co. fabrics...

I saw a photo of their booth at market and was in love!

I had a great time with Instagram-land... getting all the inside peeks at what is new

on the horizon! Wasn't it fun?

I actually have this Great Granny Square quilt

on the list of classes also. I got the borders

 put on the quilt over the weekend so it could

go to the shop as a sample!

I was scrambling for fabrics since I had started the quilt blocks

when Lori Holt had it up as a sew along on her blog...

before her book was published.

I had used a jelly roll of Kate Spain fabrics...

and then I wanted to copy the book... and add the border and

that wasn't going to work with 2 1/2" strips.

I took leftovers from my quilt that
 was finished last week and incorporated

those fabrics... I think they play nice with the blocks... don't you?

My final project is already hanging at the quilt shop.

And the class is Wednesday night!

Hook had been so much fun to make I decided that it would 

be a fun class also!

But tonight I really need to get my game plan all in order

for the class so that it actually will be fun!