Weekend Recap

I had a busy weekend... but not too much to show for it!

I have been working on my Star Crossed blocks...

and the sashing 9-patches.

But my main focus was shopping!

I went with my DIL and her mom dress shopping for 

my other son's up-coming wedding. 

All though it took the entire day...

which was super fun... and the car was loaded 

on the trip home

but I didn't find THE dress,

The search continues!

New and in the News

I got this kit of Star Crossed with Strawberry Fields Revisited

fabrics last month. 

It is so so very sweet.

I drooled over it long enough... I decided over the weekend to 

cut into it and get a new quilt started!

News flash...

Before I go any further... (you have waited long enough)!

I need to announce the winner of the Polka Dot Leap Day giveaway!

Fat Quarter Shop generously donated the fabric...

and the winner was number 57... Vicki H.

Congratulations to you Vicki!

And thank you for playing... I enjoyed reading who your favorite's are!

I was surprised by some... some designers had fallen off my radar...

so it was a good reminder to check in on them!

I unburied this quilt top a couple weeks ago...

(speaking of things that have fallen off my radar)!

I  had used one of my all time favorite 

Minick and Simpson lines...

it was called Charlevoix...

it has a very sweet yellow assortment in the line as well.

So, when I found this plastic shoe box filled with half square

triangles... over 500 of them... all trimmed and ready to go...

I was one happy camper!

So... my wheels started turning and I thought of this sweet project...

by Lori Holt.

(photo borrowed from Pinterest- I believe it was a photo shoot for the book)

Those HST's are ready to be made into pinwheels and all I need to do is add the 

tractor! 

I also made the first two blocks in the

Moda Spendid Sampler...

and as cute as they are...

I am wondering if I fully understood...

another newsflash...

there are going to be 100 blocks????

Argggg... just Splendid!

Just One or Two... and a Leap Day Giveaway!

(photo borrowed from Fat Quarter Shop)

Well, because I was out shopping... on-line, scouting for 

a new project or two...

I decided that I couldn't pass up this quilt along.

Crossroads.

I know... I know!

Just ONE more sampler... Just one MORE quilt along!

But... it's Strawberry Fields Revisited fabric.

I have NO self control!

Absolutely NONE!

Another project that came arrived on my doorsteps was

this one by Fig Tree and Company...

(photo borrowed from Fig Tree and Co.)

I think it's d-r-e-a-m-y.

I will be  starting in on this one soon!

I was sick with a cold and feeling yucky all weekend.

What a waste of a holiday weekend.

I couldn't even watch my grand daughters on Valentine's Day 

like we had planned for fear of infecting them with what

THEY had infected me with!

But I am feeling better...

and it feels good to have a new plan... even if it's the middle of February.

Oh, and here is another project I intend on whipping up soon...

I love Acorn Quilt Company! 

I am so ready for Spring and nothing depicts Spring more 

than Brenda's sweet floral fabrics...

so Shabby Chic... so me!

Check out Brenda's blog to see a photo of this made up on the table!

Once I spied it... I had to have it!

I made this one as a sample for Fat Quarter Shop last Spring.

So, Who is your favorite one or two Fabric/Pattern designers?

Let me know... and 

you will have a chance to win a

little Polka Dot bundle from the Fat Quarter Shop!

Because everyone loves Polka Dots right?

A winner will be picked and announced next Monday... and you could have this fun bundle
 in your hot little hands 
by the 29th, 
Leap Day!

Out of the Sewing Room and Into the Kitchen!

One of my favorite things is my Pioneer Woman

butter dish.

It makes me smile just seeing it on the counter in my kitchen!

Between my DDIL and myself...

we have the entire collection of Ree's cookbooks.

So, at Christmas we vowed to

get together once a week in

2016 and plow through the recipes.

Tonight will be Week 4 for us.

We have grown from the four of us  (plus grand children)

to six, plus.

We each take a recipe...

one person makes the main dish, someone makes the 

side dishes and someone makes the dessert.

The first week we had the 

Pork Chops with Wine and Roasted Garlic

Roasted Carrots with Vinaigrette

and Stove Top Mashed Potatoes.

Tonight... Chicken Marsala

Peas and Carrots

Risotto

and

made from scratch... Vanilla Pudding!

Each and every recipe has been amazing!

I am making notes on each of the pages...

and there isn't one that I wouldn't make again...

and I wouldn't change any of the recipes either.

You can go to her site for fun recipes too.

I have been spending a lot of time in the kitchen lately!

I did that test run on Saturday for 

my soon to be DIL's birthday/wedding cake.

She turned 30! Woohoo!

My cake was basically one section of what will be the wedding cake...

in April.

Here is what we are really aiming for:

I had "too much" frosting on the test cake.

I have to remember that they call it a Naked Cake for a reason! lol

So, from now until the middle of April I will making layers of

sections and freezing the cake. I

blogged about it last week but I just wanted to talk out my plan to

"divide and conquer"!

These are some more of the Pioneer Woman 

dish collection.

I think I am obsessed!