Picnic In My Hometown (and a sponsered giveaway)

This quilt has done some traveling and today

I get to share with you my quilt made out of Hometown by Sweetwater!

I love this fabric line and the colors are so fun!

Remember when Kim  from Magnolia Bay Quilts, came out with her new book

Scrap Basket Sensations?

Well, I made a Picnic quilt from the book

and then just last month

I got to do a little sewing for  KIM at the Fat Quarter Shop...

and lo and behold...

they asked me to use Kim's book and coincidentally

the pattern that is on page 69. Picnic!

What I didn't know was that they have great plans for the book.

Fat Quarter Shop is starting a Scrap Basket Sensations Quilt Club!

It will consist of making 4 projects from Kim's book over the next year, using

the latest and the greatest new fabric lines coming out!

Do you love it?

Now since I already had my hands on the book from when it debuted,

the other Kim (from Fat Quarter Shop) said that I should give this book away on my blog!

So, let's do that...

What do you need to do?

hmmmmm,

1. Tell me something that you love about the Fat Quarter Shop.

That's it!

The drawing will be in one week, June 1!

(by the way, did you see the charms that Sweetwater has come out with)?

Sew Cherry?

 Yes, It's "all that...

and a bag of chips!

You will want to go check out Rae Ann's blog

and enter her giveaway! Don't forget your

bib... 'cause you are going to drool over these aprons!

Something About Springtime and Butterfly's

These Butterflys have been in flight since January.

It all started with a couple of charm packs.

And then it turned into this... 

But I thought it was a little too long and narrow...

and I asked for your opinion. It was divided.

(of course it took me a couple of months to muddle this over)

I thought the columns were too wide also...

so I very very carefully cut down the center of those.

 I went ahead and made some more of these... from my stash.

I made two more rows and slipped them in between the other rows.

I wasn't going to add a border...

But then I did. I'm happy.

Some Friends + Some Quilts= A Good Weekend

Well, this wasn't Quilt Market but it was still fun!

The quilt guild that I belong to had it's Quilt Show last weekend

and I got to hang out with friends and see quilts.

What could be more fun? Well, shopping- and there was some of that going on too!

Here is a photo of some of my friends and some of our quilts.

Here are some geometric quilts and a couple with handwork.

The little black and white embroidery was a block in one of the quilts...

boy, do I need that prayer... only super sized!

(it says: Dear God, always walk beside me with your arm around me and your hand over my mouth).

Here are some appliqued quilts.

Here are a few that are kind of artsy.

Some with star blocks.

There is a "quilt turning" done at the show. There are a bunch of antique quilts

stacked on a bed and the story of the quilt is read and then the quilt is turned back to reveal

the quilt below it and the story is read for that one... it's really a fun program.

Here are some of the pieces that were made by our featured quilter, Lura Schwartz Smith.

The raffle baskets that I showed you a couple of weeks ago were a big hit once again.

We made a lot of $$$ for our guild with those! woohoo!