Stash Report - week ending 4/10

This isn't going to be good for the ol' stash. All of this arrived in the mail on Monday;


I was going to call this The Ugly Truth but seriously there is NOTHING ugly about this haul!
Fandango charms and yardage for College Girl's senior year quilt.


Pure charm packs for College Boy's sophmore or junior year quilt/duvet. Simple Abundance yardage to back a quilt made with a jelly roll from the same line.


Moda Bella Solids that were on sale at the Fat Quarter Shop, the off white for College Girl's quilt and the Simple Abundance quilt. The grey is for my 1974 quilt.


Simple Abundance print for the borders of quilt, Patisserie print for borders of a quilt made with that line (remember I got those pre-cuts not too long ago?) and the Dandelion Girl seersucker plaid for a sundress for College Girl.


All fabric was on sale. All fabric has an intended purpose. All fabric by Moda (totally unplanned).

I also received one very overpriced FQ of Sandi Henderson's Henna Garden in Pumpkin and now my collection is complete and I can start on that project someday.


25.25 yards in week ending 4/10
0 yards out week ending 4/10
43.875 yards YTD IN
43.875 yards YTD OUT

0 yards TOTAL BUSTED 2011

I'm reporting stash results HERE.

Who knew this would bring me to exactly even for the year? I'd best get busy on the yardage OUT before the 'other' package arrives. Maybe later today!

Praise - hubby and I had safe travel to and from visiting College Boy. We had a great time with him and our friends and enjoyed over 5" of fresh falling snow while there.

Prayers - For pain relief for Joanne and for improvement/healing for Grant.

My TO-DO List

Well let's just say that it is longer than my arm. Possibly longer than one of my hubby's arms. He has verrrrrry long arms. Just sayin'

So maybe this is NOT the time to start blogging again. But I couldn't sleep (yet too sleepy to be able to sew),I wanted to enter the Quilt Festival and I do enjoy blogging once I am in the routine.

This is what I'm working with right now;

Do you recognize it?? Origins by Basic Grey & Moda. I was asked to make a scruffily quilt out of this but had a request to make it a bit bigger than it would be if I used a layer cake. Answer to that problem was to buy the FQ bundle and a jelly roll. Now I have enough for TWO scruffily quilts (one the 'standard' size and one a bit bigger), possibly a Modern Irish Chain and I will still have enough left over for yet another project! I could have done the binding a different way but decided to use pieces from the jelly roll to make a pieced binding (there will be plenty of that left over for another project too!).

Has anyone found any great blog posts about Quilt Market?? I've only seen a couple and there are not near the photos and stories as there have been from past markets. I don't think I've seen anything from the Michael Miller booth except for the retro mannequins and I haven't heard what the Moda theme was. Anyway, if you have a link for me please do share.

Okay, I'm going to try to get some sleep. I hope I don't sleep in too late now because I have LOTS to get done! I'm going to have this post late morning so you all will think I am up and being productive. ;)

Praise - for my wonderful hubby. He celebrated a birthday yesterday!

Prayers - for my hubby - that he would continue to grow in his relationship with the Lord, for continued good health, and for healing for his knees (that he has somehow injured).

4/8 Posh Reveal

Back in October, Des and Corrie of Quilt Taffy had their quilt retreat and then showed off what they did there. Amongst many cute quilts were these Quick and Fast Jelly Roll Quilts. Des thought that maybe they could post instructions and photos, along the lines of a tutorial sometime before Christmas but those girls are very busy and it just didn't happen. Well turns out that Des is going to be teaching this quilt method to 17 gals at her church this Friday and she shared the link to the instructions with me. Looks like the instructions were originally from a Moda rep. I wonder why we've not seen this on the Moda Bakeshop.

I had to try it right then. I've had this POSH Jelly Roll for a very long time and although I did have other plans for it changing plans wasn't a deal breaker for me. You can't really plan where any of the prints are going to end up. Note the group of solids at the bottom of my quilt. The thing is, when I first sewed all my strips together I spaced out the solids. I did have an OOPS moment too. I was on the second 'fold and sew' portion and what did I see on my table??? Yup, a strip. It was hiding over with my Verna quilt, trying to blend in there so it didn't get used up. Worked too.

Not the best photo. I know. But I finished sewing the strips together after dark and what other choice did I have but to take a picture with flash?

Seriously, this is VERY quick and easy. If I didn't have to work and do laundry and cook and clean this would have been done to this point on Tuesday night! I'm not so sure that a single person in a small apartment could make this though. I had my hubby and son helping me and the strip reached from my sewing room door across the entire length of the house! Read the instructions and you will understand what I mean. I can see why it would be a great retreat project.

I have POSH fabric for a border but I think it needs a narrow solid border first and I will try to get that tomorrow. Unless I decide on no border at all. Ya gotta love a quilt that comes together so quickly. You really do! Let me know if you make one. Or more.

Praise - for the wonderful weather we get to experience. We have had more snow this week than the entire month of January! I love snow!

Prayers - we should hear SOMETHING on Friday regarding the property, prayers that it will be a GOOD something.

Another finish and some progress

The yellow curtains are finished and on their way to college girl! I even had a curtain rod handy so that I could take a half way decent picture. I'm telling you they aren't anything exciting but college girl and her roomies are excited to have them.
Sure is nice to have a tall son to help out in times like this. ;)

It snowed on and off yesterday and it was snowing a bit when we went to bed. This is what I saw out my window when I woke up this morning. These trees are right off the deck outside of my bedroom door. I was facing west when I took this picture.



It looked like it was getting breezy so I JUMPED out of bed (BEFORE 8 on a Saturday no less) and ran downstairs for my camera. I wanted to get a picture before all the snow was blown off of the trees. I LOVE snow! I turned to the northeast to take this picture. Yes, I was out on the deck in my pajamas and it was about 34 degrees.



My views are somewhat limited in this house so most of my scenery shots will be from this same vantage point. Once in awhile I'll take pictures out the front door or even from the front driveway but the scenery off the back deck is much better.

After jumping out of bed, running downstairs and standing on the deck in 34 degree weather my blood was pumping! There was no going back to bed for me. I got dressed and got on the treadmill for a couple of miles. Seriously!

I finally started working on my next project, another MBS Scruffily Quilt done with Glace. I thought I liked the fabric just fine but when I got all the layer cake blocks placed on the ping pong table I fell in LOVE with this fabric! Okay, I admit it doesn't take alot for me to fall in love with fabric. Some reds, some chocolates (some people call that brown),some damask. I ask you, what is not to LOVE??

Then I laid the charm pack blocks on top of the layer cake blocks. Once I got over the fact that they were now covering up a good portion of the other great blocks I was loving it! Now the real test...UNROLL the Glace Jelly Roll!!! I have never UNrolled a Jelly Roll before. Oh, I HAVE Jelly Rolls. I just don't unroll them. Yeah, I know. But to cut off a 2.5" square of 36 strips I was going to have to unroll this one. Gulp. So I did it as neatly as possible and stacked the strips back up as best as I could. When I had all the squares cut I rolled the strips back up. It isn't easy to do. That might explain why it isn't so pretty. I just couldn't imagine leaving them all willy nilly in a drawer. I had to attempt to roll them back up and put the twill tape around them. So anyway who wants to go on a Moda field trip with me and see just how those are done??

Here are my blocks all laid out (not easy to get a picture of);



and here is a close-up of one of my favorite prints in the line, the chocolate with paisley (only because I am not to the red damask yet);


I finished sewing 12 of the blocks. I could have done more but decided to have a pizza and movie 'date' with hubby. I hope that I can get the rest of the blocks sewn tomorrow and start on sewing the blocks together into rows.

Praise - for SNOW! It reminds us of how Jesus Christ has washed us white as snow. The snow I see outside just covers up the dirt underneath but Jesus has washed our dirt away!

Prayers - for my son while he house sits for friends. He needs to keep the fire going, feed the farm animals morning and night. Praying he is able to get his chores done and get to church on time.

My worlds collide

I know that God has placed each planet exactly where it belongs, and that He has named each star and that nothing happens without His knowledge. I know this. The planets have always been in alignment. So how is it that my worlds are now colliding. It is hard to tell one from the other. MY worlds? What am I talking about?? My two favorite hobbies! Scrapbooking and sewing. My love of the fabrics and the papers. I have loved fabric for ohhhhh so many years. My love for patterned papers is much younger in the grand scheme of things. But now the line has begun to blur. Although I had never really turned my back on sewing completely I had put it on the back burner for a time and that is when I started to spend more time scrapbooking (or at least collecting scrap supplies). I fell in love with this line of paper from Daisy D's.

Imagine my surprise while surfing the world wide web when I came across Sis Boom Girlfriends Fabric by Free Spirit!

The next surprise was after I had admired this line of paper, called Jitterbug, by Cosmo Cricket;

and then I find out that Andover has come out with fabric by the same designers and by the same name - Jitterbug.

By this time I had taken sewing and fabric off of the back burner and was spending as much time looking for fabric images online as I was looking for scrapbooking supplies. I came across Heather Bailey's blog and heard of her plans to enter the scrapbooking industry. This collection has just recently hit the stores;

And although there are a few images in paper that are not in her Freshcut fabric line (I wonder if they just got left on the cutting room floor for some reason) they are just as beautiful.

I think it was just before Quilt Market, when I was scouring fabric sites and blogs for any news of what was to be released that I saw this at the Moda site - Urban Couture by Basic Grey, a very popular scrapbooking company and line. WOW! That is going to be beautiful in fabric!

My most recent discovery made me gasp. I am adding this quilt to my SOMEDAY LIST there on the sidebar just as soon as I finish typing this post. This was shown at the Cherry House Quilts blog, once again by the Cosmo Cricket designers and Andover . The paper line and fabric line is called Halfway Cafe;

This quilt is called Galveston. Isn't it GORGEOUS?? I can't wait to get my hands on that fabric and make that one! Whew!

Now when I look at fabric I wonder if anyone will make it into scrapbook paper and when I see great patterned papers...well you get the idea. For instance, I think POSH would be a great scrapbook line and I think some of the ME fabrics would be so great for scrapping!

Sometimes choosing between scrapping and sewing can be difficult now. At least I know that whatever I choose to work on, I have the chance to work with some beautiful products.

Oh yes, one more thing. I have another quilt to add to my TO DO LIST. I bought the LINE BY LINE pattern from Quilt Taffy this evening. :D As well as some Allspice Tapestry fabric for the binding of said quilt. I am going to make the Jam Bars quilt from the pattern with two jelly rolls of Allspice Tapestry. I think I'd better get busy on my projects!!!

Long post. I guess I made up for missing a day. ;)

Praise and Prayers tonight - one of my brothers had a heart attack today. Within two hours of the attack he was recovering in ICU after two stents had been inserted. I thank God and praise Him for the chain of events that allowed a successful outcome. I'll be praying for my brother's recovery. Prayers also being said for the Saturday wedding of one of my nephews. (sorry to hear that my brother will not be able to attend).