Full Moon…and wool stars…

I would LOVE to show you what I was working on yesterday…I’m like a woman possessed..but it’s a surprise…SEWWWWW…instead, let me show you what I stitched while we were driving to Englishman River last week…(I have shown you little snippets of this project before…PROGRESS is s-l-o-w  but it’s being made!!)

 

This block is Done!

Done!

Done!

Still needs two wool stars sewn on…oh and some more green berries…

Still needs more french knot berries sewn on…I have a hard time making these while in a moving vehicle….YIKES!

Lots of berries to make AND FIVE more blocks!!…But what a fun project!! They are for a quilt called Baskets of Life by JAM (JoAnn Mullaly author of Wool Crazy)!  LOVE it!!  You can order the pattern from the Country Loft.  :o)

Yesterday I was flipping through the book “When the Cold Wind Blows” (Blackbird Designs) and out fell this brown envelope!!  It was a pattern by Cheri that I had bought at the Fat Quarter Shop…I must have tucked it in the book for safe keeping!!  Eureka!!  I had forgotten all about this pattern!!

 

I still love it!!  This little quilt was hanging from the rafters at the Fat Quarter Shop and it had stopped me in my tracks..it was so rich looking and scrappy…HAD to have it..now I just have to remember that I have it!…Yikes!!…is this a quilter’s ‘thing’ or should I be worried? 

Have a super Sunday and Happy Quilting!~P

I’m SEW In…

Did you sign up and participate in tonight’s Sew IN?  If not, you are missing out on a lot of fun and a lot of sewing!! Click on the Sew In button on my side bar to find out more…

SEW WHAT DID I DO?  Well…let me put it this way…it’s 10:30pm…Friday Night and I am pooped!!  Just finished a night of stitching…I’m loving this hand dyed wool..all soft and mottled..I haven’t started to add any special effects because first I need to stitch around each little wool appliqué…it’s going to take quite a few evening going around the yellow monster mitt…all his fingers are taking forever…You do like yellow monsters, don’t you Quilt Sue? hee hee…. (Now if you have NO idea what I am talking about, then you need to check yesterday’s post…:o)

When I needed to stand and stretch…I went through my scrap fabrics and cut the bigger pieces into 5 inch scraps and the smaller pieces into 2 1/2 inch squares…thought I’d try to get organized…I really want to try my hand at making a ‘true scrappy’ quilt like…this one using leaders and enders as seen on Quiltville.  Check it out!!

I hope you had as much fun as I did during the Friday Night Sew In!   But I’m calling it a night- I’m ready for the 3 B’s~ Bath, Bed and Book!!

BUT BEFORE I DO THAT…My bartering quilt buddy, Quilt Sue (Quilt Times) is having a wonderful Give Away RIGHT NOW~Yup, this lovely book…and you could win it in plenty of time for Christmas!

Visit her blog to find out why this book is leading a double life!!

Have a super Saturday and Happy Quilting!~P

Bartering at It’s Best!

Ahhh the joys of blogging!  Every morning I get up, let the dogs out, pour a coffee and head up to my sewing room to sip my coffee and enter the Blogging World…ahhh life is good!! 
Usually without fail, there is an email from my blogging buddy, Quilt Sue (Quilt Times).  I love starting the day reading anything from her as she has this wicked sense of humour!  Anyways…there IS a point to this story…a couple of weeks ago I complained to her that I was sick of stitching in the ditch..and that I REALLY needed to learn how to free motion quilt…Well before I knew it Quilt Sue was offering to quilt my quilt for me!!  (Her quilting is gorgeous!!!)  Imagine…!!  Yes, imagine indeed…to make a long story short we worked out a barter or a trade…she would quilt my quilt and I would make her a penny rug!!  So remember this quilt…

…yup..it’s getting packaged up, along with the backing and it’s heading all the way to England where Quilt Sue will work her magic on it…I am so excited about this!! Imagine making a quilt and then have it quilted by a blogging friend, someone you have never met and who lives on the other side of the world…what an age we live in!!

So what about my side of the deal?  WELL…without giving too much away…(I do want Quilt Sue to be surprised..)…here’s a little snippet of what I did yesterday…that is after I spent all morning cleaning off my cutting table and ironing table…what a mess!!

Sue told me what she likes and I found a pattern that is perfect…has everything that she wants…(I hope!!)..so I traced the pattern onto light weight heat and bond.  Some people like to use freezer paper but I like the light weight Heat and Bond better as it doesn’t pull or distort the wool when you remove it.  Plus it helps to stabilize the wool without making it stiff.

I finally got to use this Tap Light…I turned my clear plastic sewing machine extension table into a light box…just push the light under the clear acrylic extension table and presto instant light box…It worked great..see how well you can see the pattern!

You can find these lights at the dollar store, Wal-Mart or hardware stores and they are really cheap- $1…the batteries cost more!!

  Here is a snippet of the penny rug..so far…take my word for it…it’s going to be nice…really nice!!

It’s all ready to stitch…it’s going to take me awhile…but that’s OK because while Quilt Sue stitches my quilt, I’ll be busy stitching her penny rug… sure hope she likes it!!

FRIDAY NIGHT SEW-IN!!

Tonights the night to get out your sewing –imagine all the quilters from all over the world sewing in harmony…sounds like a song doesn’t it?  “I’d like to teach the world to quilt in perfect harmony…” Hurry over to Heidi’s grab the button (and sign up- see Sunday’s posting)…and join in on the fun…

Have a fun Friday and Happy Quilting/Stitching!!~P