Who said that there was nothing to do??

What?  It’s WEDNESDAY already?  Wow..this week sure is flying by!!  Speaking of flying…what happened to MAY?…is it really already the 23rd?  There’s nothing that I like better than a nice slow, easy, long day…where you putter here and there!  Not too many of those days around here anymore, what with painting going on…:o(

Not only is it hectic here, but man, is it busy out in Blogland.

                                       

Today is the last day to get a quilt into Amy’s Blogger’s Quilt Festival…then comes the voting!  Now you know me, I’m not one to plug my own quilt (NUMBER 334 :o) but there REALLY are some beauties in this years’ festival!  Take a few hours to have a look at these incredible quilts!  You can see them HERE!  And then get out and VOTE…HERE!

Also Sew Mama Sew’s Give Away is happening…that’s where hundreds of quilters unite to do nothing but GIVE INCREDIBLE STUFF AWAY!!  Alas…this too takes time…but it is worth it if you are feeling lucky and have a spare 6 to 8 hours!! 

So there you have it…lots to do today…and tomorrow and the next day! 

Who said that there was nothing to do?? 

Have a Wicked Wednesday and Happy Quilting!~P

Thoughts for Tuesday…

For the last couple of days I have been sewing up a storm…IN MY HEAD!  I do that a lot!  In reality, not so much!

While visions of quilts and projects dance around in my head..here is the hard, cold reality of what I have been actually doing~  

Yup…painting!!  I hate it…it’s a dirty, stinking, messy job BUT it has got to get done!

So what am I painting…?  It is the bedroom that is located on the main floor of our house…and it will hopefully…if all goes well…become my NEW SEWING ROOM!!

I am a messy painter…see the newspaper up above?  That is usually how the whole floor looks…but we are ripping out that ugly green carpet and we will eventually put down wood laminate…so I don’t care if paint goes on the carpet…BUT I do care if it goes on the vertical blinds!

Last time I painted this room, I taped newspaper around the blinds…what an ordeal!  The paper kept ripping and falling off…I had paint all over the place…and the newspaper literally STUCK to the wall…but I saw this idea on Pinterest (I LOVE Pinterest!!)…Wrap it with aluminum foil…it took two seconds…it STAYS…I quickly put tape around the join lines and Presto…it did the trick…it stays in place, doesn’t come apart, doesn’t rip or dissolve when the paint hits…LOVE THIS IDEA!! 

So the ceiling has been painted and the Primer has been done…

Now for the walls…YIKES!!  Sure looks blue to me!!  Blue is not my colour…I have three daughters…only pink has ever entered this house!!  I wouldn’t know what to do with BLUE…but blue it is!  See those blinds wrapped in foil…well there is a faint blue stripe on them..hence the blue!  Blue is my new colour to love!!

And love it I will…well…maybe I’ll love it after the second coat…?

What I AM loving is all this natural light…even on a grey, rainy, perfect for painting kind of day!!    And when I finish painting, I think I’m going to have to do something with this corner of the yard…why does one job always lead to another job?? 

So while I apply the second coat of my new favourite colour (and daydream about blue quilts), I hope you are having a better than terrific Tuesday…oh and Happy ACTUAL Quilting!~P

What?…it’s FREE?

Well… NO phone call yesterday…so I guess that means that I didn’t win one of those magnificent quilts from the Parksville’s quild raffle!  Somewhere ‘out there’ are three very excited and thrilled winners! 

Sew to appease myself I went hunting for the ‘Quilted Village’ Pattern designed by Janet Miller.  My thoughts were..if I can’t win it, then I can make it!

I found it …BUT would you believe that the pattern is $66 for this small 57”X60” quilt!  OUCH!!  Too rich for this poor quilter’s quilting budget…darn!  Oh well…this quilt was not meant to be…

BUT there are PLENTY of patterns out there that I can afford…like this new one from Thimble Blossoms!!  I have always wanted to make a spools quilt…and just LOOK at this one!  I love the way the colours on the spools look like thread AND look at how the spools are stacked…like they are going to come tumbling down at any minute!!  Love this quilt!

                   

You can find this pattern Here and for only $7.95!  Now THAT I can afford!

OR you can go to Lecien’s Free Pattern site and pick up these two wonderful patterns for absolutely NOTHING!!  YUP, you heard me…nada…

A Lynette Anderson Designs ‘Christmas Wishes’ for FREE!!  Unheard of!

 

This is another FREE pattern designed by Joe Woods (Piece by Piece Quilts).  I love house quilts!

The colours in this quilt don’t crank my engine but I LOVE the pattern…use your imaginations…don’t you SEE the potential?!  Look at the wee houses on the corners and the picket fence all around!  Yes, this could be a stunner!!

Have you gone to Lecien Free Pattern site…there are LOTS of wonderful pattern here!  Com’on get off that couch and GO!!

So you see, if you’re like me and can’t/won’t pay the BIG bucks for a pattern there are tons of options for us!!  Thanks Lucien, and Henry Glass and Fat Quarter Shop and Connecting Threads …and all the generous blogging designers who are constantly handing out your designs for FREE!!  We appreciate YOU…we REALLY do!!  A HUGE THANK YOU ALL!!

If you are Canadian, I hope you all have a wonderful Victoria Day…and if you’re not…I hope you have an extra marvelous, magical Monday and Happy Quilting!~P