Vintage

Nifty got me thinking about vintage this week.

I prepared a little package of fabric for her fabric swap....

then I remembered....

I had some 4" squares that are a little bit on the old side....

Hidden away in a box, of course.

Isn't that how you camoflauge your fabric stash???

No one's EVER sure just HOW much fabric you have.

;0

They're JUST the right size for this block

and...

I love them.

I added a solid.

some half square triangles.

Ooops!!!

I just started another quilt!

:/

Almost....

I'm getting REALLY close to a finish here.

Last week I thought I had ARRIVED!

I was able to sew THREE rows together as I talked with friends.

It was nice.

THEN!!!!!

I had to RIP it ALL out!!!!

Eeek!

I had put them ALL together backwards!!!!

See that white diagonal going through there????

I want that to continue through the WHOLE quilt...

not zigzag at the END!!!

;)

Hmmm....

Today.....I'm going to do it RIGHT!!!!

;)

Thankful.

Today I'm thankful....

 I'm thankful for a big chunk of time yesterday to get some blocks together.

This quilt was worrying me.

I don't know why I was stressing about this gift...

but I was.

I'm also thankful for leftovers.

Maybe they'll be in the border...???.

I'm thankful they're ALL 2 1/2" wide. ;)

I'm thankful for all the friends that pass on fabric to me.

I thought about THEM as I was piecing yesterday.

I'm thankful I have enough white for sashing this quilt.

I hope I'll remember to use the SAME. exact. white

as I go along.

Have you ever used DIFFERENT whites in a quilt???

I have.

It doesn't work.

;/

I'm thankful I won't need to BUY anything for this quilt!

I have QUITE enough fabric.

I have to keep telling myself that....

Over and over again.

Winners!

Mr. Random Generator chose two winners:

Holly and Vesuviusmama.

Congratulations!

I enjoyed reading about your cooking styles,

your love of baking,

and

I even got inspired to cook something NEW!!!

;)

Today I'm beginning a very simple quilt

for my niece.

I've been digging in the stash.....

and making a BIG monday MESS!!!!

;/

Surprise!

I was very surprised today to find MY quilt

(along with the rest of the BRIDGES exhibit quilts)

on THIS blog!!!

Hey!

I'm even the cover girl!

;)

Friday

Well....I wasn't going to quilt this little quilt....

I was going to fold it up and put in the stack of

"Someday" quilts.

But...

In the middle of the week I was transformed

into a QUILTING MACHINE!!!!

I had already quilted one baby quilt...and knew I could do this one too!!!

I had this cute fabric in my stash for the backing.

Just enough!

And I had these swirls in my mind.

It's such a tiny quilt....it went FAST!!!

Then....I was rewarded for my efforts!!!

I visited a friend yesterday and ran into this quilt!

It was hanging on her sofa! :)

This is one of my FIRST, REAL, Follow the PATTERN kind of quilt!

This was a mystery quilt

designed by someone in the guild and made at the

VERY first retreat I ever went on!

WOW!

What an eye opener that retreat was!

I had no idea how many quilters there were.....

How many quilt shops there were...

How many quilt magazines there were.... 

..........

I spent a lot of time on the quilt tag.

I rolled the backing over to the front

because I didn't know how to add a binding!

Hey!

I even handquilted it!!!

What a nice reward to see this at the end of my week!

I see I've learned a lot about quilting over the last few years...

which inspires me to learn EVEN more in the future!!!!

Have a GREAT weekend!

Hope it includes some sewing! ;)

Giveaway!!!

Just Because.

You're always so nice.

And....... I'm happy about my hand stitching project!

Oooh!

And....

 Indigo Junction was kind enough

to send a couple of patterns for YOU!

Because I KNOW you like to SEW and sometimes....

YOU COOK!!!!

I'll draw TWO names on Monday.

What do you like to cook????