Give-away at JayBird Quilts

I just was on JayBird Quilts blog.  She is having a great give-away of fabric from The Fabric Shoppe which is an etsy shop.  So much yummy fabric. 

New fabric both ordered and received

I  was out of a town the week before last and last week I was just really unmotivated.  I sewed a few blocks but that was it.  I was on a fabric buying tear though.  I received my $1.00 fat quarters that I ordered from an etsy shop.  Cute and bright pinks and purples.  Worth every penny.

I also decided I was going to join Stitched in Color's Rainbow Quilt-along.  I found three of my colors at the local Hancocks.  Went to Pink Chalk and ordered more.  I could not believe it, I had Chartreuse and Marine in my cart and when I went to pay they were unavailable.  I will get to those later.

I also have more scraps coming.  Can't wait.  Have so many scrap patterns and not enough scraps.

I also finally ordered one of those mini irons.  I can finally do some quilt in the hoop on my embroidery machine.  Add that to my list of projects.

Hopefully I will be motivated this week.  I have a few more blocks for my Churn Dash quilt to finish tonight and then I can move on to another project.

Last night out of town

I am sitting here at the hotel reading blog posts from my Google reader.  Trying to catch up with my subscriptions.  Looks like everyone is having a productive week.  I am anxious to get back home and start up the sewing machine.  I still have one unfinished project to finish up before I get started on something new.  I am making a churn dash quilt with 9.5" finished blocks.  It is about 2/3 done.  Hopefully I will feel motivated this weekend.  It is a slow go with the half-square triangles.  A baby quilt is next on the horizon so I hope I get this one done soon.

Finished with Farmer's Wife

I finally got the borders on my Farmer's Wife quilt.  Now I can hang it in the closet along with the other pieced tops that I have not quilted yet.  But it is off my list of UFO's.

Yes.  All Done.

My husband and I went to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower center to the art and artisans show on Saturday.  I picked up some notecards that are prints of dried flowers and a lovely print of a water color of a geranium.  It is going to be on my inspiration board when I get one put up.

It is so pretty

Farmer's Wife

Well I got the last of the top pieced.  I am so glad.  This UFO has been weighing on my mind.

Got two of the borders on tonight.

Next weekend done for sure.

I also took a break and went to my LQS.  This was after I pinned the last sashing strip in place three times. First time I did not have enough sashing strips.  Had not counted in the diagram.  Next the setting triangle on the left was upside down.  Now you can see why I needed a break.

I got a charm pack and a yard of Max and Whiskers while I was there.  Need to make a few baby quilts in the next month and that fabric is just so cute.

Farmer's Wife

I finally am in the last stages of putting the farmer's wife quilt together.  This was my first project ever.  I took a class at Honey Bee here in Austin.  This was probably not the best project to start with but it got me going fast.  We had to churn out 10 blocks a month.  I got everything done but four blocks and put it aside to try some simpler patterns like "Turning Twenty Again".  I was finally motivated to finish my four blocks and get started with putting it together.  The blocks are put together on the diagonal so it is setting triangles, sashing and the like.  I am about 3/4 of the way finished.  Will post a pix when I have it done.  I started out using mostly Moda fabrics so a lot of my quilt was made from Moda charm packs.

Flea Market Fancy

Well I got my Katie Jump Rope in the mail.  Yeh.  I did some bidding on ebay and scored a yard of Flea Market Fancy fabric.  I followed that up with two fat quarters on Etsy.  Now I am the proud owner of 1.5 yards of Flea Market Fancy in a few different pinks.  I still have a few bids outstanding but who knows if I will win any more.  I can make what I have into a baby quilt if nothing else.