Pass-Along

I recently signed up at Nati's Little Things blog for a pass-along.  She committed to making five handmade items for the first five people who signed up on her blog.  I received my item all the way from Luxembourg last week.  I got a beautiful mug rug with hand embroidery and two small pincushions.

I made the commitment to pass along some handmade items to my readers.  So, the first five people who express an interest in getting a handmade item from me please leave me a comment.  I am excited to share my passion for quilting with everyone.  Quilting has changed my life and I can only express this in my quilts, purses and other quilty items that I make and pass along.

Round the World a.k.a Sunsprite

I whet my appetite for making a scrappy trip along quilt.  I had gotten some Tina Givens Christmas fabric before Christmas but just finished up my quilt.  I used the Sunsprite pattern from Villa Rosa.  After I started that quilt the Instagram world burst out with the Scrappy Trip Along.  This quilt is one big round the world block.  I will get to my Scrappy Trip Along quilt soon.  In the meantime I will have to be content with this.

Very Very Purple Quilt

I finished quilting my husband's Christmas present after Christmas of course.  He had picked out the fabric months ago and I had pieced it.  Finally got the quilting done and the binding after Christmas.  He loves purple.  I mean loves it.  Every time we go to a quilt store or JoAnn's he is picking out a purple fat quarter.  I hope this purple quilt tides him over for a while. I used Turning Twenty Again.  It is one of my favorite patterns.  Goes together fast.

Very Purple Quilt

I finally made my December block for Block Swap Adventure.  She wanted Kaffe and bright.  I pulled a star block pattern from my Quilt Pro, resized it to 12" and this is what I came up with.  I think I will make more blocks using this pattern.  It is time-consuming to cut but it comes together pretty easily.  

Madrona Road Challenge Fabric

I have to admire those of you who have quilt shops or etsy stores.  I had to cut up the Madrona Road yardage into fat eighths.  It was so time consuming.  Then I had to pretty them up into bundles.  I finally finished up tonight at 10:00 p.m.  The meeting is tomorrow.  I did not think it would take me so long.  Anyway here is my stack of fat eighths waiting to be bundled up and my pretty bundles.

Me and My Sisters

I had 10 fat quarters of a line by Me and My Sisters all ironed and ready to go for a couple of months.  In line with my new resolve to try to use up my stash, I felt like it was a good time to sew something.  I have a four year old granddaughter who loves pink and purple.  There is a lot of both in this line.  I got the top sewed together but it is going to sit on the shelf until I get the binding on my other quilt and a few more quilt tops basted.  I am determined to get through my UFO's before I go too wild on new projects.

Lucky me.  I got a Kindle Fire HD for Christmas.  I promptly took Hunger Games out of the lending library.  I got through it in two days.  Now I have to wait to get the next one.  You can only borrow one book a month.  I think my next resolution will be to learn more about blogger so I can get everything to line up.

So cheerful

Roll of Nature's Touch Batting

Okay.  I could not get back to sleep this morning so I checked my email.  Lo and behold a missive from Joann's.  A 25 yard roll of Nature's Touch batting by Pellon for half price ($124.95).  Okay I have been on a batting binge.  Just ordered 3 sizes of Quilters Dream.    Two of them are from fabric.com which is having a 30% off sale and one from my favorite Amazon batting provider. By the way,  I am really in love with Quilter's Dream but it is too expensive to use on anything but my best quilts. Then I see this.  I bit.  I am now the proud owner of a 25' X 90" roll of batting.  Well anyway it will be on its way soon.  The shipping was only $14.95.  Not bad.



I have used this batting before and it is pretty good.  My machine likes it about as well as Warm and Natural.  I see a lot of quilt finishes in my future.

P.S.  The sale was only supposed to be good through Friday but it let me buy it at the special price.

Pillowcase for Sandy Hook Elementary

I took part in the Pillowcase Drive for Sandy Hook Elementary students.  A fellow Austin Modern Quilt Guild member and I combined our pillowcases and sent them today.  Thanks Amanda.  I was going to make two but I goofed up my first pillowcase so I went with one instead.  I heard they have collected over 5000 pillowcases.  The quilting community really responds to drives in a big way.  This is the way we know how to make things better.  I know some of my fellow bloggers sent off snowflakes.  Hopefully these gestures will make a difference in the lives of that traumatized community.

Because of this project and all of my other Christmas projects I have an overflowing scrap bin.  Guess I need to do some sorting this weekend.

I have discovered Quilters Dream Select cotton batting.  Love it.  Used if for the first time over the weekend.  No skipped stitches.  The needle just glided through it.  I shopped online today for bargains. This stuff is not cheap.  Found a 30% deal at Fabric.com.  Got a Super Queen and a Throw size with free shipping for around $32.00.  I am excited to use it again.