Color Inspiration

from www.niftythriftydrygoods.com, ribbons, embellishment assortments, crazy quilt assortments, peach & gray

Recovering from surgery and spending WAAAAAYYYYY too much time on pinterest.  Saw this lovely color combination.  The jury is still out on whether I'm really a "grey" fan (ironic considering my blog background . . . really must change that), but I sure do love "coral" (that color really deserves to be called "coral", too dark for "peach").

Do you spell it gray or grey?  They've used the former, I prefer the latter.

Today, This Ruler is My Friend

I do not like trimming blocks.  I do everything in my power to construct a block that will not need to be trimmed.

But sometimes . . . sometimes it is necessary.  And, today, I'm glad that I have a 12-1/2"  square ruler.  It sure makes the process speedy.

I'm especially glad I have this ruler today since this is what it's doing outside . . .

My poor apple tree.  We skipped fall and went straight to winter around here.  Hopefully it melts fast . . . we still have some fall to celebrate.

tee, hee, hee

(Do you see the circles in that quilt? I'm thinking of quilting giant spiderwebs.)

Woot, woot!!!

Look what I just won . . .



Gorgeous, right?!!!!  This is Heirloom by Joel Dewberry.  Oh, the wheels are turning already.

This bundle is coming from Jennifer of Dragonfly Fabric in Canada.  Check out her online shop.  It is beautiful.

Thank you so much Jennifer!

Four "Y" Seams

Four wonky "Y" seams . . . that's what it would take at every intersection to put sashing on this quilt.

As much as I like the "Y" (go Cougars!!!), I do not like "Y" seams.

No sashing it is.

WIP Wednesday: To Sash or Not To Sash?

That is the question.

Here's one of several Works-In-Progress that I would love to finish.  Do you think I should add a small white sashing between each hexagon or do you think I could just stitch them together as-is?

Fabric: Terrain by Kate Spain for Moda Fabrics

And this is what you do with all of the little scraps left over . . .

Journal cover tutorial found here.

And this is what happens when you forget that you left a quilt on the "design floor" when destructo-baby wakes up.

I'm linking up.

Welcome . . .

 . . . to the new blog!

I enjoyed a fun and busy summer with my family.  Now that the kiddos are back in school, I'm ready for more sewing time and more blogging time.  I was ready to really create an identity too.  So here's a new blog and it still needs some work, but I've got lots of sewing to share.  Stay tuned for all of the fun things I've worked on for the last few months.

A Fabric Funny

After trying to board a plane

with a recent, rather large, fabric purchase

(some of it for me), my sister sent

the following text . . .

The brick of fabric in my backpack

was suspicious so they had to

open the bag and search it :-)

Can you imagine the look of confusion
on the screener's face

as he opened the pack to find

. . .

a fat quarter stack?

Yep, we quilters are pretty

shady characters.