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I was finally featured in a collection. Very exciting.

I'm the Valentine Quilt

Snowy Day

There wasn't any school today because of the snow we got. The weather here in Kansas City is crazy to me, being from the Chicago area. School was cancelled yesterday for today. I don't ever remember that happening when I went to school (in the dark ages).

I tried to work from home this morning, but it didn't go so well since my little helper wouldn't leave me alone. I finally got tired of crabbing at her so I just called my boss and told her I would take vacation for the rest of the afternoon.

So since I was taking vacation, I decided to work on some sewing projects. I can say that I had a very SUCCESSFUL day.

First up, is my rendition of Crazy Mom Quilts (Amanda Jean) Fair and Square pattern. It goes together quickly. I have a box of 6 1/2" squares cut from every baby / kids quilt I've made. So I started digging and pulled out a variety. I'm pleased with how it turned out.




Next is my baby twister quilt.  The top is all together and now I just have to wait on my border fabric.  The shop that I got the charm squares from didn't have any yardage, so I had to order it online.  That should be here by this weekend (I hope).


And last is my first pass at one of the t-shirt quilts I was asked to make.  I sent pictures via email to get comments before I start sewing shirts together.  Every time I cut a shirt or move a shirt all I can think about is the owner of the shirts ran 26 miles to get that t-shirt.  That's a whole lot of miles.  I love the shirt in the middle - it's a caricature of him.


Oh yeah, I finished this quilt over Christmas vacation when I was off.  It's the batiks that my friend brought back from Malaysia.  I LOVE it.






I think my helper and I will head back down to the girl cave and see what other things we can accomplish this afternoon.

Have a great night.

Design Wall & Stash Report

I did get a little something done last week and over the weekend. It really wasn't feeling like it until I took pictures.

So on my design wall:

Charm squares - Girlie Girl from Moda - will be transformed into a Twister Baby Quilt

Embroidered blocks and Kaffe Fassett fabric. 

I love how the top turned out.  I can't wait to get it on the frame and quilt it.  When finished, I think it's going to hang in our master bathroom.  Definitely something bright and pretty too look at in the morning.

In an effort to get rid of some fabric from my stash, I made a bunch of bags that I found on the Green Bag Lady site.  I've given some of the bags to friends and they just love them, so I'm going to just keep making them.  The pattern for the grocery bag is so easy that I think I've gotten it down to about 10 minutes a bag.  Not too bad.  I think that I want to go back and put some embroidery on the plan bags.  Maybe a recycle symbol or the fun grocery list I previously showed.

Supervisor Sissy at the top of the photo

Stash Report

I bought 6 yards of fabric this week, so when added to what I bought last week brings me up to 10 yards for the year.

Used - Awesome week since I made bags.  2 yards (embroidered top), 6 1/2 yards for bags - so 8 1/2 yards total.

Net - 1 1/2 yards on the stash side

Who Knew?

Not me, that's for sure.

This morning I was out reading blogs and drinking the required amount of coffee to get moving. I had no idea that Clotilde had electronic downloads on some of the books they sell. What an awesome concept. I did a little shopping (just one book).   I love that I didn't have to pay shipping to get my book.  I really LOVE that I didn't have to wait for the mailman to deliver my new book.  I really love that I could print my book in color and then shove all the pages into plastic page protectors and off I GO (literally GO).


 Since I LOVE my AccuQuilt Go, I couldn't help myself.  I have purchased quite a few of the dies, but haven't really done much other than one block quilts.  This book should help me step out a little bit. 
I did get a quilt top done this weekend.  I finally incorporated some embroidered blocks and am pleased with how it turned out.  Pictures forthcoming.

Have a great week.

Baby It's Cold Outside

My bags are done for awhile.

The soon to be birthday girl didn't have school for 2 days due to snow and COLD. Yesterday I took her sledding. I remembered how much I don't like the cold and being cold. Thankfully there was hot cocoa after our outing.

The crazy dog loses his mind when he goes out in the snow. The poodle in him causes the snow to stick...everywhere.

I had a lady come to the house last night with 2 HUGE laundry baskets full of t-shirts. She got my name from the local quilt shop. I'm going to make 2 t-shirts quilts for her. She was so excited about getting 2 quilts she called me today at work to come by and give me more shirts. I'm anxious to get started now. I'm learning that t-shirt quilts are either "love them" or "hate them" kind of projects. Luckily, I love them.

Have a great week. Maybe I should say Have a great weekend. We will be celebrating in the form of a slumber birthday party - 6 little girls with high pitched screams. I think I can do it.

Week 2 Stash Report 1-9-2011

I decided that this year I'm going to keep track of the stash.  My buying got a little out of hand in 2010, so I'm hoping to keep it a bit more in check this year.

I missed week 1, but my numbers were all 0's.

So for this week.

Used this Week:    0 yards
Used year to Date: 0 yards
Added this Week: 4 yards  (note for me - embroidered over shoulder bags)
Added Year to Date: 4 yards

Net Used for 2011: -4 yards

I have been working on bags for Brandi.  My hope is to get a head so that I can finish one partitally completed top and get one quilt top quilted.  Given the amount of snow coming down right now, I won't be going anywhere but to the girl cave tonight.

Have a great week.

Some Finishes

I'm here, just have been swamped with life. The holidays got a SMIDGE crazy for me. Here are some pictures until I can come up with something brilliant to blog about.  (Yikes that might take me a while)

Table Runner - to be quilted still.  Used my Go Cutter (apple core die)

Fun Grocery bag that went to a good home

It was a towel kind of Christmas.   Everyone got some.

Finally it came out.  

Before Santa came and deposited more goodies.

My goal is to blog on a regular basis in 2011.