A Little Fun~

I finished the March and April BOM's from Bird Brain Designs over the past few days. I just have to rinse the Sticky-Fabri Solvy out of them~ you can see it is a very sheer substance. I love using it! Just a quick rinse in cold water and it is gone. No muss, no fuss and best of all~ no tracing! :-)

This is a block I made from an EQ7 pattern for a block lotto. I am going to retreat for the next 4 days. :-) Our theme this year is a Quilting Fiesta. I got sent a 7 inch square of the black fabric that has the orange, yellow, green and turquoise in it and had to make a 12 inch finished block. Nothing like waiting til the last minute. ;-) LOL  We also have classes and a FQ lottery. Oh!~ and a fabric shop sets up right at the retreat for us!! :-) Oh yeah~ it is going to be fun!! :-)

Today I am packing up my machine and projects. Oh! ~ and suitcase! LOL Checking twice to make sure I don't forget anything. ;-)  Hope y'all have a good weekend~ I'll be back Monday!

Until then~
Happy Stitchin'!!

Packing and Planning~

The packing part~

Only half of what is going. ;-)

My bags are getting packed and I'm getting ready to go! :-) I'm off to a retreat this weekend. It is a 'working' retreat and I have lots of projects to keep me busy! Probably too many, but better that than not enough, right? And after that, I am hitting the road to deliver this quilt. :-) So you may not see much of me in the next few weeks, but I'll have a great show and tell around the beginning of May, so be sure to come back!! :-)

The planning part~

My friend Bonnie at Nap Time News and I have been plotting and planning a block exchange for a CW quilt for almost a year.  :-)  The emails fly back and forth furiously, then we get busy with other things, and we slow down, then they start flying again. Well this past week they have been flying fast and furiously! We both got our new issue of Quiltmaker magazine and both loved the same basket quilt! :-) A perfect place for our CW stashes.  We are both a little leary of applique, but we've decided its time. :-)

I worked on a test block last night~  and hey!~ applique wasn't so bad! lol
Whoohoo, I love when a new plan (and quilt) come together!

Until next time~

Happy Stitchin'!!

More Photo's!~

This is a photo of the other pieces of fabric that we discharged and played with~ I used stamps, paintsticks and a little foiling on these. I can see lots of possibilities with the techniques and I think I'd like to try it with printed fabrics because it might make an otherwise 'what was I thinking' fabric, something fun. ;-)

I also worked on the blocks that Bingo~Bonnie and I are swapping. Although I didn't get that many blocks made up, I did make up a pile of HST's in the 2 sizes we need. ;-) I have been straining my brain trying to remember the traditional name of this block... does anyone know? The photo shows 4 blocks arranged in a star, but the 4 parts can be arranged many different ways. It is a fun, scrappy block. ;-)

And finally for today~ a pile of FQ's. :-) I took 6 for the FQ Lottery and came home with 30. :-)) Yay! See the one down in front with the button on it? It is safety pinned on to make the FQ look like a little envelope. Someone was very creative with their FQ's! :-)

I think (hope) you can click on the photo's for a little larger view.

That's all for now, until next time~

Happy Stitchin'!!

Feels Like I've Been Gone Forever!

What started out as a weekend away turned into a computer mess and a week away! Yikes! Let me back-pedal and catch up. :-) My weekend away was fantastic! Look at all that 'stuff' to go!~ I knew I wouldn't get to everything, but I had high hopes! :-))

We left on Friday morning and had our sewing machines set up and ready to rock 'n roll by 11 AM. We sewed and sewed on Friday and I got 'sew' much done! A whole bunch of Ocean Wave blocks that I'm swapping with a friend. ;-) I also took a class to learn fabric discharging, dying, painting, stamping, foiling~ a whole bunch of fun things! My samples aren't that great, but I learned a lot and hope to use some of it in the future. ;-) Ahhh! I'll have to put the other sample in another post~ it won't let me add it here. :-/ The black looks really dark in the photo~ it looks more rust in real life. ;-)

Well, I must've overdid it on Friday because by Saturday evening my shoulder was screaming at me! It wouldn't let me lift my arm to my machine. :-( I'm not sure if I pulled something, or just used a muscle that wasn't used to so much work, but I was pretty worthless as far as sewing went. I did sit in on a few classes and learn all I could. ;-) I wondered if it was the heavier irons they had or just me... if it was just me, I have to say my bod has pretty poor timing! The weekend ended Sunday and I came home with more things to do than I left with ;-)) ~did I tell you they had a fabric shop set up for the weekend? :-o LOL

On Monday I was going to up-load my photo's and I couldn't get the computer on! Hubby couldn't either when he came home, so into the shop it went. Another hard drive. They had it in the shop most of the week trying to figure out the old hard drive, and finally gave in and put in a new one. We've spent the weekend downloading our programs..again. :-/ I think everything is good now... I hope! And my silly shoulder?~ starting feeling better by mid-week and is back to normal this weekend.

Now I need to hop around and see what y'all have been up to! ;-)

Until next time~

Happy Stitchin'!!