More Shop-hopping with the Quilt Buddy!

So on the second day I was out visiting the Quilt Buddy, we headed on over to The Country Loft for their annual Quilt show. This show was awesome! On display were some beautiful quilts from their vast list of classes as well as some made by students and instructors. In the front of the store they had all the quilts that were on sale for Sew For The Cure. I purchased an awesome fall wall hanging. All proceeds from the sales of these quilts went to the Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. What a wonderful way to raise money for a cause that is dear to my heart! The Country Loft itself is the cutest thing ever! It literally is a cottage and has this gorgeous white picket fence surrounding it. Inside is beautiful displays of quilts, wall hangings, and their projects mixed in with antiques and prims. Out behind the store they had a gorgeous little courtyard that was decked out in the other quilts. Too cute! They also support a lot of local pattern makers and of course their teachers (see here , here and here). If you ever wanted a variety of classes to take this store has it! Oh my! I am contemplating going to see Stef just to take one of their classes! LOL!





One of my favorite Quilts on display was this Dear Jane quilt (finished!) and it gave me new found inspiration and I wanted to head home to work on my blocks to get here too! The Country Loft is actually having this as a class to support and help you accomplish this awesome quilt.


All in all, the visit to The Country Loft was awesome! I spent most of my money there as they had a great variety of things I wanted. Of course when we headed back to the car to go to Rosie's, lookie what we saw...

I could not, of course, resist getting my fix! Then we loaded up and headed off to Rosie's Calico Cupboard in search of more goodies!

What another great day of shop hopping! It of course was made even more fun by the fact I was by the side of my bestest quilt buddy! : ) Unfortunatley this is where the journey ended, as I was on the plane back to the East coast the next day. Thank you Stefanie for having me for a wonderfully awesome quilt filled weekend!

T.T.F.N.

Learning something new...

Just a quick post to say "Thank You to Anina" over at Dear Baby Jane and Twiddletails for adding the tutorial to do this....




I love that I can see a virtual wall that can stay up all the time! Thanks Anina! I am hoping this motivates me to fill my 'wall' up to match the groups!
T.T.F.N.

More Dear Baby Jane's!

These are the Dear Jane blocks I finished last night. They are M-10 Simple Simon, BR-1 Rosemary's Rainbow and E-9 Quilt Jail respectively. I rotary cut and pieced traditionally M-10- a simple nine patch. BR-1 I FPP (freezer paper pieced) it and it was not bad at all! Now, E-9, much more tedious. In the software Brenda has given some tips and insight based on having finished her quilt and she recommended to FPP as she felt it would make the job easier. It still was giving me a little grief! The pieces are small and pressing them was not fun. I think if it does not fit in with the color scheme as I progress, it will be a redo. If I redo it I think I will try to piece it traditionally. The pic looks wonkier than it is- the one border was not flat when I photographed it but I did not notice until I downloaded it- but still I am not completely happy with that block. We'll see!

Otherwise, I just need to finish my Birdhouses and the vines in the middle block of Home Sweet Home and then I can quilt it! Yeah! I think I will try to get some more blocks done tonight as I appear to be on a roll and the Dear Jane blog group are up to 33 done. I need to start doing the ones they have to catch up!
Happy Stitching!
T.T.F.N!

Progress!

Today I managed to finish 2 new Dear baby Jane blocks. The first is D-6 Challenge. I freezer paper pieced this one and it went smoothly.

The next one I did is D-13 Field of Dreams. I rotary cut and then pieced this block. I am hoping to get some more done tonight and try and get a few of the ones that the Blog group are doing done.

I also wanted to share the fabrics I have so far chosen to use in my Butterfly Garden quilt that Stef and I are doing together. I still have to pick out a few solids for the applique and maybe add a little more yellow to the mix to even it out but so far I think I will use the lavender solid foe the main butterflies- then to decide my other appliques. The floral in the middle is the main fabric I chose (from Dandelion Girl) and matched the rest to it. Some of the fabrics are actually from my stash! When I first started quilting I loved MODA but especially Robyn Pandolph's fabrics and collected quite a stash of her fabrics! I decided it was time to stop saving them and start using them! It has been fun discovering my tastes and incorporating them into my latest project's!

I am continuing to work on my Home Sweet Home quilt and I hope to finish the stitchery's in the next few days and quilt it on the weekend. Still have not decided if I am machine or hand quilting it yet....Hmmmm.

Well off to stain some shelves!
T.T.F.N.

This is going to be a gooood week!

This has been quite a productive week! I actually finished quilting Organized Chaos and am taking it off the TBQ list YEAH! I still have to do the hand stitching on the last half of the binding. For me though, that is one of my fave parts and I know when I settle down to watch a little telly, I will have it finished in no time. So I will probably be posting the finished product sometime this week.

On another front I received a great little parcel in the mail that I had ordered after seeing some of them on Home Sweet Home.

Recognise the pink box??? Well here are the goodies I bought- and the pin cushions I bought them for! I now have 'blinged' out pincushies!!! I highly recommend you go over to Pinks and Needle's and get some for yourself-- the pics do not do them justice!








Of course I am gearing up for a great week ahead- plenty of sunshine, a warm pool, lots of quilting to be done and this coming Saturday is the monthly 'strip' club at my LQS, Lil Country Quilt Shoppe. I cannot wait to see what Susan and Doris have come up for this month! I also am looking forward to seeing the products from market! Yes this is going to be a great week!

On a closing note, the other thing that came in the mail this week was my EQ software for Dear Jane....Yep, I am jumping in with both feet! In fact here are my first 2 blocks completed!!!! First to start the whole process I started with an easy one...A-6 Uncle Homer and then I tried out this freezer paper tutorial ( thanks Wendy : ) it really made this block a cinch!) to piece together H-13 Farm Fields.

I also cut out the corresponding plain triangles (does anyone know if they are to be included in the count???). So I guess my Dear Baby Jane status is officially at 2-0-0-16 (or if I count the plain tri's 2-2-0-18?). I am very excited about this quilt! I think I am pop an email off to Anina here to see if I can join the support! I also highly recommend getting the software if this is a journey you would like to take or are all ready taking- very helpful and makes the progress way easier! (note: you do not need to have EQ to run it). In fact I will be going to go do some more blocks tonight after this is posted.

Yep...This is going to be a goooood week!

T.T.F.N!