Organized Chaos finished!

Well, I have completed Organized Chaos and finally downloaded the photos I took of it. I am excited that I have another finish under my belt- even if it was started last year! I used YLI blue variegated thread on the border and for the feather stitch on the blocks, cream in the polka dot border and Valdani variegated pink on the blocks. I love the YLI and Valdani threads! They are wonderful to work with.

So as I have finished a project, I was going to allow myself to start the project from a couple of posts ago....well then all of the patterns I have ordered recently came in and I wanted to work on those, and my Dear Baby Jane's. So the quilt I have started is a pattern by Natalie Lymer of Cinderberry Stitches that I ordered from Australia called "Home Sweet Home". It is too cute and I am excited to finish it! I managed to piece it all and trace the stitchery patterns yesterday and then I have finished one of the stitchery's already! It is going to hang in my foyer to welcome people when they come in the door!


Stefanie and I also ordered "Butterfly Garden" by Leanne's House and are going to start that together so both of us are in the process of picking our fabric' s and then piecing the first block. This will be an ongoing project that we hope to put the finishing touches on together at our quilt retreat in November. Will keep ya posted.

O.K. so I am off to stitch some more birds and the Home Sweet Home block...more tomorrow about the goodies I got at 'strip' club on Saturday!
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!

A Compromise!

Well...I came to a solution of the previous dilemma...I decided to quilt one of the 2 TBQ quilts, since I have everything for it and in light of the fact that I pieced both quilts in the fall! LOL! I guess I was waiting for inspiration (and a better machine). I figure if I finish one of them then I won't feel guilty starting a new project!

So I picked out the Organized Chaos quilt as I had an idea for what I wanted to do with it and basted it...Gee I wish I had this like Stefanie when doing this job! It was not too bad as the new floor in the Nook is perfect for basting- but did nothing to solve the sore knees and back! Anyway, I got down to quilting it and wanted to give a sneak of the WIP on my 440. I will have more to follow once it is bound and 'quiltified' but I wanted to post about solving my stalemate! It is nice to know there are other people out there who go through the same dilemma (I, unfortunately, go through this a lot! Too many quilts, not enough time LOL!)


Well, off to the nook to quilt my heart out!
T.T.F.N.