Funny Things Happen!!!

This morning I had a special delivery come to my front door! It was from the "Fat Quarter shop"! Hurray!! I am grinning ear to ear! What could this be? Fabric, of course! But, I haven't ordered anything!

Imagine my surprise when I opened the box! This is fabric from a line I am not familiar with. Hmmm. The shipping address on the box says it's for me. Hmmm. What to do?

I called the Fat Quarter Shop, and told them I had recieved a package in the mail and it wasn't for me. Yet, it is addressed to me. They were not sure either and would call me back.

When the Fat Quarter Shop called back they said I was to re-tape the box and the delivery company would come back to pick it up. They know who is supposed to recieve it, and will re-send it. It belongs to Anne Sutton over at Bunny Hill!! This is too funny! I can't wait to see what she will do with what was in the box!!! Hang in there Anne, your fabric is on its way! :0)

Workshop Day

Yesterday and today were busy days. I spent yesterday baking and today at a sewing workshop! Yesterday I made a Yogurt Apple Cake from a recipe I found at Suzie's littlebusybee blogspot, and Oatmeal White Chip Cookies from a recipe I found at Mary's quilthollow blogspot. Mary, by the way is doing a fun special give-away. A link to her blog is in my side bar! I brought both goodies to my quilting workshop today. Yummy! Good thing I took a picture before I left this morning! The goodies were well recieved.

This is what we were doing at the workshop. We made 5 quilt tops. All of them were the same, from a pattern called Bricks.

One of our bee members had a Mother-in-law pass away. Her husband had asked her to make quilts from her clothing for him and all of his siblings. We were making the quilt tops out of her clothing for all 6 children.

Busy! Busy! Busy! We used a room at a local church as our gathering place.

We also had a "garage sale" of sorts. Whatever we had left from "The Box", which I posted about a while ago, was brought to the workshop. We had a fun "free-for-all" rummaging through what was left! :0) I brought home some magazines and fabric. As if I don't have enough already!!!

We had an ironing station, several machine stations, a food station and of course the manager! The manager needed to tell us which pieces to put together in which row. Then of course, which rows went together where......

For lunch we had a friendship salad. Each person brings in one item to add to the salad! We have done this before. Each time the salad is completly different! We added our managers specialty "chili salad dressing". A favorite of everyone's! If you look close enough you can see the goodies that I brought in. I took this picture before we had our lunch. Fun, Food, Friendship and quilting! What could be better!!!! :0)

Addendum to my last post. I was asked about the pattern for the "Welcome Home Quilt" I am hand quilting. I am not sure if they still have it available or not since I purchased it several years ago. It was from www.quiltcompany.com If you add your E-mail address to your profile I find I can better answer questions about things I might post. Happy Quilting!!!!!

Getting Things Done

I am finally starting to catch up on some quilts I started. Here is a close-up of the quilting I put on this small quilt which I made for a table in the living room. I made it by using some charm square packets. This is only the second time I have tryed using prarie points around a border. The first time I did it was on the very first quilt I ever made! Being naive sometimes allows you to do things you would never dream of doing other wise! It has taken me over 25 years to try it again. This time I found it much easier though! ;o)

Here it is all finished. Simple but elegant. Charm squares and Prarie points! Horray! One down and how many to go???

This is a project that I am currently working on right now. It is called "Welcome Home". I am hand quilting this one. I've had the top done for a while. I just couldn't decide how I was going to quilt it. Sometimes I have to look at a quilt until it speaks to me, as to how it should be quilted. It is about 3/4 done! It's getting there one stitch at a time!

Here is the back of the little mini quilt, which is pictured below. I had just enough small pieces of fabric left after finishing the top of the grab bag project to make a scrappy sort of back. I did not have to finish the grab bag quilt. Only a top was required. I liked the idea of finishing it though! I know if it was me, I would prefer to recieve a finished project then one that is a work in progress! I have enough of those already! :#)

Ta Dah!! Here it is. All finished! I ended up hand quilting it. Some quilts lend themselves to machine quilting some to hand quilting. This one said please hand quilt me! :0)

Happy Quilting!!

Last of My Daffodils

Well, these are the last of my daffodils for this year. They are gorgeous. It is such a gloomy, rainy, cold and foggy morning, that I needed to see something cheerful. Daffodils always make me cheerful! They are sitting on a table runner I made a few years back. It was from an "Atkinson" pattern I believe.

This is my helper! He seems to enjoy quilting just as much as I do. Maybe I should have said that he enjoys sleeping with quilts, instead of quilting them! Now you see one of the reasons why I don't get much done! I am handquilting this particular quilt. (Whenever I can get at it) I will take a better picture of it soon.

I have my new computer finally! It is sooooooooooo fast compared to the other one! It is also very sensitive! I need to have lighter fingers now. I deleted some e-mails by mistake because the cursor mouse is really, really sensitive!

Look! A white deer! This is out my back window. She is a ways off so the picture is blurry, but I caught her on my camera before she disappeared. I see her mostly on rainy days for some reason.? I have watched her grow. My daughters and I have named her Abbey. If it was a male deer it would be Al. A nickname from "Albino". Although I don't think she is albino. I think she is a pure and simple white deer! The first time I saw her she was just a baby. In August she will be 2 years old. I can't wait to see her babies! Will they also be white?

Round Robin Block 3

I had a bee meeting this past Wednusday. We exchanged our round robin blocks once again. The above picture is the block I recieved. Aunt Gracie style fabrics in this one. Below is what I did.

I added the 2 1/2" blocks. I am begining to wonder if I made it too dark. I may need to change this one. I was trying to use only the fabric I had in my stash without having to purchase more.

This is the grab bag mini quilt. I had enough leftover fabric to make a pieced back! It came out cute. Some of the girls in my bee already brought there finished ones in, which makes me feel like I should hurry up and finish this! I am hand quilting it, which of course takes longer to do....Although it will not be overly done since it is a mini. I didn't think it needed too much quilting. We have until June to officially finish them. I have been doing so much stuff for the bee lately, that I have not been able to work on any personal projects. I think once this mini is done I will be able to finally get back to working on a few other things. I must say that I do enjoy some of the challenges that my bee comes up with! They are often outside of my comfort zone. Therefore I view them as learning experiences!

I have been busy baking cookies for Daughter 2. She had her piano concert last night. I had signed up to bring in some treats for the guests. She did well. She played the "Pineapple Rag". It is a piece she has been working on since January. So, it will be nice to hear her play something else now. Before we left we wanted to bring home the cookies that were left, otherwise they just throw them away. There weren't any left! :o)