sneak peek!

Using Prayer Flag by Kate Spain (oh... how I heart you Prayer Flag!)




I've started the planning for my quilt top...



and gathered up all the necessary supplies... this photo is after round one of sewing & pressing!

Future in blogland...

So... I'm reading the blogs again, and saw a great idea, to help me focus some of my projects and get them finished...

Canoe Ridge Creations documents her WIP's (Works-in-progress) like this:
This week's stats:
Last week's total: 5
New Projects: 3
Finished Projects: 1
This week's total: 7

So, I thought I would look at my projects on the go, take some photos (or share some photos and figure out where I'm at!

Without further ado...
A busy week here,
I finally finished the turquoise border on E's wedding quilt



I also used up some of my Central Park scraps from my placemats (still unfinished) to make this cute "Mug Rug" - a very mini quilt, with enough room on it for your mug of tea or coffee and a sweet treat alongside! It's a quilting project that you're encouraged to get all crumbly, and best of all, no rules! It can be any size, any shape, any colour combo... whatever you like! I've seen some great ones with applique that I love... little teacups and embroidered sayings. Perhaps one day!

here's mine... (I used my quilting foot to finish the binding this morning!)



I tried out a new technique early in the week (or maybe last week) from Elizabeth Hartman - seriously, go check out her blog Oh Fransson! She's utterly amazing. It's a technique for quick piecing those itty bitty little squares, and makes the corners line up PERFECTLY. Check it out here.

Here's where I'm at so far...



I did a bit of playing yesterday, after our kitty cat let it be known that she needed a quilt too. So, out came the scraps bag, and I read a bit in Stitch magazine about piecing wonky blocks. I took that idea and instead of a pillow, made a quilted mat - my first real attempt at machine quilting, and I had a lot of fun doing it!



So what now? Well... I need to piece a back for e's wedding quilt. I also chose some charm packs & jelly rolls from a couple collections... one will be a summer quilt for our room (queen size) and one for my friend m's wedding quilt. Plus, there are a couple of different block styles I want to play with. Guess I had better get back to my sewing machine!

So, here's where we're at -
This week's stats:
Last week's total: 4
New Projects: 3
Finished Projects: 2
This week's total: 5


Previous to this week - Placemats, Sherbet Pips Quilt (twin), grocery bags out of recycled materials, e's wedding quilt
New Projects - Rug Mug, Cat Mat, Jellyroll competition quilt (planning)

Fabric store makeover :)

After a very heavy pack up, and a dark snowy drive home, my husband and I arrived safely in Houston on Saturday night, at about 10:30pm! That wasn't so bad at all. However, the van of course did NOT get unpacked that night.
Sunday morning (yesterday) I was happily ensconsed in my arm chair (that I'm in right now) surfing my favorite sewing blogs (check them out on the right! -->) while my husband started unpacking the van. Eventually (it took a few loads mind you, of him lugging heavy totes of fabric into the house) I hauled myself out of my chair and helped him unload.
This is the result:



Now, with the fabric room in chaos (as I had dumped out my scrap fabric totes so I had enough containers to go to PG) there was NO WAY I was letting my bolts head back upstairs without the fabric room being cleaned. We have two lovely pets, but Abby is a very friendly (but usually shedding) labrador, and Nomad is a very lovely, but nosey, kitty. So, a solid 4 hours of work later, the room was clean, shelves were assembled, bolts arranged lovingly on the shelves, pre-cuts stylishly displayed and my hubby was out walking the dogger.

PG WAHM Trade Show

Had a very very busy weekend, we packed up our Delica van and drove to Prince George, where we spent the evening setting up our booth and fetching new shelves from Costco (oooh! Pretty!!)

We had an ABSOLUTELY fabulous day, meeting and visiting with you all! Thank you all for spending your time to come down and support us and all the other WAHM families! Also a HUGE thank you to the women who organized the show, you did a fantastic job!