On hold....

I am officially putting all my projects on hold for now. Our house sold with us agreeing with the buyers on a price yesterday (during all the Pioneer Day festivities). We are now currently looking for a new home. Oh, yeah, the buyers want to close on August 11. That gives us a good two weeks. Mom and Dad, glad you have some extra room for us and our wild boys! Hopefully we will be able to work something out to get the house we have in mind and be in by the time school starts.

This does mean that I will have to withdraw from the scrap quilt challange. I will be finishing it sometime, but not in August. I am very glad I finished my star blocks for the Prairie Paisley swap early!

Happy quilting everyone!

AF Quilt show

This is my favorite quilt from the quilt show this weekend. When I looked at the tag on it one of my ward friends entered it. Her grandma made it and now she has it. I just love it.

I also bought a jelly roll of Winter yesterday. Can't wait to start a new quilt. I may do it next and do a super simple pattern. I need simple right now. I also bought Black Diamonds which is a jelly roll pattern. I love it, but I'm not sure about the black. I think I'd like it in brighter colors. I was thinking I'd maybe do it in Candyland Christmas but I can't find the fabric in any of the stores I usually go to. If anybody's seen it in any of the Utah stores let me know.

Some of you have inquired of the fate of the Strawberry Lilies quilt. It's on my frame as we speak, but only has a few rows quilted. I haven't had the time to finish but, at least for now, it's still alive.

Oh, no, now what?

I feel like laying this quilt top on the lawn and running the lawn mower over it. I know that sounds violent, but it's been one problem after another. I know this sounds minor, but now I don't have quite enough backing. You can see the backing sticking out on the top and bottom, but notice you don't see anything on the sides. I think I have some extra red from the flowers that I can piece for some of the back, but still, it's one more thing. I've unpicked two of the boarders because I didn't set them right to match up with the corner blocks. Then there was the problem with the sashing. I don't know what I was thinking when I forgot to trim it before I put the blocks on to make it on point. Seriously, I think my brain totally turns off when it's time to work on this quilt. Hopefully I can quilt it tomorrow with NO problems. Then bind it. If you don't see it again, check with my grass clippings.

Cherry Apron

I made another apron this weekend. I think I'm addicted. I have fabric for one more, but I don't think I can stop with just one. Maybe that's what my family, friends and the girls I visiting teach will be getting for Christmas!

Does anyone else have this problem? When I sew too late at night it's like my brain turns to mush. I'm not talking 2 or 3am, but I swear as soon as the clock turnes to 10pm all my brain cells go out the window. Last night was no exception. I wanted to try the ruffle and kept going. I should have stopped. When I looked at it this morning I saw all my mistakes, but at the time I kept thinkng I was fine and I could just keep going. Lesson learned. Stop sewing at 10pm.

Starting the Scrap Quilt

I got the center done of the Lady Bug Scrap Quilt. I just did by blocks in random order, not like the pattern. I hop I can find my black dot fabric. I have some left over from the butterfly quilt and need it for the lady bugs and the boarder. I moved a bunch of stuff around when I put stuff in my parent's storage unit so we could get ready to show the house (which is going very slowly.) Anyway, I'll search more later.


I should have enough of this fabric for a bigger boarder. I loved it when it was in
the stores so I bought a lot. It looks like over a yard is here. Now onto the lady bug boarder. I'm debating about doing the applique before or after I attach the boarder to the quilt. If I do it before I will be working with a much smaller piece of fabric and then I can do the corner ones after it's all on.

I'm making a committment..... maybe

I think this is what I'm going to do for my scrap quilt. This magazine is from Quick Quilts May 2005. I loved this pattern as soon as I saw it. I've been wanting to make it in case I ever have a baby girl. Well...... I think I'm going to make it even though I don't have a girl. If I don't get a girl in the next few years I'll give it as a shower gift or something. I'm not going to make it exactly like the one shown though. I doubt I have enough of any red or white fabric to use all the same red, all the same white with red print and I don't have much solid white so it will probably be the white with red print. It will just be red and white and not just the specific pattern. Should be quick and easy though.

Most of this fabric is left over from my Sew Simple Baskets quilt. I did all red
baskets with white on them, but different fabric for each basket. I do have a few more smaller pieces, but lots of them are no longer squares and I cannot fold them up to look like squares and still have them recognizable so they are sitting in a pile just out of the camera shot.

I also just finished a quilt I made several months ago out of the Cherry Baby fabric and several other lines. Hopefully I can get it bound in the next day or two so I can take a picture blog.

Cupcake Pincushion

So here it is...... my first cupcake pincushion. I made it out of scraps from my Cherry Baby quilt that has yet to be quilted (maybe I should do that tomorrow?). I
would like to make a few pincushions, one for regular pins, one for longer, bigger pins and one for applique pins.