Spring Break Sewing Day!

Olivia is home for Spring break this week and hosted a quilt-a-thon!  We decided to take the opportunity to begin celebrating her birthday as Grandma and Grandpa had wrapped up her wish in a new Viking sewing machine and it just seemed appropriate that she have it today.   (6 more days!)  It was a long day of cutting and sewing and designing and laughing.   UFO's were finished and some new projects were begun.
8:00 a.m....

8:15 a.m....

9:00 a.m....

9:45 a.m....

10:30 a.m....

Noon...

Cindy made chili and cornbread for lunch (angel food cake with fresh strawberries, too) and the guys joined us!

1:35p.m....

4:50 p.m....

6:30 p.m....

Alan, we need Pagliai's!  Warren, we know you make the best salads!

8:40 p.m....

Then the photographer went home.  To sleep.  To sew tomorrow.

Quilting Milestones

Here are my
128 
quilt  
blocks 
that are finally  
finished! 

I started them in August and there were a few months in there that they went untouched but it has certainly been a labor of love.  I even timed myself and figured out that it took me about 20 hours to put all these blocks together.  (That does not include any of the cutting in the beginning.)  I'm putting it away for a few weeks while we have company in town but a major milestone had to be announced.  We'll see if I can really wait that long to lay them out and decide which one goes where.


To the right are the fabrics before they were cut.  I took my time and picked out fabrics that I really loved.  I think I bought the first one almost three years ago.

In case you are interested, click here to see what the finished product should look like (only king sized as I doubled the pattern).  The pattern comes from this book (click here).

~Kristin

What's Going On In Becky's Quilt Studio?

New fabric and a new iPod dock!

Scraps have been organized by color...inspiration from Elsie's Girl!

This has saved me so much time.  Thanks, Shelley.

Free-styling with the French General!  Don't know where it's going from here...

still more fabric for deciding and designing.

Found this on etsy...don't you think it's PERFECT!

Kaffe, etc. from CityCraft in Dallas. 

And making progress on the Farmers' Wife blocks...this is why I needed to organize all those scraps!

'Til next time,

Becky

CITY CRAFT

Alan and I were recently in Dallas visiting Dale and Yvette.  One afternoon while Yvette was at work, the boys agreed to drop me at CITY CRAFT.    I found it on-line, we put the address in the GPS and they were happy to find that it was near a golf store and a Starbucks.  After entering the front door, I sent them a text asking for an hour.  This was not a quilt shop that I would be hurrying through.  I could have stayed for the afternoon!  CITY CRAFT is a very modern, artsy, new quilt shop with not one fabric that I had seen anywhere before.  I made a few (several) quick plans for projects and kept the store owner busy cutting fabric.  She happily obliged as we swapped stories of quilts past and those we hope to get to.  I went back to the car with a very large bag filled with gorgeous printed cotton.  (You'll see more projects as they come together.)

She had made a bag from a piece of this fabric and I loved it!  However, I pictured it on a much larger scale and made valances for the quilt studio!  I am certain to do more shopping there on our next visit...but what if I can't wait that long?!  I'll order from their website!  Phew!

Becky

Another UFO is finished!

I began this quilt last fall with inspiration from Claire.  She stayed with us for a few days and cut pieces for a project while she was here.  I loved the lay-out of it and put some of my Civil War reproduction prints together to come up with this.  My favorite is the "olive-drab" print used as sashing.    I attempted pieced five-point stars and got just a little frustrated, deciding after 2 or 3 attempts that those stars were for a future project.  These are appliqued and created from scraps.  I'm somewhat attached to this one and have cozied up by the fireplace with it more than once recently.

Becky

From a book and a jelly roll you get...

The Book:  Simplify by Camille Roskelley

The Jelly Roll:  Fandango by moda

I finished this in the nick of time before our trip to Ohio.  

Mom sat contentedly in the back seat and finished the binding as I drove.   She taught me a long time ago that miles and hand-stitching go by much faster when you've got something to sew in the car.  She always has...always will.

Becky