New Fabric Arrives at My House!

Just what I need – more fabric!

First here is my new selvage fabric designed by Pat Sloan.

I also got my monthly Kaffe fabrics.

Just what I need – more fabric.

Melinda

Fabric Find!

Look at the wonderful fabric I found yesterday.  Clipboards, typewriters and typing.  I ended up getting a yard of each.  I don’t know what to do with them but I couldn’t resist.  Do you have any ideas for me?  A notebook cover?  IPad case? Purse?

Melinda

More Kaffe Fabric to Hoard

This month’s shipment from Wish Upon a Quilt is here.  More subdued colors this shipment.  They will support the brighter colors very well.

I worked on my mystery quilt at the Atlanta Modern Quilt Guild Sew-in last night and finished all the blocks.  Will work a little while on the sashing this afternoon.  Hope to have it put together soon.

Melinda

Why I Am Not Counting Stash Enhancements

Melinda

Miniatures

At Quilt Festival I bought two kits to make miniature quilts.  John Flynn has die cut kits that I couldn’t resist.  Here are the photos they let me take at the show.

I liked the quilting on this one.

Here is the Winding Ways quilt.

Here are the kits I bought.

and the fabric in them.

Did you notice the finished size of the quilts?  One is 12”x 15” and the other is bigger – 14 1/2”x18”  I hope I can sew accurately enough to make these.

Melinda

Box From Houston Arrived

My box from Houston came Tuesday and I finally opened it yesterday.  Of course I had forgotten much of what is in there.  Here is a brief preview photo of what ready to be unpacked.

As I get it unpacked, I will show you more of what I got.  The small rolls at the top are all Kaffe prints, including POLKA DOTS!!!!

It was a heavy box with books and fabric plus other things I don’t even remember.

Melinda

Monthly Kaffe Fabric

Look at the wonderful fabrics I got this month.  Now I just need to use some of them.

Melinda

Sampler Savvy Quilt Top Finished

Yesterday evening I finished piecing the rest of the Sampler Savvy Quilt Top.  This is the top for the next series of classes I have scheduled.  It will start later this month.  I need to find backing and get it quickly quilted.  I have been thinking about custom quilting on it but I think I probably need to do a quick overall and be done with it.

I like how it turned out – now to write instructions for each block and figure out the order to teach them in.

Also this morning, I opened up my last package from Pink Chalk.  It included my monthly solid fabrics – blue/gray this month.

Cleaning house and doing laundry today – not fun but necessary.  I hope to make a few block between loads of laundry.

Melinda

Zipper Bags

I made three zipper bags today – I love the lime green screen.  I used three different color zippers.  One is for a class sample for kids, I gave one to a friend and I am using one to store the embroidery block of the month kits.

Also, I received my monthly Kaffe half yards.  Lovely as always.

I made 2 more blocks for the kids block of the month but took them to the shop and forgot to take photos.  Will post them soon.

Melinda

More Fabric Coming In

I still have more fabric to show.  Missouri Star Quilt Company has a daily deal – unfortunately for my stash report, one of them this week was polka dot fat quarters.  If you have read my blog for long, you know I have a big weakness for Polka Dots.

Look at them!  What a great variety of colors of little bitty polka dots.

Melinda

Adding to Stash

I finally got around to opening all the mail from my trip out of town and opened up 2 bundles of solids.  I get one each month and the second one arrived this week.

Here they are:

There was more in the packages but all the photos were fuzzy.  Will try to take more photos for tomorrow.

Melinda

Fabric In and Sampler Progress

I reported last week that I received the latest solid package in the mail.  It is shades of gray from almost white to dark charcoal. They look kind of brown in the photo but they are really gray.

Next, I worked a little on my new Sampler.  Here is what it looked like this morning – I have added one additional block since then.

I have also been working on the Smokey Mountain Stars as leaders/enders and instead of having them on the crowded design wall, they are in stacks.

I am cutting and sewing and pinning them together in stacks of 10 and am making a lot of progress.

I taught a Lattice Patch class this morning and will have another one this evening – photos tomorrow.

Melinda

Getting Ready for Another Swap

I joined a bright charm swap.  There are 56 total people (some like mine signed up for 2 colors).  Each of us are getting 5 different fabrics of the assigned colors.  I was assigned red and green.

These look pink but they are red.

and green.

56 x 5 = 280

280 x 2 = 560

That is how many charms I will be getting back – I guess I better start cutting.

Melinda

Mama Says Sew

Look what I found yesterday!

It is a charm pack of the newest Sweetwater line – mama said SEW!

The precuts are not available yet but I managed to get my hands on this one charm pack at a local shop.  I LOVE this line.

Melinda

New Additions to Stash

Good thing I donated the fabric yesterday because look at what came in the mail yesterday. First I opened up the monthly package of Kaffe 1/2 yards.

Then I have to admit that I signed up for another monthly shipment – this time solids.  Oranges were the first to arrive.

Wonderful oranges.

Melinda

Selvage Fabric

Yes, I know I said I was going to try to slow down my fabric purchases but this one I absolutely couldn’t resist.  SELVAGE fabric!

I got it from Spoonflower and it comes in two size prints.  I love it!!!!  Not sure what I want to do with it as I know I will have trouble cutting into it.  I got a yard of each size.

Melinda

Polka Dots

I know I have been trying to slow down on my fabric purchases but I just couldn’t resist this.

I only got fat quarters but it still added up to six yards!  I love them!

Melinda

Stash Report–Week 5, 2012

Time for another stash report.  I have been working on projects but they are not at the point where I can count yardage.  I found two more fat quarters that I couldn’t resist last week – Kaffe that I didn’t have so I added 1/2 yard.

Here is the report for week 5.

Used this Week: 0 yards
Used year to Date: 0 yards
Added this Week: .5 yards
Added Year to Date: 9.5 yards
Net Used for 2012: –10

For more design walls, go to Patchwork Times here.

Melinda

New Fabric

I opened the mail this morning and here is what I found.  I purchased this from Over the Rainbow and love it.  I got two different cuts of Gastlies and one of the coordinating.

I think I will make an Easy Peasy Grommet Bag out of it.  Robin had a bag and it was so cute!

Melinda

Blog Winnings

I won a wonderful stack of FQ from Kate at Life in Pieces.  She had a blogiversity and my name was picked – lucky me.

They are all batiks and I love the colors – my favorite green and my new favorite orange!

Thank you Kate!

Melinda