Saturday, July 25, 2009

Recent Purchases - adding to the stash!

I made a stop at the Quilting Niche on Thursday after visiting a dear photographer friend recoving from a bad spider bite in the hospital - beware of spiders is the advice of the month! He's doing so much better now but still has a long recovery process with lots of IV treatments to fix all the clots that have formed because of the spider venim. Anyways, back to my recent purchases - I found some great fabric that was on sale - something for a teacher's tote, something funky paisley for another project - maybe a girly dress or something, some fun juvenille print fabric, some great pink and brown batik and a great sewing theme fabric with some cats! Love me some more cats!


And this great fat quarter pack - 25 fats for only $25 - - there are a ton of batiks mixed into this pack! What a deal! And I could not pass up these two Moda charm packs -- they'll probably become a part of a chubby-charmer tote gift at some point!


On to today, Saturday, my quilting friend Joanie and I attende the GSQA quarterly meeting today in Lafayette, LA and well, of course we had to visit the newest quilt shop in town - The Borne Quilter - which has been open about a year now I think. It's a great little shop and you can see some photos of our trip there on our guilds blog, Stitchin Sistas Blog. With each purcahse today, you got that cute little pillow/pin cushion - I thought it was just adorable. There was a bunch of stuff on sale for 40% off - Anyways, here are my fat quarters I purchased today. And here are a few patterns I snatched up.


And here are some patterns I picked up along with a free pattern that was given out with purchase today.


Here's a look at the fabrics I bought -- oohh la la -- I love every single one of them. The top three in that pile are going to be a fall-ish girls dress - hope to have that done before October! The next few are just for the stash - -just loved em and had to have em. The next few, green with stars, red harlequin and red with white snow flakes are christmas --- they're going into a new quilt top at some point soon. The bottom brown with diamonds just had to have will either be borders in something or a backing for something.


He're a better view of the purchases.



Here's a better look at the christmas fabrics I snatched up today!



Monday, July 13, 2009

Win this fabulous bag!

Suzanne designed a fabulous tote using Mark Lipinski's Krakow fabric and is giving it away! Win this fabulous bag -- but hurry - the contest ends on Wednesday the 15th - visit her blog to enter: http://justanotherhangup.blogspot.com/2009/07/butterflies-blooms-july-give-away.html

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Saturday, July 4, 2009

Happy 4th of July


I just wanted to wish everyone a very happy and safe 4th of July today. I am sure your day will be full of BBQs and summer fun. We are going to celebrate by boiling up some wonderful blue crabs this afternoon and enjoying the afternoon with some wonderful watermelon and cantelope martinis. I hope to get a couple new projects under way too today and tomorrow - let's see how well those plans get played out --- I feel like I haven't stitched in a long time and it's time to get some projects going -- my goodness, Christmas is right around the corner folks!