Apron BOM

Finished my July BOM today and decided to put them all on the design wall to see what they looked like. This is the LQS's block of the month. We could chose to make either an appliqued Apron quilt, an appliqued Western quilt or a regular pieced BOM in 2 different colorways. As you can see, I choose the Apron BOM. It will be interesting to see how it all comes together at the end of the year. You might be able to notice that there are 4 different sizes of blocks so far.

 

Wonder Weights

Have you ever seen these lil' guys before? My mom used them a few times when she cut out patterns for clothes many years ago. If I remember correctly though she didn't like them very much because they tore the pattern while she cut around them because they are heavy. I refound them this past weekend in my mom's old sewing machine cabinet. Middle daughter wanted to take the cabinet home with her so I cleaned out the drawers and found them. I think they are going to come in handy with my quilting.

 

Here's what I am going to use them for....keeping my quilt steady on my cutting table while I cut. They are heavy enough that I don't have to worry about the quilt falling off the table.

 

Sew days at the cabin

Middle child and I went to the cabin this past week to do some sewing. It's always fun to have a gorgeous lake to look at while you sit at your sewing machine and sew! We took our "Not Your Grandmother's Log Cabin Quilt" project with us to work on.

Here was where we started on Thursday:

 

It was fun to see each star progress.

 

Love Middle Child's color selections, especially the coral...it just pops the whole quilt.

 

Here she is all tuckered out......we had to go to the lake after naptime so we could relax some more! :)

 

By Saturday afternoon, I was able to get almost the whole quilt finished. Need to add my strips on each side so it will be square and then it will be ready to take to the quilter. Was a fun quilt to make. The book says you can't only make just one. They may be right!

 

My bags are packed!

Here I go! Finally going to do something quilt related! It's been awhile. Summer has been so busy for our family but now I get to go to our State Quilt Guild Retreat! I can hardly wait!

Here's my Tutto (a gift from the Honey) with my retreat sewing machine. I love this machine so much! When my mother passed away many years ago, my dad gave me some money that mom had kept in her credit union. I was able to purchase this machine plus a very nice sewing/serger cabinet. This machine is a work horse!!! I didn't need my newer model at all but the Honey bought me a new machine for Christmas one year so now this machine goes with me to classes or to the cabin. I really do miss not using it all the time.

 

My fabric selection for the class I will be taking tomorrow. It's a stash pile that I bought without having a quilt in mind. Love the bright colors of this fabric! It is called Fanciful by Renae Lindgren for Wilmington.

 

Here is the first class I will be taking. I bought this book several months ago and thought it looked interesting. When I saw there would be a class teaching how to make the quilts in the book I had to sign up. Who wants to read the directions when someone will just tell you how to make it?! I love quilt classes!

 

My other class I signed up for is being taught by Mary Lou Weidman. She is a National Teacher so class should be fun and interesting. I am going to be out of my element since the class is based on her book, Flower Power but I am excited to see what we make!

 

Hopefully next blog post can show the results of my classes!

I'm spoiled!

The Honey certainly loves me! 32 roses for our anniversary yesterday plus bath goods and a gift certificate to my LQS! Also had dinner out at a local restaurant that caters to my dieting ways. It was yummy! Yea!

 

 

Here are the goodies I purchased from the Utah Shop Hop. Just getting around to putting them away. The weeks have been busy around here! I wasn't too impressed with the "sales" most of the shops had...meaning there wasn't much of a sale...but when I saw 20% on the books at a few of the stores, I took advantage of it and bought a couple that I had been wanting to buy. The owl pattern was so cute made up into a quilt so I bought it. Found the owl fabric at 40% off and will use it for the backing of the future quilt! Don't you love how Broadbent's folds their fabric they cut for you?! You can see everything you purchased while it is neatly folded for you! Got the fat quarters and sparkly fabric at shops that had them on sale. I never like to buy full price if I don't have to!

 

Paducah, Kentucky

I never showed my pics of Paducah so thought I would share them today. What a cute town! Loved the wall of murals by the river. Went to the Farmer's Market and bought some foot lotion that was made locally to take home with me. There was also the National Quilt Museum to visit. The really fun part of the day was finding Eleanor Burns Quilt in a Day shop and hearing that everything in the store was 30% off! Poor Honey had to walk around town by himself while I shopped there.

 

 

 

 

Utah Shop Hop 2010

The theme of this year's shop hop was Celebrations. Here are a few of the quilts that were made by a few of the quilt shops. Can you guess the celebration from each quilt?
This is Family Reunion from Corn Wagon Quilt Co.

 

I really loved this Birthday quilt that Broadbents made! Notice the banner? So cute to see it in person.

 

4th of July from Thimbles and Threads in Draper.

 

Material Girls chose Mother's Day as their theme. We all received crowns so we were Queens for a Day.

 

Are we ready for some football?! Cute idea from Quilt's Etc. They even had a tailgate party out back!

 

May Day from Sew Sweet. Very cute quilt and one I might have to make.

 

This quilt was from Village Dry Goods in Brigham City. You will really have to guess their celebration because I can't remember. I do remember there were pictures of old records on their floor with songs on them.

 

Cinco de Mayo was the festive theme from Quilter's Haven. I always enjoy visiting this shop.

 

Again, I can't remember Piper's celebration.

 

Elaine's chose New Year's Eve. This was also a great quilt. Loved the sparkly fabric in it!

 

One store, Quilt's Etc, was generous to give away a free pattern to make this cute bag.

 

Had a great time hopping from store to store! Of course I made some purchases. Will try to get those posted asap. Life is still so busy around here with my son home and family visiting. Have also been to our cabin at the lake for several days. Tomorrow I head to Girl's Camp with the girls from our Church. Busy, busy, busy....no sewing....but am having fun!

Some days you should just not sew!

Just walk away from the sewing machine and come back another day!

As you know, I am participating in the Jelly Roll Sampler. Nanette from Freda's Hive made this week's block. Let me say up front, she had very good directions and lots of pictures to follow. Should had been a easy, quick block to make.
This is how my block turned out on my first try. Ummmmm......not like that pattern at all. I first had trouble just cutting the fabric. I don't know where my mind was but let's just say I had to get more jelly roll strips out and recut. Then I STILL didn't cut everything correctly! After sewing the 4-patches wrong, I just decided to give up for the day and finish the block "Jana's way".

 

I was going to just leave it as is since this is a jelly roll sampler. Who would know that I sewed and cut the block wrong? No one but me. Yesterday I decided that the block wasn't going to get the best of me so I remade it. I even followed the directions correctly this time. Here is what the block should have looked like in the first place.

 

Goodies from HMQS

Of course I couldn't walk by the booths and not buy anything! I curbed my buying though by only purchasing these 2 "big" goodies. Was quite pleased with myself since I saw several other fun things I would have liked to have brought home with me.
Bought another quilt rack. This one I will take to the cabin to hang a quilt. I like these compression hangers alot. This one is a bit different from my other ones though. It used "clips" to hang the board onto the wall so I can easily take it down to switch quilts from time to time. With my other hangers, there has to be 2 people to switch a quilt and hope we don't pull the hanger off the wall while doing it! Made by Westenskow and Sons (435) 528-3155. No website.

 

Can you guess what this is? It's a ruler rack that will hang on the wall! I'm looking forward to getting it hung up and then having my rulers all in one place! Small mats or bigger rulers can slide through the back slots. Will try to remember to take a picture once I have it up. From RomWoodWorking.