SHOPPING!!!

I was already headed to Joanns, when I found a 20% coupon on the ENTIRE purchase.  HECK YEAH!!  AND everything was already on sale.  Even BETTER!  Sooo, 34 yards of fabric!!

for a RED quilt!

for the King sized Navy Quilt

because I KNOW I always need white

a sweet baby girl quilt

yup–I LOVE shopping!!!

peace and pieces,
amy

Introduction

I’d like to introduce a friend of mine, Natasha.  A fellow quilter.  She is the Scrap Queen!!!  She has ventured into areas that I’m STILL afraid of!!  Go visit her and give her some love, please??!!

http://scraps-a-plenty.blogspot.com/

I have a lot of cleaning to do this week.  I really let the house get away from me.  Birthday party this weekend, so I have to make the cakes, too.  SOO much to do, so little time.    Darn life getting in the way of my quilting!!  LOL  I DID go shopping yesterday, though.  Here is the the makings for the LLL raffle quilt.  The theme is our favorite Louisiana College, of course!

The purples are more vivid than the pictures show.

And  found this filmy fabric to make a pair of shorts for ME!

Yesterday Gabby was working on the quilt for her teacher,  She looks just like me-see that tongue??  LOL  I always get chapped lips when I work!

I’m proud of her.  Even if she DID have a meltdown while ripping out 2 seams yesterday!  LOL  Hard lesson to learn.

Time to clean.  See you later!

peace and pieces, amy

GRR!!!

What does an AWESOME mommy do with this????

Make a birthday present for my Tiger Girl, of course!!  Stay tuned!!  It’ll be a super quick job.  Waiting for SOMEONE to take a nap!

peace and pieces, Amy

SHOPPING!!!!

First of all, LOOK at my sweet employees!  They were such good boys at the store.   A mommy couldn’t ask for better.

I’m working on another Camo Quilt.  Who KNOWS what fabrics I used last time.  That was a year and half ago.  But this is what I ended up with this time.

and of COURSE, I hit the remnant bin.

the brown on top is Minky   SOOOO soft!!  only a yard, though, so not sure what I’ll do with it.  The pink and green match the john deere fabric.  Maybe some Butterfly Balls??  The zebra, well, who ever has enough zebra??!!

I ALSO have a new PRINTER!!  $30 HP.  The paper in the front is my Golden Gator pattern, so it’s working!

Guess that means i should get back to work, huh??

Ohh!!  Working on the heart wreath.  The stipple is very nice!!

sigh   The boobyboy wants his dinner, and the girls are doing homework. Time to rejoin the family.

peace and pieces,
amy

Shopping trip!!!

Me and my oldest hit the trail today.   I HAD to get more supplies so I could keep working.  We still are all coughing our lungs up, but at least we FEEL better.  Even if we do sound like we have the plague.  Even in Hobby Lobby, we got an interesting comment about being sick.  I made SURE to tell her that I’d already spent a fortune at the Dr yesterday, and he said we were fine.  Nosey ole biddy!  GESH!  But I didn’t let her ruin our fun.  Look at all the goodies we bought!

First, for the twin Gator quilt.  The top is a dark green.  PERFECT for a gator.  And I just LOVE the yummy gold on the right.

Then, some mardi gras that I HAD to have.

Then, I’m involved in a small swap on Quilting Gallery.  ok, not so small!!  it’s HUGE.  But we just make small mugrugs.  My partner liked mauves and pinks, and an antique-y feel.  I hope she likes this!  I’ll add a lighter pink from my stash.

And last, I bought more of the stripe for the truck quilt.

AHHH  We had a great time.  What a sweet day with my girl!

Squeeky Queen and her Princess Piglet

peace and pieces,
amy

Stripes

I love stripes.  No, I ADORE stripes.  Of all kinds.  All colors, Fat, thin, varied, monotone.  You name it, and I want it.  I don’t usually have a lot in my stash, though.  I buy it specifically for a project and then buy solids around it.  I was at HobbyLobby this week, shopping for a baby quilt.  The client wants trucks.  Would you believe, NO trucks???  Hmm, what to do!  Find a cool border and applique on a simple backdrop, right??!  Sure!  So I found a (wanna guess?) STRIPE!!  It was perfect.  Found a few other colors to blend with it. Wanna see?  SURE you do!!

Then, inspiration hit.  In the form of another stripe!!  It was PERFECT!!  Pink enough for a brand new baby girl, yet not so pink that her mommy would hate it!  And then I remembered a pattern I’d seen at the local guild meeting.  (Contraband Quilters, for you local gals!)  Yup, that is it!!   It’s by the Texas quilter, Dot Collins.  I need to find her site and make sure it gets on my blog.

So here is the scrap of the stripe…..

And using ONLY this fabric, some fancy cutting, and an applique, I made THIS!!

Optical Illusions baby quilt 36x48 ish $75

I used raw edge applique to make it even more girly.  I LOVE the way it came out. 

And since this came out so good, I’m redoing the other stripe plan.  yup!  Same idea.  I think it’ll work out really well.  I’m done with the blocks already.  I hope to have the whole thing done before the weekend is out.  We’ll see.  Family things to do, too!!

Oh, and i also bought this stuff.  I’ll get to that another day!

peace and pieces,
amy

 

Mail Call!

I was soooooo excited yesterday that I ran to the mail truck WITH the baby!!  So I handed him over while I ran the box inside.  Don’t freak out—I know my MailLady very well.  One of the Country Life Bonuses.

Anyway, Connecting Threads had a huge sale Cyber Monday.  All precuts were 50% off. High Quality for less than $3 a yard???  Shoot Yeah!  I ended up with some interesting colors, just because I wanted to try new things out. And I bought 4 each of the Strips and layercakes.  To make sure I have enough.

Can’t go wrong with blue and yellow-This is Sunny Skies

New England

Warm FQ’s

Stripes and plaids FQ  (and we all know how much I love my stripes!!)

Cool Fat Quarters

Dusty Strips

And my first Cone.  I have to create a cone holder, though.  I saw one made from a computer CD thingy.  Might have to look that back up!

And the only OTHER bit of news is that I chopped my hair.  Yes, CHOPPED.  Babies. hormones, etc.  I usually hack it off about this time.  I wasn’t going to go quite so short, but this way it was long enough to donate.  I’m still happy, if a bit shocked that I did it!!  Hopefully, the Hubby won’t pass out!!  LOL

And now, since the youngest is snoozing, back to the sewing.  “Miles to go before I sleep” (R.Frost)

peace and pieces,
amy

 

PS–I will be donating the 10 inch “rat” to Locks of Love.