Happy Valentine's Day!

Here is the Granville rooster quilt, with my vintage 9 patches put to good use. I'm happy with it. I feel like my machine quilting is getting better, but I still have to get used to my new machine and getting the tension just right... Sometimes It works well, then suddenly, it gets so tight on tension, the thread keeps breaking... so i loosen it, and then I get a bit of the top thread through the back... Maybe its just get broken in, and needs more oil...?? gotta find out about that...


It is a cozy quilt, perhaps a little to SWEET for my taste, but I love the colors and fabrics, and the variety of old and new fabrics.


I finished the Zip quilt this week also. I'm quite happy with it. it was fun to put together, its bright, and it put me in a very ORANGE, PINK and PURPLE mood! Come on Spring, I'm trying to help you out a little!



I love the back of it... Great print, and color.

Eileen! What do you think?
Like my new teapot? Eileen found this for me the day of her lucky little thrift shopping spree!
Thanks so much I love it! What a lovely surprise!

M.L.K DAY.

This weeks project... This cute Lucky Cat fabric has been sitting here trying to inspire me...I'm just not sure how to put something together with them yet...
I want to make a Chinese New Year runner, or lap quilt... I'm hoping lightening strikes soon, as New Year is next week! A big deal in our house...


Eileen at Eileen's attic posted about an old tea set she had, and it made me think about my dishes.
I bought this bowl after finding it on ebay years ago when you still could get things at real garage sale prices...

When I got married I never registered for dishes or stuff like that, as it was just not my thing. But once I found this bowl, an obsession started... It has no markings on it, so I was stumped...

So I would search ebay for Peacock, plates, bowls etc, and search through 100's of photos trying to find anything else that matched the pattern of the bowl. Probably a year after I found that bowl, I found these plates, which, again have no markings on them... stumped again. Then by crazy chance I found one plate in some antique store, that did say, Seondry Selection. But again, dead end as to finding anything else...
I tried replacements.com, nothing...

I found these two bowls, similar but not exactly the same.

Then, in a antique store in Denver, I found this plate. yeah! Does it have any marking? well, it said 4901. That's it. No name no nothing.

About another year later I found this plate in an store in MN, and by golly it was labeled Salem, New Yorker. BINGO! But could not find anyone who was selling them... Bit by bit, I continually started to find things that were similar to my pattern but never pieces that we the same set.


Then last summer, I found a woman in upstate New York, who was selling a whole set one piece at a time... I did manage to get her to sell me the whole set.

So after about 5 years, I have a set that I love and use everyday. It may have a lot of pieces that are not exact tot he set, but it's been so fun to discover bits and pieces over the years. And now I have to admit, from dishes, NOT BEING MY THING... well. I've got about 7 sets now... It just took finding the right one!

And actually I had to find them all piece by piece as well. Maybe it's the hunt I enjoy... ;-)

Now, If I could just find the rest of this set!

What a town, What a Quilt!

Check out this gorgeous quilt... it's a real beauty.

I thought I came from a small town in Minnesota... !!

http://tenneyquilt.blogspot.com/

Sept Giveaway

Don't forget to sign comments for the Sept give away!
A secret pack of goodies!!!
http://bumblebeans.blogspot.com/2008/09/collecting.html

SEPT GIVE AWAY~!

I do have a habit of collecting things. I admit it.... not only things, but projects. I can't even tell you how many quilt tops I have here, not finished, or barely started.These are just a few of many many more quilt tops I've collected. I have a real soft spot for all the hard work that someone has put into making a quilt and then never finish them! So know I have them, and I STILL have not finished them... oh well. I'm getting there.

Then there are the projects. Like this baby quilt I started this summer for a little girl about to be born! Gotta get on it! The clock is a ticking! (did you guys pick a name yet ?)

(Will get this done next week, When B goes back to school...)


Or this one that's waiting to be put together! Yes, I do collect....


But I have to say, its all in the name of art, and as long as I am making something, I am happy.

I have all sorts of other "collections" too. not just quilts... there are the ....


Chalkware Carnival dolls... and the...

Vintage Pottery... and the...


Enamelware bowls...But aren't they gorgeous! ...or the...

Depression glass dishes, Red Wing pottery, things that remind me of my grandparents house...

Yeah, Yeah, I know. BUT! Surprisingly, my house is very minimal and does not have a lot of stuff around, and I LOVE to get rid of things! Clean out, hand it over to someone else. The best recycling there is! Share and share a like!

I'd love to know what things that YOU collect.
I know we all do...

Now I am Collecting Comments...

***September Name Drawing***

At the end of September I'll have B draw a name out off the Collecting posts/comments and I will find Something to share with you! hmm, what shall it be!

(She is quite good at that, she just was at a raffle at our town library, and they had kids draw the winning names out of a bag. When it got to be the grand prize, she was picked to draw a name out and read it to the audience... She PICKED HER OWN NAME!... Lucky girl! )