PLAY weekend!

I have my solids! YAY! Pat was up this weekend, so we hit City Quilter, Friday night, and I splurged and bought some fabric! My much needed Kona's for the Matisse quilt and a few other goodies...Stuff I didn't NEED, but was attracted too...LOL... later I got a couple great sketchbooks from Anthropolgie, that were on HUGE discount... gotta love that! We also strolled threw EATALY, and had dinner, coffee, gelato, (the works)

I took Pat to Marimekko, so she could see the store, (it's so fun) and I bought an infinity scarf, ( below) Cute right? (massively on sale)  I never shop, unless I have someone to take around, and I end up buying more then anyone else..Why is that?

Then we went to ABC HOME... If you love fancy clever home design stores, You MUST visit ABC home...everything from import stuff to dishes, to bedding, furniture, drapes, silk, and rugs....  We walked the entire store, and loved spotting all the funky couches covered in crushed velvet pastels to couches covered in Kantha quilts.  It's a very INSPIRING STORE.

To top it off we saw ONCE on Broadway...It was SO GOOD and ENTERTAINING.... Go see if you get the chance.


We had a bit of sewing time, so I was working on my Matisse squares fusing down the abstract bits...

And I had a bit of help on the iron... Boo says she loves to iron...cool! 

 (My least favorite part, is ironing...)

I think she just loves my Oliso iron. ;-)

My design wall is so full right now...Projects are "schmoosh-ing" together... Matisse and Santa's are merging! Oh no!  Loving both quilts... Can't wait to have them both done, but, it will be a bit before I can manage that...
Got a few very busy weeks ahead, finishing projects for QuiltCon and then preparing for The QUILT SHOW, right afterwards!
So,  I'll use my "15 Minutes to PLAY" when I need a break! Then I can continue on finishing projects...
(You can still get signed copies fo my book here)

It was a great weekend with Pat.  Sometimes, one needs to get out from behind that sewing machine and play... and that we did... (and ate some really good food)  ;-)

Hope your weekend was fantastic, too!

Virtual sewing...

New Years, new EYES!

A bit about my Virtual Sketchbook....

I dug out my Matisse blocks from last year...sometimes they just need time to "age" before the idea pops!  I decided I wanted to make it a collage style quilt, using the, three free pieced blocks, and Iwill also do a few machine applique blocks with Matisse standard images... I like the coral/leaf  like shapes...

Now to PLAY out some possibilities....

As I am out of many of my solids, while I wait for my delivery of new solids, I plugged in some ideas into photo shop where I can virtually change, add, and draw in elements that might help me decide where I am going with this quilt.

I like the big simple borders, but I may quilt in some designs by hand.... The empty space gives me time to really think how can I play up my machine quilting to make it a part of the quilt and not just a overall design...

OR:

The flower design  might be fun to include around in the borders... I can even see embroidering the face in the borders! HMM! Ideas!

Or just good standard LEAVES with berries might be fun... and really go to town on the quilting...
or maybe some spliced in crazy swirly white lines....and dots....  fun, but....

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Then,  This image really caught my eye... A way to bring it all full circle.
Light bulb moment!

I like the play on the letters using my initials  (V.F.W.) Victoria Findlay Wolfe... I like the guy dancing into the image, and the star bursts...

Now, will it actually look like this when I finish?
Not sure, but my "virtual sketchbook", is so easy to play out all the options...
and saves me loads of cut fabric!