weekend.

Pick up sticks is done! I can scratch that off my list of things to do!
Yippee!!

And I don't have to date it, Since it has 9 (IX) for September, and 2009 (MMIX) in the bottom right. It was a fun quilt. And I love all the browns in it... Definitely has some favorite fabrics in this quilt.

I've gotten a lot done over the weekend. I have 3 here left to bind. And hope to get them done this week, although only ONE is a rush for Xmas... So i may procrastinate on the others...


I go the flowers all appliqued down on the first 4 or 9 blocks for this quilt.
They are going to be one big quilt all together... Each of these blocks are about 24" square.

I'm also working on two tshirts for my godson... He likes hand made things! ;-)
Last year he got the Oliver quilt, hmm, I think I might not have posted a completed picture of his quilt! Anyway here is some machine quilting i did on it, with the help of B last year...
I didn't think a little tyke would be so excited about a quilt for a gift, but his mother just told me he'll be sleeping with it until college... He loved it when he opened it last year, and I got to hear him on the phone happily exclaim how much he loved the camouflage on the quilt!
So this year my little buddy is getting a star wars shirt and a downhill bmx shirt... Just trying to figure out if I should paint it on or machine stitch it on...
He's a boy who knows what he likes, so I know he'll love these shirts...

I am going to be very busy this week. So I hope to plow through a few bindings, and finish up my red circle quilt top. I swear I will not start a new top this week.

I have enough to work on...
my dresdens are still begging me to finish them, but I am just not jumping up and down over them yet...
Where are you inspiration??
(can you wait til at least Thursday? I have to much to do here)

how to spend a lazy day

How to spend a lazy day in NYC...

First, to spend a lazy day in NYC, avoid TICKER TAPE PARADES in downtown NYC...
Fun though they maybe! (yippee Yankees!)
(I almost said TWINS! (wishful thinking)
Getting around is a bit of a hassle with happy Jeter jersey wearing fans everywhere...

Spend the day with friends!
like Andrea and myself, having some stitching, tea and muffin time!

Have some show and tell time... ooh and ahh over quilts
(Black and gray Windows on left and the pick up sticks on right)

Admire Charity projects and talk about how you can help in your own way...
(PIXIE DUST QUILT back from Linda at cottage garden quilts)

(these three just recvd today in the mail from Linda, now I have MORE binding to do!)

Head to City Quilter , and try to get out of it without spending a hundred bucks...
then grab some dumplings for lunch...

Then go to ABC HOME and get inspired by all the Christmas decor.. then go back home, avoiding Crazy Yankee fans, put on the kettle, kick up those heals and read your latest Blog giveaway prize...
That's my kind of a lazy NYC day...

(great book by the way, packed with fabulous things)
Thanks Andrea!

Tuesday rambles

I put together a new website for the new block gather project.
Please head over there to show, inspire, ask questions and to stay up to date on the project.
I sent invites to all participating so that you can post,
if you have not gotten the invite for some reason please shoot me an email.
I did notice one person's email, whom I email regularly has come back for some unknown computer issue.



I thought it was humorous when I posted this quilt the other day that several people commented, they liked the "Chopsticks" quilt.
I thought, that was a clever name, then it was pointed out that it wasn't so unique!
go figure! I guess I don't read enough quilt magazines. ;-)

My inspiration came from two sketches I have here in the studio.
The blue and green one, was for a mural painting I was going to do in my new
kitchen at my house, but it never came to be..
So it has been hanging here for a good 5 years, and looking at it every days,
I thought, hmmm, that might make a nice quilt.
I'm thinking the mural still needs to become a quilt that actually resembles the sketch... the whole blue green thing is indeed very "me!"

Just below the above sketch hangs this black and white sketch.
Same concept, different mediums, simple, yet striking.
(match sticks, chop sticks, counting by 5's, etc. etc.)
I need to pick a nice name for this quilt...


which goes to show you: Nothing is original... But hopefully authentic.

One particularly great thing I picked up from Shelly this past weekend,
was when machine quilting, put on its undergarments before you start quilting it!
This, first I thought very funny, Shelly does have a fun sense or humor.
And second, it made a lot of sense.
She said stitching in the ditch does two things.
one, sets up the quilt in a way you can take out the basting pins
which will make it easier to quilt,
and two, gives the designs more refinement.

So don't forget your quilts undergarments!

I finished up these two little projects with her theory.
I think it will help me a lot and give me more patience in machine quilting larger pieces...

And lastly,
The PIXIE DUST BLOCKS go together today! Yippee! I just made a few adjustments to the layout, after I took this image. And now will begin sewing them together, and decide on a border choice... I am still amazed at how lovely this quilt looks already.
You guys are talented & awesome!

errand day

I have used this fabric (right image) in the past and after trying to find something to border this quilt, I decided after finding a scrap of this fabric above, that it is perfect.
But guess what...
No selvedge....

Anyone have any idea who made this?
I need to find more....
I'm crossing my fingers I can still find it...

anyone?


THANK YOU MICHELE!
I can't believe you knew it! I tried to thank you but your a no reply...
thank you, thank you!