Fresh Fabric Treats Book Signing Reminder :)

Just a reminder about the Fresh Fabric Treats book signing THIS Saturday July 2nd

Quilter's Cottage

2571 S. Ocean Hwy - Business 17 

Garden City, SC

10:30am- 12:00pm

The Cottage will be having a 4th of July weekend sale including 30% off all fabric!

I will sign your pre-purchased copies of the book as well.

Stop and visit with me if you are in the area.

Vintage Threads, Fabric, Iowa.....

My family and I made an unplanned trip to Iowa this past weekend.

My mom is having some health issues and with my impending surgery next week...

this weekend was the only option to go for a visit.

During the visit, I stopped at the local quilt store called the Cotton Cabin.

I found a few fat quarters of Marcus Brother's fabric to add to my civil war stash.

It was a good visit to the shop and the owner suggested I travel up the highway to Dyersville.

You know the home of the "Field of Dreams" and the catch phrase "It's not heaven it's Iowa" .

:)

Here's the store fron of Vintage Threads.

It turns out that Vintage Threads was chosen as one of the top 10 quilt shops and will be featured in the Fall 2011 Quilt Sampler magazine!

How cool for them.

I was excited to visit a top 10 shop and was able to see their quilt that will be featured in the magazine.

I didn't take pictures inside as I got the impression that wouldn't be a good idea with the magazine thing this fall.

Some of my fabric loot: good ole red, white and blue.

With these prints I taught my mom how to make yo-yo's with a Clover yo-yo maker.

She's going to make a  yo-yo flag and these prints were perfect.

And here are some the other odd and ends that jumped in my arms :)

Over all its a nice shop with wool, primitive and dark colors.

So if you are in the area of Northeast Iowa...check out the Cotton Cabin and Vintage Threads you shouldn't be disappointed.

Spreading the word

Spreading the word .... Accuquilt is having a HUGE Die sale....

in case you want to expand your die collection and give one of my Go! tutorials a try.....

Applecore Topper

Easy Flag Topper

or

4th of July appliqued Hand towel

stinkhorn?

Amongst our Lillies....

we found...

a Stickhorn!

 

At first it freaked us out that we had an orange tentacle growing in our mulch....but once we figured it out..we calmed down and removed it. If you don't remove them they begin to smell like a dead carcass apparently.  Thank goodness it's gone. Have you ever had one of these?

Where inspiration leads me....

The title is no small title is it?

Where inspiration leads me.

It's a tale of where do I begin.

Some where along the line I have gotten a glimpse here, a tweet there about Vignette by LeAnne Beasley.

My interest was piqued.

I didn't know exactly what the magazine promised but it looked good on the front cover and many quilters were buying.

Did they know something I didn't?

I HAD to find out.

So I made a mental note that the next 'shop' I saw advertise the Vignette would be where I'd buy it.

That way I wouldn't forget to buy it or later wished I had.

Sharon of Daisy Cottage Quilting did just that.

She posted about having Issue 3 available and I was ready.

I bought Issues 1,2 and 3 **

All I can say is WOW *

This is a MUST.

 Completely beautiful photography,

inspiring recipes {chicken salad we made last week},

and stitchery and quilting patterns.

That brings me to the Vignette Hexagon Quilt.

At first I thought it was pretty...then I paged through the magazine again and thought some more.

and more and more.....

I had to make this quilt.

Well My version of this quilt.

I dug through a bag of hexagons of no particular purpose and began to plan.

I gathered orphan jelly roll strips and charms for the flowers as well.

I broke out my GO! fabric cutter and off I went. I cut hexagons for about an hour.

I have no idea how many I cut. I should count....no I'll quilt instead.

My DD that's 4...she did some of the cutting with the GO! as well.

It excites her to help me sew.

:)

Right about the time that I was cutting hexagons it dawned on me

  I need a special project bag for these hexies.

So I paged through the Fresh Fabric Treats book and found the sewing kit by Kim Walus.

Whew.

It looked simple.

Then I started to gather the ingrediants.

Vinyl?

You know, 9pm at night, stores closed and I didn't plan ahead.....

So vinyl.

Where do I get vinyl for the bag?

I didn't have vinyl but I DID have the packaging of a sheet set.

Okay...I can recycle and I have vinyl *

winner :)))

So I cut the vinyl as best as possible and the one piece actually had a pocket fused to it.

 I think it held the information card for the sheets at one time.

It's hard to get a good picture of the bag.

I used Terrain by Kate Spain, recycled vinyl and a thift store zipper PLUS I have a pocket.

I am very happy how this bag turned out.

The instructions were clear and correct. 

The only problem I had was with the vinyl shifting or slipping between my fabric sandwich.

I ended up basting the vinyl to one strip with 1/8" seam AND then sewing all 3 pieces together with a 1/4" seam. It worked out perfectly well.

You can see how I put the hexagon paper pieces in the pocket.

My game plan is to work on this while I am laid up during my next surgery.

Yes, you read that correctly....I am having surgery #2 already.

So it will be hexies and the Food Network!!