stash from Vegas

Just a little Heather Ross from my last trip to Las Vegas.

I wasn't going to buy much at Quiltique.

I wasn't.

Then when I checked out I found out that if I spent $7 more, I would get a $25 gift card.

So I promptly went and got the 8 bolts of H.R. fabric and had then cut 1/4 yard pieces.

It's stash as I really have no plan for it at this point.

But it's fun :)

Doll flower quilt progress...

I have been slowly appliqueing these hexie flowers for a small doll quilt.

I think I blogged about the book

The Civil War Sewing Circle by Kathleen Tracy

and how smitten I was with it.

{picture from Martingale site}

My plan is to finish it this year...

but you know I have QADD {Quilter's Attention Deficit Disorder}....

so that may not happen LOL.

There's been a lot of sewing going on here in the background...

I don't mean to get your hopes up as it's not for Quilt Market,

 nor am I going to QM this fall.

Life has other plans for me...like trick or treating,

work, parents' visiting and my {maybe} last surgery this year.

Let's not forget Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays too!....

gifts...

I have always been inclined to make gifts for people rather than buy them. You may know that from reading my blog in the past.

Sometimes (okay most of the time) it costs more to MAKE the item than if I bought it.

I digress.

I really wanted to tell you about how this little project came to 'be'.

I was fiddling around with an idea to make little bags for my girls dolls and do-dads.

You know the do-dads I am referring to....

the super itsy bitsy little toys that come with dolls like the mini Lala Loopsies or Moshi Monsters.

  I wanted to make a Moda bakeshop project or tutorial somehow.

Long story short, it didn't end up a blog tutorial.

It ended up HERE:

In Quiltmaker's newest magazine Small Quilts and Gifts

(I'm smiling because I really had no intentions of it being in a magazine,

but isn't that how it happens sometimes!)

I used Lynnete Anderson's Scandinavian Christmas by Lecien.

Here are the original prototypes....

Hideaway by Lauren and Jesse Jung

and

Sherbet Pips by Aneela Hoey.

If you happen to get a hold of a copy of the magazine and make one of these half hex bags send me a picture.

 I'd love to share it with everyone on my blog :)

The pumpkin has been found!

The pumpkin has been found.

you may remember this post...

well I found it in between 2 other stitcheries in my portable sewing packet/pouch.

I decided to clean it out before my trip to Vegas.

I had 2 stitchery projects, and 4 english paper piece projects.

4 English paper piece projects?

even I was amazed that I have that many hand piecing projects right now.

Want to know something funnier?

I didn't sew a lick on the plane to Vegas...perhaps I will on the way home??

I'll let you know if I do....

The mantle this time of year....

I LOVE to decorate for Halloween and Fall.

It's that time of year close to my birthday and many happy memories.

Here's my mantle this year.

First year for a banner.

It's a Martha Stewart Pumpkin banner from JoAnn's.

Just makes me feel happy looking at it.