Another Friday Whoop Whoop!

This is a wonderful tabletopper made by a quilting pal, that I quilted.  The brown/gold/cream Autumn color batiks are so luscious, unfortunately they don't show up as beautiful as they are in person!  I love the pattern!  She had such a clever idea -- the snowball alternating blocks were too plain, so she appliqued the half-squares and four-patches smack in the middle, which added lots of interest.

And I was able to get the gifts quilt finished, and I think it's so cute!  Love the colors, so fresh and modern.  It's going to be tough deciding who gets which Christmas quilt.  Hmmmmm, gotta check the list, ho ho ho!  Edited to add that this is a Kate Spain "Flurry" pattern.  It's easy to make, and comes together very nicely -- when you glance at the directions occasionally.  I had lots of bits left over, but better than not enough :-D  B

 I don't know how time gets away from me!  I just noticed I've even skipped a week of blogging.  I just loaded a quilt for a guild I belong to.   But I want to work on arranging the Fiesta! blocks, now that they're finished.  However, I can't get to both the design wall and the Avante at the same time.  Argh!  I need a bigger house!  Go see Sarah's blog for pictures of other accomplishments this week: http://confessionsofafabricaddict.blogspot.com/2011/11/can-i-get-whoop-whoop-not-your-usual.html

Whoop Whoop! 10/21/11 and Pattern

WHAT?  It's Friday?!  When I was a career woman, Friday could not sneak up on me.  In retirement, it's totally different.  Or, I should say, the same!  Monday, Wednesday, Friday.  So Whoop Whoop! Friday came unannounced.  But I do have something to be glad for -- I finished quilting a Christmas gift -- YAY!!!  And I typed up the instructions for it, as well.  One problem, though, is I can't seem to scan it in order to include the piecing diagram. So here are the directions, you'll have to look at the picture of the quilt to see how it's pieced.

 ANOTHER FIVE-YARD QUILT

60” Square

(takes five one-yard cuts of coordinating fabrics)

#1 - Large scale focus fabric

#2 - Small print that surrounds focus

#3 - Four-patches and binding

#4 - Four-patches and first small border

#5 - Medium scale focus for center of blocks and outer border

Plus 4 yards for backing.

BLOCK ONE

Fabric #1 - Cut 3 strips 6 ½” wide

Subcut into 18 ea 6 ½” squares

Fabric #2 - Cut 18 strips 1 ½” wide

Subcut into 36 ea 1 ½” x 6 ½” rectangles 

and 36 ea 1 ½” x 8 ½” rectangles

Sew 6 ½” strips on two opposite sides of the 6 ½” square.  Sew 8 ½” strips to the other two sides.

BLOCK TWO

Fabrics #3 and #4 - Cut 3 strips 4 ½” wide

Cut 3 strips 4 ½” wide

Sew a 4 ½” strip from each together.  You will have 3 strip sets that you will then subcut every 3”, this is Set 1.

Sew a 2” wide strip from each together.  You will have 3 strip sets that you will then subcut every 3”, this is Set 2. 

Fabric #5 - Cut 2 strips 3 ½” wide

Cut into 18 ea 3 ½” squares

Arrange and sew as in diagrams for Block A and Block B.  Then sew the top, alternating Blocks A and Block B in a 6 by 6 design. 

Add borders. 

BORDER 1

Fabric #4 - Cut 5 strips 2” wide

BORDER 2 

Fabric #5 - Cut 6 strips 4 ½” wide

BINDING

Fabric #3 - cut 6 strips 2 ½” wide

This quilt has been thoroughly belly-tested by my in-house quilt inspector, Annabella.  

Now, go to Sarah's website for more Whoop Whoop! :-D

http://confessionsofafabricaddict.blogspot.com/2011/10/can-i-get-whoop-whoop-lazy-week.html

Whoop Whoop! 10/7/11

After I finished the "Flurry" top, I loaded this onto the Avante.  It's old fabric I purchased years ago from a vendor at the AQS Show in Nashville, one of those five 1-yard bundles.  Couldn't figure out what to do with them!  I mentioned it online somewhere, and a lady graciously sent me a hand-drawn copy of this pattern, which I really love!  Of course, the fabric was bundled with the pattern in the UFO closet for years and years.  Now I really love the quilt, I hope I can quilt it nicely enough for a Christmas gift :-)

Do you longarm quilters have your rulers and templates stored where  you can find them?  I had them stuffed in a drawer, and had to rummage around trying to find the one I needed.  (Except the Line Tamer, which has a permanent pocket in my quilting apron at all times!)  As I was in a resale shop the other day, I ran across this cute little CD holder.  Hmmmm.  Wonder if that would work?  Well, yes!  It works great!  Not for the larger circles, for example, but for the little ones that got hidden in the bottom of the pile, this works a charm.  I've asked my dear hubby (now called Captain B. Cool -- LOL!) to mount it on the wall in the Avante room.  Very handy, indeed!

To see other projects that have been completed this week, go see Sarah, here: http://confessionsofafabricaddict.blogspot.com/2011/10/can-i-get-whoop-whoop-two-down-one-to.html

Progress on Sunkissed -- Whoop Whoop!

Sunkissed is a quilt I'm making for ME! For MY bed! It's the yummiest colors on this planet!  But I'm taking my time, SITD (stitching-in-the-ditch) to stabilize it before beginning the quilt. I've drawn patterns for the sashing and corners onto tracing paper. 

And today I sewed one border using a pantograph.  Since the whole quilt is SITD, I can turn the quilt sideways to use the panto on the borders.  I stitched the panto up to the corners, then used the drawings above in the corner blocks, then I echoed and stippled the empty spaces.  I used matching thread so mistakes wouldn't show, but it's so pretty, I wish I'd used thread that was slightly more contrasting. Maybe I'll go back and do some hyperquilting, a la Patsy Thompson.  

Here you can see where I drew the pattern on the corner using the Pilot FriXion pen.  Have you heard of it? Amazing!  After the scary experience I had with my Pinwheels (the blue washout marker didn't, until I washed the whole quilt in a cold rinse cycle!!)  I decided to try the FriXion.  You just draw on your quilt, and it's like a ballpoint, smooth, sharp, fine and comes in red, black and blue.  Then to remove it, you run an iron over it, and voila', it's clean!  Really!  It works!  It's advertised as an Erasable Gel Pen, and it does erase from paper.

Next, I'll be quilting the blocks -- pinwheel centers circled by flying geese. I intend to take my time, and it will certainly take time!  But so far, so good :-)  Doing all kinds of research online, reading books watching DVDs and YouTube, I've learned lots of little tricks.  I couldn't tell you where I learned about the FriXion pen, or this tip -- using a pants hangar and curtain rod on the clamp ends of the quilt.  The pants hangar wasn't complete tight all across, so I inserted a strip of the shelf lining stuff that's rubbery and knobbly, and it holds it firmly all the way across.  The curtain rod holds the clamp from drooping and pulling the edge of the quilt downward.

Here's a picture of the edge of a quilt I finished for the other bed, using a panto. I'm thrilled with how it came out.  The photo doesn't do the colors justice, just know it's yumm-o, too!  This one's 92"x98", and I was able to do it on my 10' frame with room to spare -- hoorah!

Annabella was exhausted by all the quilting going on, so after a hard game of feather-chasing, it was a long nap for her!

For other Whoop Whoop! accomplishments, go to Sarah's blog: http://confessionsofafabricaddict.blogspot.com/2011/08/can-i-get-whoop-whoop-sometimes-you.html

Out @A%&# Spot! Whoop!

Do you see those blue spots in the white sashing?  

I know they're pretty hard to see, but there they are.  Sprtz!  Gone!  They're back :-(  Sprtz!!  Sprtz!!  Gone :-)  Oh no, they're back!  And they've migrated to the back.  Sprtz!!!  Sprtz!!!  OK, they're gone.  But wait...

Somewhere in my bits and pieces of scraps and notes I have written two handy hints that I've kept in a safe spot for years.  One is how to get rid of pencil lines in a quilt top.  The other is how to get rid of blue lines.  Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I've sprtzed with cold water, several times, and with gusto.  I haven't ironed the areas or done anything else.  Does anyone out there know what I should do?  Guess I'll go immerse it in the washer in cold water.  I'm not going to run it through the dryer, for sure!

But it's also a Whoop Whoop! for me this week!  I had the top finished before, but put it ahead of the line to be quilted.  Line Tamer, I love you!!!  I quilted in the ditch around the blocks and criss-crossed on the diagonal, as well as along the sashing strips, too.  I used a stencil for the "waves" in the sashing, and that's where the blue is coming back.  I'm very happy with the way it turned out, although I'm debating about adding a little more quilting, just don't know what.  Any ideas?  

Lately I've been binding completely by machine, both for the quick results, and because my right hand and back are grateful that I don't sit and hand-sew the binding.  This time, though, I stitched the binding very carefully to the front since I didn't add a border and I needed to watch those points on the pinwheels.  Then, while I watched my recorded "So You Think You Can Dance" episodes, I sewed the binding to the back.  And thank goodness for the Beam and Read light I won at Patsy Thompson Designs website, and thanks to Kelly at I Have a Notion!  I was able to see so well, and the stitches were really nice as a result :-)

So I'm calling for a Whoop Whoop!  And sending you over to Sarah's place to see other projects in progress -- here:

http://confessionsofafabricaddict.blogspot.com/2011/07/can-i-get-whoop-whoop-busy-week-with.html

Try to stay cool, all y'all!!!   Stay indoors and work on those quilts :-)

Friday Whoop! 7/15/11

Some days are diamonds, some days, not so much!  Diamonds, this week, for sure.  Or at least zirconias.  A friend had made three comfort quilts to be donated by our guild, and asked if I wanted to practice my quilting.  Sure!  I learned from Mindy Casperson in her DVD, "Longarmed & Fabulous!" to stabilize by stitching in the ditch before quilting.  Maybe I've heard that somewhere before.  And chose to ignore it.  But Mindy was adamant, so I did.  


Ever hear of a "Line Tamer" ruler?  (Here's info: http://www.fourpawsquilting.com/pages/template.html)  I love this ruler!!  It didn't take long for me to get the hang of using it, and since it holds your hopping foot on both sides, I felt like I had much more control on the stitching in the ditch!  That was a good beginning!


Then I brought out my circles:  http://www.creativegridsusa.com/products.cfm?item_num=BDQCIR&ref=c and I went to town making curves around the sides of squares.  I've done this free-motion on my Janome, but using templates is so much more precise!!  


That looked pretty good, if I say so myself.  But then, as I was unloading the quilt, I decided to take it up a notch, and did some stippling in every other area where the circles make orange peels. I love, love the way it turned out!!  Yay, me!!!  I'm feeling more confident every day that I can make a quilt even better with quilting!  And I'm learning so much every time: loading the quilt, deciding on threads, selecting the tools of the trade, stitching in the ditch, and doing something to make basic designs just a little better.  


Go to Sarah's blog: ConfessionsofaFabricAddict.blogspot.com to see other projects!

Adventures in Learning! Whoop Whoop!

Learning curve?  How about learning circles and sharp right corners, a few zigzags, and mountains, and cliffs?  I have been playing with my Avante, determined to learn all that I can about different longarm quilting techniques.  

After loading my first real quilt (not the "what was I thinking when I bought this fabric" practice runs), getting it all pinned on the frame, rolled and and clamped and ready to go, I realized I had it loaded wrong.  Of course!  If there's a wrong way and a right way, I prefer the wrong way.  I learn so much doing things at least twice :-D  After much consultation with the manual (!!!) and the DVD that came with the machine and YouTube, I decided backing-and-forthing among directions was the long way down that road.  So I now have a "Step 1, Step 2, Step 3, etc." list hanging on the wall beside the machine!

So, anywayz, finally I was on the correct path, and fooled around with free motion quilting, and had a wonderful time!  After doing FMQ on my Janome, this was easy in a way, but also harder.  When you write with a pencil on paper, you leave the paper stationary (no pun intended) while you move the pencil around over it.  That's longarm quilting, right?  Well, I had spent the last few years unlearning that, and learning to use the pencil fixed while moving the paper around method.  They say it's hard learning new stuff as we get older.  Not only did I have to learn new stuff, but I had to unlearn the technique I learned while unlearning how to write on paper!  Trust me, you'll know what I'm talking about if you go from one technique to the other!!

But wait!  There's more!  While doing research and learning all I could from books and YouTube before I got my Avante, it sounded like pantographs are the easiest way to quilt, fast and done-done in no time at all.  YAY!!  I'm ready for that.  

You talk about unlearning!?!?!  Honey, you ain't seen nothing like unlearning while learning to use a panto.  Picture this: you're walking back and forth at the back of the machine tracing a piece of paper with a laser light, all the while trusting that it's coming out like it's supposed to on the quilt, because you're not even looking at the quilt.  What???!!!  The process also caused some more steep learning curves -- remember the wrong way that I like to do?  Those flowing lines of quilting designs, smooth and nesting together, row after row, that you get when you do pantos?  Um, well, not exactly.  Although the quilt is quilted, it's not quite as advertised.  I think I'm going to have to go back to the directions -- the books, DVDs, YouTube -- how's that done again?  I can do this.

Meanwhile, I have a tablerunner on the machine right now.  (It's loaded correctly!)  I have the ruler base on, and at hand I have those neat-o rulers I had to get right away because I can do ruler work with no problem, easy-peasy.  Ooooo-kay.  Easy-peasy?  Not so much.  But I am getting the hang of it, and while it looks pretty darn good on top where I used invisible thread, the bottom.. well, let's just say I've added "Step 7: use only busy backing fabrics with same color threads."  It's still dark-thirty this morning, so I don't have a picture of that process.  (What?  Plan ahead?  Take pictures in daylight the day before?  Well, yes, but I forgot it was going to be Friday.)

So my plan for the continuing studies of longarm quilting will include marking tops, with stencils and my own designs.  That will be the easiest technique of all, right?


A big Whoop Whoop! for me -- I'm persistent, anyway!  Go to Sarah's blog here: http://confessionsofafabricaddict.blogspot.com/2011/07/can-i-get-whoop-whoop-start-your.html for more Whoop Whoop! progress reports!

This, that and the other

Am I the only person on this planet who doesn't know what these are?  

I opened a box from my dear kids, K&K, and the first thing I came across was the funky green and orange thingie.  What in the world???!!!!  Is this some kind of notebook cover, journal cover, file cover???  The next package had a leather red, white and blue thingie, a leather one.  Very odd, I'm perplexed.  While I'm really taken with the designs and colors, I have no clue!  I know, I'm old.  I remember thinking I'll never get so old I can't change channels with the TV thingie, or program my microwave or use the Wii.  I'm keeping up with things.  And thingies.  Whatever they are.  But this?  Not the foggiest.  However!  I opened the third package, and there was this brown handbag.  Very nice, but really, so not me -- plain brown?!  But look!  There's something lumpy all around the top edges.  Round thingies.  You don't suppose....?  Would you just look at that!?!?!  You wrap the flat thingie around the bag, and the magnets hold it on.  Well, I never!!  I've seen organizers for the inside of the bag, so you just pull the stuff out of one bag and put it inside another.  But this, well, it's just a whole lot more than that!  You can get other covers, I understand.   So live and learn!  Everyone I know is familiar with it, but if you're one of those who doesn't know, it's a Miche bag.  Beautiful!  


And thank you, kiddos, for keeping me modern.  Since we've moved from the big cities, I guess it was bound to happen, I'm no longer with it :-)  But where would I be without all those marvelous thingies!


I didn't sew any bits and pieces this week, but I did quilt a donation quilt for a friend (and didn't take a picture).  No Whoop, Whoop! for me.  Oh well, go to Sarah's blog,  http://confessionsofafabricaddict.blogspot.com/ to see what others have been doing this week!  

Whoop Whoop! 6/17

Remember the funky 70s girls quilt I was quilting?  I applied the binding by machine, so it was done-done right away.   My husband asked if he could take it out to show a friend who has a little pre-teen daughter.  "Sure!" I said, and off he went.  Came back with $$ instead!  He sold it, just like that :-D  I didn't even get a picture of the whole thing.  But I guess I don't mind -- LOL!!!

When I tried to put on the ruler base on my Avante, it went POP!  Split right in two, thought I'd been shot!!!  Oh, no!!!!!!!!  Well, my sweet dealer said she'd send me another one.  So while I waited, I made more geese from my Sunkissed project.  

I only need a bajillion of them, so I've got a few more to do :-)  I think these blocks are going to be set on point, so it will be big enough for my bed.  Right now, I have an old 30's repro quilt, and I need something modern.  Like me :-D  

The new ruler bed showed up yesterday afternoon, so I pulled out a quilt I started years ago.  When Amy Butler created the fabric line she called "Charm" I went bonkers!  It was my first experience with what I call "modern" fabrics, I think she started it all.  Fell in total love.  I made the center, but decided I'd add borders to make it big enough for the bed.  That only took me a few years to do -- I guess it had to rest in the UFO stack until I was ready.  Now it's big enough, I have the ruler base, so I'll start practicing my midarm quilting on it next week.   Also, on the advice of my Avante dealer, I've ordered a UPS for the machine.  We've been having power flickers, and terrible thunderstorms, so that should be arriving today or tomorrow. Just don't want to take the chance of burning up my new baby!!

But first, I'll be wrapped up in our local quilt show!  It starts this morning, lasts through tomorrow.  We have such enormously talented quilters here (authors and Paducah winners, even!), our show is just wonderful.  I put in some quilts, too, to fill the spaces :-)

So I've got to run!  I didn't get a chance to take pictures of my birthday present that arrived day before yesterday.  It's so cool.  Later!  

Yeah, Kinda Like That!

Whew, that's how I'm feeling these days!  Too hot, too hot.  There's no way I could survive in Texas anymore.  Texas?  Not just Texas, it's everywhere!  I heard it was 100 degrees in Central Park, in New York!  And yet, I have friends honeymooning in Bend, Oregon, where it's been in the 60s during the day and 40s at night.  That sounds so good!


Somewhere in the Wonderful World of the Blogosphere, I saw a picture of just the corner of a quilt.  For some reason, the idea stayed in my mind, and a few days ago I started playing with bits and pieces on the design wall. As you can see, it's all thrown up there, and then it's like a jigsaw puzzle, moving parts here and there, trying out this and that.  I have just one block sewn together, but since this is just a work in progress, it may be re-done, too.

I do have a little quilt on the Avante, in progress.  The focus fabric is a wonderful, funky print of women in their 70s-style outfits, very hip ;-D  The inspiration for the pattern is from a book called "9-Patch Pizzazz" where you use larger pieces of the focus fabric surrounded by smaller blocks.  Sorta like the "Just Can't Cut It" book.  

So there it is, a little bit of this, and a little bit of that.  

Whoop Whoop! 4/22

Here's my neighbor, with her quilt top put together!  Now she's working on the borders, and then it will be time to quilt that beauty!!!  Isn't it gorgeous?  Give the girl a hand!!!   clapclapclapclapclap - yayyyy!!!

Me and my re-arranging and organizing ideas.  Whop me on my head the next time I act like I want to do that.  While Kat was sewing, I dragged out the stash and UFOs in my closet to see what was hiding in there.  Booooooooo!!  Scary!!  I bought a small cubie to hide some PIGS (projects in grocery sacks).  Of course, it was that much too big to fit in there.  So, I had to move a bookshelf over a little.  Which required taking everything out of the bookshelf because it was so heavy.  

And who the heck designed those blankety-blank closets that stretch a couple of feet wider than the doors!?!?!?  You can't reach anything on either side, and it's so narrow, you can't walk in, or even lean in.  Clothes hanging on the sides are left to moulder and disintegrate before you ever see them again.  But I digress...

So, since I had taken everything out of the shelves, I decided to re-fold the stuff before putting it back.  I used the really handy method of folding all the fabric 12" wide so that you can tell at a glance how much fabric you have folded up (three folds = yard) without taking it off the shelf.  I can.not.believe how much yardage I've accumulated.  But I don't want to go there, either!!!  But it looks lovely, and took me only FOUR STINKIN' DAYS OF MY LIFE!  I put batiks together, separated florals, funky and brights, geometrics (does that say something about my stash when I have funky and brights and geometrics in three different piles?), black and whites, 30s, and Kaffe Fassett-related.  It's good I took a photo, because that will never happen again!!!

I occasionally buy flowers when it's marked down, but never had tulips.  Well, these are so delightful, they're now my favorite flower!  Happy Easter, y'all!

Now go to http://confessionsofafabricaddict.blogspot.com/2011/04/can-i-get-whoop-whoop-where-would-we-be.html to see more applause-worthy projects!

  

Whoop Whoop! 4/8

A pile o'strips, one of my favorite things!  And a pile o'strippies!   Since I cut the largest strips 1 1/4" and the smallest, 3/4", this is much slower going than if I cut them 2 1/2"!  But I'm loving the process!  I learned that while I have a decent indecent stash, all my pinks were more on the coral side, while I needed lavender-ish flavors.  So I *had* to go shopping -- oh, gee!

I've also finished a bag because of Judy at Patchwork Times' UFO Challenge, but I'm going to wait and post on the first of May (done early --  yippy, skippy!)  Meanwhile, go to http://confessionsofafabricaddict.blogspot.com/ and see all the great projects!  Whoop, Whoop!  y'all :-)

Whoop Whoop Whoop!!!

Home run!  Three Whoops! for me!  Amazing how you get stuff done when you work on it, go figure :-)  First of all, my March UFO with Judy at www.patchworkstimes.com .

Ack, I should have ironed it before snapping the picture, huh?  This was a mystery at a Quilting on the Mountain retreat about six years ago.  I had maybe two blocks almost done, but the rest was in parts.  Trying to figure it out after all those years -- that was the challenge!! I know I've pulled it out of the UFO closet a number of times, but after wracking my brain awhile, put it back.  Now that it's a top, I'm loving it.  It's only 47 1/2" square, so I'll be adding borders, I think.

My brain was totally fried from messing with the Pepper Dish, so last time I posted, I'd pulled out a jelly roll and cut white strips, and decided to have some relaxing play time.  I had a blast!  I was on a roll!  And yesterday, I finished this top:

I'd written the instructions while watching Eleanor Burns on Simply Quilts, a looong time ago, years and years, when I first began quilting.  Between deciphering my notes, and having lost the last page on what to do with the blocks once they're made, it could have been a mess.  I figured it out -- at least I figured out *something* to do with it!  Edit: (I was asked what I figured out :-)  Well, you take the pinwheels that turn in one direction, sew them together 5 blocks by 6 blocks, and add a 2 1/2" border top and bottom.  Sew five blocks that turn in the other direction in a row and add to each end.  The outer border is six pinwheel blocks sewn in a row, add a 2 1/2" strip on each end, then finally a block on the ends of the border strips.  Clear as mud?  email me if you need clarification!)

And -- drum roll, please -- number three!  I'm not in love with this quilt, but it was fun and easy to do.  You chop up 8 FQs, add borders, and that's it.  Talk about easy-peasy.  This will go to Habitat via one of the guilds I belong to.  The actual colors are brighter than the photo shows.  (Gotta find my camera book, y'know?)

Yup, sometimes things get done when you focus.  Maybe not the ones you intended to focus on.  But now I have three tops finished.  Hmmm, I should designate a "get it quilted!" month!

For lots more Whoops! and pictures and links to blogs, go to Sarah's blog here: http://confessionsofafabricaddict.blogspot.com/2011/04/can-i-get-whoop-whoop-no-april-fools-im.html

Whoop Whoop! 3/18

Yes! Finally coming together, the top is sewn, and the spludges of color are fabrics I'm auditioning for the appliques. Not sure where I'm going with that.  Any ideas?  Leaves, stems, flowers and stars.  Should I continue with the colors I've used in the piecing, or go with other colors?  The ones in the picture are pinks and fuschias with aqua together with the green for leaves and stems.  

And I'm beginning to think about quilting this baby.  I know there are those of you who plan the quilting before they ever start creating the quilt.  Not me.  Since most of my quilts never leave the house, I just make it up as I go along.  But I'd like this one to be special.  How would you quilt it?  

Whoop Whoop!  Something to show on a Friday, yay!!  And Annie's ready to take it on the road:

Whoop Whoop! 2/25/11 and Giveaway!!

This week I got a lot done!  I finished the Party on The Block quilt (still don't have a name for it, any ideas?)  and I pieced a backing for it.  See yesterday's blog, it wasn't the most fun I've had!

But then I found the instructions for using the Lil Twister template with 5" charms, so I took a break, sewed charms, added a border, cut it up with the template, sewed the pieces back together, and voila' I have a cute little quilt.  It's only 12" x 18 1/2", but I'll add a border or two.  It only took maybe two hours! The directions suggest you cut 1 3/4" squares  from the scraps from cutting, and sew them together for another border.  Hmmm, sounds like lots of sewing itty pieces.  I'll hold onto them for awhile and see how I feel about it after adding other borders.  Would you?

On Monday I have a guild class on making fabric bowls with clothesline.  I've made a few already, but I've had the fabrics pulled to make one for my son and his lovely bride.  The fabrics are left from a quilt and pillowcases I made for them before.  So the bowl can be set on their dresser for keys, coins, etc.  Here are the fabrics:

I have some many  gaboons of UFOs, and this week I plan to tackle finishing one UFO top, and quilting one quilt.  There.  I've said it.  


If you link via the subject line to Sarah's website (confessionsofafabricaddict.blogspot.com) you can sign up for her Whoop Whoop! Fridays, where you can get pats for your accomplishments.  Or encouragement for the next one.  And she has a great giveaway going on this week!!!  Go, go, go!