~A Spring/Summer Bag~

Remember when I showed you the planner cover and said you would be seeing that fabric again?

Well this was the first project out of the 'ocean' fabric. :-)

A new bag for me!

(my DD tried her hardest to acquire it, but it is still mine! LOL)

I found the pattern in the local quilt shop when I was on the last retreat.  She only had one copy of the pattern as the store owner's friend had made the bag for her and she talked her friend into making a pattern.~

The pattern pieces need to be enlarged 200% and the shop owner was so sweet to print them off for me since I was on retreat and didn't have access to a printer. :-)

I will admit there are a few places where the pattern is hard to understand, but all-in-all it was a fun bag to put together. :-)

Today is a sunshiny spring day here. Hope you are enjoying a bit of nice weather too!

Don't forget to 'spring' those clocks ahead tonight! ;-)

Until next time~

Happy Stitchin'!

It's the Little Things~

That add up to the big things!! :-)

And I've been working on little things~

I finished the 9th installment of the I Believe in Snowmen (by Bunny Hill Designs) sew-along that we are doing on the HGTV message boards. I love how this quilt is coming together!

Next month I will have the top together and show you. Then it will be on to working on borders. :-)

And I'm getting quite a stack of hexies~

They are cut from a Happy Go Lucky charm pack I was hoarding I mean~ saving for a special project! Yup that's it! :-)

I can't show you what project ...yet. :-)

But if you'd like a peek at what little secrets I was working on, check out Clover & Violet's blog post today.

;-) Yep~ that was me!! :-) And I enjoyed every minute!!  :-)

Until next time~

Happy stitchin'!!

Home Again...

Home Again

Jiggity Jig!  :-)

~Mother Goose

I am back from my retreat~ actually I got home Sunday, but have been playing catch-up. You know~

unpacking, laundry and all that jazz. ;-)

I had a fantastic time! I always do~ the friends, the sewing time, no cooking~~how could I not have a great time?   I got a few things crossed off of my list too!   I don't have a photo yet, but i got 30 blocks assembled for a raggy flannel/denim quilt that will be a graduation gift in June. Now to get them assembled into a quilt~ then I will show you. ;-)

I also made these 2 bags and little zipper pouches.

The bags are from a magazine and I can't think of the name now! :-o But I did change a few things and made it completely by machine. ;-)  The Triple Zip pouches are from A Quilter's Table tutorial that I mentioned in a previous post. I changed it a bit too; but that was just me being me. ;-)

I took two classes at my retreat too. They are taught by other retreaters and are always lots of fun~

The first is from the book 'Accent On Angles' and is called Jelly Beans. I didn't get very far because I kept messing up my strip sets. Rather than rip, I packed it up to do at home. (less distractions ;-) )

I also took a class called 'Jazz it Up Harry' and the teacher said she ordered the pattern from on-line for us and then re-named it to go with the theme for the retreat. It is all done with bricks (3.5 x 6.5 inches) and little 1" strips. What I didn't know about this pattern before retreat is that all the seams are partial seams! ;-o Yikes!  It goes together ok, but is a lot of futzing with those partial seams. I decided to finish this one at home because I can use my machine with the automatic thread cutter to speed up the process and waste less thread. :-D

Our retreat coordinators also plan a few fun things for everyone. One was this cute little lamp~ made from a wine glass, a battery powered little tea light and the shade was a Quilt Smart panel. We have a little store set up at the retreat and I found the beads there. :-) It was really cool to see how everyone made and decorated their little lights. :-)

I will be back with more soon~

Have a great evening and happy stitchin'!!