Out of control...

This stack of quilt tops is waiting for backing, quilting and binding. And yet I keep starting new projects. I'm pretty sure there are others around here but not only am I too lazy to quilt, I'm also too lazy to look for missing quilt tops. I've got a new quilt I'm planning with all the great Heather Ross fabrics that I've received through my swaps. I'm trying to be good and not start working on it but then I have this one taunting me with comments like, "...it's a shame to let Heather sit on a shelf...". And this one sending me HR scraps and this one sending me HR FQs. Enablers, ya'll, I'm surrounded by them:0). I did start a new quilt top last night. It's a mini one so that doesn't count or does it?




Today was another good mail day. I received my block from Kris :

This block is much prettier in person. The picture doesn't do it justice. The hand sewing on this is flawless! She's got a great tutorial on how to do the circles here.

And thank you, thank you, thank you to all of you who commented about my circle quilt . I woke up to an in box filled with encouragement and it totally made my day. I guess we are all our own worst critics. I get disappointed when what's in my head doesn't translate exactly the way I want it to on fabric. I took another look at the quilt top today and I think I'm going to leave it alone. I'm kinda digging it now...

Circle quilt done...again

At least I think it's done. Remember this? Here it is re-done. I'm still not crazy about it. I may change the outer border to the Bahama blue.

A close up...

This quilt top finished at 58"x72".

A really great day in the end

I was having a really blah day until the mailman came today. I received my placemat from Autumn and I LOVE it! She totally gets me. This beach girl loves her some mermaids and sea life and Autumn delivered. Here's the front of the placemat: Here's the back... At least I think it's the back. Both sides are beautiful works of art. I know the front lawn is probably a weird place to photograph a placemat but I couldn't get a good picture inside. Besides, I have zero intentions of using it as a placemat. It's too pretty. I'm going to hang it up in my office. I also have have a side swap with Victoria **for a mini quilt that I'll be adding to my collection. Hopefully, one day I'll have a whole wall full.

Autumn also sent me some cute Hawaiian fabrics and seashells from California and Hawaii. Only a beach girl would send another beach girl seashells to add to her collection :0).

I also received my swap from Lisa. She has a to die for collection of Heather Ross and Munki Munki fabrics. She sent me a yard of the HR Volkswagon buses in blue and a bunch of charm squares of HR, Munki Munki and Japanese prints. I LOVE the pink gnomes. Eeeek! She also sent Sublime Stitching some embroidery patterns filled with gnomes and fairies.

Zonnah's block arrived and omigosh, it's even prettier in person!!

Some of Michelle's good luck rubbed off on me and I won a charm square pack of May Pole by April Cornell from Dawn. So pretty!

Edith's fabric arrived for her month in PTQB. She wants circles and I love making circles so this block will be fun! I love her selection of fabrics.

Dana and I also swapped and her package arrived last Friday. Look at all that cuteness from the Minny Muu collection by Lecien. LOVE!

This was a great ending to an otherwise very blah day. I have been dragging all day. I may need to detox from this past weeks' festivities. I ate too much and drank too much. Lest you all think that I'm a raging partier, I am what some people call a "lightweight" and others may call a "cheap date". It depends on who's doing the name calling. I average about 2 drinks a month and just this past week I've had quite a few months worth. To top it off, while I enjoyed crabcakes and tuna steaks at a cookout last night, the mosquitoes had an all you can eat Asian buffet. I am covered in mosquito bites. So I'm off to go bathe in Calamine lotion and go stare at my loot. I hope you all had a great weekend.

**** Victoria is looking for people to make blocks for a charity quilt. If you would like to help, go here.

Placemat swap

I joined the placemat swap on Flickr and my partner is Autumn. She has just received her package in the mail so I can post her placemat. Autumn said she loves bright, primary colors and wanted something with circles or curved piecing. When she said bright colors, I automatically thought of Kaffe Fassett. I love his fabric lines and own quite a few of his books. His quilts are so inspirational! Anyways, here's Autumn's placemat: I had a hard time working on such a small scale. I had other ideas to add to it but the it made it larger than a placemat so I kept it simple. I also made her a little potholder...

For a look at more of her loot, go here. Go here to see all the other great placemats.

There will be no sewing for me this weekend. I have a weekend filled with outdoor concerts, goodbyes, beaches, cookouts, fireworks and probably too many margaritas :0).

Have a great weekend my wonderful bloggy friends!

1+1+1+1= 1 Giddy Girl!

Two days into July and I already have 4 AMAZING blocks from my pals in the Snip.Sew.Send quilting bee.

From Nichole: From Heather:

From Zonnah:

From Anne:

This girl is celebrating Christmas in July!

Pure awesomeness

This character came up to me and nonchalantly said, " I need you to make me a red cape with a S on it". There were no...
"Can you please make...?" or
"Do you think maybe you could...?"

While his horrified mother reprimanded him, I giggled because, when it's not your kid, it's funny. Besides, who could keep a straight face looking at his ensemble for that day. Yes, he's wearing his underwear OVER his pj's and did you see the belt and sunglasses? The boy loves to accessorize. I made that cape he's wearing months ago and he wears it everywhere. He recently wore it on a flight to Seattle and the pilots were so amused by him, they let him peek into the cockpit. You know, it's not everyday a superhero is on your flight.

Well the little booger is moving to Seattle and I had to make sure he didn't leave without a new cape. I brought it over to him last night and the look on his face when he saw it was pure awesomeness! It took me less than two hours to make this cape. I have given quilts that have taken me weeks to make and while the recipients are always happy to receive my gift, they don't have the look this kid had. His face radiated pure joy! He looked at me like I had just hung the moon and who doesn't love that kind of adoration? Let's just say we were both on Cloud 9.

Here's a picture of him pointing at the S. He told me he needed a red cape with a red S on an upside down yellow triangle. I aim to please.


Here he is modeling his cape.

I made it reversible in case he felt like being his alter ego Batman. Do you want to know what he said? Can you make me a BLUE Batman cape? Little booger!

Tutorial for the cape is here.

Scrappy 9 quilt top

My scrappy nine patch is done and I love it!! A close up of the quilt top...

Some of my favorite blocks...

MUST STOP MAKING QUILT TOPS AND START COMPLETING PROJECTS!!!!