I'm in Love!

A while back I shared with you the start of a new projct. 

Keep on turning that handle.......and look what you can do.

My small tumbler block GO die is getting a work out; and one and two and three.....keep counting.  I'm in Love with this die.

The fabrics are the ones I won here last year from P and B Textiles, Alex Anderson's Elizabeth Ann fabric line.  Soooooooooooo pretty!

Row, after row of small tumbler blocks; fast, easy and fun.  I love this GO die.

If you follow my blog, you know I love the "scrappy" look and using so many different colors/fabrics in my quilts.  It was fun to arrange and re-arrange the different colors and fabrics in the rows.

Naturally, I cut too many and have some leftover tumblers too.  Ahhhh! another project in the making. 

The lighting wasn't the best for this shot, but here it is before the borders were added.

Sandwiched and ready for the quilting.  I had to piece the backing using the fabrics from the two borders.

Quilting is next and I'll share the pictures with you when it's finished.   What?  You expected to see the finished quilt already?? 

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More Eye Candy for Quilters

Continuing with more of the pictures from the GSAQG (Greater San Antonio Quilt Guild) 2011 Quilt show, with the this year's theme....Call To Color.  This quilt show had some of 'everything'  in it; traditional pieced, art quilts, humor, vintage, batiks, hand embroidery, machine embroidery, scrappy, bargello, thread painting, landscapes, king size to miniature.  I'm going to try and give you a bit of everything.   Enjoy!

Let's start off with one to make you smile....."I come in Piece"  Honorable mention ribbon winner.

A machine embroidered one and I should have got a close up....gorgeous work.

Lovely bargello in pinks and greens.

Machine embroidered flower blocks on batik fabrics. 

A couple close ups of the flower blocks....very pretty on the batiks.

Perfect for a little girl's room, single bed....some of it paper pieced.

Very nice indeed.....and an honorable mention ribbon.

Beautiful fabrics in this one and a couple of the cranes were machine embroidered.

Terrific planning and layout for this one.....picture doesn't do it justice.

I loved the colors and dimensional quilting on this one.

Soooooo much talent from these quilt artists.  It would have been difficult to judge them.

Don't you just love these large flower ones? Wow!

Lots of color....very unique design.

Another blue ribbon one.....for sure.  And... with special recognition.

A quilt show is not complete without colorful Log Cabin quilts.

This terrific display of color was "part" of a quilt.

Paper piecing magic........

Lots of quilts with deep rich colors.....

Every quilt in this show was a winner......all 280 of them.  Hope you enjoyed my pictures. 


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Lots of Quilting Eye Candy

I went to the GSAQG (Greater San Antonio Quilt Guild) 2011 quilt show yesterday and my eyes almost popped out as I was viewing over 280 quilts on display.  It was a wonderful show and the talent was impressive. 

This year's theme was  Call to Color celebrating out Red White Blue.

 
This one included pictures of all of our Presidents......impressive indeed!  I should have taken a close up too.....sigh!    Title reads "We The People changed the history of the United States."   Blue Ribbon winner!

Great Idea for using the GO Drunkard's Path Die.  (You knew I'd have to sneak in talking about the GO somewhere, didn't you?)

Beautiful Baltimore Album type Christmas Applique quilt.....blue ribbon winner!

Fun, colorful, whimsical........BUGS Quilt!  Darling!

Such precise work......beautiful! Another ribbon winner!

I should have taken a close up of the Christmas doves on this one.....Nice change of color for a Christmas Quilt......lovely!

Loved the thread work on this one.....Wow!

Old Sol was awarded with a special judges ribbon......unbelieveable!

Fun!  Being a cat lover, this one made me smile.....and won a ribbon!

There was a separate category for machine embroidery quilts too.  This was stunning and my picture just didn't capture the shading on the roses.  Honorable mention ribbon.

Snowmen hand embroidered winter quilt, ribbon winner.....look at the close up next picture!

Just look at this quilting....all done on a regular sewing machine.  Small, precise......took hours and hours.

Hope you enjoyed seeing some of the quilts, and I'll share more of them with you tomorrow and my BIG purchases at the vendors booths.


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A Couple of Teasers For You!

Here's  a sneak peak of a new project I've started....and I'm having fun with it too.... will share more later on.  The fabrics are from Alex Anderson's Elizabeth Ann line by P&B Textiles.  

This is my first project using the smaller Tumbler Die.  I couldn't stop turning that handle, so just kept cutting.

I love that BIG BROWN TRUCK......and the man in brown.  Look what he delivered to me last Friday.

Whoo! Hoo!  Can hardly wait to start playing with these;  Sunbonnet Sue, Holiday Medley, the new Ovals and new Ribbons.  

Did you notice the two tone foam shapes?    It's great that AccuQuilt has started doing this for their new dies 'cause I won't have to outline the shapes anymore....just draw the registration lines with my silver sharpie! 

Can't visit with you anymore..........gotta GO play! 

mmmmmh!....I  wonder when I'll be coming out of my sewing room???   'cause these are opening up all sorts of possibilities for my September Giveaway.   Stay tuned.

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Accuquilt Fabric Cutter Giveaway - Seriously

Here's another great AccuQuilt cutter giveaway, so hurry.....GO read it and leave a comment.  You just might win!



Quiltish by Allisa Jacobs: Accuquilt Fabric Cutter Giveaway - Seriously

Have fun everyone!


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Resting on Labor Day?

How many of you know when was the first official Labor Day Holiday?  Well, it was September 5, 1882 and then officially 1884.  Ok..... we have that out of the way.  (And...if you want to know more, just google it...that's what I did.)

Since I don't like to write a post without pictures, here's one of Princess.  It has nothing to do with Labor Day, but this sure looks like a great way to spend the day, don't you think?

Woke up this morning and thought......ahhh!  a nice day to just kick back, chomp on bon bons,  (not really 'cause I'm on a new eating plan to lose more weight...but thought that sounded like what I was supposed to say.)  read my current book on my new Nook reader, watch some movies on tv and just laze around.

Are you kidding me???  That's a great fantasy, but....... NO.....what did I really do? 

A few exercises.....(not too many....after all, this is my day of REST!)
Took a shower, washed my hair
Cleaned up the kitchen after breakfast
3 loads of laundry
Cleaned the bathroom (definitely not fun!)
Cleaned the kitty boxes (another one that's definitely not fun, but necessary)
Swept the kitchen/dining room/laundry room floor
Scrubbed all of the above floors (and boy they needed it)
Emptied trash all over the house
Paid the bills
Texted to two of my kids
Vacuumed bedroom
Vacuumed Living room, hallway, computer room, sewing room
Talked to both my sisters.
Re-arranged the items in my Etsy Shop
Tweeted some new items
Posted on facebook too.
Found a table runner pattern I want to make for Christmas
Last load of throw rugs out of dryer

and now this blog post......

Boy, I'm sure glad I rested today.

What did you do?

Names Everywhere......and a Recipe.

You see names on things everyday all over the place;  stores, letter head, business cards, blogs, Etsy shops,  t shirts, facebook pages, purses, email addresses,  eyeglass frames, even burb cloths for babies. (And.....yes, I could make this whole post about finding names on things, but you don't want me to GO there, do you?)

I'm easily distracted and love to GO ......(Sorry about that large GO, but I've done that ever since I won my AccuQuilt GO Cutter last year...and I'm not about to quit now...)   .......from one thing to the next, then start another project, then that one gives me inspiration for another idea.....and on and on.  Maybe that's me.....maybe that's a quilter.....maybe that's just the way it is.  Who knows?

Well, back to what I was talking about......(see...I told you I was easily distracted.)  What was it?    Oh yeah.... another place you can find names. 

But first,  we'll talk about recipes.  What?  Yes...be patient!


RECIPE .........for another place you'll find names!



Take 5-6 sets of these.



Yellow Quilt Fabric 5" Squares



Add  5-6 sets of these:




Black and White Quilt Fabric 5" Squares



Add in some of this:

White Kona Cotton Fabric

Cut into pieces like this:





Toss lightly, mixing well for good assortment.


Sew 3 pieces together randomly.

Serve with a permanent fabric marking pen:  Sign your Name on the white fabric.

And you have 150 Signature Wedding Quilt Blocks for a custom order.  Ahhhh!  Hhhaaa!  another place for names, lots of names.


I love getting distracted with projects like this one;  fun to do, something different, lots of wonderful chain piecing (my favorite thing to do), and I'm happy with the end result. 

Okay......now time for something else!  What's next? 

Wonder what it is???


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