WARNING!!! NEVER HAVE SHOW AND TELL AT LUNCH WITH A BUNCH OF QUILTERS~

Such was our fate at in Salem, Indiana.  The day started off just lovely, wonderful weather, our troop of gals shrunk from 18 to 8, but, that just meant fewer to have to wait on.  So it was just right.  Quilter camaraderie is a good thing, however, it can lead to copious amounts of spending if you have Show an Tell at lunch.  Those of you not familiar with the quilters Show and Tell at lunch, well, it's shopping first then walking to Christie's on the Square and having lunch.  Hmmm, now whose bright idea was it to show what we bought, maybe me.  But, oh well, we must support on LQS's in the area and we did just that, not once, but, after seeing things purchased and the hearing the reasons for buying them, it made perfect sense to return to the shop and make even more purchases. 

My first round of purchases netted these lovelies.  Can you ever have enough Christmas fabric around?  What about Steam a Seam Lite 2?  Just in case the Mackenna Ryan pattern that I've been putting off comes to call my name in the late of night, I can't be without the fusible web material to make it. 

Round 2 after a great lunch at Chrisitie's on the Square and our Show and Tell, found these lovelies for me to have.  What quilter should be without a license plate frame for their car.  A quilter puzzle and scissors for gifts are always handy.  Then a bit more fabric and I was done!

That wasn't too bad now was it?

Third part Quilting...everything is getting back to somewhat normal...whew!

Oh my goodness, my husband is so happy like the proverbial snug as a bug in a rug. Men especially like routine, at least mine does. Which is good, cause you know we marry what we need, and myself, like so many quilters are a bit all over da plaze....smile.

This is a very good thing. It makes me happy to stay busy with variety to indulge in.


While cleaning out my closet, I've found so many quilts and tops I thought I'd lost to the sock thief, I suppose. You know, the one in the dryer that makes making all matched sets from a load an impossibility. It's terrible when you know you've made something and you want to work on it and you can't find it. That's a testimony for finishing, finishing, finishing. If I say it enough times, maybe it'll stick and I will do that. When the deck dries off I'll bring my quilts outside and take pictures of the ones I have here. I don't give that many away. I find the work and time make them quite like my children and so, hard to hand over to anyone. But, my pile of quilts grows steadily and I really must give in to, if nothing else, space constraints! I have several quilt racks and a stair rail that currently hold a lot of my babies, but, now I must start to move them on. My wonderful quilt group gave me a nice gift certificate and I also had another one from a friend, so I just had to spend it and add to my growing collection of fabric. While cleaning out my fabric closet, boy was I surprised to see all the fabric!!! I hate to think I'm going to give up some of my volunteer efforts, but, it seems I've been doing way too much of that lately. It's always a good thing to give of your time to worthwhile endeavors. My public radio station gets a lot of my time, especially in the summer when I help out with Waterfront Wednesdays. Then there is the church, I lead our quilt group, Northeast Quilting Friends, every Tuesday from 10:00 to 1:00. We have a pretty special group of ladies that quilt and share their talent as well as their lives. But, I've just returned from Target, where I purchased a multitude of sizes of bins to color sort and store my fabrics in.

Lavender's, Bread of Life, and Quilt King Products

Well, we had a great day on the road here in Kentucky, USA. My oh my what a wonderful day. Of course, buying fabric is always fun and I've been sooooo good and haven't bought much at all in the last few months. But, that's all gone now. I've loaded up, big time. I think it was a combination of PMS-you know how those hormones reek havoc, and lack of purchasing for so long-spending withdrawals-the pain. Plus, it didn't help my non purchasing strength, being in a group of 15 quilt fabric shoppers, all in a frenzy to buy fabric for less than $3.00 a yard. Oh yes, and we had temporarily lifted the fat quarter penalty for purchasing, thank goodness-I'm weak I tell ya! Anyway, here's my lovelies.

Flannel is my favorite fabric for backing-it's the most cozy/comfortable, in my opinion. This is 8 yards of flannel for my future vintage quilt that's growing in my mind.

I've got a Christmas quilt in a box-did I mention it's only the fabric and pattern ready to go? Well now I've the backing for the future quilt/WISP. It's a wonder I remember these projects, because they've been on the shelf for at least 2 years! But, you know, they don't go bad on the shelf and I'll get to it....smile....

Here's some funky fabric, I just couldn't resist. You know, I'm always preaching to my friends to stretch yourself and try something new...you know, so you don't get bored or go stale on your interest. But, there is something deep within me that pulls me back to a little more unique or unusual quilt/fabrics. Love, Love, Love..smile.

Of course, all quilter's should have a good supply of tone on tone and I like to have white on white on hand. It's hard to see, but this is cream and white dots and flowers. It's great for scrap quilts or a pieced background, and piecing white on white greatly enhances the visual texture of a quilt.

Here's my future vintage quilt. I was really wanting to find some strawberries in a vintage print, struck out, but, I'm quite happy with this much anticipated work in progress. Here's a future great UFO...don't know yet, it just said buy me...what can I say, I was weak with hormone over run and lack of purchasing syndrome.

Now this is a future project for my husband.

When our girls were young we traveled to the Southwest-New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and we went to several pueblos and Mesa Verde. So here's another great quilt that's soon to be on my shelf.

And last, but not least, this fabric contains all the critters that we see in our back yard. The one they are missing is a skunk, but, I'm sure if I'm feeling this way again, maybe I'll be near skunk fabric and will buy more to sit on the shelf beside this fabric, soon to be another quilt that I'll complete with the help of my friends. Happy Quilting.