Catching Up!

I’ve been really busy since we got back from our cruise!!  First we had our annual local quilt show!

It was fun seeing the quilts and visiting the vendors with my dear bee friends!

I was well behaved and only purchased some gorgeous hand dyed wool pieces!

Our new local quilt shop here in Haymarket- “Oh Sew Persnickety”, is participating in this summer’s Row-By-Row Experience quilting activity.

I designed their Row By Row this year!  Woo hoo!

The theme this summer is water.  Most shops designs are all about the beach and ocean, so we wanted something different!

Our design is simple- four umbrellas in a row.  Three standing in the traditional direction, but one upside down with a little bird perched on the handle.

After I put it all together, it really needed a little something MORE… so I added long tube-like silver beads sewn on randomly by hand.

It was just the right embellishment!

Yogi has finally stopped following us around all the time… and is back to normal!!

Need a Sewing Tote?

I had lots of scraps after making my last Moda project, so I decided to make a big tote bag to use for bee!

I took my leftovers and cut a bunch of 3” squares, and sewed them together and added a fabric piece all the way across the top,

but I just used all  3” squares for the back side of the tote.

I pressed fusible fleece on the wrong side of both the pieced front and the back.  Then I quilted them all over in a simple meander.

I sketched out the letters spelling “sew” in reverse, onto the paper side of fusible and pressed it onto a contrasting fabric.

I cut them out, removed the paper backing and fused them onto the front side.

I used the blanket stitch on my sewing machine all around the edges!

I added a double pocket with an elastic casing on at the top the front and embellished it with rickrack.

I also added rickrack across the bottom edge of the green strip on the front.  I used the finished front as a pattern to  cut two pieces of fabric for the lining. 

With right sides together, I sewed down one side across the bottom and up the other side on both the outer and lining of the tote.  Turn the outer bag right sides out and push the lining down into the outer bag, lining up the top edges, then baste them together.

I also added another row of rick rack around the top edge!

I bound the top edge just like a quilt by sewing the binding onto the front side by machine, then flipping it to the inside and sewing it down by hand.

I made some handles from another fabric

and sewed them onto the front and back sides at the top.

My tote ended up to be the perfect size to bring my sewing notions and project materials to bee!

I also just took it to our local quilt show this past weekend and got soooo many nice compliments on it!!

 

Our local annual quilt show was this weekend and I was so VERY pleasantly surprised to see my dear friend Susan there!!  And guess who we met and went to her trunk show at the quilt show???

Jenny Doan from the Missouri Star Quilt Co, with her awesome Daily Deals and tutorials!!

We got to see some of the quilts from her tuts

and hear her life story and meet her adorable hubby who was her assistant there!!

Two bee friends and I went to the trunk show together and then hit the vendors and the quilts!!

Sue bought an awesome black quilt ladder to lean against the wall in her family room for her quilts!!

Sooo, what are you working on this weekend??

No Text Tuesday- Quilt Show Buys!

Fat quarters in tone on tones for floral appliques!

Purse and quilt patterns!

Cute fall pillow kit with awesome leaf buttons!

A new version of Quilt in a Cup with a lid and straw!

A psychodelic tree wall quilt kit with a panel center!

Martha Negley Holly print Christmas quilt kit! YUM!

Vintage looking Chateau Rococco collection fat quarters!

And the best for last- my new Alto Quiltcut 2!!

I lovveee shopping the vendor malls at quilt shows! Such fun!!