Sewing Party and Letty’s Bag

One of my favorite quilt shops is Sewing Party in Laguna Hills, CA.  Here’s a link to their website www.sewingparty.com but it’s so much better in person.  I was down there last month and they had a quilt completely made out of voile fabric that I really wanted to make.  They were out of it at the time but they called the other day and it was back in stock, so off I went this afternoon. 

As I wandered around the shop I came across a sample of my Letty’s Bag.  This may just be the most fabulous Letty’s Bag sample I have ever seen.  Check it out.

 

The yo-yo’s are sewn on to the outside pocket.  Isn’t it just about the cutes bag ever????  I just love it and want one of my very own.  Can you see my pattern tucked along side the bag?  I think I just may have to make one just like it. 

If you visit, say hi to Cecile for me. 

Enjoy,

Vacation Time

I really haven’t disappeared off the face of the earth, I’m just on vacation having a wonderful time but wanted to check in.  I have been knitting a little bit so I thought I’d share this with you.

It’s a surprisingly easy scarf to make.

If you’d like to follow along with John’s and my vacation, I’m blogging daily about it here.  I’ll  be back home and hopefully back in the swing of quilting this weekend.  Until then…….

Enjoy,

Design Wall Monday–October 1, 2012

Wow………where does the time go.  It continues to be very hot here in Southern California.  In fact, it’s suppose to be 100 degrees today so the news has all kinds of weather warnings.  Unfortunately since we live fairly close to the beach we don’t have air conditioning.  Needless to say it is (and has been) too darn hot to spend time in my sewing room.  I ventured in there this morning in order to show you this very sad design wall.

This will become the border for my Great Granny quilt.  Last week we had a few “cooler” days so I was able to sew my quilt top together.  Since it’s going on my queen size bed, with a very deep mattress, I’m having to make it very big.  So far it is 7 blocks by 7 blocks equaling about 90” square and still not big enough which is why I am now adding borders.  Here’s a picture of it just laying on top of the bed. 

I will eventually add matching pillow shams so it won’t look quite so plain against the wall. 

In the mean time, my husband John and I are leaving on vacation tomorrow morning.  We’re heading to D.C. and then to New England.  We’re keeping our fingers crossed that our timing will be perfect to see the changing of the leaves.  While I’m gone, I will be blogging daily over on our vacation blog.  If you’d like to follow along with us, you can find it at http://johnandrobinsvacation.blogspot.com.  If I find anything quilt or sewing related along the way, I’ll also update this blog.   To see what others have on their design walls, head on over to Judy’s Patchwork Times blog. 

Enjoy,

Bag Tag

Ssssh, don’t tell my daughter but I made her a new bag tag. 

For whatever reason my daughter, Shelli, is a huge Elvis fan.  One of her life long dreams has been to visit Graceland.  This year for her birthday I gave her a trip for the two of us to visit Memphis and do all the touristy things all centered around Elvis.  Our trip is planned for just a little over a month from now so I decided to make her an Elvis bag tag for her suitcase.  I think she’s going to love it.

Enjoy,

Design Wall Monday–September 24, 2012

Very Slow Progress

I haven’t managed to sew a single stitch over the last week.  My excuse(s)?  It’s been very hot and humid here in Southern California, I’ve been busy doing some fall (spring) cleaning and I’ve been distracted working on plans for John and my upcoming vacation. 

Since I posted last, I have managed to add sashing to my Great Granny Square Quilt blocks and have started sewing the blocks together.  I will then need to add a narrow 1st border of the gray followed by a wider border that will use some of my extra 2 1/2” squares.  With my vacation starting just over a week from now, I’m hoping to maybe get this quilt top together, we’ll see. 

I know I’m going to love it once it finished.  To see what other’s have on their design walls, head on over to Judy’s Patchwork Times Blog. 

Enjoy,

Design Wall Monday–September 10, 2012

Sadly my design wall has nothing on it this morning but this is sitting there waiting for me.

That’s my 49 Great Granny Blocks waiting the the sashing (see plastic bags) to be sewn on.  It’s been very hot and humid here so sewing in my very hot sewing room has been temporarily put on hold.

If you’d like to see what others are up to, head on over to Judy’s blog. 

Enjoy,

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She Made Me Do It!

Really, it’s not my fault.  My daughter-in-law Maureen is in Southern California visiting and yesterday she came by for a visit.  While driving her back to her Mom’s house she got a phone call.  It was her Mom (who doesn’t like to go fabric shopping) telling her that Tuesday Morning had fabric for sale.  So what was I to do?  Since her own Mother wouldn’t take her fabric shopping, it fell on me.  Well, sure enough Tuesday Morning did have precuts of fabric and sure enough we both bought some.  Just what I need, more fabric.

Guess how much I spent? 

That last tower of fat quarters has 25 or 26 different pieces in it.  The grand total?  $39.96.  Can you blame me?  BTW most (or all) of these are Westminster fabrics.  Not too bad, even if I didn’t need any more fabric.

Enjoy,