The Best Things In Life Are Free

Yesterday Barb from Bejeweled Quilts By Barb made a great point about my new selvage bag...it cost next to nothing to make! That thought hadn't occurred to me, but because I used selvages, scraps and a zipper that I already had on hand, it was basically free. For that reason, I thought I would sew a selvage change purse to hold all the money I saved!

Mama's Got A Brand New Bag!

Bright and early Friday morning I will be getting on a bus headed south to the AQS Quilt Show in Lancaster, Pennsylvania! Naturally, I couldn't go without a new bag to hold my camera and most importantly my cash and credit cards! With a few selvages, a zipper and a little imagination, I came up with this simple shoulder bag which is just the right size to carry the few things that I will need while at the show.

Welcome Spring!

Spring is officially here and I think it was definitely worth the wait!

Did You Work On Your UFO This Week?

As I said yesterday, the weather has been much too nice to be inside sewing, but that doesn't mean that I have totally ignored my UFO! While I was out earlier this week I stopped at one of my favorite quilt shops and found these fabrics on sale for $3.00 a yard! I think they will make the perfect sashing and border fabrics for the last of my Thangles blocks. More seasonable weather is expected to return next week, so I hope to be able to show lots of progress on this quilt next Friday!

Did you work on your UFO this week?

Too Nice Outside To Be Inside!

With temperatures almost 20 degrees above average this week, it's just too nice outside to be spending time sewing inside! The weatherman says that it's back to reality for us next week, so until then I'm going to be outside getting all the sunshine and fresh air that I can!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

“May God grant you always...A sunbeam to warm you, a moonbeam to charm you, a sheltering Angel so nothing can harm you. Laughter to cheer you. Faithful friends near you. And whenever you pray, Heaven to hear you.”

Not A UFO!

Lest you think that all of my projects end up as UFO's...
Here is the Quick Strippie quilt that I have been working on, all finished!

My Oldest UFO

There's no question that my oldest UFO is the match stick quilt that I showed yesterday. The pattern for the blocks is in the book, Allegro by Atkinson Designs. The book was brand new and being promoted at the 2004 Lancaster quilt show when I bought it. It was my first quilt show and I remember coming home excited to make a quilt with some of the Civil War Reproduction fabrics that I had been collecting, so I started cutting strips. Somewhere along the line, the excitement for this quilt wore off. I've tried to work on it in the past, but I always seem to lose interest. This time it WILL get done!

Did You Work On Your UFO This Week?

As you can see by the photo, my Thangles blocks are still on the UFO wall, but wait...what are the blocks next to it? You guessed it, another UFO and these matchstick blocks are even older than the Thangles blocks! I'm trying to decide how I want to finish the Thangles blocks, so I thought I would work on something different while I'm waiting for inspiration.

Did you work on your UFO this week?