DO I HAVE SOMETHING FABULOUS TO SHOW YOU!

You guessed it.....got sidetracked....

making these blocks.  I just couldn't help myself.  Looks time consuming doesn't it...what if I told you that this technique makes this a cake walk!
 
Got ten squares out of one jelly, make a nice baby quilt.

Here is the block again but made with just four of the same fabrics.
I do hope you watch the video...  You will be so surprised how easy this block is to make.

Missouri Star Quilt Company has some of the best quilting videos out there.  Just about every day
I check their store to see their deal of the day...you can get some amazing deals.

Now....do I want to get my go cutter out and cut up the rest of the blue fabric or do I sit and finish the design I have been working on?  What to do...what to do?????

My five fat quarter giveaway is the post below this one.

SO EXCITED!!!! (GIVEAWAY TIME)

There are a lot of fun things going over here at Bejeweled sweat shop.

The reason I am excited is because as I was designing this quit, I felt I needed to go to JoAnn's and get a coordinating fabric for the border.

So....having four cars in the drive, mine being in the very front.....I asked my one son (whos car was behind me) to take me. He was going running and well...it was Eight at night. There went that!

Feeling like...."What am I going to do now".......

I certainly had other things to work on in this project but as I thought.....

I came up with a scrappy border. AND I LOVE IT!!!



It doesn't take much to get a quilter all excited. The mention of chocolate sends our taste buds whirling. The picture of a wonderful fat quarter bundle gets our saliva going. AND annd and...when a project goes right it sends us higher than a kite and lands us doing the happy dance.

To think of the money I saved my husband!!!

So because I am having such fun with my fat quarters, I am going to give away five fat quarters by Tina Givens for Free Spirit, Westminister Fibers. Just leave a comment and I will chose a winner Friday.

Now let that Free Spirit of yours get creative and get cracking in that sewing room.

TEA GARDEN BY DENA for FREE SPIRIT West minister Fibers

Just look at these luscious fabrics....ummmm ummmmmm delicious ooooo so.



If I am not mistaken I got them from "Fabric N Quilts" a while back for my Birthday. I go a huge fat quarter bundle.

So....that is what I am playing with...have been playing with since Saturday and I can not wait to show you what I have been up to...but for now, you will just have to enjoy the fabrics..

Oh..one more thing...that is how I work....I tried to fold them as I used them but it was no use...so they are just in a bundle and I am rummaging through them....isn't that what a "Free Spirit" does?

POOPED OUT

I just went through my manic stage of quilting.

disinterested for now....so here my project sits....and I can just hear my Janome sigh with relief (a break at last).....

Oh.....but now on the creative side.....IT IS DESIGN time....



Who knows what I will come up with or won't.....but.....it is always fun to try.

I hope all of you have fun creating this week-end!!

ANOTHER UFO

This is what is on my sewing table today. This is a Round Robin that my sister and nieces did while I was in Samoa. I think it is about time to get this puppy done!

Now....several of you had the idea that I quilted this quilt in a day.....tis not so. I in no way meant to imply that I did. I had the middle already done. This is a project I was working on for Thimbleberries Sew day.

I finished the binding yesterday afternoon...whohooooo. How do you like the yellow binding?
Also, I have a Janome Horizon, the neck is about five inches bigger (guessing) than the regular sewing machine so it makes it easier to stuff and fluff. I will say that I did do a King Sized quilt on my Bernina, it did prove difficult. Leah Day and Patsy Thompson do their quilts on their domestic machines and they do a fantastic job. I do mediocre at best.

I wonder if they have a boat load of chocolate while working on their quilts? They make it look so easy.

STUFFING AND A FLUFFING!!

In a perfect situation, I would have a long arm to do a quilt 92" x 83" or send it out to be quilted but......

In order not to hear this from my husband....

"Why do I buy you all these machines if you have to send your quilt out to be quilted?"

and...for the mere fact that I am Cheap as the day is long......cheap cheap cheap (that ain't no chicken churping).

So.....this is my set up.

I begins to stuff and fluff..... don't want any kind of drag....this will pull the quilt down and make it hard to quilt.....so I kept on a stuffing and a fluffing!

Yep....you guessed it....more stuffing and a fluffing. I have to tell myself to relax, if you relax while trying to machine quilt things go a lot easier. Just go with the flow....that is what I was telling my self.
I am flowing along....I tell myself that yes, I can finish this because the minute I turn the machine off and fold this quilt up, it will never get done.

So today I was the "Little Engine that Could"......I made myself....was getting grumpier as I had to keep stuffing and a fluffing and sometimes a frogging...yep.....there was a frog in my room keeping time with the chicken....

Now that we are talking about chickens....I so wanted to feather the border, I certainly had a big enough border but.......I have a confession....I was toooo chicken....

As I am taking a picture of this finished quilt (no binding yet), I notice that in between the trees is not quilted.....WHAT!!!!!!!
So...back to stuffing and a fluffing....and after the grumpiness wears down, we will bind this puppy and call it a day.

First I hear some chocolate calling my name......

WHAT I AM WORKING ON TODAY!

Thimbleberries Sew day has been neglected for a few months while traveling and moving but...for today

I am working on this quilt. I hope to have the quilting done, maybe just the trees...but I definitely need to iron it.



So if you are joining us today for Thimbleberries sew day, let me know, I will blog right over and check it out.

Have fun!