Thursday, February 17, 2011

Only one more sleep....

We leave in the morning to the One Stop Shop Hop Adventure!
Here is a picture of the month 5 nine patches and the flower blocks ready to stitch.
My next post will be Saturday night when I get back home. Since I noticed that I have hit another milestone with the number of followers to my blog, I'll find something for a giveaway upon my return.

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Getting ready for the Hop...

I am making my list for The One Stop Shop Hop  that my quilting buddies and I are going to on Saturday. We are actually leaving Friday morning and driving to a couple of quilt shops on our way to Rockhill, SC. We plan to meet up with the entire group for dinner and then go to our hotel for show & tell of what we purchased on our trip up. Then in the morning we  can get to Lancaster when the Shop Hop opens the door.
My Lisa's Flower Garden BOM came in the mail yesterday. 
I already pieced the 9-patches and now I am preparing the applique blocks, so I have some hand work for the evening at the hotel.
Only two more sleeps until the quilt fun begins!

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Busy week in progress...

This is the project that I helped demonstrate at our guild meeting last night. I have not finished much raw edge applique, but the challenge of demonstrating it helped get my creative juices going. The good part of this task was that I could start a new project and after our demo we drew a name of one of the members who wanted to try this out. So, the started project and all the materials to finish it went home with a happy guild member. 
This is a set of borders that I have had the applique pieces fused down for probably a year. As of today I have finally gotten going on stitching the applique down. I am setting a goal of getting this UFO quilt top finished and ready to get quilted by the end of March. I already have the center pieced and some blocks for another border.
Looking at this quilt again, I am still really liking it. I am not sure what my plan for the next border was. Hopefully I wrote something down, I'll be searching through the stuff I saved in the bag with the top so far.I think that it is going to be inspiration in redecorating my living room. My plan is to hang it on the wall behind my couch.