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Block number 4 – Canary Yellow

admin — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 19:06:07 +0000

I’m still trudging along with this Bottled Rainbows Quilt. I don’t think I’ve ever been so excited to sew anything in my life This will be the first Quilt that I have kept for my family; and both my boys are really excited about it!

Here’s block number 4 : Canary Yellow…

I have a few other blocks made, but no pictures yet. I’m on block number 7 right now, and I ran out of White thread… to the fabric store today it is !!!

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Summer is finally here!

admin — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:16:58 +0000

A few weeks ago we had a beautiful Saturday morning, the weekend every year when people are urged to put things on their sidewalks for free. Since I (and my offspring) can’t resist a yard sale, we set off in hopes of finding some neat treasures. We did find some cute stuff, although not many people in our side of town participated. Now, my son is all about free stuff. It really bugs him that people would throw perfectly good things away, therefore he MUST rescue them:

He fought me tooth and nail to take this home because sometimes he just needs a bigger suitcase:

As for me, I was not so lucky as to find something super useful. I did however find some nice old books (still in great shape):

look at this one….it’s my very favorite…

all of the pictures are needlework…so creative.

I hope that next year more people participate…or we’ll just go to a better part of town

Back to work on the bottled rainbows… I have 4 more blocks to post pictures of later…

Leanne

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Eggplant…love it or hate it?

admin — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 02:05:01 +0000

I personally love the color Eggplant. I decided last night to do the eggplant block since I had what I thought was “very few” scraps to work with. Hmmm turns out I love that color, and I do have quite a few things that work.

I’m feeling pretty good here…I have 3 completed blocks, and one partially completed Pomegranate block.

Wish me luck!

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Bottled Rainbow block two :)

admin — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 01:16:30 +0000

I finished rainbow block number 2 Peacock blue…they seem to be less intimidating as I keep working on it.

I really need to catch up now that everyone else has finished theirs

I think my next one will be Plum… it seems to be the most difficult. I’m jumping in.

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I love you postman !

admin — Sat, 14 May 2011 00:20:30 +0000

Yay! who says that Friday the 13th isn’t a fantastic day? It’s Payday, it stopped raining, I had Donair egg rolls for dinner (don’t laugh, they are awesome) aaannnndddd….. I received this in the post :

A Big giant THANK YOU to WildOliveKids ! There is absolutely no way I’m getting any housework done this weekend. No chance. I’ll be picking through scraps for my bottled rainbow blocks… and there were some really big pieces that are inspiring other projects too!

Have a great weekend !!!

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Seeing Rainbows

admin — Tue, 10 May 2011 01:49:07 +0000

It’s been raining here in Nova Scotia for days… really it feels like weeks. Everyone is cranky, soggy and longing for some sunshine. Oh please mister sun… please come see us! Since the sun won’t come to me, I’ve brought the rainbows to my sewing room.

Here’s my stash so far:

I’m expecting two large scrap boxes in the mail … eeeeeeepp… I’m so excited! I’m almost finished making the block frames (only 2 or 3 more to go) but I’ve been through my little box of scraps a million times, there just aren’t enough. When those boxes get here I can’t wait to dig in! I know, I know, I’m so far behind everyone else I’m sure. I have been working on a few other things though, i can’t seem to commit to only one project at a time. Here’s a sneak peak of my weekend project.

A little Castle Peeps always cheers me up.

Off to bed for now, hopefully tomorrow Mr. sun will come out.

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This is so cute!

admin — Fri, 06 May 2011 14:23:04 +0000

Check out this super cute tutorial at the Moda Bake Shop!

I can’t wait for that box of scraps to get here!!! my head is spinning with ideas for them!

Happy Friday everyone!!

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When the sun shines…

admin — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 21:22:51 +0000

Finally a beautiful, sunny, no-rain day! To bad that I’m stuck on the couch with a hot rice bag on my belly…silly mother nature. Well, I should probably make the best of it I guess…time to organize my projects and figure out what to start working on. I’m one of those people who start half a dozen projects and slowly works on them randomly. I did get all of my neutral blocks ready to do the Bottled Rainbows quilt… I’m sooooo excited.

Tonight’s menu is two Midol and some very serious scrap searching for my rainbow blocks. I don’t think I’ll have quite enough of the purples and oranges… so i may have to go scrap bag shopping

Oh and I’m not sure if anyone saw my post last week about ordering the fat quarter pack of Tea Garden fabrics, but the finally arrived… and it REALLY was a fat quarter pack!!!!! It’ s the best fabric deal I’ve caught in a long time !

Have a great weekend everyone!

Here are some of the projects I recently finished for a friends set of twins using Luella Doss fabric :

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Am I crazy? or is this deal way to good to be true?

admin — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:49:43 +0000

So, I seem to have stumbled upon something in the “too good to be true” category… or maybe I’m nuts…you be the judge I suppose.

I was shopping/browsing on Fabric.com…as I usually do during breakfast and coffee time at work, and I came across this priced at $8.98

now as far as I can tell, it’s legitimately a FQ Bundle of 24 FQ’s of Tea Garden by Dena Designs posted HERE….. does that not seem weird to anyone else? 6 yards of fabric? Of course I ordered one… now I’m just crossing my fingers and hoping that they don’t email me and say “gosh you’re dumb, that was a typo”. Fingers crossed i guess.

I should have ordered more…. I think I might need fabric collector rehab.

Anyway, I really just wanted to let others know in case they would like to get in on that too…

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Summer tote overload…

admin — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 01:15:24 +0000

I’m trying to find a good pattern for a tote (I know they are super easy, and i could do it myself), but i have this fabric…I’ll be adding Kona Red solid as well. The bird print is red and white tween birds by Studio E that I purchased at Sewfreshfabrics .

Tote bag colors

I’m making a tote for a friend, but i really wanted to have one that has been tried and approved… my problem isn’t that i can’t find one… it’s that there are so very many to choose from ! it’s amazing!

Here are my top choices…

1. Cicada Daydream : Fat Quarter Tote

2. Sew Prim Khris: Tote bag

3. Jcaroline creative Tote

I think number 3 is winning….but i change my mind more than i change my socks.

If anyone else has suggestions please send em’ on over. If i find one i like, i may have to whip one up for myself using this fabric:

Joel Dewberry

It’s Joel Dewberry Herringbone in Berry and meadow in green.

I’m hoping to have some time for sewing before the weekend… not only is it Easter weekend (and we’re visiting family) but it’s also my 32nd birthday! yikes!

There is obviously no time for sewing on this trip…but I’ve prepared some needlework for the road… I’ll show you when i get back.

later gators…

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