Birthday finish and a Fabric Sale!

If you need to add some fabric to your stash head on over to Lark Cottons for their Summer Designer Sale! 

 

Save 40% on fabric by Creative Thursday, Laurie Wisbrun, Malka Dubrasky,
Lucie Summers, and Rosemarie Lavin.  

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I've been away from the blog for awhile busy working on packing up my house for the big move. I have been sewing when I can in between cardboard boxes and sorting and cleaning. I have a baby blanket under way for one of my Mom's coworkers. They are expecting a little girl. So I decided to use some Up Parasol by Heather Bailey.

I just love this line it's so pretty and feminine. I decided to go with the Churn Dash block because it's one of my favorites and it is so versatile.

I've also been working on the Mini Medallion being hosted over at Clover and Violet along with Sew Lux Fabric. There is a new post each month with directions for each section of the Medallion. I got caught up and have the first two sections finished.

I am excited to see what this looks like when its finished, its my first Medallion.

I also joined a Birthday Swap over on Flickr. The July Birthday girl had a room done in the theme of Peacocks. So I made a mini quilt with those colors in mind and sent some other little treasures along.

 

 

I used a mixture of Kona and AMB solids and just a few pieced of some peacock fabric that I had left over from another project.

 

 

So what have you been working on this week?

 

 

 

 



Sunday Stash

I hope everyone enjoyed their holiday weekend in the states! I know mine was busy and filled with family, friends, and beautiful fireworks.

I picked up these lovelies for the Color Brick Swap I'm hosting.

First up Orange, which is a color that is lacking in my stash.

 The bottom print is from the Daydreams collection by Kate Spain, its Reflections in Persimmon. In the middle is of course some lovely Happy Go Lucky- Jump in orange by Bonnie and Camille. And last but not least is the Tapestry mosaic in Tangerine.

Next up- Grey

The top and middle prints are from the Flats collection, top is Diamond Rings in Slate and the middle is Polka dots in Stone. Love these prints. On the bottom is Grey Honeycomb from the Shades of black, again one of my favorites.

Last but not least- Low Volume



I picked up some Paris Flea Market-Paris map in china white, along with some Boho in Basic Earth. The top print is from the Barcelona line, City map in Crème. I'm in love with map fabric right now. Its kind of an obsession of mine at the moment.

Here's to a wonderful week!

Linking up with Mollie Sparkles



Mystery swap update.

"Monday, Monday so good to me..."

I wanted to update you all on the Mystery Swap. First off thank you to all who filled out the questionnaire. I received some really good feed back. Most of you liked Spain the best, sorry Morocco. I have made some changes per all of your feedback.

So due to popular demand I am going to open the Summer Vacation Swap- Theme: Spain, to 56 participants. Each participant will be responsible for 1 yard of fabric that goes with the theme. Each yard will be cut into 56 - 5" charm squares. Each participant may sign up for up to two slots, possibly more depending on how fast we fill up. You must have a flickr account and can sign up here.

Fabric can be based on color or the inspiration board, a design that goes with the theme and so on. The only No, No's would be NO kids prints or batiks. Fabrics need to be vibrant and spicy! Pretty simple right. I will post mail dates once the swap is full.

Now for the best part fabric inspiration!!

Have a great Monday, Monday!

Linking up with Drowning in Fabric.

Morocco or Spain- Mystery Swap

It's Summer and officially vacation time. I was thinking it would be fun to have a Summer Vacation themed Mystery Swap. Mystery Swap, what's that you say? Basically there would be a preselected theme, in this case Summer Vacation, I would select the fabrics, cut them into charms, and send them to you. I am currently securing the best price possible for fabric, and the shipping would be included in the charm pack price. I will be posting more about that as soon as I get it sorted out. I will be offering full charm packs-112 charms, and half charm packs-56 charms with limited spots. All fabric will be quilt shop quality.

Here are a couple of the themes I was thinking about doing along with some possible fabric choices.

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So now I would like to know which is your favorite? Have any of you been to these destinations, if so lucky you! If not (or even if you have) I invite you to come along with me this summer, virtually through fabric, and visit these amazing vacation destinations. Feel free to vote below on these two pallets and the charm pack size you would prefer. Please only vote once for each question. Thank you.  

Linking up with Drowning in Fabric

Happy Mail, Quilters ADD and Rain Boots.

It's the middle of summer and I'm wearing rain boots!! We have had rain off and on for the last two weeks and it was down right chilly yesterday! Brrr!! One of the wonderful perks of living in Kansas, you never have to change out the clothes in your closet! One day the temp is 65 and the next it's 95. Oh the joys.

Thank goodness for Happy Mail! I received my first block for the Friendship Supernova Swap from Erica this week!

Isn't it GORGEOUS! I love how her first block came out. We decided to just "go with the flow" and not use any particular placing of the fabrics in the blocks.  I love that we left all of this up to chance as the blocks are so diverse!

I also finished up my 2nd block for Erica this week.

I am really happy with how this one turned out with the exception of the center block, not sure it really fits. Here's pick of both my finished blocks together.

My first block is already in the mail to Erica, so she should be getting it soon! I hope she likes it!!


I also cut out the pieces for my first block for the swap, but that is as far as I got as my Quilters ADD kicked in after completing Erica's second block!

Do any of you suffer from Quilters ADD? Mine is the cause ...squirrel... of some UFO's sitting in a bucket in my sewing room. Yikes! Ah, well I will get to them sometime, right?

Well I'm going to pull up my rain boots and wade out to the mail box!! I'd love to hear about what your working on this week!

Happy Sewing!
Belinda

Linking up with Blossom Heart Quilts for:

                        And Quilt Story for:

                          And Building Blocks Tuesday.

WIP-What sound does a Peacock make?/I'm the Queen!!

We made it! It's mid week, hump day, two days closer to the weekend and my Friday! Yipee! I'm back with the Garden Peacock, as she is still a WIP. I did get the top finished this week, whew! I am so happy with how she turned out!

My little Will, with his mixed matched jammas was front and center to help me get a pic. While his brother wanted to make sure I couldn't see him through the fabric. This Garden Peacock is on her way to becoming a full fledged quilt one day! I'm linking her up with Freshly Pieced for WIP Wednesday.

I'm also co-Queen this month with Paula in the Thread Divas Hive. Since everyone will be making two blocks this month I decided to go simple. I chose the Churn Dash block. This little block is so versatile. For my blocks I asked for a true white background with bright, boy suited colors for the churn dash portion. I used a great little tutorial from Sarah over at Sew Me

Here are my sample blocks:

Connie from my hive is super fast, I received her block already, here it is:

I just love the whales! Its perfect for a little boy! Thank you Connie!


My Co-Queen Paula requested flying geese with centers that coordinated with the 2wenty thr3e Collection by Eric and Julie Comstock of Cosmo Cricket for Moda.

Love this fabric! For the background she wanted either gray or low volume grays with a scrappy feel. Her Sister Wendy worked up a great tutorial for the big geese, you can find it here.

I had a charm pack of the 2wenty thr3e fabric but alas my little squares were not going to be big enough for the center part of the geese. So I raided my stash and found coordinating colors and some low volume greys. Here's what I came up with:

I just love how this block turned out. I don't want to give this one away! It will be headed out this week. I saved the clippings from my geese to make some HST's that I'll use in a future project!

So how is your week going? Can't wait to see!!

TTFN!!

Belinda

Friends of a Feather....Flock together!

I talked one of my hive mates, Erica, into joining the Supernova Friendship Swap being hosted over at Late Night Quilter.

The low down:

Basically you and your partner make 10 Supernova blocks-(Tutorial can be found over at Freshly Pieced) 2 each month- 1 for yourself and 1 for your partner for 5 months. Along with this there will be some fun questions to answer and send with your block each month, this way you get to know each other a little better.

Erica and I swapped a couple fabric options (she made me choose..no pressure) we ended up with Botanique by Joel Dewberry. I asked her to choose the color way that she liked and she chose the Golden Hour and I am doing the Fountain.

 

Isn't this just a beautiful line! Love me some Joel Dewberry! I have my first block for Erica completed. 

 

I'll be sending this beauty out this week! So excited to see the rest of these blocks come together!

TTFN!

Belinda