Sunday Stash...

We had our Fraser Valley Modern Quilt Guild meeting last week and Jean opened up a pop up shop for all of us.  Oh my goodness, I went a little dotty.   Bike path, dots and pearl bracelets.

It rained all weekend which meant lots of sewing and of course, Father's Day celebrating.  If it keeps up, I may have to quilt an ark!

A sneak peak... Warp and Weft Sewing Society...fabric happy!

Oh my goodness!  I have a lovely bunch of fabric waiting to be chopped up!  These are a few of Lotta Jansdotter's new lines, Mormor and Sylvia.  Esmari from Warp and Weft sent them to me after asking me to join the lovely ladies in the Warp and Weft Sewing Society.  We are all sewing with a selection from Mormor and Sylvia this month.  It is lovely and fresh!  And yes, there are even some gorgeous, saturated solids to go along with the prints.  Fabric happiness!  

And just in case you didn't figure it out, you can find this lovely fabric at Warp and Weft!   I have to stash some of it, quick!  The Mist Little Blomster is a perfect low volume print, don't you think?  And the black and whites in Sylvia are awesome.  Check it out.  It will make you think of spring sunshiny days ahead.  And yes, the forsythia is blooming.  Happy Spring!

This is what came in the mail on Friday

How fun is it to get a box of fat quarter bundles delivered right to the door?  There are 23 bundles of goodness for the Fraser Valley Modern Quilt Guild's next Warp and Weft challenge.  I wonder what I will make with these!?  My guild buddies will have to take my word for it... this is a bunch of fabric eye candy!

From the top... 
Dots Blue Moon from Up, Up and Away by Skinny LaMinx for Cloud 9 Fabrics
Pennants waving ivory from Koi by Rashida Hale-Coleman for Cloud 9 Fabrics
Swallow Study in Lavender from Bungalow by Joel Dewberry for Westminster/Free Spirit Fabrics
Specimen Struck from Field Study by Anna Maria Horner for Westminster/Free Spirit Fabrics
King's Road  from Carnaby Street by Pat Bravo for Art Gallery Fabrics
Ladylike from Carnaby Street by Pat Bravo  for Art Gallery Fabrics

Sunday Stash and the story of a yucky ironing board

My Mum sent me a package of fabric the day.  She has taken advantage of a sale at her local quilt shop.  Thanks Mum!!!!!  I think she did really well.  Mum included a little note to say that I had to look carefully through the fabric and I was to think of money in a birthday cake.  This is what I found.  My Great Grandmother's pocket watch.  Isn't it so lovely?????  I am thrilled and it just needs a chain.

Yesterday I spent the day with a bunch of my guild members at an all day sew in.  We have so much fun.  There was a lot of laughing and a whole lot of fabric talk.  I did not get a ton of sewing done but I did manage to put together one of my Lucky Stars blocks.  Seriously!  It had a ton of pieces and I used my stitch ripper a lot.  Just saying.  Today I made another one and I got grossed out by my ironing board cover.

I went to the great wall of fabric and found this print.  It looked like ironing board fabric to me so I flipped over the ironing board and traced the board onto the fabric.  I then cut out the ironing board shape plus about 3" and attached some purchased bias tape, threaded some narrow elastic through the bias casing and...

this...  blech!

now looks like this...  Much better!