Off to see Mickey...

I am off  to Disneyland with Dreams Take Flight for a trip of a lifetime for 5 of my students and many other children!  It will be a 24 hour whirlwind!  Thank you Air Canada and all the other fabulous sponsors!!!!

You are my sunshine!

I am getting there!  I only have one more line to go and then I can start putting all the letters together.  Then the fun part comes with trying to figure out the layout of the words.  I have been pretty scrappy with this.  The letters are made with a variety of grays and each letter has scrappy yellows.  I will need to make sure that the same grays do not line up in the layout.  I can see an "E" that I will need to switch out because the "I" above it is the same fabric.  Yoiks!  That just will not do.

Up next... "When skies are gray."  The letters are easy to sew together.  The time consuming part is the cutting out of each piece of the letters, prior to sewing.  I found it worked well for me to do a word at a time.  That is cutting out all the bits of each letter needed for the word and then sewing all the letters together for that word before moving on.  I found the "H" to be really wide so on the last one that I made I narrowed it.  I may go back and narrow the others.  I did that by cutting a chunk off the middle portion of the "H".

Some scrappy goodness!

I have had a little bit of fun with this yesterday.  Red, purple, yellow, pink and orange wonky scrappy log cabins!  25 blocks so far with green and blue yet to make appearances!  And my scrap boxes do not look any different, people!  I have to confess that I did not press any seams until the block was together.  I just flattened them with my trusty finger.  The blocks are a happy 8.5" square!  Eek!  I love it!

This is all part of the Scrappy Stash Quilt Along over at Ellison Lane Quilts.

Have scraps!  It isn't too late to join in the fun!



Linking up with Amy Lou Who for the Not at the Sewing Summit linky party and Judy's Design Wall Monday.

How about a little bit of flea market finds?

How could I resist?  Simply lovely and a bargain at a $1 each so they came home with me.  Other than that, I did pick up some fabric that will make fabulous Jane Market bags.  Not this weekend though because I was spending quality time with my sewing machine all day whipping up monochromatic scrappy log cabins.  I will show those off tomorrow because I had one heck of a lot of fun churning those out.

Off to visit with my card ladies tonight.  On the agenda... whist, good eats and lots of laughing guaranteed!

Random Thursday

Oh my goodness!  I love using these hair elastics for button loops but I can usually only find a small bundle of them at the dollar store and I had used up all my favourite colours.  I have been looking in every dollar store I am near for more and nothing!  Until the other day when I hit the mother lode.  Will you look at that!?  200 hair elastics in assorted colours and the correct thickness to offer happy button looping.  $2.25 each.  Woo hoo!  This will keep me in button loops for a long long time.

And look at the versatility in these fabulous packets of sewing happiness!  If bored I can play ball!  Life cannot get any better.

But wait... quilt guild is tonight and yes, life can get better than finding packets of hair elastics! 

Happy 10-11-12 day!

Linking up with Cindy for Random Thursday.

Squeal!

In September I entered one of my wee Mendocino needlebooks in the My Precious Quilt Along.  I won a yard of Heather Ross Yellow Dogs fabric donated by Katie at Swim Bike Quilt!!!!!  Seriously yummy fabric.  It has the beautiful silky hand that you find with other Heather Ross fabrics.  Just so lovely!

I am off to write a thank you note!!!

Work in Progress Wednesday on a Tuesday

1)  Officially a work in progress.  "Another Star" is coming along just fine and I am using a variety of Kaffe Fassett and Martha Negley florals with a few little other pretties.  I seem to be making the stars in pairs so as I have more blocks, the variety of florals will increase and be less matchy matchy looking.  This is fun and I think would lend very nicely to scraps too.

2)  I finished this little needlebook last Friday so that is off the list and ready to be a door prize at quilt guild.

 3)  Being away all weekend, I was separated from my sewing machine.  This trauma was made up for by being able to spend all that lovely time with Daughter and her Special Someone.  I did however make dishcloths like a crazy old knitting lady.

4)  And I have been putting together a Halloween goodie bag for a quilt guild swap on Thursday.   Seriously fun.  What do we have there besides chocolate?  Hmmm.  Some Halloween buttons.  So wonderful black and white twine on a wooden spool.  2 Ghastlies fat quarters and a pack of napkins that say "broom rides 50 cents."  I added a chunk of Kona Kumquat as an extra just a minute ago and then I have to stuff it all into the Halloween bucket.  Too much fun!

5)  My Proverbial quilt has not had any attention this week.  It must be getting lonely.

Linking up with Lee for Work in Progress Wednesday! and the Needle and Thread Network for Canadian bloggers.