More birthday fun!

I have wanted this book for a long time!  It always pays to have an idea when daughter's ask for a birthday list!  Liberty love.  Perfect!

Sunday Stash...

This is fabric birthday fun.  My birthday is coming up so I got to drag Husband around to a whole bunch of quilt shops on the weekend.  Some Road 15.  And we could not find our address despite having submitted it to Sweetwater.  Pout!  I still love the fabric though!  I picked Road 15 up at the Needle and I in Burnaby.  Cute wee shop!  They also had some bolts on 50% off so I brought some home.  Including the stripe from Bonnie and Camille.  Awesome!

At Fabricana in Coquitlam... rulers, clocks etc... FUN!

And finally at My Little Quilt Shop in the Woods, only open on Fridays and Saturdays between Mission and Maple Ridge, up in the hills, it was all about dots.  And because I was a first time visitor, the lovely owner gave me these awesome thread tweezers!  Nice!  Her prices were seriously awesome!

There you go.  Happy Birthday to me!

Road to Fortune!

  Name:  Road to Fortune

Design: a traditional paper pieced block, inspiration That Stash Bee February

Size:  approx  70" by 70"

Fabric:  Scraps and stash fabrics for binding, borders and backing

Quilted: by me with Aurifil 50 wt in white on the diagonal

It's finished!  I have been working on this one since last spring.  I first made several blocks for That Stash Bee and thought, "hey, these are fun!"  So I made more of them.  25 of them to be exact.  I made one a week for awhile until I decided I was tired of them.  Then I decided that I really need to just get this finished!  Totally made from scraps, the Road to Fortune block is a paper pieced traditional block.  I even used white scraps so the white in each block is also scrappy.   The quilt is bound in one of my favourite binding fabrics, a purple tone on tone from RJR fabrics from forever ago.
I quilted it on the diagonal in aurifil 50 wt in white.  Erg.  Quilting on the diagonal.  It is just awkward!  But I love the look!  The quilt is backed with some brightly coloured dragonfly print and a print from Ikea that I have had forever.  I know I made our daughter a sun dress with it when she was about 6 or 7 and she is now 24!  I added a bit of scrappy-ness in the borders too.
Isn't it fun to finish a quilt!  Linking up with Amanda Jean for finish it up Friday.

Off to quilt guild tonight...

It is our 3rd anniversary meeting and we have much fun planned...  I so look forward to our guild meeting each month!  What a bunch of great ladies!!!

We are swapping 5" charms sewn together with a basting stitch.  Fun for decoration and easy to remove the basting stitch!

And we are each bringing at least one of these... and they will all go into a big basket and one person will win them all!  So exciting!  and then there will be door prizes, show and tell and visiting!

linking up with Cindy for Random Thursday.

Work in Progress Wednesday...

Quilting...

Binding...

Cutting...

This is pretty much how I spent the weekend.  I quilted Road to Fortune.  I had an idea to quilt it on the diagonal.  why do I do that to myself.  Diagonal quilting is such a pain in the butt.  Anyway.  Got that done.  Had to unpick the first long line of diagonal quilting because the stitch quality was wonky.  Unpicked it.  Put in a new needle and we were back to flawless stitching.  How strange is that.  I actually thought the first needle was a new needle but it was obviously not a good one.

Then I made the binding out of that purple tone on tone which I just adore for binding brightly coloured quilts.  What am I going to do when I run out?  I have used it on so many quilts.  I bought it at the thrift store a few years ago.  Maybe 8 or 10 metres of it.

Then I started organizing and cutting I spy fabric into  4" squares.  Stacks of them so that I can just start stitching them together when I feel the need to make one or four of these.  I get such a kick out of cutting these for optimal I Spy fun.

Work in Progress Wednesday on a Tuesday.  What about you?  Linking up with The Needle and Thread Network and Lee at Freshly Pieced.

You just never know when...

you are going to find rare, out of print, original Flea Market Fancy.  Yep.  Almost 1/2 yard of the original Flea Market Posy print.  Are you ready for how much I paid for it?  $1.  Sigh.  It was a good moment.  Husband and I went to the Mennonite Relief Sale on the weekend.  It is just such a lot of fun.  Great food.  Lots of thrifty things to buy and of course, quilts.  And where there are quilts, there is fabric and I was looking through the tubs of fat quarters, and larger pieces and then I saw it.  I politely asked the price and the lady said, "Oh, how about a dollar."  And I said, "mmm, okay."  It was a total, Ikea start the car commercial moment.

Giggle.  This is now the third chunk of original Flea Market Fancy that I have bought at a thrift store or sale.

On the design wall... I mean barn wall

My bee blocks for September for That Stash Bee.  The pattern for the block is Fresh Lemons, Lemon Squares.  This is a very familiar pattern for me as I have made quite a few baby quilts with it. And it is a great pattern because you make a bunch of different blocks and the centre square can be fussy cut for interest or not. Michonne asked for a few blocks with a palette of mint, celery, brown, white and perhaps true green.  So that is what I did.  This is the first time that a car has been a colour inspiration for blocks that I make but what the heck.  Apparently the recipient of this quilt has a vintage car in a fabulous mint green.  Bee blocks in the mail.  Yum.  Linking up with Judy for Design Wall Monday.