Sunday Stash

First up.  This is some for real vintage fabric.  One of the quilt guild ladies brought a couple bags of vintage fabric from her mother's house to see if any of us were interested.  Darlene and I nicely arm wrestled for it.  This is what I brought home.  Seriously love these.  The daisy print is very much like Liberty.  Lightweight and almost silky cotton.  The blue.  Oh man.  Possibly a linen cotton blend and there is quite a length of it but it is very narrow.   And a little closer view.

 Then we have the fat quarter swap haul from the quilt guild meeting last week.  The theme was "hot off the press" and I came home with some pretties.  Some Happy Go Lucky, some Architextures, some Comma and some bikes!

I love fabric.  Seriously.  Linking up for the first time with Fiona at Finding Fifth for Sunday Stash who has passed the reins over to Allison at Dreaming in Patchwork for this week.

Thoroughly Modern Mini.. Sawdust and Ash

On Sunday I took 9 "sawdust blocks" that I put together in April and I turned them into a mini for the Modern Mini Challenge.  In fact, the mini is actually a pillow cover, measuring about 18" by 18".  So what are sawdust blocks?  They are in fact, little 3.5" foundation pieced blocks using up a bunch of little tiny scraps that I cannot bear to toss out.  My husband calls these little scraps sawdust so these are sawdust blocks.  Why ash?  Because they blocks are offset by Kona Ash.  I like it!  I quilted the mini with a grey variegated Aurifil 50 wt, straight lines, lots of straight lines.  

sawdust blocks before

in process

Linking up with Jennifer at  Ellison Lane Quilts for the Modern Mini Challenge and with Amanda Jean for Finish it Up Friday.

Work In Progress Wednesday on Tuesday

These are my Lucky Stars BOM blocks on the barn wall.  It was nice to see them altogether.  I was on the fence about the more subdued block in the middle but I think it works in the whole grand scheme of things, especially if I make another block with a bit of the lighter mauve in it.  I do think they are coming together nicely.

Other than that I have been making some more depression blocks in my black and white tv theme for my month of That Stash Bee.  I have also been receiving blocks in the mail which is a heck of a lot of fun.  I have almost all of them in my hot little hands and on the design wall but I need to make enough for a good size quilt.

Sign ups are happening for the Modern Scrappy Bits Swap on Flickr.  Round 4 people!  Sign up!

I also made a mini quilt for the Modern Mini Challenge at Ellison Lane Quilts.  But that is for tomorrow!

Linking up with Lee at Freshly Pieced and the Needle and Thread Network for Canadian bloggers.

Lucky Stars BOM... June

I made this block completely on my Featherweight at the Sew In on Saturday and here it is on the barn wall.  I kept the colour scheme going but this block is more subdued.  I did that because Elizabeth suggested a more muted colour palette in the directions but I am still on the fence a bit.  I think it works in the whole scheme of the rest of the blocks and I will post a picture of all the blocks together tomorrow.  I thought I had taken more of the bright green with me to the the Sew In. It is a bright green pin dot from Camille's Ruby line.  All I had with me was a little scrap and I used every last little bit of it for those little green bits in the block.  Silly me.  Oh well.  And this took me hours to make by the way.  I am not sure if I am a pokey paper piecer or if this is normal.  I even had most of the fabric pre-cut and it still took me forever!!!!!!  I have to say that I am glad I  only do one of these a month.  They are really pretty but..  Just saying!  Have a super day!

Sew in... Darlene promised sugar, lots of sugar!

She delivered.  Sugar!

Essentials of a successful sew in.  Sugar and lots of coffee.  Darlene organized a great sew in for our guild, the fabulous Fraser Valley Modern Quilt Guild.  We gathered in a room at the University of the Fraser Valley.  Lots of people were busy quilting and I was making my Lucky Stars BOM.  grrr  paper piecing  grrr.  But I got 'er done and a lot of other things done too.  

I did take a few pictures-just a sampling... let's see.  Here is Laura with a football themed bunting baby quilt.  You have to look at her clever free motion quilting.  Lots of footballs and football terms.  Cute!!!!

Then Colleen was cranking out pillow tops made from a couple of Moda Candy packs with some solids and some linen.  Here is one of them. Look at all the HSTs!  Nice!

Barb was quilting this Tula Pink love quilt.  She backed it with minky and she experienced some frustration.  And I learned a new term for the balled up thread that you get on the back of the quilt when things go wrong.    Bobbin barf.  Love that.  So there.  A wonderful day with wonderful quilty people.

Just so you know...

"go away spam comments"

I have had to turn word verfication on because I have been getting hit pretty hard with very poorly written spam comments.  So when you go to leave a comment you will have to type in the computer generated nonsense word or two that pops up to prove you are a real person.  Sorry!  Seriously, spammers, at least make the comments make sense!  Hopefully I can turn the word verification off again in a little while but for now, the walls are up.  Take that spammers!

Oh... this little guy was carved by my Dad and sits in the crook of the giant maple tree that is the centre piece of my Mum's back deck.  And he doesn't like spammers either!  Have a super day! I am off to the sew in!

EDITED:  Lucy suggested this.... "Turn off anonymous comments and then moderate comments older than a week - it works for me!"  

So that is what I am going to do!  Thanks Lucy!

Bee Blocks... June

Deb at A Quilter's Table asked for Modern Maple blocks in leaf colours for the June in That Stash Bee.  So that is what I made.  I am looking forward to seeing this one come together.  I really waffled about which fabric to use and finally I told myself to just do it!  Hopefully this works for you, Deb!

In other quilting news, I had to miss this month's meeting of the Fraser Valley Modern Quilt Guild because of work stuff.  Grrr.  Darn.  But tomorrow we are having a sew in so that goes along way in making up for it.  Sewing has been on the back burner lately because I have been SO BUSY!  I described it as BAD BUSY the other day.  Hopefully I will remember to take some pictures of what people are doing!!!!!  I plan on making the June block for the Lucky Stars BOM and some other stuff that has been simmering.

A quilt I made was presented yesterday though.  That was good.  I made it for our school secretary's retirement as a gift from the staff.  She liked it.

Linking up with Amanda Jean for Finish it Friday because this is my only finish!  Eeek!