It’s TIME…

Just a quick reminder…to hop on over to AMY’S and vote for the quilts that tickle your fancy!  After you vote, remember to leave a comment on Amy Blog’s as she is having a wonderful GIVE AWAY!!

I’m off to Nanaimo this morning with ‘the girls’ for Nanaimo’s Guild’s Quilt Show!  Hold onto your thimbles as I hear it’s a good one! 

Thanks for stopping by!  Hope you have a fun day filled with stitching!~P

Buds in a Basket Quilt

This project is proof that with a little stitch here and a little stitch there, the project will EVENTUALLY get done!!  And it surprisingly didn’t take all that long!

The actual baskets were fast and easy to make…you make the rounded template…cut out the shapes and then sew the curves together…All the round flowers and leaves are hand appliquéd (using the starch and freezer paper method).

Now it’s playtime…Oh my…didn’t they multiply…

I was scrambling for more of this soft cream coloured Kona cotton…whew…got to love your stash!  Whenever I see Kona cotton on sale down south I always buy some yardage…and I must REALLY love this cream colour because I had tons of it!

Yup…I’m loving these little baskets!!     The pattern is called ‘Buds in a Basket Quilt’ by designer Sachiko Yasuda and can be found in the book ‘A Bouquet of Quilts’.  This buds for you!  :o)  I just HAD to say it!

The sun is shining and the grass is blinding my eyes it’s so GREEN…and so are those dang weeds!!  Can you guess what I’ll be doing today?  In between pulling a few of those weeds…I think it will be smelling some of my own buds…rose buds that is!  I hope you get to smells a few buds today too! Have a good one!  ~P

Scrap Happy Diversion…

A few weeks ago, I bought a Ziploc bag of nine patch blocks from the Share Table at Heritage.  I know…I know…I do NOT need someone else’s UFOs!  I have plenty of my own!  But these nine patch blocks were scrappy…and not very happy!  They needed a home…one where they would be loved and appreciated for their scrappy goodness!

I had lost steam on the modern zig zag quilt that I am making for my daughter and these were the perfect diversion…I needed to PLAY!!  And play I did…

Man, I love the Internet…after deciding to put the blocks on point I  Googled ‘Putting quilt blocks on point’ and got this site by Quilt Bug.  Made it SEW easy!!

I teamed the blocks up with a beige Kona cotton…and formed my rows…

Laid them out…

And stitched them together…

Before I knew it…the rows were together and I had a quilt top!

Then I added a wide beige border to make it appear that the blocks were floating and then decided to add a wonky vine running around the circumference….(Sorry this is so wrinkled…it happens to the best of us!:)  SEW…this is where I’m at today…I have a new hand stitching project waiting for me…I will hand appliqué the vine to the quilt before I even think about adding leaves and flowers!!

Isn’t it weird how someone else’s UFO looks way more appealing then your own?  Maybe the secret to getting UFOs finished is to trade them with a friend!  Hmmmm food for thought!!  What I do know is that I am loving this scrap HAPPY quilt…and yes, it is HAPPY!!

Hey, the sun is shining in my corner of the world this morning…and just listen to those birds!!   How about you??  Are you having a sunny scrap HAPPY Day?  I sure hope SEW! ~P