Archive for January 18th, 2010

Craft Hope for Haiti

Monday, January 18th, 2010

See the new button on my side bar for Craft Hope?  Craft Hope is doing a great thing…..asking crafters to donate items and selling them on Etsy with 100% of the proceeds going to Doctors Without Borders for help in Haiti.  The donations and sales have been incredible for the three days it’s been running.  Far exceeding their expectations.  Click the button for Craft Hope and check out the Etsy store from their link.

Design Wall Monday

Monday, January 18th, 2010

You can check out what other people are working on by checking in with Judy’s Design Wall Monday post.  Here’s what’s on my design wall:

The crumb quilt from my scraps I’m calling Fiesta!  The crumb border blocks are not sewn yet as I’m still playing with the placement but it’s much closer to finished now.

I was involved in a little retail therapy:

But a couple of the piece are to be used immediately (yes, I’m justifying).


This piece is already cut into squares, making 8 napkins (in place of paper so this is a green project…never mind I already have cloth napkins ;) )

This piece I bought to practice some long arm quilting.  I thought these prints of vintage appliqued quilts would provide a fun, structured practice piece.  In addition, one of the other pieces, the purple one, has already been used for the second border on “Fiesta” so that means 5 yards have already been put into play :)

First 2010 Stash Report:

Added:  15     Cumulative Added:  24 yds

Used: 0         Cumulative Used:  0 yds  (I’ll count the napkins when they are finished and the practice piece when I’ve practiced!)

Net Out/(In): (24 yds)  Ugh!

On a better note, here are some pictures of my cats…

Last, here are the fabrics for the January First Saturday blocks.  Can’t wait to get these done.