Quilted Jonquil

Design wall Monday…again Be sure to click over to Judy’s DWM post here to check out other quilting things.  My wall is practically empty since I took down the civil war blocks when I was deciding if I would add a border to the Lily’s quilt and what binding to use.  As you can see, I finished Lily’s quilt without any additional borders.

This is Jamie’s pattern under the L ‘ ‘Fair quilt patterns on her blog, L ‘ Fair Quilts.  It’s a free pattern, at least right now, and she does a great job making easy to follow, clear directions.

Here’s my design wall such as it is:

When I was in Italy, my lovely daughter heard there was a fabric vendor at the Sacily market so we took a drive, strolled through the lovely town square, had a wonderful lunch break and found…….some fabric!!

Don’t you just love the salvage on this one?   The pattern on it reminds me of the Murano glass paperweights   Here are some pictures from Sacile.  The town is surrounded by the water way which was built long ago to protect it in war.

Lily & I taking a break at a cafe on the square.

It’s a lovely place and I thoroughly enjoyed our day there.

I’ve added a few more re-purposed shirts to my collection (oops, might have made another trip to the Goodwill Clearance Center).  When the cost is only $0.79 per pound, it’s hard to tell myself no

You know, I might need to “share” some of my shirt fabric with friends if I keep this up OR not include them in my stash report

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Stash Report:

• Fabric in:  34 yards (24 1/2 from Goodwill gift, 7 1/2 Goodwill shirts and 2 from Italy)
  
• Fabric out: 11 yards (Lily’s quilt )
  
• YTD Fabric in: 92 yards
  
• YTD Fabric out: 27 yards
  
• Net Fabric In/(Out): 99 yards accumulated YIKES!!!  My husband might be right, soon I won’t have any room in my sewing room to sew!!

Before leaving for Italy the Goodwill Clearance Center opened up.  Here’s the picture of some the shirts I scored.  The lime green is actually a piece of fabric….more than a yard!

Well the day before I left for Italy a friend and co-worker brought me an LS (Little Surprise).  She’d been back to the GW Clearance Center and snagged me 8 pounds of fabric.  Do you know how much 8 pounds of fabric is???   I didn’t until I returned from Italy and investigated my wonderful gift more closely.

Yes, all of this fabric weighs 8 pounds!  The best part is her story is she found the fabric under a huge pile of stuff and she starting pulling it out just as a woman on the other side of the bin saw what she was getting and starting digging for it too.  My friend say she was digging and pulling as fast as she could to get as much as she could.

Turns out that there is 13 yards of the striped print on the left, 3 1/2 yards of the striped print on the right and two yards of the other four prints for a total of 24.5 yards!!  AMAZING!

Happy Quilting

Aviano, Italy

Aviano grape vines

Reason for traveling to Aviano  Italy, priceless!

Absolutely beautiful!!

Lily & Grandma in Venice

And how about some quilt-y content?  Like a finished quilt?

Lily’s quilt (pattern here) (check out the blue Aviano sky!)

Ciao!

I’m leaving for Italy tomorrow to see my new granddaughter, Liliana Sofia, so I won’t be blogging for a bit.

My design wall looks the same as last week but folks on Judy’s Design Wall Monday post have fun new stuff to see.

I’m all sewed out at the moment as I, true to form, had to hurry up and finish boppy covers and quilt binding for Lily this weekend.    Ciao!!

I realized I never blogged about my test flower once I had it finished.  I’m pleased with it

I’ll be making a yellow flower like it to put in the center of the background below, for the quilt show ribbon I’m making.

Here are pictures of some past quilt show ribbons made by our guild members.

For my benefit, I took some additional pictures of the fabrics I purchases in Paducah.

I bought some bolt end pieces of Kona (the pieces in the middle), snagged 4 (or maybe it is 5) yards of some GORGEOUS Moda Bella cheddar (my name, not Moda’s) on the left and one yard of Kona orange, which is pretty bright but it goes with the Lizzy House fabrics is this picture.

These flannels were picked up for $4/yard and the quality is just wonderful.

The piece in the middle is the backing for the flower wheel quilt for my new granddaughter Lily   I was so pleased to find it as I think it’s perfect

I also picked up some black & white fabrics to use with the First Saturday blocks (the one in the middle is one we’ve actually used in a block)  we are doing as well as some browns & creams for a coffee & cream quilt.

I just had to snag a yard of this squirrel fabric, it is too cute

I picked up some pink fabrics (pink was the color of the day which meant another $0.50 off) and a wonderful kiwi green piece

At $2/yard, I snagged the pinks on top along with the polka dots.  The bold pink Finlandia strip from Free Spirit was part of the “color of the day” purchases.

A nice red strip, a neutral shirting and nice yellow reproductions were purchased at $3.50 & $4.00/yard.

Purples are always welcome   Especially when two of them are from Piece o’ Cake, woo hoo!

When doing a lot of scrappy and/or small stuff, grab bags are a quick way to get variety so I couldn’t resist getting one of Cherrywood fabric and another of hand dyes.  Check out all the wonderful colors.

Happy Quilting!!!

The civil war blocks from Barbara Brackman are piling up on my design wall   Check out Design Wall Monday at Judy’s post here.

This week’s block isn’t completely finished as it wasn’t going together very well.  I’ll take it apart and start over at another time.

I did finish a signature block for Victoria that I dropped in the mail today.

My trip to the new Goodwill Clearance Center yielded a few new shirts to add to my thrifted fabric collection.   The quality of the items was, in some respects, better than I had anticipated.  The items are in “bins” but not the canvas wheeled bins I had pictured but essentially rolling elevated shallow bins so the items are at waist height and easy to sort through.  I was disappointed there weren’t many men’s shirts but that could just be a fluke.  On the other hand, I found quite a few other items and only spent $10.17.  Here are the washed and ready to deconstruct items I bought.  These will not be added to my stash report until they are cut and ready to use

Stash Report – no change from previous:

• Fabric in:  0 yards
  
• Fabric out: 0 yards
  
• YTD Fabric in: 92 yards
  
• YTD Fabric out: 16 yards
  
• Net Fabric In/(Out): 76 yards accumulated

I had to make another thread catcher and realized I didn’t link to the tutorial I used to make these.   It’s on The Stitching Room blog here.

In my work bag I have a small quilting bag with thread, scissors, needles and scraps.  When I’m not organized enough to have a prepped applique project with me, I use the scraps to make tile blocks.  I finished my third one on the way home on the Metrolink last night.  These are really quite fun and I have no rules other than I use the scraps in the bag.   I just felt like making a blue tile block

Another Design Wall Monday

I’m all caught up on Barbara Brackman’s civil war BOW blocks even with the trip to Paducah

I’ve added enough to the Zigzag 9 top that it doesn’t fit on my design wall.   Blocks set on point do not make for nice in-progress pictures, lol!

Okay, now for the stash report…….

Stash Report:

• Fabric in:  0 yards……wait I mean 65 beautiful, on sale, lovely-to-touch, fabulous yards
  
• Fabric out: 0 yards
  
• YTD Fabric in: 92 yards
  
• YTD Fabric out: 16 yards
  
• Net Fabric In/(Out): 76 yards accumulated