New Purchases from Fabric Garden

I am so delighted to share my new purchases with all of you.  First, I purchased new fabric (not that I need anymore), Shop Local by Another Point of View from Windham Fabrics.  They are too cute and I am sure that you will agree with me once you see them for yourself.

The owners of the Fabric Garden know that I am a BIG fan of Deb Tucker of Studio 180 Designs.  Deb is an extremely dynamic speaker and has rulers that allow you to make blocks with incredible accuracy.  I purchased her laminated cards that explain how to use her rulers!

The Tucker Trimmer is my favorite of her rulers.  I love to make stars and this ruler allows you to make the most accurate stars.  I watched her demonstrate her rulers at PIQF (Pacific International Quilt Festival) in Santa Clara.  She is a must to watch.

I only went to Fabric Garden to pick up my fourth month installment of Hampton Ridge.  I left with much, much more!  It is so much fun to go and socialize with people (Carol and Jill) who love quilting like I do!

 I will post my blocks when I finish them. 

I purchased a new book also.  I didn't realize that I had the first edition in my library.  The second edition is more comprehensive and it seems that the information that you need is easier to find because of a better index.

The purchase that I am the most excited about is the Frixion Pen.  I can't wait to try it.  I am intrigued by the disappearing ink when the heat of my iron touches it.



My Priorities for the remainder of the week is to finish my blocks for the Vintage Revival Block Along, sew my blocks for Hampton Ridge and finish sewing my blocks together for the saw-tooth star quilt.

Star Blocks are not finished....

I did not finish the Simply Stellar blocks.  They took quite a bit longer for me to sew together.  Of course, I want the points to match so I had to pick at the seams because I either had too much space between the points or cut one off.  I decided to take some time away from the blocks because I became very frustrated.  This is what I have completed so far:

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 I have finished an additional two stars but as I said, I put it away yesterday.  I will try again later today.

Vintage Revival Block Along

The first week of  the Vintage Revival Block Along started yesterday.  Those of us who decided to join received the first set of instructions and which blocks to do this first week.  Sukie showed the colors that she will be using and they are very pretty.  I picked up a jelly roll of Little Azalea by Free Spirit while in the San Diego area from the Fat Quarter Quilt Shop in Vista.  It is a lovely group of fabrics with pink, yellow, aqua, red and many more beautiful colors.  I have quite a bit of Kona Solids and I decided to try to use them together.

 

After looking at all of my fabric choices, I decided to take out the Peridot fabric (third from the top).   The picture on the right shows my fabric choices without the darker green, Peridot.

 

I need to piece the two blocks together tonight so I can get back to the saw-tooth star blocks.  

 I have decided to use these fabrics along with the "Little Azalea" fabrics.

 

 

 

Simply Stellar blocks are done!

I finished the fifteen blue, 8" x 8" sawtooth star blocks quickly.  I was watching the 49er vs Seahawks football game while I was sewing them together.  Unfortunately, the Seahawks won but it was a very exciting game. I finished the fifteen red blocks yesterday and I like them.  

Wild Turkeys 

Yesterday was a wonderful and sunny day.  It was over 65 degrees and mild.  Unfortunately, we are experiencing one of the worst droughts in the history of California.  We will not be able to wash our cars, water our lawns, etc.  I hope it does not effect the wildlife here. 

There were ten male wild turkeys in this group.

One of the bigger males.

Getting back to my quilt, here is the layout of the blocks:

I will try to sew them together by tomorrow evening.

New Quilt Project - Red, White and Blue Quilt

I love red, white and blue quilts.  I picked up The Quilter Magazine last week, the February/March 2014 issue and gazed upon a lovely star quilt that I would love to make.  The quilt is called "Simply Stellar."  About the same time I noticed that the Fat Quarter Shop was advertising the same quilt.  In Kimberly Jolly's blog she mentioned that you can purchase the fabric from her but you had to purchase the magazine separately.  Kimberly publishes patterns under the name of It's Sew Emma.  If you are interested in making this quilt with the colors that Kimberly is using, you can order it from her website:  www.fatquartershop.com.

 


I love sawtooth stars blocks.  I really had to do this quilt in red, white and blue.










This is the entire quilt.  It is so beautiful!  

I am planning on leaving the design of the quilt the same except I will use red fabric in place of the aqua/turquoise fabric.




 



These are the fabrics that I have chosen to use in my quilt.  I have two navy fabrics because I don't think that I have enough of each of the fabrics to finish the quilt.  I will use the one for the stars in the middle of the quilt and use the other for the stars in the border.

I am starting tonight.  I will keep my fingers crossed that I have enough fabric for the blue stars.

I can't help myself, I had to put these photos of Joe Montana's jersey.

Go 49ers! It will be hard hitting but exciting game tomorrow in Seattle!

Finally finished the Chevron Quilt!

I finally finished the Chevron Quilt today.  I was initially waylaid by my oldest daughter.  She asked me if I had a certain charm pack that we purchased together several months ago.  I looked around and could not find it but I found other fat quarters that would fit with the fabrics that she had.  What waylaid me was my own stash.  It needed to be "tweaked."  By that I mean, that I needed to organize it a bit better so I put aside the Chevron Quilt and worked on making my stash easier to get into and find fabric.

I need to find a backing fabric.  I think I will try to do the quilting myself.  I will let you know what I decide.

"Charming Chevrons" - Finished the Blocks!

I finally finished the blocks of the "Charming Chevrons" Quilt...all 42 of them.  Now I just have to decide where to place all of the blocks and I can sew them all together!

They were fun to sew.  I really enjoyed working with the Kona Solid colors.  I never really worked with them before.

I will post more pictures when I am done. 

Great Sale at the Fat Quarter Shop on Fig Tree Fabrics and the Vintage Quilt Revival Book

There is a great sale at the Fat Quarter Shop.  The Vintage Quilt Revival Book that I blogged about a couple of days ago is on sale.  It is 20% off for remainder of the month of January.  It is regularly $27.95, but is now selling at $22.36.  This is a great bargain for a great book.

The other sale at the Fat Quarter Shop are Fig Tree Fabrics!  I just finished my "Little Lollies" quilt that was from a Fig Tree Pattern.  Joanna's fabrics are so yummy.  Here is a way to obtain some of these yummy fabrics at a 50% discount but you have to use the code:  FIGTREE in order to receive the discount at checkout!  The sale lasts until January 12.

The Lollipop pattern that I used last week.