A Scrapbusting Retreat!

Hello Everyone,

I just arrived home last night from a wonderful weekend at Victoria's. We relaxed, ate, chatted, laughed, and sewed until our hearts were content. We came from near and far to be with Victoria for this fun filled weekend.

Here we are, our entire group... minus me (I am taking the photo). But you can see another photo with me in it over at Victoria's.

Kim and Jessica really getting into those scraps! We all came with some to add to the mix, but Victoria was the winner... she had the most scraps by far.

Victoria happily sewing away.

Andrea arranging her beautiful blocks. She finished this quilt by the weeks end. I love this and Andrea knows it! My kind of colors.

Helen taking a break with her new furry friends. They really wanted to see what she was doing.

Karen was buried in fabric all weekend. Lots of greens and wait until you see what she made. Man was she prolific.

Kim stopped in for the night on Friday and brought some handwork. LeeAnn spent the weekend sewing HST's. Bonnie sat next to LeeAnn and is in the first picture. Not sure why I don't have a picture of her here.

Before the retreat, Karen had put out a call for all of us to make a "house" block for Victoria and include the color orange. Here is what we came up with...

Aren't they wonderful? Victoria was just tickled. I am so excited to see what she will do with them. I know whatever it is, it will be terrific!! My block is the tall, skinny skyscraper on the left side.

More photos to come!!

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A Scrapbusting Retreat!

Completed!

Hello Everyone,

My Peruvian Pinwheels quilt is now completed. I added the blue binding and it frames it up nicely. I signed the back for Rosa and wrote out a special card for her.

As you read this post now, I have delivered it to Victoria so that she can take it on the long journey to Peru for me. Oh how I wish I was going back there with her. What a wonderful magical place.

I think that Rosa will love it. Thanks, Victoria for taking it to her for me! If you are interested in making one just like this, you can see my Lil' Twister Tutorial on the left sidebar or just click here.

One other side note, this week's special in my online shop is ALL Art Gallery fabrics are on marked down to $7.15 per yard. Just click here to see all the lovely fabrics.

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Completed!

Scrap EXPLOSION!!

Hello Everyone,

Yesterday, I went through my scrap bin for a couple of reasons. First, I am heading to Victoria's for a little weekend of quilting with 8 quilting buddies. But we are all bringing scraps so that we can create.

As you can see, I have my fair share...

Of course, I am sharing many of these and it will be fun to see them appear in other creations than my own. Man, these ladies are talented, so they won't go to waste.

The other reason is that I was making a little something for Victoria!! Shhh... she'll see it soon enough. But here are my cuttings from some of the scraps that I used for her. Cheerful, aren't they?

This is what my scrap space looked like when I was done for the day. A definite explosion, but loaded with creativity. I must say it was quite fun!

Do you have these types of explosions?

Don't forget, today is the last day for the Westminster Fabric Sale! They are marked down to $7.15 per yard. But, since I am away for the weekend your orders will be shipped promptly on March, 14. Just click here to start shopping.

Scrap EXPLOSION!!

Modern Basics Giveaway Winner

Hello Everyone,

Thank you to all who entered Amy's Modern Basics Giveaway!! But I am sorry to say there could only be one winner on my blog and Mr. Random Number Generator and I drew...

Lucky commenter #89 Sallie of Sallie's Sampler. Congratulations, Sallie! Your autographed copy of Modern Basics will be on its way.

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Modern Basics Giveaway Winner

Quilted

Hello Everyone,

Peruvian Pinwheels is quilted! I decided to keep it a little elegant, but still simple.

I wanted the pinwheels to be accentuated and not lost, so I only did feathers on the inner border.

Then I did 1/4 inch echo quilting around the pinwheels and the inner body.

I used matching thread so as not to detract from the pinwheels.

And stitched in the ditch between the inner and out borders, leaving the outer border alone.

This is a photo of the back. I think it looks pretty cool.

And it is perfectly centered. A few of you asked me on the last post how I keep it centered. The answer is that you have to do a lot of careful measuring when piecing the back and then again after it is loaded onto the long arm. With a little planning and measuring it really comes up quite nice.

Now the binding is half sewn down by hand, so hopefully I will have some pictures of that soon for you.

Don't forget... ALL Westminster Fabrics are marked down to $7.15 per yard through March 11. We just received 100+ NEW bolts too!! Just click here to begin shopping.

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Quilted

The Back

Hello Everyone,

I really needed to get the back done for Rosa's Peruvian Pinwheels quilt. It will be delivered to her in just 2 short weeks!! I am so excited to be making this gift for her.

Anyway, I had some leftovers from my Colors of Peru quilt and decided they would be perfect to piece into the back for Peruvian Pinwheels.

I really like how the back came out and have it perfectly centered too.

Plus the fact that I had just the right amount of squares!!

Here they are side by side. As I type this, I have it on my long arm and am completing the quilting! This was my goal for the weekend. Hopefully tomorrow, I can get the binding on, at least by machine. This is small enough where I can hand sew the binding pretty quickly.

Also, in case you haven't heard... ALL Westminster Fabrics are marked down to $7.15 per yard through March 11. We just received 100+ NEW bolts too!! Just click here to begin shopping.

Also, don't forget to enter my giveaway by clicking here, today is the LAST day. Good Luck!

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The Back

What Would You Do?

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As you know, I just returned from vacationing in Arizona. While there, we went to the swap meet. We do this every time we go visit my parents. There are tons of vendors and interesting things to see and buy.

This year there was a particular vendor that caught my eye. He had some imports from India. I saw this...

Beautiful color and embellishment. My first thought is how cool would this be to work it into a quilt?

Beautiful embroidery and sequins on a purple background.

Just fabulous color and embellishment and it all belongs to this...

I just had to have it! Isn't it beautiful and it was a bargain... $15!!!

Then that wasn't all, I saw this in HOT pink. We all know how much I love HOT pink.

More beautiful embellishment!

Embroidery and sequins... simply heaven.

Even with gold thread too. Just wonderful and this one all belongs to this...

Double the elephants, double the size, but not quite double the price! This was only $25! I thought it was a bargain too. Now I have these two beautiful panels...

So what is your first instinct? What would you do? If you would make a quilt, how large would you make it? I definitely won't cut them apart. I have so many ideas floating in my head. But I would love to hear yours too.

Oh and don't forget to enter my giveaway by clicking here. Good luck!

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What Would You Do?