Introductions...

May I introduce you to my version of

Simply Charming #1...

Bits 'n Pieces:

I used my pre-cut scraps

(YAY FOR SCRAP BUSTING!!!) -

I changed the pattern a little,

as I made my little quilt seven blocks long & used 3" sashing.

It finished 18" by 27".

1 1/2" squares for the four-patches

and 2 1/2" squares for the light setting triangles.

Since I have a whole box of 1 1/2" scraps,

I whipped the blocks up in no time at all.

Thanks, Terry, for sharing your finish today! and giving me the "push" I need
to try to keep up with you!!!
And,
Thanks, Darlene, for the group challenge project...
I'm starting to ROCK! :)

Sally Post, Lucy Boston, the Garden, and a Club House

The last few weeks while 
recuperating from Flu York,
and online browsing,
I found another quilty project!!!

It's Sally Post! 

The Sally Post quilt is an 1854 applique beauty -

and a group of gals are doing this quilt

as a sew-along this year! 

Isn't it gorgeous??!!

 (Thanks, Karen at Log Cabin Quilter

for sharing your first block

that got me hooked on this beautiful quilt project!!!,

and for welcoming me into the Sally Post /
Prim Folk Art Quilts group!)

 (If you are interested also,
visit Karen's blog: Log Cabin Quilter - she has the info link!)

Here's me,
telling MYSELF
the reasons why
I can start
another project:

The Sally Post quilt is applique! - 

so I can do some much-loved needleturning.

It's small blocks! - 

I love small blocks.

It's ongoing! -

a block a week for the next year.

It's a free pattern! -  

just print the block templates as you need them.

And, It's a pretty laid-back group! -

 no rules, no commitment, do as many as you want!

Yeah, I know I NEED another project.

Especially another large project...

• I've just started Lucy Boston the English paper piecing beauty (goal: one block/week)
• I also have at least two, large, hand, redwork embroidery projects going- one of them the Gardener's Alphabet  by Crabapple Hill (hopefully to finish this year)
• I have quilt tops  (plural) that I've had ready to quilt for years (yes, plural, again)
• I need to do a total redo of my quilting studio (it's looking like a cave, it's so loaded with fabric/projects/scraps)
• speaking of scraps...I just got the book Simply Charming - Small Scrap Quilts of Yesteryear to use up some scraps/stash, so those little projects are on the horizon as well

But, I've decided, I like having too many projects ongoing.
It's a great feeling -

Sally and Lucy will become friends,

and then meet in the garden 

of my Gardener's Alphabet...
with their Simply Charming little quilts...

Like it's a CLUB HOUSE
in my messy quilt room!

So, Welcome 
to the club house, Sally!!

Winners & another quilt-a-long

This is what I sent to my winners from last week:

"The yellow ones don't stop" 
was a trivia question from my New York City trip -
you know...the trip THREE WEEKS AGO
 where I came back with Flu York...
I'm finished with feeling yucky-finally, mostly.  
Flu is gone, it's now just a residual bronchial happening.   
I can deal with that - drugs and more drugs.

Anyway, 'cause I was bored, 
(three weeks without leaving your house will do that)
and shopping browsing online,
I ordered this book for myself...a get-better-quick gift.

Simply Charming 

Small Scrap Quilts of Yesteryear

by Tara Lynn Darr

I also ordered a couple extra copies of this book
to send to my WINNERS!!

It's a great book for vintage, small quilt projects.

Also, since I've been bored and online,
I found a group of quilters
doing a quilt-a-long FROM THIS BOOK!!!
HERE (Kathy at Kindred Quilts)
and HERE (Darlene at Quilting Daze).

What's better than that?

A great new book 

AND 

a vintage, small quilt quilt-a-long 

at the same time!!!

So, congrats Cheryl and Terry!
I know you'll love the the book!
Just don't know if you'll love me 
for finding you a new, YEAR LONG, quilting project!!

Happy Stitching!!