I found a way to get more quilting time!!! & recent quilting

OK - not really -

I DID NOT find a way to get more quilting time.

Only dreaming.  
Or an April 1st joke. 
But it would be nice, wouldn't it?

Unlimited quilting time and projects?

This subject come up because of all the CUTE, GREAT QUILTS I get to meander over.

As an example:  Sharon's little hand-stitched piece from a pattern from Primitive Quilts and Projects Spring 2013 magazine:

 (sorry, I tried three times, and this pic does not want to be right side up.)

The next piece I got to quilt is a shop sample for Good Wives Co.:

(four blocks for a table topper finished at about 50" square)

Wouldn't this be great - maybe four blocks by four blocks,

summer weight and tied for a MY bed??!

I know, *I DO NOT NEED another project*,

but (:there's always a but! :) 
this one would be a fast and easy finish!!

Another finish by Sharon:

"Spring Steps" (a Good Wives pattern and kit)

I love the colors of this... may have to add this to my project wish list.  I know, I know... *, see above* :)

Last on the quilting list for the past couple of weeks:

(sorry again! this pic does not want to be right side up, either.)

Karen finished up this Ohio State University quilt - it's 57" by 62", and she seemed to have it done in no time at all.  The pattern is by AD Designs - Alphabet Soup Quilt Patterns.

I DO have one of these OSU quilts in the works for a gift...
but only about half of my pieced blocks are made,
so I should get right on this, shouldn't I?

Every quilt that I get meander over makes me want to start another project!!
Is there a way to make more quilting time???

Happy first week of April!
(and please let me know if you come up with a way to get more quilting time!)

issues, issues, new magazine

So...

major computer crash.

My computer geek (thanks Pat)

saved some of my documents and photos,

but a whole bunch of everything is long gone.

And I just need to decide
if I'm going to get a new desktop or new laptop.

Major decision.  And been too busy to go do some shopping/deciding...

so back to the So...

Sorry,

not a whole lot of blogi-ness going on around here

as what I have to work with computer-wise 
is very slow and very frustrating!!

Good News:

I did get the new issue of

 PQ&P magazine last week...

And, OMGoodness!

I think I need to make everything in it this time!!!

So what did I do?

Started TWO! :)

OK,  Maybe three

if you count the same project

in two different colors :)

The top one - "Merry Winter's Night"

(by Cheri Payne),

I've hand-quilted and it's ready for

a great plaid binding on the bias.

And on those two cute "Slim, the Snowman"

(Rhonda McCray/Farmhouse Threads)

I used my Sashiko machine and did

straight-line quilting at

one inch intervals like the pattern/sample showed.

I also have been working on a couple of

big quilt finishes

for the Local Quilt Shop

so they could go to

a vending show with the shop this past weekend.

I'll try to get those to post tomorrow.

Computers - gotta love 'em, don't you?

vacation, part four

Driving back home/West from vacation...

we turned the car around and drove back East.

Here's the rest of the story:

While leafing through the Country Register paper

(OK - truth be told - Sweetie was leafing through the paper

while I was quilt fabric shopping

near the hotel where we had spent the night :)

there was a listing for

Quilted Crow Fabric and Quilt Shop

 in Harpursville, NY.

Mind you,

we were already a good half hour WEST

of the exit for this shop...

But Sweetie, being such a sweetie

(and because Quilted Crow

was giving away grilled hot dogs

and having a lawn sale),

turned our vehicle around and

 back EAST we headed!!

Boy am I glad!!!

Such a great find!!



lawn sale day at Quilted Crow, Harpursville, NY

Quilted Crow was just in the newest

Primitive Quilts and Projects publication (Fall 2012)!!!

Here's the project:

(also pictured: a little stack of fabric I HAD to purchase...

I had to make the extra hour of travel worth it!!:)

See?  How cute is this?: 

Packed full of quilty scrumptious-ness!

And that pic only shows the front corner of the shop!! 

That's Peg (owner/pattern designer) behind the counter,

working on my stack of fabric acquisitions.

  

If you ever get to this area of New York,

take the time to drive off the highway and visit.

Definitely worth it, as it's a great shop and so friendly!

this week

Yes, this week is packed with "stuff" I need to do.

But, as I was sitting, awaiting my "time in the chair" -
dental, that is,
I decided it was time to get some things finished up...
you know, all of those little unfinished things
that need to be done that would finish a project.

Like, sewing- it just needs a border. 
This piece just needs to be framed:

Or quilting-

mine and commission. 
Or binding, or snipping threads, or layering. 
Or, just sorting through some stacks of fabric to come up with the right one color/shade to finish a kit of my own that I wanted to put together for a magazine project that I loved.

IE: Primitive Quilts & Projects, the first issue, that I didn't ever do the FAVORITE project that I loved when that magazine came, oh, about six months ago!

What made me think of this

was this past weekend

when I stopped in a new wool shop

in Centerville Ohio-

The Wooden Acorn 

(click the shop name to see some of her pics).

It's just a little place, only 288 square feet,

but so full of fun and inspiration. 

There were great wools, flosses, patterns,

and finished primitive/folky items! 

You could tell that Valerie, the owner,

loved every little bit of wool and space there. 

What this cute little space reminded me of
was the fact that
it doesn't take a whole boatload of stuff
to finish your whatever. 
You just have to jump in and do it!

So, without any kind of priority list, I'm jumpin' in!
It seems that I have stack of things
that I'd like to do, or finish, or, even start. 

(: Yes, I purchased some wool

from The Wooden Acorn -

another something to add to my stack of things to do! :)

I no longer have to stalk

my mail lady...
It's here!!!

and it's WONDERFUL!!

Sooo many projects from sooo many great designers...

go to their website and check them all out... 

I hope to retreat-sew

in the next couple of weekends

with this book in mind.

Well, not this weekend,

as there will be family

and food and egg hunts and

chicks

I still like these chicks...

Anyway,

not really retreating away anywhere,

just closing myself into my

own room,

snacks, iced tea, and as many projects

as I can fit in!!!

Thanks,

Primitive Quilts and Projects

and all of the great designers who have projects

in the inaugural issue!

I have become a stalker...

Way back the middle of January,

I subscribed to the new magazine

"Primitive Quilts and Projects"...

and I have been waiting patiently,

knowing that it was coming out in April.

Other folks that have become blog-friends

 have shown their first issue as it has arrived,

and it looks like all it was portrayed to be and more...

Last weekend at the

International Quilt Festival in Cincinnati, Ohio,

I saw that the Primitive Quilts and Projects people had a booth there. 

I was soooo excited to see that the

magazines' first issue was being shipped

and it should be in my mail box soon!

So, my poor mail lady...

Almost every mail day I hear the mail truck

coming around the corner

and I head down to my mail box at the road...

so right about the time that she pulls that truck up to my box,

I'm there to greet her....

Rain, snow, sleet, hail, gale force winds or sunshine,

I've walked through it all.

At first I think mail lady thought it was nice -

I greeted her and thanked her for my mail,

asked how her day was going,

you know,

all the niceties that you say to people

that you really don't know but see regularly...

Eventually, I think mail lady saw through my niceties

and saw my disappointment when I flipped through my mail,

looking for THE new magazine

and not finding it in my sweaty little hands.

So, I think mail lady has deduced

that I'm really coming to find something that is being delivered,

not really walking down to greet her every mail day. 

Sorry, mail lady...

I'm just stalking you

to get my new magazine!!!