Well, another month has passed. I decided another blog post is way overdue, so this is just basically a catch up post for what I have been doing since the last post.
This one is still on the frame right now. This is the backing. I see this fabric all the time at Joann's and I finally decided I had to have it for this quilt. I am not showing the quilt top yet, as it was a pattern test for a bloggy friend, and I think she might do a blog hop, so I didn't want to spoil it.
The pattern called for fat quarters and I had leftovers, so I made the binding scrappy.
The colors are very vibrant, and I did not wash them first so I hope the new dye catchers I bought do what they are supposed to do!
I finished a baby quilt for my office mate. He had his first. It's a boy! I didn't have this information when I made it :)
I quilted it with a loopy ruffly looking pattern.
And, of course, I still been getting my Hexy on.... on the train commute in the mornings. There are about 50 flowers in that pile!
Last weekend I went to a thrift shop for which I had seen an ad in the paper saying fill a paper bag all you want for $5. When I showed up I found out I was a week early. I then proceded across the street to another thrift store and hit a gold mine for fabric! Boxes upon boxes of quilting fabric, most from the mid 1990s. There was Moda, Michael Miller, Timeless Treasures to name a few. Most were 2-3 yard cuts. They were all marked as $2 per yard!!! But.... that day was 50% off everything in the store! Thats' right! I paid $34 for what I bet is 40 to 50 yards of great fabric! Jealous???
Oh, and I went to the Kenny Chesney concert last Saturday. We were in the Sandbar! Jealous???
Hope all is well on the quilting front!
Until next time,
Mike.
Many of my followers and quilting friends have told me that I need to change the name of my blog because I am not an amateur, but at heart, I always will be. I call myself an amateur to remind me that every stitch, every fabric shape and every seam is more perfect when it looks like it was made by a human being (especially if it’s me, and I am not perfect). This way I spend more time admiring my finished masterpieces and less time ripping out stitches. This is just a little bit of my journey...
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