Have you ever done this????

I order fabric on line, have done for years. I can honestly say, I've never really had any problems! This time though ...oh boy, Did I screw up?????? I spent a week in Lancaster Pa at the beginning of last month and could have found the fabric there...but NO! Not me!!! I had to wait till I got home and order it online!!!!! It's the background fabric for my Pies and Tarts......since the quilt is scrappy polka dots...I thought I would get a white background with some kind of quiet dot on it! Good Plan eh??? Went to my favorite On Line shop....Over the Rainbow and Laura had Riley Blake fabric on special that week.....so I ordered Alpine Fabrics and Riley Blake Designs Rainy Days and Mondays 9100 Spots/white $7.99 /yard so I ordered 4 yards! Well I received it Friday and the fabric is wonderful, it is white and it does have dots and it has amazing large swirls allover, the only thing.....it looks way too "Muddy" with my crisp polka dots!!!! Now this is totally my fault because many times I've checked with Laura at OTR first if I wasn't sure of a fabric, but NO, NOT ME!!! Geez!!!! Now what to do?? I have lots of kona cottoon white but I think it is a little too heavy for handpiecing a lot of little curves!!! I guess I'll have to head into my little town and get another 4 yards of something that will work!!! See, I want to print some of these Babies off, and have them all ready to go on a little Florida trip we're taking at the end of the week!!!

Promoting Again, Gotta Love It!!!

For those of you who know me, I'm always promotinng something or somebody!!! LOL Today it's Val from Indiana and Pink Please.
She's entered her quilt into This weekend's Virtual Quilt Contest at The Quilting Gallery . This week's theme is Scrap Quilts and Val's is Unbelievable!!!! Check this out!!!

You can call me Owl!
Please go and vote for it now and check out Val's blog for all the info on how to make a quilt like this!
Love your quilt Val, thanks for letting me post it here, and so nice to meet you.

My First Try at Inklingo

Well I've done it, finally started my first Inklingo project and I can tell you I LOVE it!!!!! It was so hard to decide which project to start with but I decided on the Pies and Tarts!!!! I'm only working on the pies and tarts so far, as the background fabric , I chose, I didn't like and am now waiting for the fabric I reordered to arrive. It's all hand piecing and I'm really enjoying it! You print the shapes sout on the computer copier and it includes, cutting lines, sewing lines and registration points! Can you just imagine that??? I don't know what project to do next, sunflowers or pickled clamshells?? What do you think???

                                     
There's lots of free stuff with Inklingo too, so if you're interested, go over and check it out! Inklingo

Worst Blogger in the World!

Here it is before the final border went on the bottom and top. 

All three rows.

Was going to add the beige border but didn't think it worked. 

Yup, that's me!!! Well I finally got my French General quilt finished piecing, my wonderful friend offered to mark it for me, for quilting by hand! I will do a little on it, and a few friends are going to put stitches in it, but mostly it will be done by the lovely ladies at our local United Church! Can you believe there are still Church groups around that do quilting to make money for their churches? Amazing!

Well now that, that baby is pieced, and we have plans for a week in Florida, before I go to hospital for arthoscopic surgery on my knee on May 9th.........I figured I better get another hand piecing project planned ! So guess what...I took my first foray into Inklingo....and I've printed out lots of triangles for my Pies and Tarts quilt! It went so easy...oh what a way to go.....you must check it out!!!!!
Inklingo     Linda Franz is amazing, and so is the wonderful Yahoo group for Inklingo that is so helpful!!!!

See how great my pies and tart triangles printed out? And all those perfect points and registration marks!!!! I love these!!!

Here I go again shamelessly promoting someone elses work. I dodn't even know her, but don't you just LOVE this quilt?

This quilt was made by Anne of
Confessions of a Surreal Quilter
you can find her blog here .
She entered this quilt into this weeks Quilting Gallery Contest and you can vote for it here .
I just think this quilt is amazing!!!

Lancaster here we come!!!!

If you've been following my progress on this French General hand quilting project.....I'm getting to the end of my nine circles, so I got out the rest of my fabrics and planned how I would set it all up. I LOVE this quilt, will take some of the Circles to finish up on our trip to Lancaster next week.

Don't you just love these little mug rugs? These are the ones I received from my partner Kristi (from Utah)in the Quilting gallery swap!

This is another Inklingo project I'd like to do, want to add to my polka dot collection for this one!!!

As if I need another project...LOL...I'd like to collect for this one too!!!! I found it here. The great thing is this can be totally done with nine patches.
One more thing...would you like a full set of letters in both upper and lower case to use for applique, and fun quick projects, absolutely free? Then head on over to Skip to my Lou!!!

Getting Closer

 I'm still working on my hand pieced project, actually recieved the last of the Lumiere de Noel fabric by French General in the mail!

Well we leave for Lancaster on the 14th so time to start getting excited!!! LOL Next week will be my "getting things done ", time.I will be going to Ottawa to pick up my new orthotics, and special (spensive) shoes, getting my haircut, going to the chiropractor, going to Kingston for an MRI. Lots more I'm sure!!! LOL I've even booked a scooter for the show!!!! Can you see me now?? After I get back, actually the 23rd, I go to the orthopedic surgeon for results of that MRI!!! Maybe then we'll figure out what's going on with this knee and back!


So, since I don't have a lot to show of my own, I tought I'd show you a couple pics from our Sewlmates get together at my house this week!

Sharon's gorgeous colorful quilt!

Dawn's Iris!

Carole's Chinese Junky!!

I hope you have a lovely weekend, and wish me luck with all my errands before heading to Lancaster!! Woot, Woot!!!