9 patch quilt

I have been working on those blue strips.... Here's half the quilt top finished. I am really enjoying this- it is a very scrappy looking quilt- my only requirement is that the fabric is blue :-)

Have you read Andrea's post about her raffle quilt?  I bought some tickets today- so if you haven't already read her post go check it out :-)

Off to sew some more blocks... by the way, do you like the music I added to my blog, or is it just annoying??? I would love to  hear what you think :-)

Have a super day!

Stitchers angel swap

Today when I got home from work a big parcel was waiting for me, how exciting!  It was from my secret stitchers angel, now I would finally find out who she is.... I opened it up, and found these amazing cute gifts- from my angel Sherri from "A quilting life" She made the cutest little bags, a needlebook and a pincushion, all from the Simple Abundance fabric line from Moda- I LOVE all of it- thank you so much Sherri!

When we were in Houston we visited a quilthop called Sunflower Quilts, and I saw a friendship bag there, I really wanted one, so I took a picture so I would know where to find the tutorial... Now Sherri made me one- I am so thankful for all these lovely gifts!

Now I hope my parcel will soon land and find xxxxx overseas....

Halloween and some sewing

I thougt I'd start off showing you the Halloween cookies Kini and Ola made. They had a lot of fun in the kitchen, and the cookies turned out really good.

Playing around with the Halloween props...

Sweet sugar cookies.....

Now onto some quilty business... I have a few of these "Billy" bookshelves from IKEA. Now they are all filled with fabrics, fabrics and more fabrics.  I always like to play with the newest fabrics first- make something out of them before they are in the "old fabrics" category (they are more fun when they are new...) but today I decided I need to use some of my older fabrics to make more room for new stuff.  SO I pulled out most of my blue fabrics from this one shelf, and made 2 1/2" strips, sewed strip sets and made lots of 9patches.

There is still a lot of blue fabrics left, but I've had a blast today, busting some of my stash.... I think I need about 130 9patches, so I'm only about half way through.

This is what is waiting for me to find more room.... my Houston goodies.... I have no idea where to start, I came home with lots of fun projects... but I know there is a kit for a snowman quilt in there somewhere- maybe I'll have time to make it before Christmas???

More Market fun!

I promised more Market pictures, so here we go... First of all I have to tell you we just fell in love with the bags from "Pink Sand Beach Design" Nancy makes wonderful patterns, and you know I love a good bag pattern, right.... Well, soon you will find her patterns in my shop! (We loved her patterns so much we went back the next day to buy more...)

We loved Blackbird Design's booth. Barb and Alma are both so sweet! I had to get a couple of books from them- lovely projects!

I was thrilled to meet Anni Downs, and of course her sweet husband as well.  I was so happy to get my hands on her brand new book- "A boy's story".  It is filled with wonderful projects for all the boys in your life!  It will soon find it's way into my shop as well!

I know Lynette will soon be on her way to Norway. It was such a pleasure to finally meet her, and her sweet son.  She had a lovely booth, her patterns are so nice, and her new book is just awesome!
I hope you have a wonderful trip to Norway Lynette!
I'm off to the kitchen to help the kids make Halloween cookies....
Hope you have a great day!

Quilt Festival

First of all I would like to say thank you for your comments these last couple of weeks.  We had the best time in Houston- words can not describe how it felt to be at Market and Festival. Meeting so many lovely quilters was truly an amazing experience that we will cherish forever!  I will post more Market pictures next time, but I have not loaded them into our computer yet. 

There were so many lovely booths at Festival, and we found many new projects... My "problem" was I already had about fifteen new projects from Market.... Oh dear... oh well...

One of the big differences between Market and Festival was the amount of people.... At festival it tended to get a bit crowded, with long lines in a few booths, but it was worth the lines and the crowds. Everyone was just so happy to be there I think, and I did not hear one single complaint :-)

My favorite time of Festival was meeting up with Connie for dinner. We have followed each others blogs for a couple of years, and it was such a treat to finally meet her in real life!  She brought me the prettiest Jim Shore figurine, I love it!  Connie is such a sweet person, and I hope we'll meet up again in the future. Connie- thank you so much for a lovely time!

Now I hope to get something done in my sewingroom this afternoon before I have to clean the house and bake....

Have a lovely day!

Having fun!

Hello from Houston from Elanor Burns and me... She is the sweetest lady, we had a lot of laughs finding patterns, books and rulers for the shop.

Today was the last day of Market, and of course we had to go for a couple of hours. We have had so much fun, meeting lovely people from all over the world, seeing so many wonderful new books and patterns and lots of wonderful fabrics. My suitcase is filled to the brim with new patterns and books for the shop- I really need more hours in the day to sew some samples!
In the picture above you see the three of us with Jodi Barrows, the inventor of the Square in a square ruler, and author of many quilt books and novels- she is the sweetest lady, and a few rulers and books are coming to the shop soon....

Rosalie and Melly was there with their husbands- it was so nice to meet them! They had the cutest booth, and of course I am bringing home some of their new patterns as well!

A short post this time, I will post again later, with more pictures!

Finally, the view from "our" apartment

Quilt Market

So we made it to Houston!!! We're having such a great time, quilt market is just so huge- we made it through almost half of the booths yesterday- and we're continuing on today. Sorry no pictures yet, I'll post those when we get home.

Off to market.... Have a wonderful day!