Thursday, June 28, 2012

Schoolhouse Blocks

Oh yes, I think red and white quilts hold a lot of power, well, for me anyway.  I guess I could say red and white would probable be my 'most' favorite type of quilt. Funny though, I haven't done any in red and white, but maybe I'll have one soon courtesy of Block Lotto.  These little schoolhouses are the blocks for this months Block Lotto and IF I win these I will finally have a RED and WHITE vintage style quilt!!

XXXXXXXXXX.....these are my fingers crossed!!

Monday, June 25, 2012

Star Quilt Blocks

finally found these lost star blocks.  Yippee!!!  Cleaned up my sewing space one day and couldn't remember where I put them.  They are from my Block Lotto winnings a while back.

immediately started to play.  Decided the purple star was my favorite so I stuck it up on my design wall and started from there.   All the pieces except the stars are left over pieces from this quilt project.  The black/white spikes are from my parts department ( ala Freddy Moran & Gwen Marston).

So far, this is what I have come up with.  I really just want to stay with the big X design using only 13 of the stars.  I need to figure out what I will fill in the rest with, but then again, I have only just begun to start playing with the design.

Stay tuned for updates.....who knows.....I may just mess this up and start all over!! HA!

Friday, June 22, 2012

Friday Flowers

African Violets are a VERY good thing!!

I like them!!!

I LOVE THEM!


I have been raising these for years.  They are really very easy to maintain.  They need fertilizer, south or west window and most important but simple, just always water them from the bottom.  They bloom like this for months and about the time the blooms start fading they are putting on NEW ones.  I have some pale pink and white ones too.

This blog post is courtesy of THE NEW blogger interface.  YEY ME!  Thanks to all the gals who gave me great TIPS and SUGGESTIONS on my previous post.  I guess I just never read any of the blogger info or watched any of the helpful videos.  This was sooooo easy!  THANKS BLOGGER BUDDIES!!!

Friday, June 15, 2012

I Went Camping


I bet you didn't know that.

I didn't either.

Go HERE to see..

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Spider Web Quilt

F-I-N-A-L-L-Y............yes, I finally finished my vintage Victorian style Spider Web. Notice this quilt has 3 paddles or kite shapes instead of the usual 4 we see today in a lot of other Spider Web designs. I LOVE LOVE LOVE this quilt....BUT....let me just tell you, this one is not for the faint of heart!!

LOTS of paper pieced diamonds going on here......
and here...........

MORE papers to deal with. Now you have to tear it all off. (I secretly really truly adore paper piecing !)

I ran out of background fabric. The bottom fabric is the one I ran out of, it was 2 yards worth. I thought "OH NO"....whatever will I do? The quilt is not in a good size/shape to be finished! I was astounded when I dug through my stash and found a fat quarter in the top fabric! Wow, what luck. I determined it was close enough to use. After all, this is a VINTAGE design and isn't that what they did in the old days? Just used what they had on hand. I bet if you clicked on the top photo for a close up you will have a hard time finding where I used the fat quarter pieces.

In the end, after I sewed and sewed Y seams until I thought I would croak I was VERY happy I had used up A LOT of terrible UGLY fabrics that have been hanging around here w-a-y too long.


You can click HERE......HERE.....HERE and HERE for more looks at this quilt style. If you are interested in what all you can do with the diamond shape, go HERE to Kate's Empty Field blog for a look at some fabulous diamond shapes.

Monday, June 4, 2012

17 Months Today

Woo Hoo......I'm still on my fabric buying rebellion and it has now been 17 whole months since I have bought a single piece of fabric!!! Funny though, I don't even look at it online. You can read my other post and thoughts on the matter HERE.

Good news on the fabric front though, cotton prices are now around 67 cents a pound. Looks like we can see lower fabric prices in the near future if these prices hold for this years crop.

Mr. Brown Dirt will finish getting all the cotton planted sometime today.....yippee!! The wheat we planted earlier in the year is ready and bountiful and they are harvesting that as well. All the big sprinklers in the fields are running, watering up the maize seeds that were planted last week. A very busy time here on the farm.

Do you know anyone who raises crops or farms???