New Batik Fabric

My LQS has these nice little shopping bags for sale. If you buy one then on the 5Th Saturday of the month you get 20% off every thing you buy. There are several 5Th Saturdays in the year and I think I already saved the price of the bag. I missed the first one they did but this past Saturday was another chance to use my shopping bag. I couldn't wait to get these Batiks for a quilt that I saw in the shop wanted to make. The little guy I am making it for just loves yellow so yellow, some blue and green are the colors. It is made up of half square triangles so it will be a simple quilt to make(I hope). I have a couple of other projects to finish up first but I am so anxious to get going on this. Not only that but I should be outside doing a lot of yard work now that it is very fall like out there. Too many things to do and not enough time to do it all in. Happy Quilting........

BOM******Flying Geese

With the computer in shop all week I had a chance to get my BOM's done. I really like working with the Batiks, they are so vibrant. I am not good at HST's but I thought OK we shall see, I will just take it slow and easy on them. I was amazed that I didn't have any problems. They all went together just fine. I was really pleased with the result and they were fun to do. These are supposed to be a border for the quilt. Can't wait to see what the other blocks are.

I quilted the Pink quilt today, I have to trim it up and get the binding on it then I will post a photo of it. By the way, the Pink pattern is called...Crazy Eights. I know a couple people wondered if it was Yellow Brick Road. I think they do look a lot alike.

LQS-------BOM

I finally signed up for a BOM at my LQS. I have never done one before but thought it would be fun. This is the fabric for the first month, they are going to be.....flying geese. I never made flying geese with HST before so we shall see.

You had 3 choices of fabrics, Batiks, Traditional or 30's. I love the Batiks but any one of them would have been nice. I have started to work on them in between doing another quilt. Well back to sewing.......

Local Quilt Shop Sale

Just before the big weekend my favorite local quilt shop had a sale. It was a good one too. She had bolts for $5 a yard and if you bought more than 5 yards off the same bolt and every yard after the 5 was a dollar less. Some yardage was only $4. Plus they had books deeply discounted and others were 20% off, thread too.

The book in the photo I got for $3. The charm packs were Thimbleberries from 2007 and I got them for $1.50 each. I bought 4 of them, not sure what I will do with them but that was too good to pass up. Fat quarters were only a dollar each on selected ones. I only got 6 different ones. It was a good chance for me to pick up some fabric to add to my stash.