Paper piecing

Class Saturday was awesome! We learned Judy Niemeyer's method of speed cutting and paper piecing. We learned how to organize our stuff. These triangles aren't really staying by each other, but I wanted to get an idea of what it's going to look like together. I have 42 different batiks for this project. Some of the gals in the class were making larger quilts and had 100 or more different fabrics!

Instead of hitting all the Super Bowl Sales yesterday, I stayed home. Dumped my sewing room into my bedroom, reorganized, and moved it all back in. I feel so much more inspired to work in there again (now that I can move around in there....) I'm sure a few of you know what I mean...

Favorite Friday Blog Finds

These are some of the Batiks I've been collecting. Tomorrow I'm taking a paper piecing class with Darla. We are going to be working on Indian Summer. The one Darla made is a beauty. I hope mine turns out just as nice.

Block 2 of Under the Sea is ready to download.

Quilts for Kids

Cowboy fun! I worked a little on it everyday before work for a couple of days.

I blogged about Quilts for Kids here. They sure sent some great fabrics. It was such a fun project. I'm planning to make one with local fabrics to send along with this one too. At the website, they have 4 different quilt patterns available to download.

It still needs machine quilted and binding, but I'm so please with this little kit and being able to give it back to someone who will hopefully find some comfort with it.

Sewing Misc.

Mary Kay's Apron - Pattern by Glenna. Such a sweet apron top. This is my second one...I think I'm getting the hang of them.

I recently bought yards of this snow monkey fabric on sale. I made 4 pillowcases to take out West with us for my son and some of his friends.

Favorite Friday Blog Links

Two more scarves showed up at my house. Thanks Carol and Sandy!

Check out all these wonderful scarves! (Mine is still in the works...yes, I'm the slacker of the group....) Between my sister and several other knitting friends, we will be sending 13 scarved to Craft Hope for Foster Teens. I will get mine done and mail them out by Monday. It's amazing to me how many were made so quickly. Several people made two! Thanks to Betsy, Jane, Kate, Niki, Helen and Shirley!

Jenny, currently has a tea towel challenge going on over at her blog. This is her wonderful bag tutorial. Check it out and what others are creating.

Check out this post for a great way to organize and display fabric. I could see me lining up what next to work on....Oh, the possibilities!

Quilts for Kids

I did NOT make this cute quilt. But, a fellow quilter brought it recently to a Moda Meeting. She told us about this group call Quilts For Kids. When you go to their site, you can sign up to have a kit sent to you. Their kit includes the back, all the materials to make a quilt except the batting, your time to sew it and quilt it.

Her's was adorable. I went home that night to sign up for a kit. I signed up on 1/20/10. Today, 1/27/10, I received my kit.

It came by UPS. The tag says "For every kit we send out, please consider including one or more of your own creations so we can double or triple the amount of children we wrap a quilt around!"

Look at these wonderful fabric! I can hardly wait to get started! It came with instructions and a quilt label. I hope you will consider helping them out too.

A new tote

My sister, Shirley had purchased this gift of charms, coordinating fabric and This & That Pattern, as an exchange gift we did at a quilt retreat last year. I was the lucky recipient of it.
At this past quilt retreat, it became my newest tote. (I admit it....I'm a bag lady...) I love to have each project I'm knitting on in it's own bag. This particular bag is called Mom and Me.
I didn't put the outside pocket on it. It's a generous sized tote.

Speaking of knitting...My sister has completed her red scarf and mine is now half way done. Have to kick it in high gear as I plan to mail them out the end of the week.