This Week's Progress

Its been a productive and fun week in the hovel.  First, I finished this small snowball quilt top that I started sewing along with Temecula Quilt Co. 

Next, I reorganized my scraps.  I had been cutting/storing them in strips and squares by size, but I realized that I work more by color than by size.  I now have plastic drawers with assorted sized scraps by color, and it seems to be much easier for me to work this way. 

Yesterday a group of  us took a day trip to two shops in Northern California.  The first was Friends Around the Block Quilt Shop in Colusa.  It is housed in a refurbished old mortuary that looks like a chapel.  It is bright, airy, well organized and well stocked with a wide assortment of fabrics.  The people are delightful too.  It may be my new favorite shop.

Next we headed up I5 to the Quilt Corral in Willows.  Again, this shop had very helpful and friendly owners, although it was rather small.  No problem!  We all managed to support the local economy in Willows.

I found the border fabric and background fabric for two quilts that are in progress as well as a few orange fat quarters to use in a Halloween quilt (someday). 

Today I finished the gold round of EPP on Summer Circles.  Next up is dark/med. blue. 

I have many options for keeping busy this weekend--I hope you do too.  I'm linking to Confessions of a Fabric Addict.



A Finish!!

I actually finished a quilt including piecing, quilting, binding and EVEN A LABEL!!  Working with the l inch strips was such fun.  I never count pieces in my quilt but this one has 3,879 pieces.  The pattern is called Four by Four by Temecula Quilt Company.  I saw the quilt in person when I was in the shop and fell madly in love with it.  Just my style:  Reproduction fabrics and zillions of tiny, scrappy pieces.

It finishes 50 x 64 and I machine quilted an all over meander to let the piecing take center stage.


Meanwhile I've been working on Summer Circles.  I'm not really sure what color I'll do for the next concentric square, maybe blue.  Any suggestions?

Hand quilting has come to a standstill, as it is too hot to sit with a quilt in my lap.  No problem, I'm never at a loss for a hand project to work on.  We continue to have fire after fire here in our beautiful state.  Fortunately none in our area, but the smoke from all the fires collects in the central valley.  Not good for people with breathing problems.