Purple Power

I have been waiting on you to bloom, you beautiful morning glory.

For the longest time you have swirled and twirled your way up my fence and today you burst open.

More purpley goodness.

I made this bag for my mom.

I kind of just made up the pattern by looking at pictures of bags I admired and combined the ideas. 

The beautiful fabric with the lettering on it is a fat quarter found at the quilt show we went to last month.

I used up every last bit of it on this bag, not even the smallest scrap left.

You Just Never Know

You just never know where you are going to run across lovely fabrics.

The other day the girls and I stopped in a Goodwill.

Meg is on an archaeology dig this summer and needed some jeans.

Anyway, I found these very pretty blouses, gingham and flowers--in all the wrong sizes.

A little light bulb flashed and I thought, hey--fabric!

These suckers can be cut up and I get lots of fabric for a really good price.

What a deal, huh? :-)

Tutorial on the way--for Monday and Tuesday.

Have a good weekend!

Feedsacks

At the quilt show, Friday, one of the vendors Lancaster Traditional Quilts 123 sold vintage feedsacks.

They had lots of new fabrics as well cut in assortments packaged in little clear boxes.

Each box had a clear example of each fabric in the assortment. Yummy!

I picked out a small package with an assortment of the vintage feedsacks.

I love the floral best but also the embroidery look-alikes.

Not to forget the red dots either.

Yards

Mid-week stash in the sun. 

This orange one is my favorite--not a typical color for me to like.

I am usually liking the pinks and blues. 

I love a green grassy yard outside in the springtime but oooooo, don't you like this kind of yard as well?

Sample Squares

Last summer, I visited a quilt shop in Michigan. As we checked out the sisters who ran the shop gave me a wee pile of sample quilt squares from the Bar Harbor fabric line by Moda.

I have made a decorative quilted square after adding a few little squares from my own stash.

I plan to use the square at the center of my dining table and/or on the wall.

Lovely Hutch and Stuff

I finally got my hutch painted and filled with many lovelies.

Dibs and dabs 

It was a lot of fun to get my fabric all out of storage boxes.

It seemed to take me a long time to get this room back together again.

A rainbow of colors.

Stash