Last night my daughter and I went to a quaint venue in Easton, MD called the Nightcat and enjoyed some fantastic music!! Here’s a video from last night that we found earlier today. I’d sent Keaton (the singer) a Twitter message and asked him to play this song since it is my favorite (as well as the ringtone on my phone) :)
I hope you enjoy as much as we did :)
Well here I go jumping on the proverbial bandwagon LOL. Over at Charming Chatter a challenge has been issued to finish a project a month. So I’m gonna go for it!
My daughter is going to a conference this month and needs an overnight bag. A couple months ago I spent the weekend with my BFF and we made matching overnight bags (you can get the pattern here). So I’m going to make one for my daughter using some leftover fabrics from the quilt I made her for Christmas. Here’s a picture of the pattern and some of the fabrics I’m using.
I’m looking forward to finishing this for her and I think she’ll be surprised :)
For the last couple of months my quilt mojo has been MIA. But thanks to the Wabbit Daze Gang it’s starting to come back. I keep telling the “Gang” they need to come east and help me find my mojo, but they seem to be doing a good job from afar :)
Wish me luck!
This past weekend I went on retreat with some new friends. I’ve known Toni for a couple years via blogland as well as a 15 month long round robin, but we’d only met in person once. She put together a retreat about 2 hours southeast of my house and I wanted to go, so I did – hehehe
From Friday-Monday morning we spent our time enjoying the views, the sunsets, yummy food and a few adult beverages at the Pieceful Cottage. Oh and we did a little bit of quilting LOL.
I managed to finish up some UFO blocks. Then decided to start a new project. My BFF had shared some coffee fabrics with me a few years ago and I decided to finally put them to use. I used the “Birthday Presents” pattern from Terry Atkinson’s “Take Two & Add a Few” book. I cut & assembled the whole top in a day!
I also took my “Bears in the Candy Store” blocks and sashing along and managed to get the center of the top assembled. Now it just needs the borders before it can be quilted.
The only other thing I managed to do was start cutting out the mystery quilt I’m testing for Ann Smith.
All in all it was a wonderful, relaxing weekend! Thank you ladies for letting me join the “Sisterhood of the Travelling Quilters”! I hope to be able to join you again in the fall!
Sorry I’ve missed the last couple stash reports, I’ve been a bit sidetracked by work and family. I’ve done pretty well on the stashbusting front, I used 1.75 yards of fabric for borders on a quilt as well as 20 FQs (5 yards) for another top. So here’s the combined report for the last few weeks:
Fabric added this week: 0 yards
Fabric added year to date: 32 yards
Fabric used this week: 6.75 yards
Fabric used year to date: 62.25 yards
YTD Net fabric busted: 30.25 yards
At least I’m still on the plus side :)
I managed to do some sewing this week, but it was just finishing the center of the top I’ve been working on. I’ll be cutting borders this week so I’ll have some stashbusting to report next week.
Nothing new this week though.
Here's this week's report:
Fabric added this week: 0 yards
Fabric added year to date: 32 yards
Fabric used this week: 0 yards
Fabric used year to date: 55.5 yards
YTD Net fabric busted: 23.5 yards
Tuesday was my 36th birthday…..Cinco de Mayo!!!
It was a very nice birthday and I got some nice surprises…..
Hubby sent me lovely flowers to the office…Pink roses, my favorite…Big surprise!
And Mom ordered my a lovely cake. It’s in my favorite colors (pink & green) and the top is decorated with quilt blocks. I almost didn’t cut it since it was so pretty. But I’m glad I did….yummmy yellow cake with fresh strawberries & cream filling between the layers.
I haven’t even had a chance to step into my studio for a week….sigh
Nothing new to report….Hopefully I will get to sew some soon
Here's this week's report:
Fabric added this week: 0 yards
Fabric added year to date: 32 yards
Fabric used this week: 0 yards
Fabric used year to date: 55.5 yards
YTD Net fabric busted: 23.5 yards
Nothing to report this week. I worked on sashing the quilt top this week using the fabrics I cut out last week but didn’t use anymore stash. Nothing in nothing out….
Here's this week's report:
Fabric added this week: 0 yards
Fabric added year to date: 32 yards
Fabric used this week: 0 yards
Fabric used year to date: 55.5 yards
YTD Net fabric busted: 23.5 yards
Now that the swap package has been received, I can show you all the spring table runner I made for my friend and swap partner Ele! I used a pattern called Sugar Cookies from the Moda Bake Shop. It was quite easy and I love how it turned out :)
Last night was the first night of the Annapolis Yacht Club’s Wednesday Night Race series and this year the Woodwinds are racing on Wednesday nights as well……
So we, the office staff, headed out on one of the boats to experience the racing!
It was quite the exciting night….complete with a pop up squall and the boat I was on, Woodwind II, beating Woodwind!
Here’s some of the pictures I took of the other boat as well as the Annapolis skyline at sunset.
