Soon!!

My good friend Kathy and I have been working on this Just Takes 2 Mystery (see here for the details) as a way to use up some of our hand dyed samples.  I had fallen a little bit behind, but only have one more block to finish to be back up to date.  Hopefully I will have it finished before my INNOVA is delivered this afternoon.  Talked to the trucking company and it should be here shortly after lunch!!!  So excited!!!

Oops!

Well, I have owned a rotary cutter for 17 years and today was the day. I am always careful, or so I thought.  I was trimming up some paper piecing when all of a sudden my cutter slipped and I trimmed off the tip of my left index finger! Surprisingly, it really didn't hurt, and I didn't feel faint even though it bled pretty well.   Luckily I wasn't home alone and my husband quickly bandaged me up.  You may be thinking why didn't I go to the ER?  Well, as my hubby said - "What are they going to do - put a bandage on it?  It's not like there is anything to stitch up!" And,  I know my tetanus shot is current because of an incident last year with a sewing machine needle - story on that one is here or here.   Hopefully I don't do any damage when the new machine arrives!

On a better note, I did get one top made out of my fat quarters and panels. 

 I added the green inner border of my hand dyed fabric to get things to a more normal proportion and then added the pieced border.  I think it will make a good baby gift or donation to Project Linus after a little practice run through my Innova.  Hoping to hear something about when it may be arriving.  Until next time.  Safe quilting!

"Someday"

Welcome to my my first blog post.  I have always said that "someday" I would like to own a longarm quilting machine.  It really wasn't a possibility until recently as our old house just did not have space for one.  Our new home came with two rec rooms in the basement.  We really didn't need two rec rooms, so I claimed one for my sewing room.  We have completed a tonne of renovations to the main floor of our house, (and therefore stopped using my sewing room as a temporary dining room) so dreams of a longarm machine surfaced again.  Well, I am happy to report that "someday" is here.  Last week I ordered an INNOVA longarm quilting machine!!! I don't have confirmation of delivery yet, but it may be here as early as next week!  I am beyond excited about the whole thing.  I plan to chronicle my journey here and hope you will check back in on me.


While I wait for delivery of my big new toy, I thought I should get piecing so that I have something ready to practice on.  Back in November I was the lucky winner of a prize bundle from the Quiltmaker 100 Blocks Blog Tour.  I received patterns, a copy of the magazine as well as all of these fat quarters from RJR Fabrics.  

The line is called "Silly Suggestions for Kids". I received two panels, 10 regular fat quarters and 2 fat quarter border prints (Always find those a little tricky to use!)  I'm not sure exactly what I will turn this into, but I should be able to get two cute baby quilts made using the panels and the coordinating fabric in some sort of pieced border.  It will be interesting to see what I come up with.

Thanks for stopping in.


Lori