Bucket List check-off

I spent the day dying fabric at Mary Tabar's yesterday.  Had a fabulous time and I will do it again-maybe not 12 colors at once, but will definitely do it again.  I bought 4 yards of white on white at M&L's over a year ago to try dying it-it came out great!

Mary Tabar and her 4th of July Quilt-she was a inspirational teacher

Hard at work-there were 7 of us and we worked non stop-except lunch for 4-5 hours

Mary prepping for class

My jars and Viviana in the background

I rinsed all the dye out at home and put in separate buckets

A good days work-love them!

So- a 40.00 class plus 30.00 for 6.25 yards of fabric=6 yards of hand dyed fabric at 11.25 per yard-not bad:)

All ironed and in rainbow order: far left is first run, next is 15 later, below left is the M&L white on white fat eighths.  On right is direct application dying, the 2 pieces will be part of a 4th of July quilt for NEXT 4th of July (2015)-Can you tell it is a flag:)

I Won a Fat Quarter

It wasn't just any fat quarter, it is a Vicki Welsh hand dyed fat quarter and it is beautiful.  I signed up for Vicki's  newsletter a few months ago and bought a gradient pack from her about that same time.  She chooses four people every month who are on her newsletter list and gifts them with a fat quarter.  Her newsletter is relevant, interesting and I have learned a few things about the care of fabric etc.  Vicki has an Etsy Shop.  You can find her here or here.  I found her fabrics to be a little brighter than what I found at Road to California.

The fat quarter I won

The pack of gradients

The T Shirt Quilt-I think I am going to set the squares in a black and white fabric and back it with Pink-either flannel or minky.

Handle That!

I started going to a Tiny Treasures class once a month last November.  This was the quilt chosen for that month.  I missed December's and wanted to at least get the top done before Tuesday when we start on the next one.  We are using the book, "101 Fabulous Small Quilts"  put out by That Patchwork Place.  I think it will be a good way to test colors, contrast and texture without doing a large quilt. This will finish at about 22x28.  When the quilting is done, I am going to add more beads and ribbon to the one basket on the left-it is supposed to be autobiographical-a basket with attitude:)  Right now I am thinking a dark purple binding.

Used my first piece of hand dyed fabric (green) that I bought from Vicki Welsh on Etsy.  

Always one that walks to the beat of a different drummer

This was the original picture all in Civil War fabrics:

 This was on my 2014 list-so, even though I am out of order-i am still focused on the LIST!