A Win!

I was fortunate enough to win the grand prize for the HSTeria quilt along sponsored by Vicki Welsh a few weeks ago.  It was a package of her hand dyed scraps and a package of Mistyfuse (I have loaned that to my friend as she has never used the wonderful stuff).  I was pretty excited as I am more and more enamored of hand dyed fabric as I have used bits and pieces in my quilts recently.  I thanked her immediately but hadn't gotten around to getting the picture and posting-until today.  Thanks again, Vicki!!!

Aren't they beautiful?

I also won a bag of scraps at the Crazy 9 Patch on the second Friday of this month during scrappy hour where Martha demonstrates a new scrappy pattern and runs a sale on a fabric line or theme-one hour of happiness with door prizes, snacks and special drinks provided.

I had a couple of leftover Insulite hearts so made these the next day out of the scraps and some leftover binding.  Going to tuck these into my Spring box for next spring.  I don't hang mine so don't need a loop.

I have avoided orange since I retired (my school colors were orange and white) but it is sneaking into my fabrics again

HSTeria

Vicki Welsh is hosting a Half Square Triangle quilt along.  Since I just started a project for the Tiny Treasure class that fits the HST criteria-I thought I would quilt along with the group.  Click on the HSTeria button in the right column if you would like to join.  I love her dyed fabric and there are giveaways each Friday so why not?

This shows 6"blocks-Mine are 4 1/2"  finished blocks

I bought a pack of fat quarters at the guild table for 5.00 and added the check, holly and greens-and voila, a star is born!

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!