Stay-Cation

At my new job we rent our classroom space from one of our local churches. Just like most churches this one holds a week of vacation bible school every summer. Since our school has no religious affiliation the teachers that teach during the summer get a week off  so the church can use our classrooms. :) So I must ask, what better way is there to start a week of work off than to visit local fabric stores!?

Can you tell what the theme of this future quilt is going to be?

I also visited Joann's to get a few staples and use my coupons. While I was there I couldn't pass up these yummy Denise Schmidt prints:

I'm going to use them for a scrap quilt I have in mind. You see as I was going through my scraps I came across A LOT of tiny strips and scraps of fabric that I don't have the heart to throw away. My grandma was a big hoarder and I clearly inherited some of that trait when it comes to craft materials (crafting was also passed on to me via my grandma Lil).

Unlike my grandma I have organized my hoarding. Here we have usable strips for a future scrappy spiderweb quilt, or colorful strip block quilt, or BOTH. :)

And here we have the teeny tiny, pretty much useless scraps that I don't have the heart to throw away. This is where those Denise Schmidt prints come into play, these will be made into a quilt, a ticker tape quilt, inspired my Amanda Jean's and Penny's.

I cut some 12 1/2" squares of white Kona cotton and I plan to sew these little bitty strips and scraps to the white blocks. As I work on planned and normally pieced quilts throughout the year I will toss the crumbs into this box then work on adding them to these squares in my free time, or as I need a break from working on other quilts. As I slowly move away from a beginning quilter and into a more seasoned one I am developing quilter's ADD...I have 4 quilts going at once right now, not including this new project.

It is going to take awhile but when I have enough of these ticker tape blocks the result is going to be a pretty and scrappy quilt full of my favorite prints, the pieces that I can't stand to put into the trash.

*Disclaimer, this is not all of my unusable scraps. I have a separate bag of really tiny strips that I am going to use for greeting cards. :) I may have a problem!!!

Birthday Fabric

It was my birthday this week, not a bad birthday either, considering a few of my preschoolers made a few "bad choices" and my three week summer class has started (so I will be a little M.I.A. until after Memorial Day.)
I was spoiled rotten by my wonderful husband (as usual) with some fabric as well as season 3 of True Blood (I just love this show, not sure why.) He also took me out to dinner at a local Indian restaurant, although he was a little reserved. He did state halfway through our dinner, "OK, I guess I like curry." Which means he will eat with me there again. :)

As I said, I got some fabric,Christmas fabric to be exact. These two pieces are from the Holiday Hoot line from Alexander Henry:

There was some miscommunication between Lee and his parents, and they both got me a 1/2 yard of each, so I have twice the fabric I planned on. I am pretty excited though because I love owls, and it sure is cute! I plan to work on this quilt, after my Halloween quilt, sometime this summer.



I also bought myself a little birthday gift, another vintage star wars sheet from ebay to make another star wars quilt. I am going to fussy cut this guy and do some sort of scrappy block with the images for my new star wars quilt. I am quite the nerd. :)

So there is my birthday loot. I am one happy girl, now if only these papers for my Multicultural Ed. class would write themselves....