Early Birthday Present from Hubby

Look what Hubby bought me for my Birthday. It is a Vintage Cedar Chest, the top 2 drawers are false drawers and that is the cedar chest part, the bottom drawer is a real drawer that is cedar lined. WOOHOO. I LOVE IT. Also came with a glass top in case I want to stack stuff on the top of it. HMMMM, 1 more place to pile junk. Hopefully not, I am THRILLED WITH IT. As you can see our floor needs a little TLC too. But it is the original flooring and I LOVE IT.

FALL IS HERE!!!!

BRRR, chilly around here today. Only in the 50's. Should be sewing or something but what am I doing??? Playing on the computer.

I have asome things for show and tell and will have another one as soon as we get it in the house, right now I have.

First Toni from  www.underthediningroomtable.blogspot.com  gave me this awesome crazy quilt that I absolutely LOVE.

And Elaine from http://soggybottomflats.blogspot.com/ sent me this WONDERFUL box of wool to add to my stash.

So I would LOVE TO SAY THANK YOU TO BOTH OF MY AWESOME FRIENDS FOR THEIR FRIENDSHIP AND GENEROSITY!!! LOVE YOU GIRLS!!!!!!



And I bought this wonderful old quilt on ebay. Haven't seen anything like this, the woman I bought it from called it a "Wagon Wheel" but when I google wagon wheel quilt blocks, nothing like this shows up. It is all hand stitched and hand quilted. GREAT HEY!!!!!!!!!

So those are my show and tell for the time being, come back later and see what I am bringing in from the truck. :) It will be exciting. MY EARLY BIRTHDAY PRESENT FROM HUBBY!!!!!!

I have been MIA

Sorry about that, summer is busy around here, gardening, flower beds, mowing the lawn, (Well I don't mow but it sounds good doesn't it). SO now that fall is just around the corner (HIDING OUT TODAY~IT IS SUNNY AND CLOSE TO 80 I think) I am trying to get back into the swing of things. I have been working on a denim/shirtings quilt, WHO KNEW IT WOULD TAKE ME 4 days to cut all the strips and squares. Now that I have evernthing cut out it should go to gether pretty fast. Here they are, aren't they going to turn out WONDERFUL. This is supposed to be a gift but the more I work on it the more I think it is going to be hard to give it away.

SO what does everyone think?????

LOOK WHAT I FOUND

Such an awesome little quilt, nothing fancy, it is hand stitched but machine quilted. I LOVE IT. Think it is from the 1940's but am not sure, it has a couple of little spots that need to be restitched but other than that it is like brand new (smells and looks like it has never  been used) so this little baby is going on my quilt rack in my sewing room so I can look at it of pet it every day. :) And that is Dandy, our Rat Terrier who thinks the chair and the quilt both belong to her. :) Yes she is a tad bit spoiled in case you can't tell.

New Block

Worked on a "Practice" block last night and fell in love with it, altho I don't have enough of the strip fabric to use for the whole quilt, I think it makes this block. So my plan is to use the same strip fabric in all 4 squares I use to make a block to add a little continuity to the quilt. So what does everyone think????

ALMOST FINISHED

I have to finish the binding but I hope to have that done by next weekend, the long arm quilter did an awesome job and got it back to me super fast. I took it to a different quilter, my usual one was busy and this one comes highly recommended, the only thing I wish she would have done was the BINDING, my usual quilter does the binding on all her quilts by machine unless you request she not do it and leave it for you. So I am learning to do binding this week. Which isn't all bad since I have never learned how to do it, actually it isn't so bad, but I think I will stick with my regular quilter who does it for me. :) MUCH EASIER FOR ME.

Excitement is building

I took a quilt top I finished to a new quilter last night, she came highly recommended so I thought I would try it out. She called me today AND MY QUILT IS DONE!!!!!!!!! I am going to pick it up tomorrow after work, can't wait to see it. Here is a before quilting look at it. It can only get better right????? It is Vintage Linens and a Vintage Solid I had. LOOKS GOOD HEY!!!!!