Like a Fabric Tornado

Watch out world, I’m sewing up a storm!

This is the long string of days of productivity that I have longed and planned for.

It’s fine and fun to package up kits and sew on the road, carrying my bits and pieces in sets in zip lock bags, but there is nothing like the freedom of cutting fabric, sewing it together in my own space.

It’s a flurry of fabric fun and possibilities, and I am enjoying every minute.

I started out with a plan.  A simple block idea.

Rolling Stone Block Progress!

I've got 2 piles of 10 pinned together in this photo, and 8 more scattered around.  I need many many more!  (Future book or magazine pattern, no pattern available as of yet. Stay tuned.)

I’m not even sure on the final layout.  This is how I work.  Start with one block.  Do I like it?  What do I need to change to make it better?  Make some more.  Do I still like them?  How would I set them?  Don’t worry about the setting yet.  Just keep making blocks and let the ideas circulate until things gel.

I’ve been sewing from “cabin stash” and there isn’t enough black up here in the form of fat quarters or pre-cut strips in the Scrap User’s System,  so I turned to the black string bin thinking there would be big enough pieces to get the parts that I need to add to my variety:

Some good in here, some too small to do the job. 

SHOOT!  What’s a girl to do?

I quickly sent a text to The Hubster who was flying home from Santa Barbara with plans to stop at the house in Winston Salem to pick up a few things before heading on up to spend the weekend up here as well. 

“PLEASE BRING MY BLACK FAT QUARTER BINS!”  I swear the best thing I ever did was separate my fat quarters by color family and put them in lidded shoe boxes for easy view, grab and go.

Speaking of  Fat Quarters:

**Side note**  If anyone was watching the news in Atlanta yesterday, you may have heard about a woman walking butt-naked through the Atlanta Airport.  I got a live update from Dave who was at his gate in Terminal B  as she walked by.  LOL!!  And you think a travel job is glamorous?  

My response to his text –”Are your eyes burning??”  “Some things can’t be un-seen!” “Some things should never be seen in the first place!”  

News Story HERE.

Hooray!

I’ll be able to keep going on these.  The little darlings are a bit tedious with those square in a square corners, but I’m loving them.  And the red centers have been fun, throwing some novelty fabrics in with my other reds.  I love little surprises in my quilts.

And I’ve been working with Leaders & Enders all along!

I haven’t given up on our current Hourglass Leader & Ender project.  I’ll see this one to DONE even if it takes me beyond the start of our next one.  I decided to go with blues instead of aquas, and I’m loving these.  Over the course of the past 3 days I have sewn 51 hour glass units in the simple act of using triangle pairs to end chain pieced seams while making the Rolling Stone blocks.  How easy!  I just have to cut triangles and have them to the side of my machine as I’m working. 

Just cut SOME.  You don’t have to have the whole color round or the whole quilt cut out.  Just cut SOME,  and use them at the end of your line of piecing instead of that folded-over-thread-covered-throw-away-piece-of-fabric-scrap.

Our next Leader & Ender challenge starts in JULY, likely after the 4th.  Details on that to be announced at that time.  I hope you’ll consider jumping in with us if you aren’t currently working with Leaders & Enders already in your quilting life.

There has been time taken to explore mossy boulders and outcroppings!

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The leaves are emerging day by day!

My allergies are in hyper drive!!

I could be the poster child for Allegra.  Antihistamine eye drops are my current best friend. 

The cabin is up top, barely visible from where we stand.

And I am constantly amazed that ALL of this is our property.

And we are being greeted DAILY!

The plan for today is to just ENJOY and see what comes.  Some sewing.  Some helping to build the shed when I am needed.  Perhaps a run to town for more required supplies as I have been here since Tuesday evening and there are some things we need.

One year ago I couldn’t have imagined this.  6 months ago I could never have imagined this. 

I feel so very very blessed.  I recognize that, and am so very grateful for it.

I am also aware of the one constant element I see in anyone perceived as having an abundant or “A blessed life” by others - There is always ALWAYS evidence of pro-active hard work involved.

Blessings don’t fall from the sky without a whole lot of effort behind them.

And always always always GRATITUDE!

Quiltville Quote of the Day!

Happiness is also contagious! Share it with another!

I love this vintage chunky Dresden plate quilt found in Cullman, Alabama.

Happy Saturday, everyone!

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