Looking Back and Moving Forward! (And Gift-Away!)

Sometimes all you DO need is LOVE!

I’ve been so grateful for the outpouring of love over the past few days.  Thank you all so very much -

You know, something happens when stress on the emotions as well as the body comes calling – and I have been forgetful of the stupidest of things.  I’ve set things down who knows where.  I forgot an appointment.  I couldn’t find a quilt that was supposed to come with me to Shipshewana Indiana this morning -

(Yes, I found it, after much digging!)

And the biggest thing of all – I can’t remember putting my hand on my passport after I went through customs and checked back in through security at JFK more than a week ago.

I think I left my brain in Kenya.

SO last night, after combing everything here  (We had also combed everything at the cabin – to no avail.) I had to go online and cancel my passport as lost.  Mind you – I leave for Germany in just over 3 weeks.

I am doing an expedited replacement, but it can’t be done until I return from Indiana – next Tuesday.  That puts me just 2 weeks out from going to Germany. It can be done.  But I need everyone’s fingers crossed, prayers sent, juju called up – I need this replacement passport.  And I am leaving for the airport for Indiana in less than an hour.

The full Love on a Shoestring Budget quilt.

While digging for the missing Jamestown Landing – I got the wild brained hair to pull the  small quilts to hang at Quiltville Inn.  Some of these haven’t seen the light of day in years.  Most date to the early 2000s.  Many were made using Tonya Ricucci’s lettering technique and we worked on them together.

I thought I would share them here since we have so many new readers.

Please note at this time period I was very much into brown.  And Cheddar.  Still love the cheddar – less understanding of brown.  LOL!

It’s like that old love song “I remember you…….”

Why have these been just languishing in a closet?

I have plenty of walls to hang them!

Close up.  Hand quilted.

Random strings around the shoo fly blocks.

Out on a String -

This one is still under the Free Patterns tab!

String Stars are my absolute favorite – I’d love to drop everything right now and go make some more.

This thing needs blocking!

Hand Quilted.

I used to love hand quilting small projects.

Where did that girl go?

Oh yeah – she let work take over her life!

This had a name.  I don’t remember it now?

Mardis Gras Stars? Maybe?

Also hand quilted.  Strings and strips make me happy!

The star points were bonus triangles.

Little Crumb Love  pieced by Tonya from leftover blocks we had made together.

This one is bigger – made with orphan blocks.

Hand quilted.

I love playing with orphan blocks!

Why did I stop?  Deadlines.

Made from leftover blocks that students didn’t want.

My goal was to show that even an ugly block could be made to look good – I used orphans in the border.  I am so happy to be rediscovering these – they now have a place to be seen!

Close up.

Also hand quilted.

Love Shack.

Was a class.  Never became a pattern.

machine quilted.

Still so cute -

Another Crumb Love with orphans.

My love of string piecing has never gone away!

So these are in a big IKEA bag waiting to be taken to the Inn upon my return home.  I’ve also whittled down the contents of the Quilt Vault by pulling about a dozen of my own bedsized quilts to adorn the beds at Quiltville Inn.  The vintage quilts are for decor – folded at the ends of beds, etc – but I want folks to really sleep under my quilts.  Why else do I have a closet full?  What am I planning on doing with more than 100 quilts just taking up space in my house?

Don’t worry – it won’t stop me from making more, but I want to see the ones I have used.

Does this mean that Quiltville Inn won’t be completely vintage in decor?  Yup.  It’s an eclectic mix of EVERYTING – much like life is.

And oh, it will be colorful!

While I am Gone to Shipshewana!

We had so much fun with our IronEZ Gift-Away that we are going to do it again.  This time I am giving away THREE IronEZ Spray bottle holsters with spray bottles to USA residents!

I love that my bottles don’t go flying to the floor any more.

We will draw for our winners upon my return home next Tuesday morning Nov 12th.

And you can still order your own IronEZ and save 15% by using code BH15off at MyIronEZ.com!

Good luck everyone!

Quiltville Quote of the Day -

Absolutely abundantly true!

I am off to Indiana for some serious fun. To those on their way - I will see you soon!