Postless. . .

When I'm gone away from blogging for a more than a week, there are a few things reasons why:
1. Not been sewing?
2. Depression?
3. Family obligations?
4. SPRING cleaning!!

So, I have done a very limited amount of sewing and a lot more spring cleaning in the past few weeks!  I did get my Jewels of the Crown done. . . but it's too big because I actually pieced it verses doing paper piecing like I did for the other blocks.  So, I have to paper piece all the blocks due to the resizing of the pattern when I print it - don't know why it does that, but if all the blocks are ending up the same size that is what matters:

And I visited a local quilt show over the past weekend with some new friends.  They were (are) my first class and we all have "kinda" bonded.  The quilts were incredible for a guild  style show.  Wish there was more vendors, but all in all we had a good time!  Can you guess which quilt is my favorite?

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Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.

I hope to get more sewing in sometime soon.....but now gardening has to share some of my spare time as well.

Jewels in the Crown BOM

Is anyone else doing this free Block of the Month program?  You can start now, it's only 2 months in and the blocks only stay up for 2 months at a time.


I've got a large selection of batiks - but they are in small pieces, most are about the size of a fat eighth - perfect for this project.

 And now you see where my "Wordless Wednesday" came from :)

I finished up February's block over the weekend and I'm having fun with color and texture.

This is both of my blocks together:

I need to pull some of my larger pieces of batiks (I have several 3+yards pieces) to see if I can work them into the many borders for the finishing part of this top.  I think this quilt is going to be very stunning!  I love batiks!

Don't forget to do your daily entry for my Manic Monday Offering!

TGIF!

And I need to get moving and out the door before this "snow" comes into Eastern Tennessee.  I think I'm going to have to push my tomorrow morning class to the afternoon!

I finished my sampler top and it's in the quilting process now:

I so love it!  The blank block in the middle will highlight a machine embroidery desgin as I quilt it.  It is a tad bit brighter than the image, but the colors work very well!

I also pulled out some of my batiks and decided to jump into the Jewels In the Crown BOM, hosted by Reeze.

Doesn't it POP!  I think it works very nicely with jewel tones!

I also feel the need to share my favorite notions I used this morning as I pieced this block together (I paper piece - wasn't about to piece lots of triangles!) 

Add-A-Quarter rulers, 6" & 12", my clover seam riper, and my eze-snips! 


Well, I hope everyone has a great weekend - my will involve lots of sewing!