Back in the groove

I'm finally feeling like I'm beginning to get caught up with life.   I actually started and completed a project all in the same week.

(can you believe it?)

I made a little quilt for my mother-in-law for Mother's day.  The idea came from the a magazine I picked up - Quilt Almanac 2011.

I was rather disappointed in the magazine.  I was expecting templates and patterns for all the flowers and leaves, but there wasn't any.  The other patterns in the book were okay, but nothing super exciting.  I wouldn't recommend spending $10 on it, it wasn't worth it. 

Anyway, back to my project

It was challenging.

I'm not super comfortable with applique, but I think it turned out neat.

Each hand print is one of the grand kids.

I practiced my stippling and "organic" outlining.

I'm a bit more comfortable using fusible web.  The web had problems sticking to the back of the hand prints, even when I followed the actual directions on the packaging.

She was thrilled with it, which is what matters most.

I've started packing up my UFOs that I know I won't work on this summer.

I'm trying to be realistic, summer is busy enough and then adding in building and moving...  I'm totally thrilled to be building a house that's almost double the size of our current home.

(and I get my own room, JUST FOR SEWING!!!!!)

I'm also dreading packing and moving.

We've lived here for 9 years.  When we moved in it was just me, the Mr. and a nine month old baby.  We've managed to accumulate 2 more kinds and a lot of stuff in 9 years.

School will be out for the summer in about 6 weeks, and that's when I'll really start packing up everything.  We should be moving at the end of August.

Super exciting!

Twelve Pounds of Fabric

When the box arrived I weighed it.  It was just over 12 lbs with the box.

I went back and re-read the description. 

 

"12 Pound Fabric Grab Bag

Each grab bag is a 12 pound box of assorted fabric pieces"

 

Okay, so I can't get grumpy.  The description doesn't specify 12 lbs of fabric, but a 12 lb box of fabric.

 

Ready for details? 

 

 

Here are all 124 pieces of fabric. 

A total of over 27 yards. (and I was really conservative in my measuring)

Which averages out to about $ 2.45 /yd.

 

Totally worth it.

 

Details?

there were only 7 pieces that were not WOF.

the smallest of these was 5"x11"

 

There was one 2 1/2" strip, everything else was wider.

There was a good variety of widths, 4" and 13" were the most common.

The longest piece was 20".

There were 3 or 4 that had tiny flaws.

 

 

 

These are sorted by width, with the biggest pieces in the upper right corner.

Totally yummy fabrics.

 

 

These three rows are sorted by style. 

 

Row One

• Batiks - the bottom one is a gorgeous weeping tree print.
• Next are the holiday fabrics.  There was a total over just over 1 yd of 12 Days of Christmas white snowflakes.  Happiness!!!  That's enough to use with the other bits I've been hording.

 Row Two

• 1920 reproductions!  I love these and were very happy to see them.
• Civil War reproductions!  I've ALWAYS wanted to play with these...now I can!  One of the prints is 110" wide.  hmmm, what to do...

 

Row Three

• Solids - Two are 110" wide.  lovely variety of colors.
• 5 prints from The Butterfly Garden Collection.  That was the most of one fabric line I received.

And then, there were these 7 pieces.

The only non-"quilting cottons."

three holiday flannels and two others...

Favorites?

Solids!  Can't have too much of these.  Totally love the greens.

 

Sunkissed  - Words on white and yellow!

CENTRAL PARK!!! - have I mentioned how much I adore Kate Spain? 

Would I buy it next year?

Absolutely.

At under $2.50/yd it is a very cost-effective way to restock fabrics.

They are all current designer prints, nothing was uber thin or ugly.