These last couple of weeks have seen me making a million decisions, big and small, rather than anything crafty and tangible. The biggest decision has been to sell my apartment. The first open house inspection will be next weekend and then an auction will follow about a month later. It's scary, but I think it's the right thing to do and contrary to what I originally thought, it seems like a good time to sell.

In preparation, I've been going through the place room by room and getting rid of all the junk that doesn't deserve ...

Several weeks ago, Sandy Corbin was back in town.  So our regular group took her class, Hole In The Wall by Eleanor Burns.  I had a bundle of fat quarters in Asian fabrics so this is the result.  I plan to gift it to another coworker, Elaine Jow, who is originally from Taiwan.

Argh, Collingwood was playing last night and it became a
Bit of a health hazard trying to sew hexagons because I just never
knew when the TV was going to be yelled at and there for
the needle being jabbed into my finger!

Row 1 did get to meet Row 2 before I stopped.

Then I moved to the other end of the house
And into my sewing space. I had noticed that my
Blue scrap box was a lot fuller than the others
And at a closer look I found that it had a lot of
Aqua within in ...

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PURPLE ELEPHANTS.

A few weeks ago I had to confess about having run out of shelf space.
It didn't stop the fabric arriving though, woooohooo. I ordered few more little trollies... they're full already... hmmm, 'oh dear' and 'yeeeha' at the same time eh?
There are many bolts with small amounts of fabric left on them and, as I really need the shelf space for incoming fabric orders, I've decided to do this...

From now, today, right here in this very early moment... until Saturday 1st June, I will take 10% off the price of each piece of fabric ...

It was a slow week for me sewing and far as fabric use goes.  I did use some fabric this week.  I used a little for binding West, Texas quilts. I didn’t buy any fabric either so it’s a slow news day here. I do have a couple quilts that were on the quilting frame [...]

I was beginning to think that my sewing days were over. The more I tried to sew the less time I had. Tried to sit down to sew and the next thing I knew I was being called to do something else. Well this week I grabbed hold of my chair and didn't let go. Was able to finish clue two of Bonnie K. Hunters Lazy Sunday from Quiltmaker's magazine

I have been busy sewing and quilting these past weeks trying to finish up some small table toppers that have been sitting around

Conchico Mills, a mini quilt of the month from Temecula Quilt Co.

Smoked Cheddar Bow Tie, 12" sq.  Each block is 2" finished.

Happy Holiday Table Topper for Valentines Day.

Summer Fun Sampler for 4th of July.

Day 4 International Quilt Market in Portland, Oregon.  This afternoon we are tired, but excited.  Yesterday, we were inspired by our classes but didn't find nearly as many new things on the vendor floor as we'd hoped for.  This morning was an entirely different day.  We each started with a great class (more about that later), and then found idea after idea as we went up and down the lanes.  By the end of the day, we had enough new and interesting projects to fuel our demonstration days through the end of the year, several new classes that ...

Did you accomplish a lot this week?  I hope you did; it feels so good!

For Show and Tell today, I can share the two completed quilt tops I go to the “ready to quilt” point this week.

You saw the Scrap-Tease quilt earlier this week, but it didn’t have the borders yet.  I went to JoAnne Fabrics to look for batik fabric for the borders.  I wanted something that had lots of colors in it, and the quilt guild used a really nice batik with darker multi-colored designs through it.  I couldn’t find anything that looked like ...

I am entering Cuddly Critters into the Baby Quilt category in the Blogger's Quilt Festival held and hosted by Amy's Creative Side.  Thank you Amy for hosting this festival.

A waxy beauty from my DH's cactus! Went to a Sew Day at our Guild today.  We made blocks for VA quilts.  I actually got a whole top done using a panel to which I added fabric round and round it.  It measures about 36 by 42.  I pulled a fabric from my stash to be the back, so that used a yard.  I also fussy cut some squares and that used up another 1/4 yard.  Not much other de-stashing, but I

My good friend Kathy came to Dauphin from Flin Flon for a visit this week. She had teased me on her blog that she had a cool birthday present for me, and she was right.   A few weeks ago Kathy had asked me to send her a picture of the front of my house and not to ask why.  This of course had me curious.  She wouldn't give me any hints, and I wasn't able to guess, but I was very excited to open my present and find this metal compass "barn" quilt.

It's a flickr group for people doing an art, craft or hobby related Project 365.

Create 365

All of the 365 groups I looked at were about photography and not the item being photographed. This group is about the item.

Candy Sayings "Teacher's 100 Grand"