Lazy weekend

I really did nothing much over the weekend, not even sew. My SIL Denise did make me go with her to our favorite quilt store in Plattsmouth, Ne, Seams To Be Quilt Shoppe on Saturday. One of the best things about this shop is that besides having great fabrics of all kinds, they also have a sale wall ($3 & $5 a yd), and sale FQs. They were having a great sale on the sale Fat Quarters....94 cents apiece! So we went digging through them and managed to come up with a few. I was happy to find some more dots to add to my collection and found some lighter, mostly blueish colored batiks too.
This beauty was on the sale wall...so I had to get a piece! Isn't shopping for fabric sort of like quilting prep?
I think the reg. priced FQs are on sale all month too, but we didn't get that far, as we only had about an hour to shop.
I have been working on these blocks off and on for a week or so, so want to get them sewn together today. This is my first time at using the kaleidoscope ruler by Marti Mitchell, have to say it made the cutting very easy to do. I will be doing a class on it at some point, so went with just 6 fabrics ...though I know it would be pretty scrappy too. I hope to find time to do that at some point, too.

I have classes 3 nights this week and go back to school on Wednesday....not ready for this...lol..I am as bad as the kids!

Shanghai Circus and Fabrics

While in Branson we went to see the New Shanghai Circus. It was fabulous...lots of good acts of all kinds, ballet, acrobatics, balancing and even magic. We really enjoyed it. This is a picture I found online, not the greatest, but you get the idea.
I also managed to find a few fabrics at Sew Simple Quilt Store in Springfield. Aren't those cherries cute? Nice store, small but lots of nice fabrics. They also had a lot of beautiful quilt displays to inspire.

Julianne's quilt and other MQS pix...

This is the quilt that Julianne of Julianne's Place sent in as part of an exhibit to show how the same quilt can be quilted many ways. This picture doesn't do the quilting justice, take it from me, it was beautiful. That's Denise playing Vanna!
Here are my friends Cindy, Denise & Dianne leaving with bags full of pretties. We really did have a great time!
Mama Kitty is enjoying these Asian prints I found, as well as the new pattern. I thought the pattern would be paper pieced, but it isn't. I am anxious to try it out, but have another quilt to make first....
These were my best bargain...10 fats for $11.00. I love the little girls and stuff on these fabrics. Don't know what I will do with it, but who cares it's so cute! I also got a couple of new pantographs, which I forgot to take a picture of....but will soon!

Yesterday I worked on a pattern and planted flowers. It was almost a perfect day, about 70 outside.

Hop on over to Christine's blog Once Upon a Quilt...she is having a giveaway for her 100th post!

Kansas City, here I come....MQS tomorrow!

I am excited to go to MQS tomorrow....I expect to see lots of gorgeous quilts and maybe find a few things to bring home....lol...does anyone know, is picture taking allowed?

Fabric Emergency is Over!

Here are the blocks I've done so far. I have decided to make 2 more pink because in the arrangement I am doing, the green on the peach flowers looks too light, so I might only use 2. I need 10 altogether. The leafy fabric is auditioning for the setting triangles.

I can't believe it but I found that fabric! After searching through different sites & emailing a quilt guild in BC (who were willing to help), this morning I googled underwater fabric and found it! Pretty lucky considering I didn't know a thing about it. Lesson to be learned: try to always get fabric with the info on the selvage! I probably could've found something that would work, but you know how it is when you really think a fabric is perfect. So I hope it is.