Catching Up

Lancaster County III by Judie Rothermel for Marcus Brothers

 It's been a long couple of weeks.

I won a stack of fabrics from the Wandering Stars Blog and a great pattern, too. Selina & Lizze of W.S. host a great cyber gathering on Friday evenings. You can catch the conversation on Twitter, hashtag #gdas. Hope you'll join in the fun discussions about favorite music, links and sewing related topics.

They're not just bloggers, but Etsy Shop owners, too. Find them at http://thewanderingstars.etsy.com/, on Twitter @ws_on_etsy and Facebook as Wandering Stars. Thanks again, girls for the goodies & Friday sewing parties!!

 So....here's my latest distraction. It's for RSVP's biggest fundraiser and I'm hoping an awesome car collector or sweet gear head bids on it.

What a fantastic gift it will make!

This is just one of the designs.

Each block is hand embroidered. Yes, HAND embroidered.

My block took 88.75 hours to complete. whew.

Don't laugh. I haven't embroidered since I was 10..I tried!

1967 Toyota 2000GT

Woo HOO! Fun mail included selvages this week!!!

Special thanks to the senders.

Happy Stitching,

Heather

=)

MIRACLE WORKER STATUS ACHIEVED.

The last corner of my 30s Over the Rainbow Jane was just completed.

It's official. I'm a 'miracle worker'.

Happy Stitching,

Heather

3rd Corner Complete

Just one corner left to go before a nice, long break!

Off to play in the front yard.

All my best,

Heather

Fabric in the Mail! What Could Possibly be Better?

 

Fabric in the mail. A fantastic

selection of it.

What could be better, you ask?

It felt like Christmas around here this weekend!

My order from Ericas arrived much quicker than I expected...

3 fantastic books for the library arrived Saturday with a

 

beautiful, scrappy pattern & templates, too.

I even found a stack of kid friendly fat quarters (on sale, no less!).

Spoiled by another gorgeous sunny day today...we found some time to play outside {so no time to quilt----maybe tomorrow}.

This is our first floral loss of the Wiffle Ball Season. There will be plenty more to come, I'm sure.

We'll have to look forward to the blossoms at second base next year....unless I wise up and move them this fall.

Happy Stitching (and gardening!)

Heather

These are the violets I've been waiting on...the purple centers are more pronounced this year but they're a gorgeous white, light purple to dark in the very center. YAY!

A Busy Week

Oh my! Where to begin...

So much has happened this week.

I finished my second corner kite & ordered some goodies from Erica's.

YAY!

DH and I went to a perennial swap at a nearby park and found some goodies for the garden. As they begin to open and flower, I'll be sure to share photos.

I found some cream peonies, a lily that looks Asiatic but I'm told it's a single blooming tall lily {possibly a tiger}. We'll just have to wait and see.

Some purple daylily that I imagine is a lavender shade came home with us and some new daffodils, too.

Another daffodil looking plant with a large bulb came with other bulbs.
I'm told it may be surprise lily.

Whatever comes up will be surprise, that's for sure!

I shared mature Shasta Daisy starts, lots of Siberian Iris, Many Happy Returns Daylilies, dark purple {almost black} Columbine and some

Stella de Oro Daylilies.

There's another swap in fall.

Mr. Fabulous and I can hardly wait.

The weather has not been kind lately to our blooms but I'm happy to see the double daffodils doing well. They're my favorites of all the daffodils. The centers are so full they remind me of carnations.

Fun mail arrived full of selvages & a large floral fabric bundle.
Thank you to the sweet blogger who has been saving selvages for what

looks like quite a while. =)

I've already separated them by color and added them to the selvage stash.

One of these days, they'll make an incredible quilt top.

Have a wonderful day!

Thanks for stopping by.

Heather