Shop Hop!

On the spur of the moment, I decided to do the North Central Washington Shop Hop this past weekend! I made to every quilt shop on the list, so I was able to enter the drawing for the fabulous prizes! I hope I win something :)! At each shop, I received a pattern for that shop's block from the shop hop quilt, "Fall in Love with North Central Washington." On the quilt, you can see the cascade mountains, omak stampede, fall leaves, washington apples, etc. It's very pretty. You can see it in the Fabric Patch quilt store in Ephrata, The Attic Window quilt shop in Wenatchee, and a halloween version (blacks and oranges) in the Leavenworth quilt shop. Anyhow, the drive through the area was nice. There were many places where the trees have begun to change...lots of yellow and reds to be seen.

The other quilt pictured is the Home Sweet Home quilt that is the raffle quilt for this next weekends North Central Washington Quilt Guild's Wenatchee Quilt show. I'd love to win that one!

My first quilt

Here is a photo of my first quilt - enjoyed doing it and have fabric for a baby quilt in the same style for my supervisors first baby. I do plan to embroider the larger blocks with baby animals and embroider a poem on the stripes. It will be done in flannel. Right now I am waiting to see what she is going to have - fabric is appropriate for both boy or girl but want to wait in any case. She is only 16 weeks into her pregnancy. I saw something on the internet though that I think I will do - on the stitch out for the embroidery, you make a baby bib to match the quilt; one way to use the stitchouts!!

Leanne

Let's All Share!

I thought it was about time to start up a page where we could all share pictures of the different sewing projects we make, or another other crafty ideas we might run across! We could make lists of different websites that we like, and what patterns we like/don't like, etc.

I'll start...I went to the Buggy Barn quilt show this past weekend. Debbie noted a quilt there (pattern was called Carpenter's star) that she'd like to make. We both happened to go to the Log Cabin Dry Goods quilt store in Spokane, and low and behold, we found the pattern there.

The colors chosen on this quilt make it appear that it is made with diamonds, but it only uses squares and half-square triangles.

The quilt we saw at Log Cabin Dry Goods in Spokane was more of a scrappy floral quilt, with a whitish background color.