A Finished Pinwheel Baby Quilt top!

I actually did it! I finished the Pinwheel Baby Quilt top! And it is awesome! I'm so excited I can participate in another Sew and Tell!



Sorry for the crappalicious photos, they were taken inside tonight after dark with a flash.

I've been working on this slowly but steadily this week, a bit each night. Tonight I finally sewed on the prairie points and the sashing. I LOVE it!



And for being my first "real" quilt top (I don't really count the receiving blanket quilt as it was just squares and weird stretchy flannel, etc), I think my piecing is pretty good! Nearly all of my corners and points line up, there are one or two that are a hair off but you don't notice it unless you know to look for it. I doubt the recipients will look that closely!



Now I just need to get some backing and binding fabric. I have an early morning hair appointment tomorrow that isn't too far from the LQS so I think when I'm done with that I'll swing over there and pick something up. I noticed they've got some yardage of Wee Play and so hopefully I can get something that coordinates.

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In other exciting news, there is a giveaway going on over at the Flea Market Fancy Freaks blog!

 

Run right over, there is all kinds of good stuff to be given away, including 29 fat quarters of FMF! Unfortunately, not all to the same person. ;)  Wouldn't that be awesome!  I'm running right over to enter, you should too!

Sunday Stash, one day late: Flea Market Fancy

So I missed Sunday Stash again.  But rather than remember on like Wednesday, like last week, I actually remembered this morning, and figured one day late was better than never, right?

Here's this week's stash--my newly acquired Flea Market Fancy.  This my stash of fat quarters, all acquired through swaps of the lovely blue seeds I found.  Aren't they pretty??

Swappy McSwaperson

That's me!  Today I managed to swap away the majority of my Flea Market Fancy blue seeds for 19, yes you heard correctly, that's 19 fat quarters of various other FMF prints.  I'm going to drop all the fabric in the mail tomorrow and I should be getting my fabrics sometime soon.  I'm so excited! 

In other news, I finally gave the new machine a whirl today.  I sewed a little on a couple of scraps just to try it out.  It's so smooth, so quiet, and so FAST! I can't believe how different it feels from my old machine.  I can't wait to really use it, it seems like it's going to make everything so much easier!  Hopefully soon I'll have some pictures of a new project.

Right now I'm trying to decide which quilt to make next.  Since I finished the receiving blanket quilt I haven't started one.  I started a couple of Christmas coasters and the Village Frock.  Both are in progress, but I've been waffling on which quilt to do next. I want to do a coin quilt with one of my jelly rolls, a dresden plate with another, a hexagon Grandmother's Garden type hand-pieced quilt with the third, and then I have another charm pack that is intended for either a pinwheel or hourglass pattern.  Decisions decisions!  I want to make a baby sized quilt for some friends who are expecting, who I thought by now would know the sex to help me narrow down my selection, but they told us recently they don't intend to find out.  So now I have to come up with something unisex.  No big deal, but just adds another layer of decision making to the whole project!  I need to hurry up and pick something out!

Coming up next, Sunday Stash...

Score!

So I stopped into the local fabric store today to browse around.  I went there for the first time a few weeks ago and was totally overwhelmed by the huge selection! I bought a few things and wanted to go back for a more leisurely stroll through.

I had noticed last time, tucked back in a little corner, a nice selection of American Jane Recess fabrics.  Near the end of my shopping trip today, I wandered back into that corner to have another looksee. I bought a Recess jelly roll recently and thought I might pick out some yardage of one of the fabrics to use as the centers in the dresden plate quilt I'm thinking of using it for.

Well, guess what I found?  Tucked in between all the bolts, I see this:

Flea Market Fancy by Denyse Schmidt - Blue Seeds

Can you believe it?  5.75 yards of FMF goodness.  I couldn't believe my luck.  I snatched it right up, took it to the cutting counter, asked them to measure how much was on the bolt, then said that I'd take it all.  Plus I got 20% off with my frequent buyer membership! (Although their prices are a little higher so it pretty much evens out to normal retail.)

I'm hoping to keep some for myself, use some for swaps to get some other yummy fabrics, and then maybe give some away here in a giveaway.  So everyone keep your eyes peeled here...