Sew Cal Yard Sale!

Sew Cal Gal is sponsoring a Spring CLeaning Yard Sale all month! So below are my  items.  I will add to this as I find more things to get rid of destash.  Please email me or leave me a comment.  I prefer if you have a paypal so I can send you an invoice.  It makes it easier on shipping and keeping the $$ straight.  Postage will be based on weight unless you live close enough to pick up.

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#1 Scraps from fat quarters-strips, squares, rectangles

$3

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#2 Loney Toons Sports fabric-22"x38" plus attached scraps-1997 date

$3

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#13 Two Leather Gingher scissor holders NEW , large and medium (scissors not included, just to show size)

$3.50 each or 2 for $6

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#4 XYRON Personal Cutting System, new in the box with extra mats, blades and design books.  

$35


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#5 School bus by Fabric Traditions 1996, Susan Wright-1 yard

$4 


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#6- Lazy Crazy Quilt by Thimbleberries-56"x44"

$7

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#7-Dr Suess print, Spring Industries 2003-1 yard(more available)

$4
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#8 Color Block in two colorways by International fabrics 1993-both 18"by44"

$5



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#9 Moda Whimsical Wabbits-1 yard plus very large attached scraps

$5
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#10 Christmas fabrics
Blue with Santa and sleigh-FQ
Green with Violins and music-32"x12"
Red with gold stars-26"x33"

$6
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#11 Cats on black, Timeless Treasures, 1986 -1 yard

$5
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#12 Cats on white, 13"x45" plus large attached scraps

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#13 basting gun-barely used, lots of tags

$8

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#14 Book-Best Selling Bazaar Patchwork-like new

$4

#15 Book-Cotton Theory Quilting-like new-bought at Betty Cotton's store!

$10

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#16 Book-America's Regional Quilting

$5

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#17 Vintage Crochet patterns and magazines

$8

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#18 ABC print- 1 yard

$4



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#19 Heart star quilt print by Fabric Traditions 1992-4 yards plus

$15
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Keep Dreaming...Colleen

Front of pillow receive in swap at Triad MQG made by the fabulous Jennifer!

Back is another fabulous DS quilts print!

I need Monk!

How can I loose 2 yards of Kona orange! ?!  It is somewhere though not were the rest of my fabric is!  I don't know if I ever told the tale of the etsy store that messed up my order.  This past October I ordered a scrap bag from a now defunct fabric store.  I also ordered a yard of orange Kona at a special price.  Well 2 weeks go by and I get the orange but no scrap bag.  So I convo'd with the store and and realized she sent me two yards of the orange.  Well I wanted my scrap bag and the invoice was correct. So finally they said they would send it to me.  And then nothing for a month.  I convo'd nothing.  I checked the feedback and saw a lot of negative feedback and orders paid for but not received.  It was getting close to the limit for filing a claim so I left negative feed back on the scrap bag only and filed a claim  I think what was most disturbing was the negative feed back the owner had written on some of the customers.  Very mean spirited and a little paranoid and ranting.  I waited until the last minute to file a paypal claim as well.  I wanted to give the person every opportunity to make it right.  It was only around $6 but it was an order not filled.  Do you know you can loose your etsy privileges if you don't handle complaints?  And Paypal will strip you of your account!  Believe it or not I did get a refund through paypal at the very last minute.  I had the convo as my proof and the invoice. So I closed my etsy claim.  That will teach me to order from a store I don't know through the blogs or flickr.  Though I did check the original feedback before I ordered and it was 99%.  

Todaythere was an awesome sale at Karen Gray's.  She carries Westminster fabrics.  She had her $6 wall fabrics (older lines) $4.95 a yard!  Christmas fabrics $3.95!  rayons $9.95!   Valorie Wells linens and decorator fabrics $13.95.  fat quarters $2.30!  books 1/2 price kits 1/2 price!  It was an awesome sale!  Between  my etsy sale money I bought some fabrics to fill in some color needs.  

I also spent the day rearranging my studio.  I needed to put my BL Sofia desk behind my big desk so I could just swivel and do my embroidery.  If I need to machine quilt I will move it to the big desk for more room.  I also made things less cluttered looking.  I hate clutter and  it was getting on my nerves.  Dad would be proud that I hung the green shelf all by myself. I put my sewing notions and box collections from various relatives on it.  I also found the perfect place to hang my Victorian clothes dryer.  And if you look in the picture below you see a round object under the shelf.  That ia a cleat plastic sewing box.  I have my wooden spools in it.  I figured out how to put it on the wall.  I used packing tape to hold it closed and a nail with no head which fit in one of the spool holder holes.  Yeah!  I also reorgainzed my thread and embroidery threads.

Ok so I am tired and rambling.  Good night!

Keep dreaming...Colleen

Have you seen DS Quilts new Aunt Edna at Joann's?  Lucious!

Mini quilt party

Did you know amylouwho is having a party!  A mini quilt party! 

So I thought I would join in and share a recent swap finish.  Why is it I'm always sending my favorite finishes to others?  Ah such is the way of a quilter!

Have you seen this loveliness?

And this loveliness?

 

This is fabric the first DS  Quilts (Denise Schmidt) line, Picnic & Fairgrounds, found at Joann's.  Some of us are alittle obsessed with Denise Schmidt fabrics at Joann's.  So obsessed we have this flickr group to discuss and share it.  And there are two other lines since this one was released last spring.

We DS Quilts devotees are so obsessed we decided to do a DS Quilts Doll Quilt swap using just Picnic & Fairgrounds!  I was all gun ho to use my Kona Ash for the background and made these little squares and tried them.  I liked it alot!

However when I posted to the group I got lukewarm response so I tried it against a white.

Everyone like this version, but I wasn't thrilled so I put it away for a while.  I felt like it didn't represent me. I designed new quilts in my graph pad. Finally as the deadline approached I was hit with inspiration.  My paper pieced stars!  I love making them!  I have been doing them since I first used them as a border for a round robin quilt in 1994.  Set the original part on point and put a star in each corner!

I love how it turned out! (though I still want to do it in ash).  The yellow was just right for setting off the  center.  I decided not to put an outer border on it.

When quilting I don't draw out lines or think to far ahead.  I guess I just(forgive the cliche) let it speak to me.  If you look closely in the center I did a series of squares with narrow and wide widths between.  In the center I turned the squares on point.  I had fun quilting around the stars too.

I used a darker blue and red small scale print to bind it.  I love using these clips to hold the binding in place!

I think it turned out pretty great and my partner really liked it!

Don't forget to go back and check out all the mini quilts at the party!

Keep dreaming...Colleen



This is the DS Quilts doll quilt my partner Leona sent me!  It's awesome!



A few finishes

So I'm still dealing with the aftereffects of the crud.  And trying to get caught up on swaps.  I had such a great schedule for the the last week and a half that is totally blown.  I was supposed to start on Christmas presents in November.  Oh well.  So first up is the Sewingly Yours BOM.  If you do your block and bring it to one of the meetings on the first Tuesday of the month you get your next block kit free.  The initial cost is $10.68.  If you miss you have to pay again.  So here is the second block.  They are in batiks.

Can you tell I had to pice the center block.  Note to self plan for each piece of fabric before cutting.

And here is the first two blocks together.

I like learning different techniques for making the blocks.

I also was able to finish my DS Quilts Doll quilt.  I machine quilted it on my Babylock Sofia. 

I'm still learning how to use it correctly.  It is really sensitive to needle and thread.  I'm still learning.  I did a lot of straight line and out line quilting.  I like the graphic quality.

I bound it with a dark blue and tiny roses print.  The hairclips can be found in the quilting notions setting.  They are great for holding the binding even on larger quilts.

And here is the completed Ds Quilts Doll quilt!  I really like it!  And now to send it on its way to its new owner.

Keep dreaming...Colleen

 

DS Quilts loveliness. 
Doll quilt and Let's Bee Together August blocks.





Kinda back in the saddle

Happy Halloween!



My Halloween string quilt made long ago.

So I've been battling the crud since last Friday and it has had me wiped for the last week.  I managed yesterday to put up some decorations and do some needed shopping.  I am feeling a whole lot better today, but all my sewing has been derailed.  I am now behind on some of my swaps, so I got back in the saddle this afternoon. 

My DS Quilts Doll quilt flickr swap  has to be mailed by Friday. 

I have had the center of the top done for a month.  I had planned to complete it last weekend.  I kind of battled with this quilt.  I felt pushed by the comments of others to change what I had planned to do.  When I had finished the above I hated it and put it aside for a while.  A couple of weeks ago I came up with a solution.  So today I got out the wax paper and pencil and paper pieced my favorite stars.

I really like it now! 

I will back it with another DS Quilts print, machine quilt it (any ideas?) and bind it in the tiny dark blue and red print.  I hope to finish it tomorrow. 

BTW I will mail another swap package tomorrow I managed to finish last Sunday.  This is for a partner very far away and I included some goodies. 

Keep dreaming...Colleen

Im ready for the trcik or treaters!

Blogger's Quilt Festival

Today is the first day of the Blogger's Quilt Festival put together by Amy's Creative side!  I hope you go over and visit all of the wonderful quilts! 

Here is my contribution.

I called this quilt "Little Houses".

  It was inspired by a Triangle MQG member's full sized quilt.  I made this doll quilt for a swap our guild did this past June.  I had a very hard time giving it up. 

This was the first quilt I quilted on my new sewing machine Babylock Sofia.  I love the effects of the pebble quilting. 

I used some of my special scraps for the houses, my favorite Ashe gray for the bacground and border,  and an Amy Butler dots fabrics. 

I love the straight line quilting in the borders and the happy dot border. 

I paper pieced the houses from a pattern I drew on the computer.

I especially loved the back Kaffe print.

Well thanks for stopping by. 

 Dont forget to visit Amy's Creatvie Side to see the other entries!

Keep dreaming...Colleen



BTW here is the quilt I got in the swap from the same person who inspired Little Houses.
I love all the DS QUilts lovliness!  It hangs on the door of my office where I can look at it every day.