Love is in the air?

No man , I wish. However I do LOVE my first swap block form Lana in Texas!

I love the green, polka dots, and the fussy cut fabric from Wendy Slotboom's frolic line!  Thansk Lana it is awesome and so me!

Im also in love with the Be Mine Blog tour (see button to the right) this week. 
They have had some great patterns and have motivated me to create some Valentine's Day decorations!

I have this tree in my kitchen-here it is all decorated for  Christmas.

But I wanted to leave it up all winter.  However the decorations were too Christmasy. 

I have a lot of Valentine and romantic red charm squares in my stash.

So first I made a modern valentine table runner. 

I even had a great white on white print of hearts already cut into strips.

I also had about 4 yards of this red with tiny white hearts I used for the backing with a wrap around binding.

This goes on the top of my server(antique sewing machine).  Didn't it turn out great!

Then I made these cute stuffed read hearts. 

I was inspired by valentine heart ornaments.  Again with charm squares I already had and a heart pattern I've had for probably twenty years ago.  The ribbon actually came from the wrappings of Bed Bath and Beyond products.  Reuse!

I found a porcelain heart box my dad gave me years ago and here is my Valentine's Day kitchen decorations.  I already had a white wooden button garland on the tree.  I'm thinking about adding a pom pom garland too. 

At the top I added heart-in-hand cookie cutter set I found with a house-and-heart set for about $1 at a yard sale.

What do you think?  Oh and for around the bottom of the tree, what about some white eyelet material wrapped around the bottom?

This is what you do when you have FOUR snow days in a row-that includes another tomorrow!

There is another great pattern for a heart pillow I think I will make tomorrow and another great table runner.  So check out the Be Mine Blog tour on Spun Sugar Quilts there are three more to go!

Keep dreaming…Colleen



The Christmas Day snow covered the snowflake lights on Dad's roof-too cool! 
BTW he is that house in the nieghborhood when it comes to lights.



Blue Scraps challenge...and my stash

 I joined up with the Rainbow Scrap Challenge over at Soscrappy.  She called for us to dig into our blue scraps and make something. 

She gave some ideas on her blog of a mug rug or some blocks.  I pulled out my blue scraps and my white/neutral scraps. 

I just sewed and cut and ironed and used my Dresden wedge ruler. 

 I ended up with this.

I think that I may take these blue and white scraps...

And piece strips on the ends to create a table runner. And these scraps

To piece a backing.

 I need a gift for an upcoming family get together next Sat, and this may fill the bill.

BTW check out this stash!

These are my new Billy bookshelves from IKEA. They were on sale for $99 with the glass doors.  I will put those on after I finish straightening the mess. FYI I used comic boards to create all of these lovely mini bolts.  100 for about $7 or 8 .  Check out my how to here. I need to get another pack because I still have some fabric to fold. 

All the little containers stacked up the middle and off to the side are my scraps and fat quarters.  I still need to sort through and organize them better.  It is delightful to be able to see all the fabric I have. 

 The fabric on the left is my 90's stash.  On the right the top shelf  is my feed sacks, batiks, and repros from the 90's too.  The 2nd and third shelves are mostly new fabrics I have been collecting.  Then my solids including hand dyed. Next to the bottom are baskets I am organizing fat quarters into. The bottom is my Christmas fabrics.  Be looking for my January stash giveaway coming up in a week or so.  I will be choosing some fabric from my blue 90s stash.  I may just coordinate my giveaways to the Rainbow Scrap challenge.

Keep dreaming…Colleen

the orginial lucky duck