Blocks for my month

This is my month for Lets Bee Together.  I sent out packets of DS Quilts fabric to the other 11 people in group A.  When I returned from Canada I had already received 2 blocks

This one is from Linda as Stray Stitches

And this one is from Staci The Confused Quilter

Dont they look nice together?

Keep dreaming...Colleen

Foto Finish-Things that are slow

Two weeks agoin Ontario, Canada just off Big Gull Lake I kayaked up Deer Creek on the way to Deer Lake. Sitting on a log was this turtle.  I looked at him and he looked at me and posed nicely for a few photos.

Keep dreaming...Colleen



Kayaking up Deer Creek I always have to cross the beaver dam.

Kayaks are nice and slow.



Creeping closer to a finish

Before I went on vacation I finished the modern log cabin quilt I started back in November. Im going to love having this quilt on my bed.  I have picked fabric to piece the back from my stash. 

I just need to take the plunge and figures out how I want to quilt it.  I made it with scraps from $1 scrap bags I bought at Karen Gray designs during the Flaunt event last October.  BTW Flaunt is an arts and crafts fair happening again this year on October 22 and I will again be participating. 

Keep dreaming...Colleen

Knit Picky is an amazing yarn store in Winston -Salem I discovered recently.

Sewcation part 2

Catching up on my blog posts going back to June.

After I spent a few days in Boone at the NCRA leadership Conference I traveled on to Gatlinburg to stay in my parents Blue Green vacation club. 

 It was a lovely place.

The drive through the Blue Ridge Mountains was beautiful.

The place was a lovely condo with wildlife every where. 

 Though I never did see that bear. 

 There was plenty of room for me to set up my sewing area.  And even an empty chest to store my fabric.

 I used the included ironing board and iron. 

My goal was to make the Kauffman Solids challenge quilt. 

I had a triptic board covered in felt to use as a design wall.

As you can see I had fun and accomplished my goal. 

I also worked on the cancer quilt.  I need to finish sewing on the borders and then quilt it.

There was a great Fabric Store on the Artists 8 mile loop. 

 It was a moda fabric lovers dream. 

The store was in a small pedestrian mall. 

 She had a long arm studio in another storefront across the way. 

Her husband helps her out. 

When I was there he was cutting fat quarters. 

She had lots of repros-40s and Civil War prints. 

I really loved this quilt pattern. 

She also had a lot of batiks. 

This is the quilt she designed for the recent shop hop that unfortunately had already happened the weekend before.

It was a wonderfulfour days in Gatlingburg.  Its a little commercial though more quaint then Pigeon Forge.  It was just nice to get away from life and be ablt to sew without distraction.

Keep dreaming...Colleen

Foto finish-Things that fly

I have been off the blogging for a while. 

I have a lot of posts to write but this morning when I saw the foto finish. 

Things that fly.

Last summer in my garden flitting around my summer phlox was this beautiful butterfly.  I too many many pictures and it wasn't until I was examining them later that I noticed in many of them there was also the bee.  Beautiful and scary together doing the thing they do in peace and harmony.

Keep dreaming...Colleen

My very late May block for Block Swap Adventure sent out earlier this week.
Torturous block.  Kafe's shot cottons need to be starched to death!