Christmas Goodies

I hope everyone had a great Christmas!!!  I know I certainly did.  I had a great day.  I started the morning opening gifts with my DH.  We then went over to my parent's house and opened presents with my family, had a nice Christmas dinner, came home, and had my father-in-law and brother-in-law over to watch the football game.

Here are some of my quilting related goodies that I got from various people...

10 Yards of fabric by Marcus Brothers...

A Fat Quarter Bundle...

A light to go on my sewing machine...

A bunch of notions...

Several Quilting books...

A great new iron...

And the most wonderful quilting present of all from my parents...

drumroll please...

my dream sewing machine...  Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!  (That I'm already putting to good use, using the BSR to quilt one of my many unfinished quilt tops.)

We had suc

Newest Quilt Project

About two months ago, my aunt and I went to a local quilt store where they had a sale on fat quarters, $1.50 each!!!  They had recently received the new Eva line by Moda, so I stacked up on a bunch of those.  I'm making a lap quilt with... here are a few of the blocks on my cutting table since my design wall is filled with a secret project right now.

Like I needed a new project.  Ha ha!!  I guess I'm accepting that's my quilting style.  I get bored working on one thing for too long.  I need to bounce around.

All I want for Christmas

...ok, so it may not be all I want for Christmas (I'd also really like to win the lottery so I can buy the Bernina Aurora 440QE that I've been lusting after for so long), but I would really like a Fat Quarter Bundle of the new line Blush from the Fat Quarter Shop.  Anyone else just totally love those colors together?  I'm picturing a table runner, some place mats, and maybe a little wall hanging for our dining room.

Have you seen their latest blog post.  If not, run over and check it out (or not so I have a better chance to win).  Some lucky folks are going to have their wishes granted by Santa.   I REALLY hope I'm one of them.

Birthday Presents!

So last weekend was my birthday, and my husband made me a fantastic present, a cutting table!

We bought a cheap desk at Target and found board made out of some really nice quality wood glued together and sanded down at Lowe's.  My DH sanded it down more so that it was really smooth, and gave it 4 coats of polyurethane.  He then attached it using t "L" brackets on each side to sit on top of the desk so that the board didn't move around at all.  The nice thing about this cutting table is that it's lower than most, and being 5'1", that really helps me.  (don't mind the mess on the floor in the pic, I'm still rearranging things now that the table is in the room.)  The whole table cost less than $100 total for all the materials. 

My wonderful DH also bought and installed this for me, a pegboard that sits right above my cutting table.

It's awesome because now all of my cutting tools and other quilting tools are all within an easy reach right at my cutting table.   I love it!!!

Another Win and Some English Paper Piecing

I must have some great luck with me right now because I won another blog giveaway from Dye Candy's most recent giveaway.  I got my package in the mail yesterday.  Aren't the colors just fantastic?  Thank you so much Chris!  I'm trying to think of how I can use these beautiful dyed fabrics.  Hmm...

I've also begun using the 2 1/2" charm squares from the sampler box I won a little while ago from the Fat Quarter Shop.  I've never made anything using English paper piecing, so I thought this was a great chance to try.  I'm using the Whimsy line.  It's not my style at all, but it's nice to work with different colors and more traditional fabrics every now and then.