So did I tell you....

Hey All!

I am so excited to get working The Black and White Quilt Challenge Project. A few weeks back from I ordered the Califon Collection by Mark Lipinski. ChristaQuilts! was having a sale so I got a 13 fat quarter set plus some yardage. Dear friends were married in October so this project is for them.

There is a r/w/b quilt on the current issue of Quilting that has me intrigued. It is called "So Many Snowballs." I think with the triangles being reds and the main pieces being the Califon, it would make for an amazingly modern project. We shall see... all in good time. I have a TON of other projects but hope to get this at leased cut before January is over.

Babs

PS: this was posted HERE back in December!

Another Field Trip with Vicki!

As always, Vicki has created an amazing list of quilts and fabric crafts from all over the blogosphere. THANKS VICKI!!

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Field Tripping the Web – Issue 28

Eye Candy – Projects people have recently completed

• Anne Ida's star quilt
• Wanda's zig-zag quilt
• Susan's Freefall
• TLC's emerald circles
• Amy's pencil roll and table runner
• Julia's quilt for her Mom
• Julie made lots of projects during her mini-retreat
• Wanda's big handbag and baby quilt
• D2Quilter's patriotic quilt
• Karen's Out on the Town quilts
• Beth and tirane's Precious Little Princess quilt
• Bernadette finished two quilts this week
• Nancy's charm party tote
• Elaine's shirt quilt top
• Julie's Color of Joy
• Connie's City Lights
• Julie's Tobacco Rose quilt
• Megan's little neighborhood
• Joyce's dragon OBW quilt

Longarm –specific Eye Candy

• Lynn's quilting on a log cabin quilt
• Rhonda's quilting on an appliqué quilt
• Deb's quilting on a good chase quilt
• Randi's free motion quilting
• Helen=Mary's quilting on an embroidered quilt
• Gayle shows how she tamed a beast

Fiber and Other Art

• Frieda's postcards
• Plays with Needles bead journal
• Jeanne's birds with links to the pattern
• Anna's Taking Stock Tutu
• Just go and see everything that Linda has been up to
• Michele's journals
• Jeanne's journal

Tutorials and On-line Projects

• Vivian shared how she quilts one of her favorite background fills
• Kathy's triangle tree ornament tutorial
• Wanda's Tribble Trouble block tutorial

Other Interesting Stuff

• Judy is having a drawing to celebrate her 100^th country visit – the drawing is November 15

1 + 1 = 2 then.... 2 + 2 = 4!

Welcome to the first post of my crafting blog! I wanted to keep my personal blog when I address the real craziness separate from the crafting. In the future, I want to have a fun productive crafting biz and this is the first step.

On this first post I want to share my first quilting blocks made for the Heartstrings Quilt Project. This is a prolific group of quilters who make string quilts for different charity groups. Right we are working on Quilts of Valor for member Alycia who has a goal of collecting 400 finished quilts to donate in 2009. I was a part of one quilt by donaitng a section, but now I want to try and make my own full top.

In September and October we are sewing green centered blocks. I had yet to sew a real string block, so last night I got down to business. I made 4 blocks then sewed them together... a start! Only 44 more to go!