Wall Hanging

I bought this pattern YEARS ago from a little store in Salt Lake City, Utah. The designer has really cute stuff and I bought a couple of them. I started the next one but have no idea when it will be done.  So I carried this one around with me for a few weeks and mostly worked on it during quilt guild meetings and such.

My first attempt at a border print was an epic fail, it stayed attached just long enough to take a picture as a lesson on what NOT to do and then I attacked it with a seam ripper! Look how terrible the mitering lines up. YUCK!!

As of now it is hanging in the living room as a reminder to us each day to temper what we speak and to "let your utterance be always with graciousness, seasoned with salt, so as to know how you ought to give an answer to each one." Colossians 4:6
  

Casserole Hot Pad Swap

I signed up for Cheryll's Hot Pad Exchange last week. I got my exchange buddy's name and address emailed to me on Tuesday and immediately started spying on my assigned friends blog. It turns out she likes chickens as much as me and cultivates her own little egg factories too. I happened to be heading to my favorite LQS that very day. I had totally forgotten that they were having a sale even (bonus!). I have a list of fabric styles I am currently looking for, there is literally a list in my purse right now.  That is all that was on my mind when I headed out but when I got there and remembered that not only is everything in the store 20% off but the items on the sale table were up to 75% off! Happy dance ensues! Sadly, I didn't find most of what was on my list. They are funky things like soccer ball prints and things with baby ducks on them. I did find some butterfly fabric that will work nicely. I had a point, what was it? Oh yeah, I found CHICKEN fabric on the 75% off sale table, yards and yards of it! Since I have a few friends that are also clucking enthusiasts, I bought everything they had. Once it was all washed up and ready to use, I set to making my hot pads.  I pulled out my batik stash, since I do most of my paper piecing with it, and my stack of wonderful patterns designed by my buddy Cat. Cat is a chicken (well, she calls them Chooks) lover too so her patterns are super cute! I chose the 'rooster' and the 'hen with chick' pattern. Once they were shrunk down to 5 inch blocks, I started sewing. Once again the idea that 'it takes just as long to make 2 as 1' came into my head and within the afternoon, this is what I had:



Chicken Wire Binding





Stripy Binding



  



Cutest Fabric EVER!



All ready to go in the mail.

I hope my swap buddy puts LOTS of hot and yummy food on it! Now to decide what to do with the other one....







President's Quilt Block

As you all know I am a member of the Asheville Quilt Guild. Like many other guild, I'm sure, we make a block each year for the out-going President. These are the instructions we were given:

Presidents Block

Instructions

for

"Last Years President"

It should be 6 inches finished, 6 ½ inches unfinished.

The background should read as cream or light

beige.

Use autumn colors when constructing the star.

When the block is turned in, please include a 6

inch square of the background color and 6 inch

square of star fabric color. This will be used in the

border. Include with the star the name of the star

(many stars have several names). On one of the

background corners, please write the maker’s

name.


So, I busted out a list of paper pieced patterns I have been looking for an excuse to use and picked this one. I also saved out some of the Autumn-y scraps from the pinwheel blocks I was cutting up at the time.

I hope she likes it. Her quilts tend to be a little on the 'funkier' side of things so I hope it will work.