Quiet Day

I stitched today, but didn't complete any quilts.  I made string blocks... red string blocks.... about seven of them.  I had this plastic shoebox on the table by my sewing machine and I decided to just reach in and grab some strips... then decided to only grab red ones.  I pretty much cleaned all the reds out of that one, but have three other sources for more... I think I'll be doing them for awhile  lol. 

Tomorrow, when I go to Walmart, I'm going to pick up about 10 plastic bins ... bigger than the 'shoebox' size but not too big.  Then, I'm going to start sorting my string scraps into colors.  The pieces that aren't 'strings' will stay wherever they are and will be used for crumb blocks later this year.

I took EIGHT quilts of various sizes to the guild meeting tonight ... oh, and my cute little camper pin cushion.  There weren't a lot of people there, but that was ok; those that were there seemed to enjoy seeing what I had.  Someone ( my cousin Cathy) even asked how many I'll be bringing next week LOL.  I told her "It depends on who pisses me off and how mad they make me".  I sent her a text after the meeting explaining that I was talking about our insurance company, Medicare, Express Scripts and a couple of others who sent me on a major wild goose chase last Friday and again on Monday.

There's a new quilt on the frame... this one will be a charity quilt.  I stitched along the black seam at the top and on the sides and then stitched around the outside of each black 'frame' and around each tool.  I probably shouldn't have; I probably should have just done a 'meander' over the entire quilt... one and done.  But I just don't think that way... I like to do details.  I think just stitching around the outside edge of each tool and it's 'frame' will be enough for the center of each block and I can just 'meander' in each outer frame... will still need to do something for the outer border; have to think on that.

 Yesterday ( well, last night) I said that I wanted to go get some cream batik for the baking for the Fractured Pinwheel quilt, but I wanted it on the inexpensive side.  Earlier today - actually as I'm taking my shower before guild meeting, I happened to think of some blue and black print that I had in my sewing room walk in closet.  I need three yards... I have about 2 1/2 plus another half yard piece that is split down the middle ( so it's half of a half yard cut ) so that wouldn't work.

I went to The Hen House and headed right for the sale/clearance racks while trying not to ooo and ahhh at all the pretties that I had to pass by.  I didn't see any cream, batik or otherwise and realized that really wasn't what I wanted on the back of a quilt.  Then, I spotted this....

It looks kind of batiky and I like it.  I liked the price, too.  You never know what you're going to find down there on any given day.  I could go nuts, but since I'm TRYING not to purchase any more fabric than necessary, I got only what I needed.  She may have to go back and wipe my drool off a bolt here and there, though.  I saw soooo many lovlies there.

I got my download of Sindy Rodenmeyer's new BOM for this year bright and early this morning... haven't started on it yet, though.  I'd better not put it off too long; I have this month's foxes to do, too.

And on that note, I'm going to say TTYL  :)