Quilt Odyssey shopping!

I took off yesterday to go to Quilt Odyssey in Hershey, PA with my friend who is also my husband's cousin and fellow Guild Member, Bonnie. We were scheduled to man the Guild's Raffle quilt table from 10-1 but switched with the member who is in charge so she could attend a class. No problem, we shopped the Merchant's Mall, had lunch, went back and shopped for more. By the time we had to take over the table, we were glad to sit down!

I picked up a Lazy Girl Wonder Wallet pattern, an Easy Angle ruler, some bobbin keepers, some magnetic purse closures, a wool pin cushion...and wait, what are those other items?...why yes it looks like I got some fabric too.

More western fabric?!!

Some pretty fushia? fabric and I just had to get that butterfly fabric although I don't have anything in mind for it. Except to fill an empty space on my shelf?!! The merchant I bought that from had a nice quilt kit with it for a mere $75.00 so I just got the material instead.

Stash Report-Just Kidding!

I don't foresee me admitting just how much fabric I really have anytime soon!

So I put most of my stash on the shelves and it actually all fit. There are a few pieces not on there but this is the most of it.

I don't really have a sorting system. I don't like to sort by color. I tried to keep fabric lines together though.

I learned a few things too:

• I have too much fabric


• Apparently if you roll up fabric and put a price on it...I'll buy it


• I love brights


• I favor western prints


• I love novelty prints


• I need more fabric!(see the empty spaces?)


• I need to get busy!
  

I've got the flannels in the bottom three drawers. The 30's prints are in the top drawer. Western fabric fills an entire cube with Western fat quarters stashed in one of the drawers.

The plastic bin to the left has scraps in from other projects and to the extreme left are two quilt tops waiting to be quilted.

Paper bags on the window sill are from the quilt shop-evidence of my addiction!

The cardboard box in the next picture has smaller scraps in it along with batting scraps.

I've got my Singer set up to finish quilting a tote bag since I have the bobbins already wound for it. I've got another whole box of scraps I found in my grandmother's attic, but that's another post for another time.

I still only have half of a small room but it's better than where I was before:

(I'm almost embarassed t show this picture!)

1,000 th post giveaway

No, not me( I don't know if I'll ever get to 1,000 posts!) but Jill from http://jillquilts.blogspot.com/ is having an amazing HUGE giveaway and although I'm probably going to win I'm sharing anyway! Just click on the link and sign up for the giveaway.
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I hope you can click on the above button and get to the right place...I'm not very good at doing this!

Now I'm going to go back and submit my third entry for all this wonderful stuff!

Gathering Birthday Bales!

A few weeks ago my youngest DS turned 17 and it just so happened that we took delivery on our Stinger Bale Handler on the same day as his birthday so we told him it was his birthday present...are we nice parental units or what?!!

Our main crop is hay(over 2,000 acres of it, obviously mostly rented acres!!!) so this has been a long-awaited, much-needed purchase. It's been a kind of dream for years for the guys to own one. They're really pleased with it...and thankful for it.

Wildlife-Up Close & Personal!

My DIL and grandson got to see some fawns up close in the newly mown hay on their farm the other week. Listen to him giggling and calling them "Dadows"...I love that! She had her hands full trying to video and keep him from running to try to play with them!

Doesn't he sound disappointed at the end when they run off?!