Play Days

Over the weekend, I spent some time working on smaller projects, trying a tutorial that I found on Pinterest, and learning a new technique.

For our guild's February Priority: Alzheimer's Quilt crayon challenge, I pulled out my mango and lemon fabrics and started piecing a mini crazy quilt.  I am excited about playing around with decorative stitches and different threads.

It's been forever since I have attended a baby shower, but when I saw these burp cloths on Pinterest I knew I wanted to make some for an upcoming baby shower.  I have only made this one so far from Aneela Hoey's Little Apples, but I plan to make several more.

 The biggest play day of all was spending an entire Saturday with my guild friends learning needle turn appliqué from Mary Sorenson!  This has been on my list of techniques to learn for a very long time. Mary's work is incredible, and she is a fabulous teacher!  I bought her DVD since I know once I get home I tend to forget what I learned in class ;-)

I was too busy learning to take many pictures, but I did snap this one of Leslie's handwork.  Michele has pictures on her blog.  Go see how pretty her flowers are!

Happy stitching!

I did it...

...I went ahead and drank the Kool-Aid...lots of Kool-Aid...even though I said I wouldn't!

I blame it all on/am thankful to (however you choose to look at it) Michele who wrote this post.

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First off, I joined For the Love of Solids swap.  This should be interesting.  I'm nervous and excited at the same time!!!  You can see my mosaic above.

I have resisted Pinterest for quite some time now even though I received an invitation to join awhile back.  It hasn't been easy as there have been many temptations, and obviously, I finally succumbed to peer pressure and drank that kool-aid too ;-)  I still haven't quite figured Pinterest out and haven't done much with it yet, but I'm sure that will change with time.  

I did create a Quilty Inspiration board, but that's about it so far.

I haven't taken a drink from The Farmer's Wife Quilt-a-Long kool-aid yet, and I don't think I will any time soon.  I did purchase the book...just in case.  In the meantime, I will live vicariously through others...especially Cindy who is making all the blocks with shot cottons!

Have an amazing weekend!!!!