Eye Candy Monday

We just returned home from High Country Bus Festival~~Camping with our Full Moon Bus Club friends. I didn't get an official bus count , but I heard there were 188+ VW buses there. It was wonderful. We lived on the river and in the water. This is a photo of my son swinging from a rope swing, which he has played on every year we've gone.(3 years at this location) My camera also played in the river this weekend. So I don't have many pictures of the camp out. I am a picture girl so the hubs was on the ball and has already ordered me a new one. :o)


As for the 'eye candy'...... I saw this adorable mini quilt on Flickr today. There is a group that make mini quilt blocks and swap them. This months theme was 60s retro. So stink'n cute.

Now off to do about 3 days worth of laundry and hopfully sew a bit. PEACE!!

WALL-E

What to do when the family goes out in the Canoe?

SEW! So the hubs asked " who wants to go out in the canoe?" It is 100 degrees outside. I would usually like to go out in the canoe, but not this time. So he and kids went and I got to stay home and sew. Happy happy Joy joy! I got block 13, 'Buckwheat' (the top block) and block 14, ' Butterfly at the Crossroads'. done.

Some people were having some trouble with block 14 not matching up. I didn't have any problems with it, but if you are doing the Farmer's Wife Quilt-along the piece #35 in block 14 is a little off. But I made it work. Everything came together fine.

I have finished stitching up spider webs on my "Stashbusters" Halloween quilt top. You can see I've started to add a small inside black boarder.

I believe I want to make this for the outside boarder. In the same off white and scrappy oranges. We'll see though, I want this to be done by Halloween so I may just chicken out and put a solide orange boarder for the outside.

What I am thinking..... we got this cute mushroom fabric in (with an orange background) the shop the other day and I am thinking I may want to make a top out of it. ( sorry for the sideways photo). I haven't bought the fabric or the pattern yet. Just still thinking about it.

Through the Garden Gate (lots of photos)

Warning: this post is not sewing related and has lots of photos. I love this shop, Through the Garden Gate. I don't get there much, only about once every 6 months. It is in Mechanicsville, Va and has an antique store attached to it. The picture below is only about 1/4 of the store.

I went there today to get a new lawn ornament, a daisy or black eyed Susan which I didn't find, but I did find my Nana a birthday gift for September. I also found LOTS of other things I wanted to buy so much, but didn't. Look at this sweet treasure box, Oh my son would love to put his little treasures in here. $16.50

I am the type of person who usually buys what she needs and not what she wants. I just take photos of the things I want and dream about them. Here is a really cute fly swatter holder, this bad boy $18.95.

My bus loving friends will love this one. A bus bag. $54.

I don't know if you know this , but I love frogs. Here is a cute antique pull frog for $32.

My husband's uncle use to make wooden toys like this, we still have a few. I just love them. Here is a wooden WWII plane for $39.

The Singer, $325.

An old embroidery, so sweet. I don't remember the price, but it wasn't free so I didn't take it home.

There were a few old pin cushions. I collect them, but didn't take any home today.

Oh I wanted to take these home so bad. Old Mushroom mugs, a set of 4. $34. They would be so cute in my kitchen.

And these....Love them so much. The daisy glasses, set of 4, $15. I'm a daisy freak. "Daisies are the friendliest flower"~from You've Got Mail.

"Life's too short to fold fitted sheets"......so true. :o)

Sorry this post it 'everywhere'. But if you ever get a chance and / or are driving on 295 through Mechanicsville, stop by Through the Garden Gate, you'll love it.

Broken Dishes and Sugar Bowl

The next two blocks in my Farmer's Wife Quilt A-Long are Broken Dishes (block 11) and Broken Sugar Bowl (block 12). Here is the inspirational tree I am going by for my color scheme.


The top block is Broken Dishes and the bottom is Broken Sugar Bowl. Broken Dishes doesn't have much contrast but I love it. It is the same colors that are in 'my' tree.

A tiny prOgress on Wall-E.

I didn't take a picture of block 14, but from what people are saying on Flickr in the 'FWQAL' group is that it is a bear to make. It seems a lot of people's aren't coming out right. So we'll see.

bags and blocks

I took the "Cash & Carry" class the other day with Phoebe at Quilting Adventures. And I'll have to say that these little bags are fun to make.

I've now made 4.

Block 9 , the "Box" has been the easiest block to make so far in the Farmer's Wife quilt a-long. And Block 10, the "Bowtie".

All together now......

PrOgress Wednesday

Home from camping... and had a wonderful time. ( teehee we get to go again in 3 weeks)

I got the tent put away so I could reach my sewing machine and finished the next 2 blocks on my Farmer's wife quilt. Remember block #7 , 'Birds in the Air', the one with 40 pieces....well it wasn't that bad to stitch up. And I think it turned out really cute. Block #8 (the top one), is called 'Bouquet'.

All together.... The next two blocks look pretty easy, yeah!

PrOgress on my candlemat.... turning out so cute. I stitched on it some while watch "America's Got Talent" last night.

~~Happy stitching