SCRAPPY WEDNESDAY

If you asked for scraps last post,

or you won the cherry/Halloween giveaway,

AND you sent me your address,

I mailed them off today!

Thanks to your ghracious willingness to 

rescue some of my scraps...

Whoohoo!

Yipee!

look at my 

NOT

overflowing scrap tub!

Time to get to work with

with the scraps I have left! 

LOVE it!

This is a really fun quilt to make!

(Greenfields pattern from Kathy Doughty's book Making Quilts) 

Because it's always fun...

linking up with WIP at

http://www.freshlypieced.com/

Enjoy!

LOVE this book!

This quilt keeps popping up 

in my mind

and has recently moved 

to the must-do section.

Besides organizing my fabric,

I have also been organizing all my magazine ripouts.

It gives me a chance to revisit old favorites 

and realize how much my tastes have changed over the years.

Guess what I found today?!

Fabric, magazine ripouts,

AND

books...

found this in a Freddy Moran book!

LOVE IT!

Now that most of my fabric is too neat to use...

HA!  huh?

It seems only natural that I would gravitate towards the scraps...

right?! (she thought worriedly)

Kathy Doughty's pattern calls for alternating cools and warms...

can't wait to get started this week.

FUN!

Speaking of fun...

does any one need some scraps?

Send me an email telling me if you would like cools or warms and I will send a baggie off to the first five emails I get...

well, maybe six...

or seven if you are nice!

kwiltzbystephanie@gmail.com

AND...

the winner for the cherry fabric is

Mokki

and the winner of the Halloween fabric is

Lisa Marie

Congrats!!!! 

Thank you to everyone for leaving such wonderful comments! 

"Big" or "small" is was fun

to read about what every one is up to this summer.

LOTS of happy sewing! Whoohoo!!

BEGINNING OF SUMMER GIVEAWAY!

Can you feel the joy of summer?!

My oldest son is in Indonesia 

for a month with his anthropology teacher!

My youngest son wants to "do nothing."

And my middle son loves to mountain bike.

So, off to Whistler in BC Canada we went!

(turns out you can do "nothing" 

in a swimming pool 

and while zip lining! Who knew?)

Lots of opportunities to practice

letting go

and trusting! 

Luckily for son #2,

 he lives far less fearfully than his mom!

From the site - http://www.whats-your-sign.com/symbolic-meaning-of-rainbows.html :

 At its most basic reduction, the rainbow is an amalgamation of light - a perfect harmonic combination which produces a symbol of supernatural beauty, promise and enlightenment. 

The weather was fine, typical northwest mix of partly sunny,

or is that partly cloudy? 

Until the ride home...

beautiful!

Shannon Falls

I can home reinvigorated fro the task at hand!

I am just loving it!

Turns out that the color I have the least of is...

purple!

Summer...

makes my mouth water 

for cherries and my annual attempt at cherry pie!

In honor of the promise of

possibilities

I would like to have a giveaway!

7 fat quarters + a bit (third down is almost a fat quarter)

obviously, cherry themed!

And , just for fun,

since it's never to early to think about Halloween...

11 fat quarters of spookily fun Halloween themed fabric!

Just leave a comment telling me 

what YOU get to do this summer 

and which fabric tickles your fancy.

Next Sunday, June 22nd mountain biker son will pick the winners!

ENJOYING THE PROCESS

Summer time 

sweet summer time!

While thinking about what

I

 get to 

do this summer

an insistent whisper said...

(drumroll)

"organize the sewing space"

ACK! 

Really?

I started quilting in 2001

and since then I have accumulated 

what feels like a small shop worth of fabric

stuffed in boxes, drawers, and numerous piles.

Hmmm....

My goal?!

I would like to be able 

to see all my treasure!

Here's my start - 

two new shelves on the right

mess everywhere else.

Here's where I am a week later...

3 1/2 new shelves 

and a slightly smaller mess everywhere else!

I LOVE that I am finally doing this!

I have been interrupting my reorganization time

with frequent  daydreaming lollygagging sewing breaks!

Granny squares!!!

I will be teaching granny squares at Aunt Mary's this summer

We will be using the wonderful Great Granny book by Lori Holt

http://beeinmybonnetco.blogspot.com/

It's a fun way to use up some of that stash!

Here's the store sample...

Here's my WIP...

I am changing the backgrounds, 

hoping for a giant granny square 

of granny squares!

Gotta love that Kaffe!

Here's to a new week 

in the sumptuous summer

where we get to

enjoy the process!