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My DH and I like to play SCRABBLE and we often recruit the kids into playing along.  Our scrabble game has quite a few years on it - sometime long ago we lost the bag that holds the letters.   Choosing your letters from a clear plastic bag could pave the way for cheating...

But no longer!  Practiced my FMQ skills on the bag.

Happy Stitching!

The Hunt

Once upon a time, my very favorite local quilt store went out of business. I picked up my share of fabric deals during their closing sale including 1 yard of a Luna Notte by 3 sisters - a beautiful deep cream with print and 2 yards of Rouenneries by French General in a faded red.

Last fall, one of my blog buddies gets a few of us interested in making a Jacobs ladder quilt.  I decide to use these fabrics and test assemble a single block.

I fall in love.   I realize that I need another yard of the cream and after a bit of searching, I find it online and order a yard.  (I was a bit nervous with this purchase because I wasn't 100% certain I had picked the right print from the line.)


I cut a yard of each fabric and stacked it up next to my machine for my leader and enders.  Time passed and then I had this in January.

I fall deeper in love. I decide to call the quilt Romance.


I made more blocks and now it looks like this.

I calculate how big it will be with the fabric I have - 2 yards of each - and decide I want it to be bigger.  


I go back on line.   I didn't recall where I had purchased the 3 Sisters print the first time I needed a yard but I found a store that carried it and ordered another yard plus another print of that line for the backing.  (I've now committed myself to the final size.)   


From a different store, I find the red from  Rouenneries line and order a yard.   (Oh, and since this is one of my favorite on line stores, I managed to order yards of other stuff.  But that is a story for another day...)


Fabric arrives.  UGH.  While the print is the correct one and the color is red, it is a deeper shade of red that I am using.  (The one I am using is on the left, the new one on the right.)

First thought that passes is could I wash it and fade it... or put it in the sun.  But then I think.  The print I ordered was from  Rouenneries Duex.  A bit of a google search later and I figure out that the print I wanted was from the initial release of the  Rouenneries line from 2010 (circa when my local QS went out of business.)   Back to google for a desperate search for an online store with inventory.

Hurrah!  I find some.  I've ordered a yard and it is on its way.

This quilt is now graduating from my leader and ender to my major project.  I want it to deliver it to my FMQer in April.


I cut up the fabric I do have at hand and go on a HST marathon sewing session yielding a pile waiting to be trimmed.

To be continued....

Happy Stitching!

FNSI Results - Ruby Stars

I spent a very productive 2 hrs in my sewing corner Friday evening working on these fun stars - or maybe they are pinwheels - from this month AYOS quilt called ISTH.

The fabric is Ruby.   These stars will trim to 6 1/2 inches.  I also started working on the border - which is made up of tiny squares.  I had quite the assembly line going on this one so it was a lot of fun.  However, by the time this much was done, I needed to walk away from the machine.  There are only so many tiny HST I can deal with!


This is my favorite block.  I am pleased with the red and aqua combination I choose.

Happy Stitching!