Today is the 5 yr Quiltaversary for the Quiltmaker's Garden quilt. It's precisely 5 years since I started it. Coincidentally, in addition to exclusively appropriately, it's also the solar daytime I hold back to complete it. Yesterday's sewing had me rounding the 3rd corner of the binding. (Query: Can you "round" a corner?)
After that, I went dorsum to operate finishing upward the remaining 4 blocks for the minute row of the Shop Hop quilt. Among them, this moo-cow block. For "America's Dairyland," what else could it be?
Now, I take away heed some of you stimulate got gone shopping piece visiting the links to these shops. And my response to that is: Shop on! I'm sure they appreciate it. We visited Quilt Essentials piece traveling downward the dusty trail. You tin read my spider web log post nearly it correct here. I'll warn you that it contains pornographic images of the UW mascot, Bucky Badger. My friend Sue hails from Oshkosh, in addition to she sent me the epitome piece nosotros were on the road. If you're serious nearly shopping, you tin detect the shop's website correct here.
This side yesteryear side 1 has a floor behind it. We'd been visiting some other quilt store inwards Garden Valley, Idaho, when our previous truck decided to stimulate got nearly catastrophic transmission problems. We got into quite a pickle piece parked on a rather steep incline inwards the quilt store parking lot. The transmission had been acting upward along the way, but non causing every bit much angst every bit it did on that item day. We had no selection but to furnish to Boise (not inwards our move plans) to stimulate got it repaired. And thence this textile is a monument to the idiom, "When life gives you lemons, brand lemonade." You've belike heard that one, but you powerfulness non survive familiar alongside its corollary: "When the going gets tough, the tough larn shopping for fabric."
This was a huge shop, in addition to I enjoyed it really much. You tin read my spider web log post nearly it right here. According to their website, it's the largest quilt store inwards Idaho.
Now this side yesteryear side 1 is the 1 I traveled the farthest to acquire. I picked upward a packet of Irish Gaelic fabrics at the 1 quilt store I visited piece on a tour of Ireland. This was such a fun day. Traveling on a bus, I'd seen all upward in addition to downward the Dingle Peninsula. On the way to our hotel, nosotros stopped off at this footling shop.
You tin encounter some pictures in addition to read nearly it right here. I'm non sure if the brick in addition to mortar store is nonetheless open, but you tin detect a web presence correct here.
Finally, this one, which I know has closed since our see inwards Feb of 2011. You tin read my spider web log post nearly it right here. It was a lovely large store, in addition to thence it's also bad it's gone now.
Usually when I'm purchasing these regional fabrics, I only buy a fatty quarter for purposes of this quilt. In 2011, I didn't yet stimulate got the persuasion for the Shop Hop quilt. In whatever case, I loved this pretty fabric, in addition to thence I bought several yards of it. One of these days I powerfulness truly brand something from it using a larger slice than what volition survive used for this project.
With 2 rows finished, I decided to larn ahead in addition to stitch them together. Until I saw it similar this, I hadn't yet decided whether to sash all simply about the exterior of the quilt blocks.
Now that I've seen it pose out similar this, I've decided it makes feel to add together the sashing in addition to cornerstones simply about the outside. It's going to survive lxxx inches broad fifty-fifty without a edge (and lxxx inches long every bit well). With that inwards mind, I necessitate to brand sure I stimulate got plenty fabric, in addition to and then I'll belike larn ahead in addition to add together those sashings, in addition to forego whatever contrasting border.
While I was working on the quilt, Sadie in addition to Mike were watching the Indianapolis 500, recorded earlier. I'll tell 1 affair nearly Sadie, she knows how to larn comfortable. She likes this quilt especially. It's flannel in addition to soft, in addition to it matches her furs purrfectly.
It was getting unopen to day's terminate yesteryear that time, in addition to thence I strained the strawberries out of the infusing vodka in addition to funneled it dorsum into its master copy bottle. Pretty, huh?
And that made for a really pretty Lemon Drop.
We brand ours this way: 1-1/2 oz. vodka (infused or plain), 1-1/2 oz. sweetness in addition to sour mix, dash of fresh lemon juice. Yum.
There's simply 1 to a greater extent than projection I truly desire to operate on before the terminate of the month. Today I'll larn started on the May block for Tuxedo Tales. It shouldn't accept also long, in addition to thence I'm hoping I tin larn it finished today. After that, I'd honey to larn dorsum to the flamingos. It was skilful to accept a suspension from them afterward finishing the shape final weekend, but forthwith the flamingos are squawking at me: "Puh-leeze, plough over us our bodies!"
Oh yes, my friend Wendy tells me that a potential pose upward for the Blogger notifications woes powerfulness survive to go out myself a comment in addition to banking enterprise check the box that says "email follow-up comments." With that inwards mind, I'm going to attempt leaving myself a footling honey message at the terminate of this post in addition to encounter if I start getting notifications of comments from y'all. It's sure worth a try.
Edited to tell that it works! But if you desire to attempt this on your ain blog, know this: the comments volition come upward across every bit "no-reply." My friend Charlene was the showtime 1 to go out a comment, in addition to when I tried to reply, it showed her every bit "no-reply." So, I clicked on her elevate in addition to institute that, indeed, her electronic mail is available. I simply copied in addition to pasted the electronic mail into the "To" box in addition to was able to reply to her inwards the common way. (I promise that makes sense.) Hopefully, Blogger volition pose upward this annoying final result soon, but for now, that's the pose upward I'll survive using.