Nine Patch Advice - Thanks

Thanks everyone for the great advice on whether I should go for white sashing or green. I hope you aren't tired of seeing these blocks, I'm just totally obsessed by this decision right now.

Here are 3 blocks on white and 3 blocks on green.

After staring at this many times in the past few days. I have decided to go with the green.

I Need Your Advice - Round 2 Nine-patch Quilt-along Progress

It's day 37 of round 2 of the 9 patch quilt-along over at Crazy Mom Quilts.

I jumped ahead a bit. I'm done all 70 blocks but I'll fall behind soon as it takes me forever to do sashing, for some reason, I dread doing sashing and I usually put it off.


I really need your help - I can't decide, should I sash this in white or in green? What would you do? Here is a picture of a few more of the blocks.


Please comment to let me know what you would do.

To visit the flckr group use the "round 2" button on my right sidebar.

Flea Market Fancy - Please Bring it Back

When it comes to my fabric stash there is one thing I regret, it is not purchasing any Flea Market Fancy. When it was out in my LQS I was tight on funds and I figured there would still be time later to buy it. I didn't anticipate how fast it would sell out and how hard it would be to get it later.

When I think about a perfect fabric line, with just about perfect colourways I think of Flea Market Fancy! Just take a look at Jacquie's stash of FMF at Tall Grass Prairie Studio.

Also, to see tons of photo's of projects using this line visit the Denyse Schmidt flckr group.

Maybe there is hope yet. Penny from Sewtakeahike has started a blog to petition Free Spirit to do another printing of Flea Market Fancy. So if you love this fabric line as much as the rest of the world seems to, head on over to Penny's blog and leave a comment; hopefully, we can bring this awesome fabric line by Denyse Schmidt back for another round!

Vicki's Wedding Card

Lately I've been checking out a lot of card making blogs and have been feeling very motivated to start making some cards again. Friday night I cleaned up and reorganized my scrapbooking area so I could make a card for my niece's wedding which took place today. It was a nice simple card to get myself back in the groove.

I made this card to include an interior pocket for a cash gift. The rose is pop dotted out for a nice 3-D effect and the rose and the sentiment are embossed. I added a bit of glitter for some bling.

Stamps: Fifth Avenue Floral and Celebrate - Stampin Up
Other supplies: Paper, Glitter, Pop Dots, Stampadoodle Embossing Powders

The setting for the wedding was gorgeous and my niece and her groom sure deserved a beautiful day. They sure went through a lot to get to their wedding day. The wedding took place at the Homestead Golf Course in Lynden, Washington and the weather was perfect!

Photo below is my daughter (left) and one of my other nieces (right).

Nine Patch Quilt Along & Twilight

I didn't get much sewing done this weekend but I got a lot of this done.

My daughter has been reading the Twilight Series and usually I only read the first in a series that my child is reading, but I just haven't been able to put these down. I actually have read the first book during the last week and the second and third this weekend.

Usually, when my kids read books that are controversial for kids to read, I try to read at least the first book of the series so I can be informed and have a good discussion with my kids on the content. When my son wanted to read Harry Potter at the age of 8 I read the first one and decided to go ahead and let him read the series so we could have some good discussion on fantasy vs. reality. My daughter who is 12 also just finished the Harry Potter series and has moved on and finished the Twilight series and we've also had lots of good discussion.

I did manage to get a bit of sewing done today. I worked on my nine patch blocks for Round 2 of the Crazy Mom Quilts quilt along. I was a bit behind but have caught up and am a little ahead now.


With this quilt along we are supposed to do 1 nine patch block a day for 70 days so we can make a quilt similar to this one by Angela from My Three Sons. Today we should be on block number 28 but I have finished 41!


I have to tell you, I was not feeling the love while I was sewing these, I was a little unsure on whether I should have done a more traditional nine patch rather than using a green patch in the center of each block, but I am committed to busting my scrap stash on this one and I'm planning to sash this differently, so I have been carrying on.

I had a pleasant surprise when I laid these out to take a few pictures for the blog and I am actually loving the green patch at the center of each block.


Only 29 more blocks, sashing, and borders to go!