Vacation in Williamsburg, VA with some Quilt Shops

We just got home last night from our trip to Williamsburg, VA. My sister lives there so we were visiting and vacationing. We went to Busch Gardens and Water Country (felt the earth quake on Tuesday while at Water Country). We were also able to stop at 3 quilt shops on the trip. The first was Nancy's Calico Patch in Newport News, VA. I found the 3 fabrics above at that shop (the gray is Kona Ash). No pictures of the shop, we had my son Troy who is 5 and my niece Anna who is 4 with us. Hard to get pictures.

The second quilt shop was Love 2 Quilt in Williamsburg. It was located in the Village Shops close to Busch Gardens. I found some Amy Butler there that was 40-50% off. I also couldn't resist those Aunt Grace purple polka dots, so fun.

Our last stop was yesterday at Kelly Ann's Quilting in Warrenton, VA. We stopped there on our journey home. I found some great fabrics there (pictured below). It was a really nice shop, and we got to meet Kelly Ann while there. She recommended the Black Bear Bistro for lunch which was great. It was a nice stop on our way home.

And here is a picture of Anna and Troy. They were so excited to see each other they were like this the whole trip, very silly. (And don't you just love Troy's shirt, it's my favorite)

A few fabrics and a pin cushion

I recently participated in Carla of Lollyquiltz charm swap. The cute fabrics above are the ones I received.

I also couldn't resist picking up these fun fabrics at Sew Fresh Fabrics. I love those little books.



And I picked up this pin cushion at JoAnn's the other day, I just loved the meadowsweet fabric combination. And look it matches my sewing machine.

Sunday Stash - Shop Hop Finds

My quilt guild, the Greensburg Modern Quilt Guild had a shop hop yesterday. It was lot's of fun. Six of us toured 3 quilt shops around Pittsburgh - Quilter's Corner in Finleyville, Quilter's Depot in Pittsburgh and The Quilt Company in Allison Park. Here are my finds above. Lots of Amy Butler Daisy chain (at both Quilter's Corner and The Quilt Company), some charm packs of Moda Sugar Pop, I just love this new line, I found this cool alphabets and numbers print along with some Moda Bella grey solid at Quilter's Depot. The orange stripe Katie Jump Rope Jessica and I found in the 50% off section, wow what a find. I also found some of the Barbara Jones Summertime, another line I just Love!

Greensburg Modern Quilt Guild members - myself, Priscilla, Mary, Thea, Jessica and Corley. What a fun day.

Happy New Year - And Some Quilty Christmas Presents

I hope everyone had a Happy New Year. I thought I'd share some of my Quilty Christmas presents, another reason why I need to start the fabric diet. My sister and Mom got me some great Amy Butler fabrics above. Also some dotty Riley Blake and Jennifer Paganelli.

And some of the new Amy Butler Soul Blossoms (actually the whole fat quarter bundle of the Bliss colorway). And some Henna Garden and the gray dots from Barbara Jones Summertime (I love those tiny little dots).

And Scott got me Elizabeth Hartman's book. This is a great book, lots of fun projects and ideas.

Fabric Junkie

First, here's my Estate Sale find. I had gotten an email this morning about an estate sale that said they had a sewing machine and fabric, so I thought I'd go check it out. I found this 2 yard piece of fabric for $1. It has a G.C.Murphy tag that says it was $.44. I didn't buy the sewing machine, it was an old black Kenmore. Not really what I was looking for.

Then I went to my favorite quilt shop in the area, Quilter's Corner in Finleyville, PA. They have a lot of Moda, Michael Miller, and some Amy Butler. Here's what I picked up today. I had a gift certificate from Christmas, I love shopping for fabric. I spent 2 hours there picking these out.

And here's my progress on this quilt. I started quilting on Thursday, no progress yesterday or today. I'm doing the pebble quilting using a silver gray thread, I like how it looks so far.

New Fabrics and some New Patches

I picked up these Kona solids a the Fabric Shack last week. They had a coupon code SAVE5 and I got $5 off. Their price on Kona solids is the best I've found $4.19/yard. I had ordered school bus orange too, but they sold out of it. Oh well, I'll have to find it somewhere else.

And I ordered these prints from Hawthorne Threads. I love their website, you can login, add stuff to your cart and come back a day later and review, remove stuff, add stuff, etc. It took me a week to finally decide on these ones.

And I started putting together some of my owls into patches. I love these color combinations of pink, orange and green. It's just so happy. Now I need to make more owls. I only have 5 done. I think it's going to be a baby quilt though, so I probably only need about 9 or 12.