Half Square Triangle Love

This weekend I went a little half square triangle crazy. It started by drawing the diagonal lines on 4 white charm packs to go along with my 2 Camp-A-Lot charm packs and my 2 Sung as a Bug charm packs. 

Here they are before I started sewing. 

And here they are after I sewed them, cut them apart and ironed them open. Talk about a lot of HST's!

I also went a little  appliqué  crazy. I had made these blocks about a month ago and just finally got around to putting a blanket stitch on them to hold them down. 

I'm about a quarter of the way done with them.

Talk about a busy sewing filled weekend! 

--Rachel

Playing Catch-Up

Phew, it's been a busy couple of days, when I haven't been sleeping or working, I have been sewing up a storm. I started off yesterday by finishing appliquéing some blocks I had started a couple weekends ago. Isn't this one so cute. 

(Fabric is In From the Cold by Kate Spain for Moda)

Next I cut these adorable strips, 

to add on to blocks that I had made a couple weekends ago to make these super cute and colorful blocks. These are a couple of my favorites. 

(Fabric is Scrumptious by Bonnie and Camille for Moda, 

and the pattern is "Piece of Cake 3")

I will stop by tomorrow to show you the rest I worked on this weekend. 

--Rachel

Birthday Fabric

Best present you could give a quilter for her birthday....Fabric! That's a no-brainer. During my birthday week I splurged and bought myself some.

 First up I got 3 different half-yards of this adorable Bonnie and Camille print from their "Happy Go Lucky" line. I also got 3 yards and 3 charm packs white Moda Bella Solids. Is it just me or can you never have enough white fabric. I feel like I use some in each one of my quilts in some way. 

 Next I got 2 charm packs of "Snug as a Bug" by Melly & Me. I just love it!

And last, I have 2 charm packs of "Camp-A-Lot" by Bo Bunny.

I haven't decided what I'm going to do with them yet, I will have to decide soon though because I can hardly wait to work with them!

Well I finally bit the bullet and have a blog to share one of my loves...Quilting. On the outside I may be only almost 21 but I am totally a 70 year old grandma on the inside! Here's to having some fun and taking risks.
And because no good blog post is without a picture here is my latest Instagram shot of some scrumptious fabric, literally.