I'm loving:

What I'm loving:

Half square triangles....
Loving these!

LOVE Meeting bloggie pals for dinner,(AMY)
and making NEW BLOGGIE PALS!! (Alissa)
Alissa, who started with pal, the modern quilt guild!

At first I was loving the IRON MAN 2 Sign,
(Hello Robert Downey Jr.!)
then I saw the GET INSPIRED sign...

LOVING IT!


LOVE = A complete thought.


LOVE = An incomplete thought.

got 15 minutes?

PLAY.


Loving it.

deadlines!

HUGE finishes today...

Commission quilt "Garden Gate" top. 118" X118"
DONE.
Cut BACKING...
praise the lord!


Finish BASICS large Auction quilt and get the HUGE box of tops ,
send off to JACKIE for quilting.
PRAISE JACKIE!!!

Strips cut to start sashing BASICS KIDS DAY BLOCKS....
and get ready for quilting...

I'm tired already!!

GOTTA BOOGIE!

Happy weekend!

nyc day, purl one...

I went down Monday to PURL SOHO, for several reasons:
1. to pick up the donation for one of the prizes for Bumble Beans Basics
and see the NEW STORE!
2. to show Thea and beau around NYC, see more NYC pictures there.
3. to buy yarn, (when I am not a knitter??!!!!)

Isn't it fantastic? I may have to learn just so I can use this..
It has all kinds of little cute thing-ies in it...
and it's MY FAVORITE COLOR!

The day was fantastic! HOT humid and sunny!
we stumbled upon a window.
yes a window.
under the window was this sign.
one bite site muffins. crazy flavors.
De-lish! (and very clever!)
I advise strongly on the one bite wonder of PEANUTBuTTER... Fantastico!

Then of course, I send them on their way to the statue of liberty,
I pick up B from school and a DOWNPoUR of rain hit as we ran for the subway!!
Crazy weather. It looked like we'd get washed away down the city streets!

Oh well,all was not a wash! I found this lovely skirt, and the print was very inspiring.
I'm not sure why that inspired this baby quilt. But oh well. I'll go with it.
Actually it was a commission, and they asked for something for a baby boy with a CROW on it.
It's brown and white blocks event though it looks black and white...

okee dokee! There you go! A few more applique stitches... fun stuff!

These lovely goodies were in my PO box today! What a sweet surprise!
Thank you Rene and Barbara~!
the hot pads are very cool. tutorial link attached!
and the note cards are Rene' lovely photography, love the book mark!



I've added many links for Ideas & Tutorials, at the
Bumble beans Basics quilt drive site
for
quick lovely quilts.
If you have one you'd like me to consider adding,
send me an email or leave me a comment at the site.
hop over to the site and look around, keep an eye on that blog there, and say hi!

Need Quilts!

Here it is, a day early!


You know I am very pleased with the amount of support you all gave me
with the House block gather.
I now have about 60-70 quilts to make, myself for the cause!!! THANK YOU!

But it certainly isn't the 700 my friend asked me for...

So I am asking again for your help.

http://bumblebeansbasics.com/

Together I know we can make a difference in some one's life,
simply by donating a blanket.

The new site lists all the information you need,
about the on going quilt drive for Basics Inc.

700 families are on the the list for housing.
Approximately 20 families a month are moved out of shelters, and back into homes With whatever then have managed to carry with them.

BASICS Inc. depends on contributions and donations from Businesses and individuals
to give these people the barest of necessities...
A mattress, a table, a few utensils...
besides medical care, getting the children back in school,
school supplies, clothes, food,
skills to learn to care for their homes and families, look for jobs and training...

A smile, Support,
And showing that people care.

I'd like to think we can reach that 700 quilt goal.
It's a very big goal.

Can you help?


The first 25 people to donate quilts will receive a $10 gift certificate from Pink Chalk Fabrics.
(ANY KIND OF QUILTS, not house block quilts, see site for more information)



As the we reach small goals of 50, 75, 100 quilts, more raffles will be added with prizes.





COTTAGE GARDEN QUILTS
long arm services


There may even be a sewing machine!

Hop over :
All the information you need is on the site.
please visit
http://www.bumblebeansbasics.com/


Take a look around,
Finish up that old quilt top you've decided you'll never finish,
Let's give it a new home.

Let's see what magic number we can come up with...

Thank YOU for your support!



Please BLOG and POST, and TAKE THE BUTTON
to help spread the word.

challenges

Challenge yourself.
At the last NYC MOD guild meeting, some of us participated in a scrap swap...
Want to break out of sewing rut? Play in someone else scraps!


We are featured on the modern guild page today! go see!

Our goal was to take the scraps and make anything out of them
to bring back to show at our next meeting.

I took the scraps out of the bag, and thought,
Wow, these really are different
then anything I use...
(that's a good thing)

Yesterday I was inspired by Rayna's post...
She sent out some old blocks to a bunch of people
and asked them to rework them in any way.
Being familiar with Rayna's work, I had an idea I wanted to play with.

There was one piece of fabric in the bag that really inspired me.
a bight blue wax print,
and I knew that was what I wanted to show off in my piece...

Wax prints make me so happy.
they dance, they tell stories, the move and shake!
so that is the direction I wanted to work with...

Using curves from my own style of work, making fabric with all the lights with strips,
adding beloved geese for movement, and also trying to use up everything I was given...
I tried to focus on patterns and the different directions it could go,
but I also had a RED batik I need to add in somehow.

Since I am still sewing geese for the BIG basics house quilt(here).I knew that was it.
Also, it would add yet another direction for the piece...

Now I feel like I have hit North, East, South and West...

...on my table I had a nice big piece of Blue Kona lying there...
And wanted to add a bit of solids to contain the movement of the square...


The square is now 24" square.
It's still singing to me... I can hear it...

I'm not sure containing the movement is enough,
I think it's telling me, it's needs to grow and expand.

What do you think?

If anyone else wants to try a scrap challenge, send me an email and I will organize it.
I'm always up for new challenges...

sppppaaahh

For the visionaries, gal, Thea and her boyfriend, are in NYC for a couple days, and since they are staying right outside my studio window, I told her she HAD to come by and say hi.

I'm ready to hop on their plane back to Australia... I've never been, and so thanks to the internet, and the growing number of people I know there, perhaps it will make the dream a reality one of these days...

We talked quilts and crafts etc etc. and nail polish... yes, nail polish... we each had a gift for the other about nail polish, as both of us had something about nails in a post on the same day...
so,
I now have some spicy red toes called the Thrill of Brazil!
Your thrilled to know this right?

I'm actually feeling quite relaxed right now, having been pampered by two 9 years old...(!!!)
I had an oatmeal yogurt lemon scrub,
and a banana honey mask done today...
along with a nice head scrub and hand massage....

A friend gave my 9 yr old daughter The Natural Beauty Book (Klutz) with recipes for them
to do facials and steams and homemade conditioners etc...

But I think I'm the one who got the best deal out of that gift!
ahh! my skin feels so young! (back of hand to forehead in slight fainting style)
wink wink.


I see geese for the week, some more applique, and perhaps a few goodies for Purl soho..
I never made it last week, so tomorrow is the day.


Wednesday, looks to be the launch day for the
Bumble Beans Basics Quilt drive!
stay tuned!
there will be a new address for the site.

Hope you all had a lovely weekend!
Happy Sewing!

winners!

I just converted my blog to my domain name. You can now bookmark my site as
www.bumblebeansinc.com
While I made some changes, I accidentally deleted my entire blog list...
boohoo! I had a big list!!!
I will have to build it back up again...

WINNERS!!!
We've got winners!

I have two helpers today to draw the winning names...

B's friend will draw the large bundle name...
drum roll please...


It's upside down, you can't read that?
OK, how about this one?

For the AMY BUTLER LARGE SCRAPS BUNDLE
Barbara A!


And the winner of the AMY BUTLER small scrap bag
By guessing the number of BASICS House blocks I rcvd was
... as of the mail today,
501!

two people guessed 500,
So B had to pick my left or my right hand to break the tie...
the winner is

LORI OF OODLES OF NOODLES!

oh, what the heck,
I can find some more scraps, the other 500 guesser was
DEANNA, of Wedding Dress Blue
You will also get a small scrap bag of scraps too!!


NYC METRO MOD QUILT GUILD

We had our 2nd meeting here today. Can I just tell you, GREAT STUFF GREAT TALENT!

more photos will be posted on the website...
fun day,
lots of new ideas and projects to come.
It so feels good to have a sewing community!