Perry Moffitt

It’s the season to start christmas projects and not talk about them. But I did cut the pieces for a new quilt, for ME this time. And instead of sewing the quilt pieces I made a little something out of the scraps. A sneak peek;

We interrupt this normally sewing blog for this comic break-

So, Darcy’s toy snake fell out of the car at the sitter’s house, and the sitter thought it was real, and her neighbor thought it was real, and animal control thought it was real and called for backup and the cop thought it was real, until he got it in the snake bag… when he figured out it wasn’t real. They were terribly embarrassed, and I, well I guess I should be embarrassed, but I think it is pretty funny.

I was forced to pull myself away from sewing for a little while.

Because a tree fell on the house.

And poked a hole in the nursery. We were at the grocery store when it happened, but the little miss points at the ceiling and says, Uh-Oh. We now have a new section of roof, but there are still some repairs to be done.

We have been savoring the last few weeks of warmth.

And I have put my quilting aside to do some other outdoor projects not related to big stinking trees. I  started transforming the smaller, older tool shed into a playhouse for the little miss. A few gallons of Kilz on the inside so far but there is much more to paint.  And there is a new window to be framed. I have been image searching and loving all the playhouse ideas out there and collecting all my inspiration on pintrest. Seriously, click that link and you will start dreaming about your own playhouse.

My mom arrived with these treasures and I promptly painted them with the wrong paint (*%^&#*@#!) . I thought I was spraying them with black primer but alas, it was product called “undercoating” which still has not fully dried 4 days later! So, there might be a trip to the sandblaster and then a do-over. In the end I want these to be red, with a pink seat and pink table top, and they will live in her playhouse.

So, that is what has been going on. Plus 2 more weddings, a birthday,  a family reunion and friends staying from out of town. I have 17 days to finish a wedding quilt who’s top is not quite pieced… Or a year and 17 days if I choose to take my husband’s advice…

I am forever looking for new and inspiring quilting blogs. I thought I might share this gold mine with you fine folks.

55 Best Quilting Blogs  from Quilter’s Home Magazine.

I am not currently a subscriber, I tend to rotate quilt magazine subscriptions. But I think this one is my next subscription. Although the price is a little steep, it seems like I might be worth it…

I had some of these blogs already, and have already added a few to my google reader. Hope you can find a few you like too!

I am sewing up a storm these days. But nothing is quite done. A while ago I managed to snap my darning foot and I only ordered the new one today, so all my actual quilting has come to screeching stop until this baby arrives in the mail.

As self taught quilter this is how I do my free style quilting. Is this what other folks use? There is always the long arm machine that lives in my daydreams, I guess…

The Philly Modern Quilt guild is doing the Robert Kaufman Kona Solids challenge so I am going to save my “solids quilt” to reveal at the May meeting. I keep checking the flickr site to make sure I am the only one with my quilt design, and so far I am! But here is a hint;

I got this for Christmas, it is the Olfa Rotary Circle Cutter and it is kind of awesome. This is the first time I have used it, and it makes the most perfect gorgeous circles. Belated thanks Santa!

Some couch pillows to show tomorrow, fingers crossed!

We have all been there. Invited to a wedding of someone we hardly know. We got invited to the wedding of someone who is lovely and charming and had “known” in social circles for a while but when that invite arrived I just stood there in the kitchen thinking,  “well I don’t know if I could pick her out of a crowd but, here we go…”

This is the token gift I got the happy couple about a year ago from Wise Impressions. Well, not this bowl, theirs had their names on it and that date but for the sake of anonymity I will show you the sample pic from the etsy site.  Although now that I think about it, it was a wedding that was written up in the Vows column in the New York Times, so I doubt they give a hoot about anonymity. Anyway.

I have always given a quilt as a wedding present.   To every single wedding I have been to. That is a lot of quilts, folks. But the baby was just born when the invite arrived, and only a few months old when the wedding occurred so there was no time for quilts and I went this route. And I thought I would share with you. Because it is the perfect little token gift to give with a check or whatnot. And I was super pleased with it. Use it as you will. I am putting in another order today. Because babies eat time.

The guest bedroom. Where we change the baby sometimes. And the baby might have launched an attack on the old curtains.

I snagged two drape panels and a queen sized duvet cover in the Ikea markdowns. And then I bought a twin size duvet cover, opened it up, hemmed all sides and made it the curtain for the sliding glass door. I would have had to hem the bottom and seam two panels if I had just bought the drape panels so I was sewing either way, and this way I saved $10 and don’t have a seam in the panel at all!

I haven’t put the queen size duvet cover on the bed yet because I am trying to figure out how to keep the black dog off the white fabric. Yeah. Not much hope of that.

If you have visited my home you will notice that there is some photoshopping of wall color here. A girl can dream, right? Moving on.

Total investment on new drapes and duvet cover? $30.96. I LOVE the markdown section!

I may have said this before, we live in a weird little house, I love it, but it is full of crazy. One of our best decisions when we moved in was to remove the living room ceiling and expose the rafters. It left me with a huge wall that initially excited me with possibilities. But slowly over the years, it stumped me with how to fill such an enormous space.

I had a sari hanging here for years, but I am ever so pleased with our new painting. A amazing gift from one of my very oldest friends. And the more I look at it, the more I think it looks a lot like a quilt!

We had every single second of the week planned on our vacation to Maine. Hectic was not even the word. And as much as I wanted to squeeze in the Maine Quilt show before the 5 hour drive to my college roommates home, I knew that I was pushing myself and just visited my 2 favorite stores instead; Alewives and OnBoard Fabrics.

While I have really and truely retired from sewing for profit, there were some goods that were still floating out there and I got a surprise check for $105 before we left on vacation. I was having some guilt buying any fabric in our current economic state (not so good- but fingers are crossed).  But my amazing hubby told me I should fold the sewing profit back into sewing and I did just that. I bought everything my heart desired in both stores and didn’t look at the receipts until I got home, $98.80. How crazy is that???