A Little Blog Party

Today, I headed out to our local quilt shop to meet Sheila M. from Nova Scotia!  She told me she was in Saskatoon so we managed to round up this little group at Periwinkle Quilting for a visit, and then over to Jerry's for some icecream.  Check it out!  (Photo courtesy of my 9 yr old boy.)

From left to right: Annette from In Stitches & Seams, Michelle from Periwinkle Quilting & Beyond, Sheila from Sheila's Quilt World, Flo from Butterfly Quilting, Monika from My Sweet Prairie, and Brenda who we'll get blogging sooner or later ; ).  Brenda has swapped quilted postcards with Sheila so it was fun for all of us to all finally meet!  My friend Kerrie showed up with her baby but I'm not sure where she escaped to... or perhaps she hadn't arrived at the time of this photo.

Sheila was so sweet - she had a bag made for me and one for Annette.  Then we took her for Saskatoon Berry Gelato at Jerry's.  It was really great visiting with all those grown ups again.  : )

Thank you Sheila!  I ADORE this bag.  : )  (Isnt' it pretty!?)  I hope you like what I'm sending your way.

As for what I'm working on, I'm not getting very far very fast with this memory quilt for my cousin.  I seriously need a nanny or I'll have to stay up into the wee hours.  I will tell you that I have confirmed some prizes for The Needle & Thread Network's very first birthday!  Wow, one year.  I'm linking up there now if you would like to see what other bloggers are up to.  Click to link:  The Needle & Thread Network

Have a good week everyone!  Soon, very soon, I'll be back into the swing of things...

It's a Love / Hate Thing.

What a day.  Here's what happenned.  

I love quilting.  I hate ripping seams.  Often I do both.

I decided that the second yellow fabric that I used in the Courthouse quilt didn't work.  It was too drab.  So, out came my trusty seam ripper.  It was still warm from the last project.  And off came the drab...

If you've ever seam-ripped, you know it's slow and tedious.  It's somewhat sad since you are undoing a lot of work.  And POOF!  I got this great motivation to do a tutorial on replacing pieces in a quilt!  Great idea?  I thought so.  So examined the quilt top and decided that I needed some darker browns in one row of centres.  So away I went...

Slowly but surely.  I snapped photos along the way for my brilliant tutorial that perhaps would get published in my favorite magazine.  : )

Here I go... stitch by stitch - rip.  rip.  rip.  I cut about every fourth stitch.  I'm not doing all the centers, only a select number in one diagonal row of blocks.

And when I'm done, I flip over the quilt only to realize that I CUT OUT THE WRONG ONES!  lol

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

I laughed.

I cried.

Mostly I cried.

I took a deep breath and went & had a big cup of coffee.  Can you believe this!?  lol  And I spent even more of the day just putting fabric back into my quilt top.  I added the new yellows.  I like it.  I took out the brown centers that I meant to in the first place, and replaced those with deeper darker browns.  I added a red border.  FINALLY it's done.  And it's right this time. 

And it was worth it.  I love it.  The binding will probably be a deeper red.  I haven't decided yet.  I lost all ability to make any more design decisions after all that!  lol

Crazy.  

~Monika

making it right.
probably NOT publishing it.  lol