It's My Birthday!

Happy Birthday to me! I'm 38 today. Do I look it? (say no!)

I'm having a very nice day. My coworkers took me to a Greek place for lunch. My co-worker and friend Sarah got me some fabric - a few almost solids and a piece of Anna Maria Horner's Drawing Room. Love it!

My other coworker/friend Erin made me this cake - tart lemon with blackberry reduction filling and cream cheese icing! Yum! Tonight my daughter is going to make steak and chicken shishkebabs with veggies for our party. I'm having a nice birthday, hope your days is good too!

Wendy

Sunday Stash

Today for Sunday Stash I have the fabric I bought during the one day 50% special that I was alerted to on St. Patty's day by Quilt Dad. It was a great sale, but I was a little disappointed - I ordered seven fabrics but when they came I only got four. They said the rest were sold out. Well why didn't you tell me that?! I would've ordered more and then waited to see which were delivered and which weren't. Oh well, at least I got a good deal on these.

Designer fabric lovers will recognize Heather Bailey pineapple brocade and paisley, along with Sandi Henderson's Petal Party. I can't remember the designer of the red/pale yellow so if you know, tell me! My cat Victory says hi. Click to make them larger and bask in their gorgeous colors.

Enjoy! Wendy

A Twinkle of Stars

My mom just bought me the book Stars by Magic by Nancy Johnson Srebro. It was perfect to make some stars for the patriotic quilt. I love all three of her "by magic" books and many of the things on this blog are made from patterns I found in them. Her "magic" is using only cut squares and rectangles to make all the blocks. So the diamonds you see here started out as rectangles.

Sharp-eyed blog followers will notice that the blue star on the lower left is the one I featured in this post as unintentionally wonky. I lived with it for a few weeks, but eventually I couldn't stand it and I had to fix it!

Enjoy!

A Wave of Flags

A wave of flags flapping in the breeze, waiting to go into the patriotic quilt!

A Gaggle of Sams

Might it be better to say a pride of Sams? A clutch? A herd? If you can think of a better word, let me know. At any rate, the Sams are all lined up, ready to go in the patriotic quilt. Click to make them larger, they really do look better big.

Tomorrow I will feature some flags, and the day after, some red, white and blue stars. He wants YOU to tune in tomorrow to see them!

Wendy

Sunday Stash and a Sweetie

I'm a wealthy fabric miser! I'm going to put my fabric in a pile, jump into it and do the back stroke like Scrooge McDuck. I bought some scraps from two etsy sellers and here are just my favorites from the two scrap packs. Which fabric is your favorite??? I love the Mocca in brown and red (fourth from the right in the first photo). It is the sister to the fabric I featured in last Sunday's stash (below) but I think I like it even more. Thoughts? Click on them to make them larger.

Oh, I also added a gratuitous photo of Gigi, but it's admissable because the fabric on her dress is so cute. Right? My mom bought it from Chicken Noodle in San Francisco. My mom also points out that if you enlarge it, the look on her face is the same as mine when I was a teen ager. Uh....what are you trying to tell me mom?

Wendy

Star Wall Hanging

This is a wallhanging I made for our living room years ago. It still looks pretty good, except the star points that appear as light purple were originally dark purple - they faded out with the light. Still looks ok! Enjoy.

Wendy