wordless wednesday

happy birthday to me.

(I'm not so good with the "wordless" part, am I?)

down shadow lane fabric bundle GIVEAWAY!

Here's a riddle for you:

What do the fabric behind Noah's library bag,

these pants, and a few of the fabrics in that stack of fabric in my header have in common?

All that fabric came from Down Shadow Lane!

Down Shadow Lane is an online fabric shop, run by Jen, a stay-at-home-mom from Arizona. I won't lie, I orginally found her shop by searching for a certain fabric and just pulled up the shop that had it cheapest- I wasn't aware of everything else this shop had!

Down Shadow Lane carries all of the designer fabric names that you read of all over the place- Amy Butler, Anthology, Michael Miller, Denise Schmidt, Anna Maria Horner, Joel Dewberry- at great prices. You name it, it's there! She has yardage, fat quarters, patterns, scrap packs, amazing sales - and the bundles... oh, the bundles!

I have ordered a good bit of fabric from Down Shadow Lane and let me tell you- it is always top-notch stuff and arrives quickly and folded ever-so-neatly (I'm a sucker for good folding!).

The good news for you, my friend, is that Jen has oh so graciously offered up this awesome 1/4 yard bundle of Sugar Pop for Moda in brown, chartreuse and aqua to one lucky reader!
(that is, 1/4 of a yard of each of these prints)

(um, drool. )
mod blossom in brown
mod tree in chartreuse
large floral in aqua/brown
buds in brown
mod blossom in cream/chartreuse
mod tree in brown/aqua

Would you like these pretty fabrics to make their way to your mailbox?

You can make that happen 2 ways:
1. Comment on this post telling me what you would do with this fabric should you win. Do you have a quilt pattern in mind you'd like to try or maybe you want to make a gathered clutch? Tell me about it!

2. Head on over to Down Shadow Lane and add them as your favorite on Etsy, then leave me a separate comment letting me know you did!

Please make sure you leave me with an email address so I can get in touch with you if need be. This giveaway will close at midnight on Friday, March 18th and I will announce the winner sometime on Saturday !

Good luck!

what's that I smell?

*sniff sniff*

... smells like
a giveaway!

a bright, pretty, yummy, "ooh I want that!" giveaway!

**stay tuned**

Collin's quilt

My sewing club (no really, we'll have a cooler name soon!) is about to do a 3 week quilting "class" using the Charm Square Baby Quilt tutorial from Oh Fransson!. Well, I jumped the gun a bit and made this a week early! I had this Half Moon charm pack and had no clue what I was going to do with it- I just loved the black and white- and some Kona Peacock seemed the perfect compliment for the son of a surfer and a girly girl!

Seriously, how cute are these goons?

As it turns out, my BFF (yup, that's right. bee-eff-eff) since 10th grade, Stea, and her husband (who happened to be my other BFF in high school long before they even started dating!), Paul, had a baby shower this past Sunday for their first little guy, Collin! This is the perfect quilt pattern for something like this- pieced in about an hour (and hour!!) and basted, quilted and bound the next afternoon!

I feel like I barely quilted this one (just two straight lines on either side of the pieced strips and then 1/4" inside each black square and half-square)- unlike Brady's look-a-like quilt, which I quilted til I was blue in the face! However, I do love how fluffy it made it- especially with the big black and white flannel on the back. I didn't take a pic of the finished back, but it had a 4"x4" peacock square label on the back declaring my love for the little shnookums...

SQUEE! I can't wait for Collin to get here so I can snuggle him!!

Question....

Does this font/these colors make you feel like you're going cross-eyed?
I'm thinking "a little"...
UPDATE:
Ok, I'm going back a more legible font and hopefully soon I will figure out how to make the headers and sidebars a cute font, but leave this be!

Yay! I feel semi computer-smart!

Operation: Organize-Fabric-and-Get-It-Away-From-Sticky-Fingers

... is now COMPLETE!

We had a busy, busy weekend that involved getting new light fixtures throughout the house (I'll probably post pics soon!), picking out our new wood flooring, baby showers, a girls trip to Mary Jo's, cleaning and organizing... and organizing... and organizing.... and rearanging and organizing some more!

I have now moved all of my quilting weight cottons, seersucker, minky, linen and pre-cuts to the den in this random piece of furniture that used to act as a bar (you know, back in those wilder days of mine). I love that I can now see all my fabric, but sticky little fingers can't grab it! It's a bit of a pain that it's not in the same room as my sewing machine, but hey- it was all in tupperware drawers in my bedroom closet before, so I'm not complaining!

Now just to figure out what to do with the flannels, large scraps, broadcloth and upholstry-weight fabrics.... ok, so I may have a problem.

On that note, my birthday is tomorrow (WHEEE!) so I may be buying myself a little birthday present. How weird is it that as soon as I got all this fabric ogranized, I immediately thought "Ok, now I should buy some more fabric"? I'm seriously drooling over these circles and I did the math and with the free shipping I can order a yard of each without spending any real money (cause PayPal money isn't "real" money, right? .... right?!)

:)

wordless wednesday

comic book boards.

genius.