Another Week

This busy week is almost over. I enjoyed my visit with my friend from Illinois. She used to live in North Carolina but moved back to Illinois a couple of years ago to take care of her dad. It is her home.

She is also a quilter. We met in the quilt guild. So one day while she was here we visited the quilt shops. She did buy some fabric and one shop was having an anniversary sale which was nice.
Before she left she gave me this lovely wool table topper which looks great on my small round breakfast table. She also made this travel wallet for me. She is very talented and has made some really fabulous quilts.
My husband is off for the next four days. Not sure if we will do anything special for Independence Day. One thing we will be doing is dog sitting a black Labrador who belongs to some friends of ours.

For those of you who live in the USA enjoy your Fourth of July weekend. Hip Hip Hooray for our Great Country!

With Passion,

Carrie P.

There is no blue without yellow and without orange. Vincent Van Gogh

Remember the sneak peeks showing a project I was making using the Prince Charming fabric? Finished! I made the Vintage Spools pattern designed by the very creative Stephanie of Loft Creations. I saw the fabric at Karen's shop and I thought it would be perfect for this quilt. The fabric might not be vintage but the rick rack is. It is one of my antique finds and it is perfect on the quilt.
I added some of the left over fabrics to a dish towel with some more vintage rick rack.
It is official ladies. I am going to head up a Quilt Along using the pattern in this magazine. It is also on the lower left corner of the cover. See it here too. Several of my readers have expressed interest in doing one. Making th equilt together would be great incentive to get it finished too. I will be doing this next year only because I have so much going on right now. So if you think you want to participate get this current issue and be watching my blog later in the year for more information.

And feel free to mention it on your blog if you are going to Quilt Along with me so that others can get the magazine while it is on the news stands.
You know it is summertime when the blueberries are ready to pick. My husband is back to 4 day work weeks with Friday off. Today we went to the opening day of blueberry picking. It was so hot but we managed to pick 13 pounds today. Oh, they are so delicious. I made a blueberry crisp with some of them. The rest went into the freezer.
I will not be blogging for the next week. I have a friend and her husband coming to stay with us plus several appointments, plus teaching. So until next time.

With Passion,

Carrie P.

Elefantz Home

No, you are not at the wrong blog. I just wanted to share some exciting news. To some of you this is not news because you are one of her 1400 followers. Jenny is such a sweet friend and I have enjoyed getting to know her and her family by reading her blog. I wish I could meet her and all my blogger friends in person. Jenny is so talented and shares so much of her talent with us for free. She has now taken on a new venture and is going to be publishing an online magazine with her wonderful patterns and also a free newsletter. You can go here to subscribe to the newsletter and read more information about the online magazine.

Congratulations!!! Jenny on your new adventure.

With Passion,

Carrie P.

ps Thank you all for the get well wishes. My nose has stopped running and the cold sore is healing. Looks like this stuff has been going around. Stay well yourselves.

I am excited to see that some of you would like to participate in the Sew Along using the pattern from the McCalls magazine. I am excited about it. Be watching my blog for more news about the sew alongwhich we will start in January. Until then you can be on the look out for some really great fabrics to use in the quilt.

I am turning of the comment option so I can catch up on other comments you have sent.

Plans Interrupted

Don't you hate it when plans get interrupted? Ugh! And the way mine got interrupted is one of the worst. First I had a sore throat for about 5 days. Then a cold sore popped up on my lip. Next a full blown head cold. Now this morning I woke up with the dreaded cough. Who can sew when you are constantly blowing your nose? So I have not really felt like doing much but I did manage to get this top and binding done so I can get it to my long arm quilter this week. I will show you all the whole quilt as soon as I get it back. I know the quilting is really going to add a lot to this top.

Thanks for the congratulations on my new guild VP position. I have speakers booked through June next year. Yay! I have more people to contact so that I continue to fill in the calendar.

I apologize for not replying to all your comments. I have not been on the computer for three days. I have read all of your comments and will try to reply to them this week.

Wishing you all stay well.

With Passion,

Carrie P.

ps Mandy made a suggestion that maybe we have a sew along making the pattern from the McCalls magazine that I showed in the last post. It seems like a lot of you like the pattern. It would probably not happen until next year but if you are interested making the quilt as a group let me know. Thanks for the suggestion Mandy.

Hunkered Down

Just wanted to let you know I am still here but I have been in my sewing room or on the computer. I am still working on the projects I showed in the last post. I am also the new Vice President of our guild and I have been searching and communicating with speakers for our guild.
but yesterday I had to go out to get some backing and border fabrics. While I was at Joann's I picked up the July/August McCalls quilting magazine and just had to show you this quilt. I wish I could stop everything and make it now.
When I was eating lunch I was watching this squirrel trying to figure out how to get the bird feeders so he could gobble down the nuts. I am a little peeved at him because he broke a branch in the Myrtle tree that he was trying to use a launching pad. He looks cute in the tree but he is a stinker.

I am teaching tomorrow and will continue to work on my quilts so if you don't see any posts for a few days you know what I am doing.

With Passion,

Carrie P.