Last Hoorah of the Summer

Farewell to Summer. My daughter who is a senior in college started the fall semester today and my husband has gone back to his regular work schedule. The company that he works for has changed the work schedule for the last two summers. He would work 10 hour days for 4 days and then have Fridays off. It worked out great for us because on Fridays we would take our day trips and on Saturdays we would work around the house. A week ago I cleaned up the summer garden and planted the fall garden. My husband chopped wood for winter. So this Friday we took off to Apex, NC for our first stop which was Plain and Simple quilt shop. Found some lovely fat quarters, some yardage of fabric and rick rack. And I got it all on sale too.
I also found this pattern at the shop for these star shaped pillows. The original are done in wool but they would look very cute in some cotton fabric too.

We left Apex and headed for Burlington. We stopped at a newly opened quilt shop called ABC Quilting with Nana. I found this Tom and Jerry fabric for a charity project we are doing in our guild. I bought a 1/4 yard of the green Christmas fabric thinking I could use it in my Christmas Wish embroidery blocks but it is not quite the right green I was looking for.
On our way home from our Outer Banks trip we saw a bill board for Granddaddy's antique mall at exit 145 off Interstate 40. So we decided to check it out when we finished shopping at the quilt store. It was located in an old grocery store building so it was huge but I would recommend visiting when the weather is cooler because it was hot in that building.
We didn't find much but my husband did find a spoke shave which is an old tool and I found these old cook books. The soup book has a copyright of 1956. The cooking school leaflets are from 1940. The person that attended also took some notes in the little booklets which was fun to read. The Salad dressings booklet has 1925 in the front but I am not sure if that is the copyright date or just when the Wesson Oil company was formed. Either way the booklet is in great shape.
I also found this yellow milk glass cup and saucer for my future daughter-in-law. Her favorite color is this bright yellow. There was only one or I would have bought more for her.
I also found this apron. If you look close you can see rick rack around the pockets and the edge of the apron. If you look at the center bottom part of the apron the rick rack used to be the same blue as the flowered fabric. It sure would be pretty with the original blue rick rack but I still like it.


That was all on Friday. More about Saturday which was not spent working around the house.

With Passion,

Carrie P.

Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see.

TA DAH!

Finished and ready to hang in the shop. I used a variety of fabrics. Most of the applique pieces were from Portobello Road by RJR fabrics which was from a charm pack that I won from Tracy way back in June. The border and flower pot are from Monaco by Dena for Free Spirit.

I will be teaching beginning applique using this pattern by Susan Brubaker Knapp. Check out her blog sometime. She is so talented and she has a new applique book coming out in October. Several year ago she was a guest speaker at our guild. She had one great trunk show too. I bought this pattern then and have been wanting to make this quilt and finally decided to make it. I am very please at the way it turned out too.

Sweet Gina did the machine quilting for me. She is also going to be teaching classes at Karen Gray's shop. Thanks so much Gina! I just found out she has a blog. She is very talented and her blog is a great read too.

With Passion,

Carrie P.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are. Anonymous

I have been busy with an applique project and that is why I have not done a post in a few days.

I have finished the applique and it is now being quilted. I am making a new sample for a class I hope to teach in September at Karen Gray's shop. I will show you the quilt as soon as I get the binding on it. So at this time I really don't have anything to show since I am working on several things right now. So how about I share a visit to an antique store.

It is always so fascinating to go through antique stores. You just never know what you will find. My husband and I went to one recently and it was really neat how the owner arranged the store. She had different spots all around the store and all the antiques were arranged by colors. When you walked into the store the first section you walk into is all blue and white items. Then it was pinks, yellows, greens, oranges, and then browns. She had this section that was dedicated to clothes and sewing paraphernalia. That is where I found these vintage buttons. She also had a large section full of old books.
I found this little birthday card with the bluebird on it in the blue and white section.
In the pink section I found three piles of handkerchiefs. I chose this one for the crochet trim and the little crochet circle.
With Passion, Carrie P.

Happiness is found along the way, not at the end of the road.

I have been trying to visit some blogs this morning and google is coming up with a warning window that is detecting Malware from siggiez.com. I got the window on The Painted Quilted and The Rabbit factory this morning. Quilting Fiesta said she thought it had to do with a Christmas countdown button. Anyway, just thought you all might want to know so you can check it out.

Embroidery

Since I have taken up reading blogs I find myself doing a lot of embroidery which I have not done since I was a little girl. There are so many talented ladies out there that share their talent with us. One of the blogs I read is Knot-y Girls Stitchery Club. It is by Meg Hawkey of Crabapple Hill. I love her designs and have done several of her patterns. It was another one I just could not pass up. And if you are like me you have time to get it done before the September one is published. LOLWith Passion,

Carrie P.

You can not always have happiness but you can always give happiness. Anonymous

Guild Show and Tell

I love show and tell at our guild meetings. I hope you do too. Here are a few of the many beautiful projects.




Remember on one of the posts about my vacation I showed you a picture of a sign about sea turtles? Check out this post on Lynn's blog. She has pictures and tells about the "turtle patrol." Very interesting!

With Passion,

Carrie P.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. Helen Keller