Wanda's Gift and Humble Pie Votes Please!

My dear friend Wanda, who still machine pieces after two major stokes left her paralyzed on one side of her body, is an absolute inspiration to me! I keep sending her precut strips because rotary cutting is very difficult for her. Now look at the sweet little log cabin quilt that she has sent me as a thank-you gift.

THANK YOU WANDA!!!!! You make me so proud of your indomitable quilting spirit! The example you set for all of us is to never give up on what we love.

I love it!

As I posed for Felix to take this picture, guess who decided to join me? Why, Raven, of course!

And yesterday, two of the Sew & Sews group and I made the trek up to Meredith, New Hampshire to visit a lady who must downsize and was selling fabric. It was a complete bust. The eight huge tubs of fabric were 100% upholstery fabrics! Beautiful silk duponi but not for quilting. Then there was a sudden and violent downpour!

I had fun on the adventure but I wasn't gonna drive all the way up to Meredith without popping in on The Mothership, a.k.a. Keepsake Quilting, which is just next door in Center Harbor.

Budget money is tighter now that gasoline prices are back up to almost $3.75 per gallon, so I only shopped the Outlet Store.

There was tons of great stuff to pick from and I looked for Civil War shirtings or neutrals. So much to love here!

I found two Jo Morton's and bought one yard each at $6 and $7 respectively and got a couple of nice yard and a half remnants for $11 each also.

 This lady was shopping for 25 cent-a-piece scraps from the bin and I joined her for $5 worth of Christmasy reds.
The brown generic 5" charm packs had been $5 each, but were on sale for 25% off, so I bought four of them. That's $1.25 off each one, yippee!

I also "scored" this week on an Ebay auction for some Civil War fat quarters. Thirteen FQ's for $17.74 plus $5.75 shipping. Wow, that's a bargain!

Aren't they just elegant? And all this stuff is just perfect for that Snowball & Nine-Patch that I started a few days ago! Yeay!

Lastly, I 'd like to invite you, no, implore you, no, BEG you, to please vote for me in the Quilter's Gallery contest this weekend! It is a virtual quilt show and I entered my Humble Pie quilt:

You get to vote for 5 different quilts and here is the link:


http://quiltinggallery.com/2012/08/17/vote-now-scrappy-quilts-3/k

THANK YOU!!!