Random Fresh Fabric

 It was a fun fabric weekend! I visited our new Hobby Lobby on Friday. I was the first customer at the fabric cutting table! I wasn't looking for anything specific, so I picked up some Sponge Bob, coordinating Kona solid in Lagoon, and a fun stripe. All for 30% off!

Text prints are hot right now, so I picked up the Christmas print at HL. My LQS, Folk Art Quilts, was having a sale this weekend, and I found another great text print there. This one is Hometown by Sweetwater.

More random yumminess from Folk Art Quilts.

The RI Modern Quilt Guild met at Ryco on Saturday afternoon. I picked up more Kona solids for a secret project in Citrus and Bahama Blue. The red ric rac is for Christmas mug mats, and I need the teal webbing to replace the handles on a t-shirt tote bag.  The teal suede lacing was on sale! Maybe Julia can use it.

We've had some daily visitors lately! This cutie is usually accompanied by two other little ones and a mama, but I didn't see mama today. I hope she's OK.

I spent the morning sorting through hundreds of cross country running photos for the high school coach, other parents and the yearbook. I can't believe it is almost 1:00 already.  Time flies when I sit down at the computer!

Road Trip!

Look where we went today!

Ryco's Creative Sewing Center in Lincoln, RI.
It's definitely worth the trip.


And look who we met!
Shellie (center) from Shellie Sews works here part-time!
And that's Karen on the right from Sew Many Ways.
Happy Rhode Island bloggers!


So, why didn't I take a picture with my BFF Janet? Sorry, Janet.

We had fun drooling over 6,000 bolts of awesome fabric and aisles of trims to die for. I bought more than I should have, but I'm happy. I started out with the green and orange fabric and ric-rac, moved on to some small-scale Christmas prints, added some stripes to play some more, waffle weave for tea towels, black gross grain ribbon for Julia, and the dresden ruler because they are "in".

There are lots of sample quilts hanging from the rafters of this old mill building on the banks of the Blackstone River. I love the strips in this antique quilt.

I'm ready to jump in and start the big projects on my list and some little projects, too. While I waited in the high school parking lot this afternoon, I crocheted two wool flowers that will be felted and turned into pins. I need to get busy on things I can sell at the holiday craft fairs!

Isn't that bag great?! Janet made it for me because she knits and I don't!

Ready, Set, Sew!