Why, oh, why?

Do I keep looking at things on line? I discovered a magazine that I might just have to pick up a copy or two. It is a Finnish children's clothing design magazine called Ottobre Design They have soooo many cute things! Really, the price is reasonable when you consider the amount of patterns that are in each issue.

I have lots of ideas boiling around in my brain for spring. I will have to get on the ball and get some of them done after the Holidays are over.

I want to say a quick thank you to those of you who volunteered to try out my new idea for Etsy. I now have enough volunteers for this trial run. I'll proceed with this come January. I appreciate your willingness to play along!

I just wanted to post a little reminder that the FA quilt drawing will be on Saturday. If you were thinking about donating, there is still a little time left if you want to donate on line. So far it has raised $195.00. Not too bad for a first try. I also haven't heard from my sister who was collecting donations from people that she works with. Hopefully that will put us up over the $200 mark. I may do this again sometime in the future. Next time I will be a little better organized, and hopefully that will lead to more donations. The first time trying something like this is always a little interesting.

I am beginning to come down with a cold, so I am going to turn in early tonight.
Hope you all have a good evening!

Sneak Peek

I have been working away on my quilt top for the block swap. Today was the deadline that was set for the tops to be done. I must confess, mine is not finished. I am getting close. I took each of the blocks and ironed them onto a 14x14 piece of freezer paper (my new friend). I put them at random angles and placement. Then I strip paper pieced them out to the corners. I chose to do this because some of the blocks were not the same size as the rest, and I didn't want to take them apart and re-do them. I thought this would disguise that, and would be a little more interesting. I'm curious to see what they look like put together. It might be kind of wild, LOL. I plan to put them together in rows of 4 (I made one more block than we had for the swap) and then I think I will do a 2 inch white border around the whole thing. This will be the biggest quilt I have ever done, so it could be interesting to quilt. We shall see.


I also finished the FA quilt. I just need to get the flyers and a web page done and get that going. I hope to get that done within the next week or so. I am having a hard time getting a decent picture of it. Even outside it didn't turn out very well. I may have to play with it some more.