B I N G O ! ! ! !

Over at the HGTV Forum they do a fat quarter bingo each spring. For how ever many fat quarters (up to 30) you send in you get bingo cards. I played last year with 10 (I think!) and had a BLAST. So this year I played 25 cards. It was so much fun, especially the day the doorbell rang and this was on my front porch.....




Yep I won in my group (along with 1 other lady) and here is what we won



Here are all 286 fat quarters. I had soooo much fun going thru them all.

Fabric heaven :)


My plan is to try and get a couple of tops pieced for Quilts of Valor or maybe Project Linus. Not sure which yet. Needless to say I'm going to have to find a great scrappy pattern.

Lastly for tonight here is a picture of the Ladies room on the casino floor at Paris Las Vegas. It was sooooo gorgeous. I SO want a sink and tile like that!



And omg did I ever feel like a dork taking a picture of the ladies room lol.

Bats in my belfry...

or a bird in my kitchen!





One morning a few weeks ago the dogs were going nuts and I kept hearing a bird chirp. Well my first thought was they had hurt a bird in the backyard, so I went to see and they were all 4 in the kitchen barking like maniacs at this bird.




Cute huh? You should have seen me chasing it with the broom! I looked like a total dork lol.



And then I scared the poop outta the poor bird......





Bird isn't so cute anymore! Took about 15 min but I got it to fly out the front door.



Here is my first "on my own" paper pieced block. Turned out pretty good, except I placed a piece incorrectly and hade a little gap on one corner. But I was able to put another little piece to cover it and now you can't tell :)



I'm now working on a wall hanging from Carol Doak's Yahoo group. It's a celebration wreath she designed for the groups birthday. Hopefully I can finish it this weekend. I think it's going to turn out pretty good, only a couple of little mistakes design elements. I'm really liking paper piecing, I like the precision of it.

Toodles for now -- I'm going to go try and figure out how to do one of those cute signatures that everyone has. Wish me luck rofl!!

testing testing 1 2 3

ok I found a great blog and she asked how to do strikethroughs and someone commented on how so here goes a test

supercalafragalisticexpealadocious

let's cross our fingers :)


ps oh and because I'll forget this in about 4.3 seconds here is how:

< s > text < / s > only without all the spaces

whew thank goodness I remembered to add how I did it..........

It's done!

The top from my last post is almost done. I've got the piecing finished and need to add borders now. These things are like wrestling a bear. I have nooooo idea how I'm ever going to do a king size...........................

I fell in love with this last summer when I saw it on www.patchworktimes.com , Judy designs quilts for her "quilt for an hour" blog posts. I didn't really follow the timeline because I don't really have an hour each and everyday to sew. She just got thru with a star quilt design that I liked also. I've realized that I SO need to work on my accuracy. omg some seams were a very scant 1/4 and some were damn near 1/2" I think!!! And having a Bernina with a 9mm seam doesn't make accurate piecing any easier. But hopefully I'll get the hang of it soon.

I love black and white. I may do another with hot pink or maybe lime green. But yikes first I've got to get the borders on this one and get it quilted. nnnooooottttt looking forward to quilting it! But for only my 3rd completed quilt I think I did pretty darn good ;)