Scott's Stocking

Whew, after a whirlwind trip to Phoenix to sell a house full of furniture and pack up, donate, or toss whatever else was left, I need a vacation from the vacation!  Consequently, I've been a bit lazy since we got back on Thursday night.  I spent much of yesterday catching up on TV shows that had been DVR'd the last few weeks and while doing so, I got a lot of stitching done on Scott's stocking.  I started this piece on our trip to Phoenix in December and did work on it a little bit during this last trip, but not much. It's probably 80% done in this pic:

The pattern is Reed's Stocking by Shepherd's Bush and I am stitching it on 18 ct Natural Linen using Caron Impressions threads (50/50 silk/wool blend).  These threads are expensive but so amazing to stitch with and SO soft!  I plan to stitch a stocking for myself as well using the same linen and threads.

I've also been working on some shop stuff putting together new fat quarter packs and adjusting the pics for new fabric to load on the site.  I really want to sew, but didn't feel that my brain was quite ready for that given that I couldn't even decide WHAT to sew lol.  I am feeling marginally less exhausted today so maybe by tomorrow I will be back to normal.  Fingers crossed anyway.

Soaking Up The Sun!

We have been in Phoenix for almost a week now and are soaking up as much sun as we can while we are here since it was still cold when we left ND last Sunday.  It was finally warmer there yesterday but it's supposed to cool back down again and until the warmer temps stick for a week, I'm not counting on them staying around.

Besides enjoying the warmer weather here in Phoenix, we have been selling all of the remaining furniture in my house down here, which was most of what I had as we moved very little.  We have renters lined up for at least a year, possibly two, so figured we'd just clean everything out and start fresh if we are ever in a position to spend more time down here, which we aren't right now or for the foreseeable future.

We have also been enjoying our backyard wildlife.  We had cameras up here to monitor the house so DH put one out by the quail block in the yard and now we have a live quail cam going lol.  Here is a still pic he took:

Stash Enhancement!

I haven't been able to sew in over a month, but I did buy a couple of things last week to add to my stash and they arrived this week.

First, I splurged on some additional Vintage Modern stash by Bonnie & Camille.  I love this entire line (which rarely happens) and definitely want to make an entire quilt from it so I needed to get some more to make sure I had enough (love that rationalization lol). 

Coincidentally, the book mentioned below has a quilt made from Ruby by Bonnie & Camille, of which I have a bit, and that line plays perfectly with this one, so that may be the quilt to make.  We'll see.  Just look at all of this yumminess:

I bought this from Kris of Lavender Quilts off of Etsy.  Check out this cute packaging and scissors she included with my purchase:

Secondly, I finally got Kim Brackett's new book, Scrap-Basket Beauties.  What a great book!  I looked through it cover to cover last night and I immediately found a handful of quilts that I must.make.now.  This is Kim's third book and they are all great!  You should definitely run out and get at least one of them if you have scraps or 2 1/2 inch strips to use up. 

Sale at My Very Own Quilt Shop!

Our St. Patrick's Day sale is still going strong!  See details below.

 

SALE ALERT!!! I've got some Irish in me, but more importantly, I need to make room for all of the new inventory I have coming, so we are having a sale this weekend for St. Patrick's Day. Starting now, you will receive 20% off your entire order, excluding shipping and sales tax, if applicable. 

 

The discount will show up automatically in your shopping cart, but not on the individual product prices. No coupon code necessary!

The sale will run through midnight on Sunday, March 17th. Click below to start shopping!

 

http://www.myveryownquiltshop.com/

 

And don't forget to "Like" us on Facebook if you want to see new product announcements and get notification of sales.

 

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As a side note, there has been no sewing going on here :-(.  Too much tax work to do, but in a month that will be over (thankfully) and then I have big plans!!!!  LOL

Princess Mirah Batiks Have Arrived at My Very Own Quilt Shop!

There are many, many more to come, but the first of the Princess Mirah batiks are now available at My Very Own Quilt Shop!  These are some of the richest, yummiest batiks I've ever seen.  I just love Mirah batiks!  Well, I love all batiks, but I REALLY love Princess Mirah batiks lol.

Here are some of the new ones on the site.  Click on the link above to see them all as well as the other batiks in our shop.

Perkiomen Daydreams

Ever since I saw this quilt on Bonnie Hunter's website I knew that I had to make it someday.   Well that someday has finally arrived.  I got the book with the pattern in it for Christmas this year and realized it would be a perfect quilt for using the cutoffs I get from prepping the bolts for sale in my store.  So out with the original plan for the cutoffs and in with the new. 

This quilt is HUGE and has 10,000 one inch squares.  Even using strip piecing methods, that is ALOT of cutting, sewing, and then more cutting.  I set a goal to cut and piece 50 strip sets in February to ultimately yield 50 blocks (I think) of the 400 total that I need.  I managed to get 3 sets completely pieced and the fourth cut, but now sewn.  Not bad considering the time of year it is.

Here are some pics of my progress in February:



Giveaway Winner!

Wow, thank you so much to all of you who "Liked" us on Facebook and participated in the giveaway!  Thanks to bloggers and customers we got 29 new Likes on Facebook :-). 

My stepsons are here this morning with us, so I enlisted the help of Kelby, the youngest, in picking the winner of the giveaway.  I asked him to pick a number between one and 29 and after thinking long and hard, he picked lucky number 13, which was Ame, who is a customer of My Very Own Quilt Shop.  So congratulations to Ame!  And thank you again to everyone that participated!