Got a shout out on hip to be a square podcast!

Super excited to have been mentioned as commenter on the hip to be square podcast!

It's a bit geeky but I love podcasts and Pam over at hip to be a square is a riot(so are her cats)!

I should put together a list of the quilty podcasts I listen to and maybe a couple others I love....

An ugly project

Isn't it strange that we will spend hours working on something we don't even like? 

Of course this really means I am spending hours working on something I don't love the colors of. I do like the use black as the neutral. The colors used in it were fabrics I had and I did a sampler of random blocks mostly to learn a whole bunch in a short time. 

Which of course I did. 

I think that I need to sew slower and that sewing with pre cut quarter square triangles is a little bit ambitios for me right now. 

Also I'm sure that repetition of a single block would lead to a better product in the case of the trickier ones :)

Some blocks turned out good and some...well my sister will love it anyways. It's just her thing, loud and bright. Thank goodness for 13 yr old girls :) 

I have to add borders to the smaller blocks. Yes smaller, when I had the best block I'd done so far turn out 2 inches smaller than the others I just made 2 more the same size thinking I could work it in. Nope! So adding borders and then sashing... And then off we go!

*I have got to stop not publishing posts when I write them... Though this is in the same stage :)

The lost book review

I wrote out a whole book review then switched to my safari app and back to the blogger app and BAM! Gone.... Poof. 

Hopefully tomorrow I will get back to it. 

The Quilting Recipe Book 

Sheesh...

Mug Rug Swap

This was a whole lot of firsts for me. My first mug rug, first quilting of anything and my first swap. 

It was also my first time in the quilt side of our local fabric shop... FUN!

 The theme of our mug rug swap was back to school which was a little tricky. Most things I could find for back to school ideas weren't something I would enjoy on a daily basis so I was happy to stumble across this tutorial. 

http://sew-fantastic.blogspot.ca/2011/03/mug-rug-tutorial-scrappy-colorblock.html?m=1

Tutorial in hand off to the quilt shop I went! 

I found a charm pack of Noteworthy by Sweetwater and a charcoal grey fat quarter and away I went. 

Really enjoyed making this (the binding was a little sketchy) and mailed it to its recipient yesterday. 

Hope she likes it!

This is also my first blog post so please be understanding as I get my bearings :)