Please welcome Westwood Acres!

I'm so excited to introduce Westwood Acres as my newest sponsor! Westwood Acres is a fantastic little Etsy shop owned and operated by Husband & Wife team Weston & Amanda Woodruff. Amanda has a fantastic blog called A Crafty Fox chock full of great projects.

Westwood Acres offers the best custom precuts & bundles. I'm loving so many things in their shop at the moment! Here are some great things they have right now...

Check out their shop whenever you're considering fun new modern prints! Shipping is always a flat rate of $5.85 no matter how much you purchase! 

I recently bought the brand new line Hand Drawn Garden by Anna Maria Horner and I love it!!! I can't wait to figure out what I'm going to do with this! It's sitting so patiently on my fabric shelf just begging to be used....Gah! The colors are even more stunning in person! Thanks for offering this fabulous bundle Amanda!

Take a look at the other great bundles Westwood Acres has to offer!

September Blogger's Choice Bundle for Fat Quarter Shop!!!

Can you believe it? I still can't! Seriously.

Kimberly from Fat Quarter Shop contacted me and asked if I'd like to participate in the Blogger's Choice Bundles. Of course I said YES! I can't even begin to tell you how excited I was. I almost thought she may have contacted me by mistake. I mean, Me? Really? My little blog? Haha....ya right!  I was literally jumping up & down...no joke.

I carefully put together this color palette trying not to come up with something too similar to the other blogger bundles. One of my favorite colors is Orange so I just HAD to have that in there. Well, Salmon/Coral/Melon (whatever) is what I chose because it went well with the others I picked. Why isn't Orange a popular color choice for people? It's so much fun! I love it!

Click on over to Fat Quarter Shop to be notified when it's available! These are some awesome fabric prints & solids to add to your stash! I promise you won't be sorry!

Click HERE to see the rest of the fabulous Blogger's Choice Bundles!

A GOOD day for a GOOD deal!

Don't you love those days when you "stumble' upon the best deals at your favorite shops. In my case, my mom told me a local shop was going to be having an awesome sale and wanted me to go with her. Of course I jumped at the chance. You see, this particular shop is closed to the public and only open about TWICE a year! And when they DO open it is for a serious SALE! Of course I'M GOING! Whether or not I "really" have the money to spend on whatever they have to offer is besides the point. Haha. So, yesterday morning I got baby C and myself all ready to go, My mom picked us up, hubby stayed home, and we arrived about 20 minutes early....waiting for the door to open. 

It's a cute little house (turned into a studio) right on the beach about 10 minutes from my place called Maisonette. The sale was from 12pm-6pm so an early morning wasn't a requirement....that is always GOOD! I'm not the type of person that's willing to wake up super early for a sale that starts at 8am or whatever. I'm lazy busy in the mornings so Noon is perfect for me. 

Ready for the loot? Brace yourselves....you'll be jealous...seriously jealous.

Birthday Goodies, Fabric from Vacation & a Sneak Peak

When we arrived to my sister's place last week, I was greeted with this! Yay! What a great present to get! 2 lovely fat quarters and a Riley Blake Jelly Roll. Thanks Nana! (her nickname)

WIP: Retro Rubies QAL Update!

Here is a little update for you on my Retro Rubies Quilt Along. I'm really pleased with how this it coming along and the fabric selection. It's wild, it's out of control, it's crazy....just like me.

I wasn't sure about the Purple Indian Cotton as the sashing fabric but now I'm really loving it! I wanted to use something I had enough of on hand. I had about 2 yards of the purple indian cotton and thought...what the heck, it'll match somehow and bring out the purple in the prints. You really can't go wrong with any Kaffe Prints really matching anything! That's the whole point...no don't need to match! 

The only blocks I've sewn up so far are the green ones. I haven't cut the sashing pieces yet but that's next on the list....after I sew up the rest of the blocks of course! What do you think of the layout???

Eeeek! I love it so far!!!

Happy Quilting!

Retro Rubies Fabric Selection

This is the fun fabric I decided on for the Retro Rubies Quilt Along. I have tons of Kaffe Fassett fabric I've been saving for a great quilt...and this is it! I think it'll turn out great! What do you think???

Here's a mock up of what I'm thinking so far. I'll play around with it a little more and decide by the end of the week.

Fabric Basket Swap Fabric Choices

I was sooo excited to get started yesterday with my Fabric Basket for the swap! I "researched" my partner to get a feel for her fabric taste and decided on a scrappy basket. At first I was going to go for a a red, pink & orange combo but then I decided to got for Green & Blues. Here are my fabric selections!

A Creamy Linen- of course I ironed it after this pic :)

...and this selection of beauties....Trust me- it works :)

New Fabric Haul

I went to a few quilt shops with my Mom the other day and look at my new goodies! I'm in LOVE! I can't wait to cut these little babies up and put them to good use! I have so many visions in my head for ideas but which one to settle on??? I'm sure I'll get it all figured out soon. Since I've been doing paper piecing I decided to pick up some "End of the Bolts" of Kona White. It's always good to have on hand and they're actually decent sizes well over a yard. Ya, I think this stack outta keep me busy for awhile and out of trouble. 

Yummy Fat Quarter Shop Blogger's Choice Bundles!

A hopeful weekend of sewing was a mere dream and I was left cleaning up my place & spending time with my daughter. She is at that fun age of 9 months and she is such a happy baby. Sewing just wasn't going to happen...sigh. Oh well, we still have all week to start and finish such projects. In the meantime  I did manage to to some quilty "research"...haha. Looking at quilts, sewing ideas & projects is like porn for me. I just can't help it! And pinterest....don't even get me started! You know what I'm talking about...spending hours and hours pinning and pinning. We all do it. We say to ourselves "just a couple more minutes" or "after this one" or "I just want to look for one thing I saw earlier" or whatever. Haha. You don't have to explain yourself to me. It's ok, I forgive you and your eager crafty soul. It's not your fault. You just need to forgive yourself and actually make one of these so-called "pins" you spend hours of you life with. I'm guilty too. I'll soon start pinterest worthy posts and let you see the end result of these little charms I've found.

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New goodies!

I've picked up a few goodies recently that I wanted to share with you. A few books, rulers, notions & fabrics.

Clover Wonder Clips

I've heard awesome things about these little clips. I decided to give them a try. I haven't had the pleasure of using them yet but can't wait to! I was able to grab them for a awesome price on Ebay!

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Charm Packs Galore!

So, My mom has a sewing room and I kept all my fabric, precuts, patterns, and notions over there. Since I decided to start my own blog and possibly my own business someday...I needed to bring everything over to my place. I didn't realize I had so many charm packs! I had completely forgot about some of these fabric collections. I don't know if some of these are even available anymore. What should I make with these? I need some ideas. I'm so anxious to make something awesome with them!

Burp Cloths & Receiving Blanket

So I I've been eyeballing some flannel lately and found the cutest prints at JoAnn's. I went with these particular prints because a friend of mine is having a baby boy. She painted his nursery "Where the Wild Things Are" themed. The Monster print goes perfectly....even though they aren't the same monsters...they'll do. Here are the goodies...

Scrap Therapy

Today I decided to go through my scraps and separate them by color. I just used a bunch of them on the Moda Friendship Quilt Along quilt I did. By the time I was getting to the bottom of the stash, I realized that my fabric choices were not what I had originally thought! I never knew I had so much Blue & Green and so little Red. I love all colors and don't have a preference as far as a favorite. I don't really care for purple but I love when it's paired with jewel tones, it's so beautiful. Anyways, I wanted to share my little fabric scraps pic with you. Any ideas on how I should use them? I was thinking of making a String Quilt...what do you think?

Newest Fabric!

Hello! I wanted to show you my latest fabric purchases. Some of these were bought for specific projects in mind and some were not (hehe, I couldn't resist). Most of these are premium cotton prints but some are cheapies from Joann. I didn't need premium material for some projects I was working on, just something pretty. I usually buy my fabric on sale or with some sort of discount if possible. Trust me, at about $12 a yard for the good stuff, I'd be sooo broke all the time and wouldn't be showing you this.

Some of these I've had for a little while but most are pretty brand new to my collection! Sizes range from 1/4 Yard to 2 yards. YAY for Fabric!