On Sunday I had a friend’s baby shower to attend, so last Wednesday (or was it Thursday) I picked out some fabric for the gift and waited until Friday (!) to actually sew up the gift. Very last minute, which I suppose went along with the project I picked to make since it was from Last Minute Patchwork + Quilted Gifts. I spent most of Saturday sitting in my studio on my chair in the sunshine hand stitching the binding, which was not a terrible way to spend a Saturday. I think this might become my new baby shower gift, since I have a few more baby showers to attend in the near future (although I might try to make those a little less last minute :)
Monthly Archives: July 2008
July 24
Some lovely things from last week (because I seem to be about a week behind real life when it comes to blogging)…
I received a coupon in my email last week for Sew, Mama, Sew & I just couldn’t resist using it :)
Beautiful new fabrics from Anna Maria Horner’s new line Garden Party… What can I say about these, other than that the colors are simply gorgeous!
Lovely orange + green from Erin McMorris’ line Park Slope. I have never really liked the color orange, but lately I seem to be drawn to it. Although I still have a hard time buying anything orange, but this fabric is the perfect shade of it…
Fabric from the Ginger Blossoms line by Sandi Henderson for finishing a quilt I have been working on… (Although I have yet to decide how big I am going to make this quilt & what to do with it when I am done, since even though the colors are beautiful I am not sure it is really going to work anywhere in my house…)
A bit of fabric for a summer top or two (although summer doesn’t feel like it is going to last much longer – oh well :)
Some very lovely shades of grey & blue linen from a shop that will remain nameless. (Unless you want a tip on where not to shop! Which honestly I have no problem giving, just shoot me a little email :)
A couple new crafting books… I don’t normally buy crafting books, but after hearing so many great things about the two on the bottom I decided I had to get them for myself. I wasn’t disappointed either, both of these books are wonderful.
The “Cotton Time” was from the local Japanese bookshop. Last Friday, Ahava and I went and did a little shopping together. Mostly it was window shopping since I had already bought enough fabric & such last week, but I did pick up the latest cotton time magazine (which I don’t think should be called a magazine, it really is more of a book.)
Ahava also gave me this lovely homemade strawberry jam! Wasn’t that so sweet of her! :)
And if you actually read all the way to the bottom of this, well that was so sweet of you! :)
July 21
There is actually a bit of crafting/sewing going on around here, but no photos yet of any of it… Partly because I cannot figure out how in the world to photograph one of the projects & partly because a lot of the projects I have been working on are still works in progress. So instead of a bit of crafting I thought I would share some photos of the cats :) These were actually taken weeks ago, but have just been sitting on my computer. I am loving the black & white (and the color photo too:)…
I’ll be back tomorrow with either some sewing or maybe all the lovely mail I got last week…










