A UFO Bites The Dust

Well after months of this little doll quilt sitting around waiting on me to put on it's binding it is finally out of the UFO pile and up on my kitchen wall. Please excuse the nasty colour of the wall, the people who had this trailer before us had no sense of colour. We decided that the trailer is going once we have everything paid off so only 4 more years of funky coloured walls. We don't know yet if we are going with a double wide or building a house.

A Interesting Question

Janet from the Rogue Quilter asked a very interesting question. The question was " How long will you stash last?". Well I am almost ashamed to admit that my stash would not last very long. My entire stash fits into a travel suitcase with some room to spare. However in my defense we do live in a very tiny trailer that barely houses us let alone all of my crafting supplies so I mainly buy for 1 quilt at a time.

Spike loves to hang out in the suitcase while I am quilting and gets quite upset with me if I have to disturb him to get some fabric :)

Block 1

Well here is my first block from the Henrietta Whisker's BOM. I'm not to sure if I am happy with it though, I noticed that I chopped one of the points off of my square in a square blocks. Also I'm not to sure about the colours that I picked for Henrietta they tend to blend into the green strip even though her arm and tail are grey. I will do the buttonhole on her and see if I like her better after, if not I will just do another one.

Henrietta Whisker's BOM

Well this morning I just couldn't sleep ( I seem to have lots of morning where I am up way before the sun is) . I came across this wonderful applique BOM from Bunny Hill Designs called Henrietta Whisker's. I have fallen in love with it :) I spent all morning cutting and sewing the pieces for it, as soon as I find the cord to the camera I will post photo's of what I have done so far.

Here is a link to the free patterns

Bunny Hill Designs

And here is a link to the flickr group

Flickr group

Puppy Love :)

We have a new addition to the family , Spike is a Red Nosed Pitbull and my DH little buddy :)

Here Spike was about to fall asleep, I am so glad that I had the camera handy as these 2 photo's are just way to cute !

Thunder has gotten quite accustomed to spike crawling all over him and he plays so gently with the puppy.

Quilting MoJo and Possible Quilt Along

So in an attempt to bring back my quilting mojo I put together this little pretty. Yup still need to put on the binding but that is cut and all ready to be sewed on. I had fun making it and it was super simple - just what I needed :)

I have been thinking all week about putting up another mini quilt tutorial but have yet to decide on what pattern I would like to do. Today I pulled out my draft paper and colour crayons and played around a bit, I have 3 that are possible candidates. I really like making doll quilts and mini quilts I hope my mojo is back to stay this time :)

Marans Chickens

Aren't these just the coolest eggs you have ever seen ? These eggs come from the Marans Chicken. I am wanting to add a bunch of these beauties to my flock.

Above is what is called a Wheatan Maranas and it is the colour that I will soon be adding. However before I purchase them I need to build a separate hen house and run for them. I have a goal to reproduce more of these little buggers and want them to be purebred. I think that the eggs would sell well at the farmer's market.