Happy Father's Day

I've been busy! First my road trip report and then a little bit of the fun I had Saturday.

Five of us met to go out to Endless Mountain Quiltworks in Tunkhannock, Pa. It is a wonderful shop with lots of fabric and lots of variety. If you like Thimbleberries, Amy Butler,kiddie fabric, brights, 30's prints,

reproductions -- you name it, there is some at Endless Mountain Quiltworks. I was able to get fabric that went with my jelly roll although it is not the exact same fabric. All of us helped the economy by buying some fabric! (That's my excuse and I'm sticking with it!) I haven't taken a picture of the fabric but I did take some pictures while we were out and about.

After shopping we went to lunch at Twigs on the main street in Tunkhannock. Yummy food and we all thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.

From left to right: Carol, me, Carol, Pat and Ada. How amazing is this -- no red eyed gals amongst us!

And, just so you know I wasn't kidding about our helping the economy here's our bags in the back of Carol's car. Mine is the blue bag. (I am so ecologically sound...LOL)

Saturday I got a call from Ruth before 9 am. Would I like to go to a meeting of a long arm quilter's group that meets relatively close to us. (Ok an hour or so away!) You bet I would! I enjoyed myself thoroughly with a nice group of ladies and gentlemen. And, I learned lots. I was trying to be all ears and eyes but the mouth had a little work out with laughing and chatting. Tomorrow I'll share some fabulous photos from that adventure. As I told Ruth as we were driving home "That four hours flew by." Since she and I met at a Dunkin' Donuts I treated myself to a toasted coconut donut and an orange coolata. Yum.

Today I finished the quilt on Ruthie and will share photos of it soon. Tomorrow I will stay home and sew for a change. I'm about finished with the binding on the little road quilt. Hopefully I'll trim the blue quilt I took off today and perhaps make the binding for it. And, I need to get going on Sarah's graduation quilt from the Sizzlin' Sixties book. My quilt life is full.

Quick question if you've hung with me to the end. I'm going to use a jelly roll on Sarah's quilt. The background fabric is from my stash and has been washed. I am not sure whether I should try to shrink the strips by hand or just use them as they are. Any ideas out there?

Happy Quilting All!

Road Trip

Road trip today to Tunkhannock and Endless Mountain Quiltworks with a group from the guild. Woowee!

Plans for me include:

• fabric to go with the jelly roll I have for Sarah's quilt -- borders, binding, a bit more fab to make the quilt larger

• look at green fabs

• try not to buy any more than what I actually need

Last night I tried one of the "blocks" in Sizzling Sixties to see how my ruler worked since I don't have the flat topped one recommended in the book. Yep, had to make a change but I did get a decent block out of it in the end. I am in love with this book. I was going to make the quilt on the cover but after my practice block I thought it would be more expedient to make one that was considered intermediate rather than advanced. After all, I need to have this completely done by mid August. It will be cool no matter which quilt I do! Click on the link to go to Connecting Threads, then you can look at each of the quilts in the book. (Don't you just love that with Connecting Threads!)

Time to get the road show on the road, so to speak. I'll report back this evening with my goodies. At least, I hope I'll get some goodies!

Happy Quilting All!