Settler's Trail Update . . .

So here are all the blocks I need for Settler's Trail.

I think this trail is all downhill from here!

Just in case you've forgotten, Settler's Trail is a pattern by Primitive Gatherings.

I'm guessing mine will look exactly like this one!  

Thanks for all your encouragement on finishing up my Evening Bloom border blocks.  You make a great cheerleading squad.  But Kathy had a comment that eased my conscience some, "why work on the border at the beginning, you may change your mind when you get to the end".   So true!

It's supposed to be unseasonably hot here this weekend, sounds like perfect sewing weather to me!

Happy Ending . . . .

Great News!  I was able to retrieve my lost blog posts and am back to where I was this morning before I accidentally deleted my last 20 posts!  I was lucky that I only deleted one page worth of posts and not all of them, and that the deleted posts were still in Google Reader. I'm just not used to the new blogger formats, I'll be more careful in the future.

The bad news is that I was only able to copy the original posts, the comments were lost, which frankly are my favorite part of my posts!

I kept telling myself that there are worse things that could happen to me, but it put a damper on my day just the same, I feel so much better now that the posts are back.   I think I still have some clean-up work to do on my Lifetime Quilt List but that's OK.

Thanks all for your support and suggestions!!


I'm not sure how adding the old posts will impact how you read my blog, don't think you're going crazy if you read a post and think to yourself, "this sounds vaguely familiar", you've probably read it before!

!@#$%^&*()_!@#$%

I just accidentally deleted my last 25 blog posts!!

Guess I'll start fresh tomorrow.

Evening Bloom . . .

As I work on getting ready to appliqué my last Evening Bloom block, I also need to start working on the border blocks.

I need 76 of these blocks for the outer border. 

I don't know why I waited until the end to start on them, they are easy and go quickly.  But working on 76 of them all at once will be very time consuming.  I can't help but regret that I didn't work on one a week the whole time I was working on this project.  I would have them done and it wouldn't have taken any noticeable time out of my sewing time.  Oh well, it is what it is!

Here's a basketful of step one, sewing together each end.

  

Then I'll need to trim them, piece them, and finally, appliqué them on the block.  I'm hoping to be done with this whole quilt by the end of June, there's no more time to waste.

I've been enjoying these roses at my house,

I thought you might enjoy them too!

Market Finds . . .

How much of your weekend did you spend reading blogs about Spring Market?  Even though I didn't get to attend market in person,  I still enjoyed seeing what's new and here are a few of my favorites:

Spools by Thimble Blossoms.

Who wouldn't love to have one of these hanging in their sewing room?  I think I like the vertically challenged spools better than the all in a row ones.   I think finding the perfect top and bottom spool fabric is the secret, any fabric would  look good in the center.

Here's another pattern that caught my eye.  Rendezvous, designed by JoeWood for ThimbleCreek Quilts.

This is the same designer who created French Vintage, that gray and red quilt I finished a few quilts back.  I think this quilt has to be a two color quilt and that the two colors have to be red and white!

This book, Elegant Quilts, Country Charm is the first book by the Quilted Crow Girls, Leonie Bateman and Deirdre Bond-Abel. 

A couple of folks suggested a pieced and appliqué project for my 100th quilt.  There are several projects of the 11 projects in this book that appealed to me.

This is my favorite, Madder Stars.

This book is available now, it may already be in your local quilt shop, or you can order it here.

 I liked all my usual designer fabric reveals, French General, Bonnie and Camille, Primitive Gatherings, but I also found a new designer with fabric that appealed to me, Song Bird by Carina Gardner for Riley Blake Designs.  It's not my usual choice of fabric but I'll be waiting for it to arrive in stores in June, so I can get a better look at it.

What's on your must have list from market?