I am one tired Shop Hopper!

We finished the Shop Hop yesterday afternoon, logging 227 miles! (just for Friday) I don't know how many miles we did on Wen. evening and all day Thursday--Libby drove and we forgot to check.  Regardless it was a lot of miles and ALOT of fun.  It took us to the final 1/2 hour of the ride home to finally be 'talked out'! 

I bought mostly fabric, fat quarters and yardage-got a good deal on fabric for backing (3.99/yd!)....you know how that goes:

 Walk up to the stack of bolts... see the sign...do a double take.... look closer at the bolts (holy-moley it's all quilt shop fabric: Moda, Thimbleberries etc)... your heart beats a little faster....you're eyes dart around to see if anyone else has spied this gold mine... And then you start really looking, counting the layers on the bolt (2 layers = 1 yard, good estimator) Yup, 6 yds at least...IT'S MINE! For practically a song....

...Yeah, you know what I'm talking about! ;)

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My sewing room is a mess.  Since I'm a prewasher that's what I did today, 'washed the loot'...but I'm dragging and not in the mood to press. So it's all neatly, was sorta neatly, piled on my sewing chair.  I'll get to it soon.

This morning I finished quilting The CW Medallion quilt. Woo-Hoo.  No picture until it's done cuz it's also in a pile (not nearly as neat as the fabrics) waiting to have the edges trimmed and  then; Oh man, Oh man have the binding wrestled sewed on.
Yuk.

Today I looked at my design wall at this.

 

and decided that I do not like it.

 

So I spent the next few hours, 3-4 hours is more like it.

But time flies when I'm having fun.

And I now have this

(not necessarily the final block arrangement)

Oh joy 2 more quilt tops have been born! 

I'm super happy with them both.  The one on the left is probably going to get a final dark blue border and the one on the right....hmmmm not sure yet it could be 2 borders but maybe just one. It has a name though "Seppy".  So I guess I could call the one on the left "Debby" and I'd have my 3 imaginary friends (Seppy, Debby and Juber) immortalized in my quilts. 

But it doesn't look like a Debby to me, more like a Frank, or maybe a "Jedediah" or "Josiah". 

"Bob" would have been easier, had to spell check the other two....

;)

Design Wall Monday May 16, 2011

Here is my wall.

I'm going to see how long it can stay here like this. I want to use a light grey CW fabric and I don't have enough on hand. 

I have so much other stuff to get done, caught up on, enjoy this week.

 It will be a test of wills to see if I can leave this alone.

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I have started the quilting on my Batik Sampler; will try to post a picture of quilting later.  I'm doing an all over feather with a bright variegated thread.  I'm doing regular feathers not the hooked ones I just did on the last  2 quilts.  The thread on the black batik shows every bobble and I'm going extra slow and still frogging a "too wobbly" one every now and then. 

Edit: here are a couple pictures, sorry about the glare.