No Playing Time

Yesterday, after running errands, doing housework and laundry, there wasn't any time left over to play around with my fabrics...oh well. 
A couple months ago I thought the Brown Bag quilt contest (button on the right) looked like a fun way to get rid of some fabric, and I was partnered with Emily at Quilt Doodles. We had to exchange a total of 2 yards of fabric in different sizes - these are the fabrics I sent her:

She sent me these and she even coordinated the colors!

I already know how I'm going to use it and I've decided on my pattern, but I haven't cut into the fabric yet.  The completed quilts have to be posted no later than March, more on that later.  Until then, sew forth and sew on.

Linda

3:48

That's the time I saw on the clock radio when I accepted the fact that I wasn't getting any more sleep this morning, so I got on up.  My day starts at 4:15, I work four 10-hour days with every Friday off, so I'm off today, yaaaaay!!

I started cleaning my sewing room and found these 2 pieces of a long-forgotten angel under something:



 I think she'd make a cute wall hanging, I might give it a whirl today.  What do you think, is she a "day" angel...

or a "night" angel??

What do you think?

It's already 7 o'clock so I better get moving.  I have an eye doctor appointment today in Gaithersburg at 8:45, and there's a really bad backup on the Beltway because of an accident, so that's out.  No way will that be clear by 8:15 so it's the back roads for me!

Until later - Sew forth and sew on!
Linda

Challenges...

Thank you all so much for your comments and encouragement!  This post is entitled "challenges" for a couple of reasons:  first, I'm still trying to get my blog real estate in order, slowly but surely getting there.  Second, I have 2 challenge quilts to show you from my guild's 2009 challenge - (1) "The Color Purple" and (2) "You Give Me Butterflies." 

One day I was eating one of those little boxes of raisins, looking at the box (you know how you do, munching and reading the small print, trying to keep those raisins out of your cavity), when I said to myself, "I bet this would make the perfect purple quilt if I can enlarge it enough."  And so I did!  This one's called "The Raisin Maiden." 

After the fact, I realized I should have/could have made her a bit larger, she looks lost inside that large frame.  BUT, I figured the sun was an important part of the design, so there had to be room for it to shine down ...  AND I should have/could have placed the bottom of the basket directly on the border rather than floating it above it.  

Oh well, that's a done deal.

For the second challenge I searched the web for butterflies and I found a pretty butterfly postage stamp, I think it was from Brazil.  I added my own spin to make the colors "pop."  You might not be able to see it, but I put my initials and the year in the upper left corner, the way you see the country and year designated on a real postage stamp. 

I used a nickel as a template to cut out the little notches in the white border.  This one is named Butterflius Challengus, and it is 14-1/2 square.

Until next time, sew forth and sew on!
Linda