Ft. Worth it!!

I rarely get over to Ft. Worth....and when I do it's usually to visit Billy Bob's for a concert...if you have never been you should go...especially if Pat Green or Jason Boland are playing...but I digress...

Ft. Worth is not so close...but not so far either (on the map at least)...but there is inevitably traffic or construction when heading west to Cow Town (yeah that's what they call locally...in reference to it still having a working stockyards)....so the trip is longer than I care to make very often...

and since I have everything I need close at hand in my little corner of DFW....including two very good quilt shops within a 10 minute drive....Quilt Country here in Lewisville and The Old Craft Store in Carrollton...

but I'd been told more than once that I needed to make a trip to the Cabbage Rose in Ft. Worth...everyone raves about it...it's the best...they have everything...the staff is great...I could go on and on about the great things I had heard about it...and then several ladies mentioned it in a discussion on the Dallas Modern Quilt Guild site....I decided to definitely check it out sometime soon...

so this weekend I made the trip over to Ft. Worth to visit the Cabbage Rose....and EVERYTHING I'd heard was true....this is the place for all the must have fabric...and the staff are amazing...

so i heart cow town!!

I see many more trips to Ft. Worth in my near future....

here's the big pile of purchases that I got on this trip....

I was the most excited about some of the Full Moon Forest, Nest, Hushabye, Neptune, and Flutterby by the amazing Tula Pink.

I just love these...especially the Squirrel yardage...

New Look

decided the blog needed a happy spring-y look...

voile...

clean simple spring-y!!

smiles :)

Simplicity

as i believe i mentioned before i really like green...

you'll remember the greens i picked out a while back for the St. Patrick's quilt...

they're vibrant and fun...

so i decided they needed to be in a simple quilt...

i'm about half done with the quilt top at this point...

isn't it fun??

i can't wait to get this one done....

the backing fabric is dark green dots on white...

i'm thinking straight line quilting for this one??

for real simplicity as a whole

Think Pink

the Valentine's quilt top is done...

i decided on white for the sashing...

and went for pink on the backing...
this is just a sneak peak at the backing....

the weather was beautiful yesterday for me to take these pictures!!

Resourceful

I was trying to lay out some squares....

which i tend to do on my bed or the floor...

neither of which was working today due to some rather large dog paws walking across them....

so I had to make an impromptu design wall...

i throw some batting over a bookcase...

it's weighted down by a basket of miscellaneous craft items and my letter bookends...

random items used in a time of desperate need...

oh yeah...i'm like the McGyver of quilting....

Stacked coins

that's what the Valentines quilt is going to be...

so should the sashing be white or a very pale pink??

i'm leaning toward white

what do ya'll think??

Better late than never

i decided a while back that i was going to do quilts for each holiday...

i purchased a few Sent with Love charm packs for the Valentine's Day quilt..

i cut the charms a while back....

and added some solids...

and then they sat on my sewing table for over a month...

not any more though...

i started sewing...

and decided that my original idea would just not do...

these were screaming to be something different..

can you guess where this quilt is headed??