Two Days Before Spring Mystery Weekend!

(1) black/gray

(2) brown/tan

(3) gray/mist

(4) tan/mist

 

These are my new fabric choices for

The Spring Mystery Quilt Weekend

March 16-17th

 from my favorite Mystery Quilt Designer,

Jessica J.E. Smith

 at my quilty home away from home on the web ...

 

The Quilt & Needle

 There are a few Fabric Kits left in her online shop.

 

My initial plan had been two jelly rolls and some hand dye half-yards but I now have the fabric requirements and preliminary cutting chart
and it calls for 20 fabrics or colors.

 

Since my jelly rolls did not quite meet these requirements, I went digging ... and digging ... into my stash.  I knew I had some 1/2 yards of these colorful dots and larger cuts of the gray and black dots somewhere in my stash.These fabrics proved a bit elusive but I kept digging ... and here they are!  I have 23 different pin dots

 

Now I am doing my "which 20 colors do I choose" thing ... going back and forth over what should just be a simple choice. 

(1) Do I use the black/gray?

(2) Do I use the brown/tan?

(3) Instead, do I put in the misty green with the gray?

(4) Do I put the mist with the tan?

 

These fabrics are not washed so I will wash and dry and think.

Tomorrow I will cut!

Butterfly is trying to help me decide.

Butterfly says " The black and white dot matches my lovely fur coat.  Clearly this is the only choice."

 

Katniss is trying to help me decide.

Katniss says, "This nice tan and misty gray green goes good with my hazel eyes.  You should pick this."

 

If you would like to help me decide, please leave a comment.

 

I take all fabric decisions very seriously.

 

Sometimes too much sew ... ;)

 

Looking forward to sewing the mystery this weekend.

 

I have been sewing while I have been stash spelunking.

I made my Wifely Wednesday BOW at midnight ...

Farmer's Wife Block # 33
Farmer's Puzzle

This block was a little fussy and required me to make two of the units twice.  The templates did not seem to fit quite right. 
This is only my second block in this book.

Linking up again with then lovely works in progress at
 

Freshly Pieced

 and with


Quilt Story

Have a happy quilty day!

 

:)

Wifely Wednesday ~ BOW Week #1

 

 

Basketweave Block # 4 



This is my first Farmer's Wife block!

 

I have joined in the fun of the Block Of The Week Quilt-along here ...

Farmer's Wife BOW at the Quilt and Needle Forum

 

I have been wanting to start one of these quilts for some time

 and I purchased the book ...

The Farmer's Wife Quilt

... and it has been sitting on a shelf.  At one point I even had a stack of fabric from my stash that I was considering for these blocks.  Then I dithered about my fabric choices and starting the project went sideways.

 

Time to Sew!

 

One of the reasons for buying the book were the blocks I saw popping up each week on the blog of my friend Tiffaney Is Sew Busy

 

Here are some of her pretty Wifely Wednesday blocks!

  

The Block of the Week will be posted each Monday on the Q&N

BOW First Block ... Basketweave #4

 

I have decided to use scrap fabrics from my stash for this project, soft medium shades of blue, pink, rose, lavender, green, yellow in small to medium prints, tone-on-tones, and gingham checks with a scrappy white tone-on-tone or small prints on white background.

 

 

Here are my scrappy start-up fabrics.  I will be adding more as needed. 

 

I am really looking forward to making these block and seeing all the other ones popping up in the Q&N Forum BOW Thread.

 

Hope you will join us!

 

New members are always very welcome at the The Quilt & Needle !

I am also linking up again at


 WIP Wednesday

So very pretty quilts coming together in this lovely linky party!
 

:-)