Last year, 2009, my two quilting friends M & M and I, took a block of the month class together at a favorite local quilt shop. The fabric line is called "Return to Romance" and for me it was love at first sight! I knew right away that this was the quilt for my bed. My Mr. S may complain about the girlie flowers but he sleeps with his eyes closed so it really doesn't matter what covers are on the bed to keep him warm at night!!!
Let me explain- the block of the month class we attended every month to receive instructions, pattern and fabric to make a different quilt block. This is the 3rd or 4th BOM class we have done together and the most inspiring we have completed. Our instructor was the greatest!!!
Sewing the blocks became another reason for the three of us to get together on an additional day of the month and sew our blocks in time for the next month's class. (You have to show the finished block before you receive the next block). This was such a fun journey for us through the year and we learned a few new quilting tricks along the way.
One of us has since finished her quilt top. Mine is under construction, see photos below. I have purchased all the fabric to put my "Return to Romance" quilt top together and finish the top and backing and binding. I have done my drawing/sketching on graph paper and I have played with the fabric and I now know how I want the final quilt top to look when finished. I was moving ahead with great momentum around Christmas and New Years and then realized that there were other projects that needed immediate attention.
BAM! I was then sidetracked.......!
My New Year's resolution, other than my famous one to loose that extra 10 pounds I gained by eating too much chocolate during sewing sessions, is to finish 5 projects before starting any new projects. So that is why I took time off from blogging.
What do you think? Time off from blogging................. was it worth it??? Oh yeah...
Stay tuned...... those projects that side tracked me...........they will be the next post!
2 comments:
BAM! Just like that eh? It's easy to get sidetr.... *distracted by sparkelies*
hehehe time off from blogging, like 5 months? well I should say much it takes a lot to get one post out of me a week! How was the shower? Did Taylor get a lot of cutie things?
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