CHURNING BY THE SEA - PART 2

Makers Gonna Make...even at the beach!

 My first quilt top finish from my winter hiatus in

Ocean Isle Beach, NC

Made with Denyse Schmidt's "Flea Market Fancy"

I will let the pictures speak for themselves!

I have to put the back together and quilt it

but it will always be a favorite top

made of beautiful beach memories!

CHURNING BY THE SEA - PART 1

Selecting a pattern for a much loved and hoarded
fabric, like "Flea Market Fancy" by Deniye Schmidt
was really tough for me. 
But the CHURN DASH block had to be it!

Simply Retro by Camille Roskelley was the book 
with her pattern

HST stacking up nicley

But be careful...I lost one and finally found it...here!

I tried my new Bloc_Loc Ruler for all the trimming....LOVE IT!

Looking good on the design wall!

Pressing a big top on a little board with a little iron

can be tricky!

Stayed tuned for my ocean side photos

of my "Churning by the Sea" top!

WINTER WARMTH - OCEAN ISLE BEACH NC

I must admit...it has been hard getting my head

back into reality...and blogging has taken a hit!

Today is the first day of SPRING...and my

message is about my winter warmth!

After my husbands heart valve replacement last November

THIS was my HAPPY NEW YEAR!

 I walked the beach almost every day.

and locals nicknamed me Ms Ohio State!

I also became a seashell hoarder!

I did take my mobile sewing room and made some wonderful

projects, including this lap size

Flea Market Fancy "Churning by the Sea"

will have her own post!

As will my Latitude / Longitude quilt top

We did a LOT of sightseeing...

South Port, NC a wonderful fishing town

along the Cape Fear River

I managed to sew some cute knitting project bags!

and then sightseeing would take over.  

This view of Sunset Beach, NC captured on my iPad

is one of my favs!

Every day the ocean, the sky and mother nature 

gave us different and magnificent views!

This yarn  reflects the colors quite nicely!

Has not yet been knitted into anything!

I finished a couple other items but you will see 

those in other posts!

It was a beautiful couple months with Phil!

Each week I got to spend time with my son, Eric, 

in nearby Myrtle Beach, SC   

I am truly blessed and very grateful!

At no time did we...feed the alligators!

BEADY BAG LADIES!

Columbus Modern Quilters + Instagram Donations =

"BEADS OF COURAGE BAGS"

An "Arts In Medicine" program that provides handmade bags 

and various beads to children with serious illness.  

 Serving many children and hospitals.   Each time a

child reaches a milestone in their treatments

they receive a "bead" for their "bag".

While we sew the bags, others groups make the beads

and many donate to support this charity. 

Read all about Beads of Courage here!

I reached out on Instagram thru  "get you quilty wish granted"  

asking IG peeps to send me novelty prints for this effort.

What happened was amazing!!!

Box after box of fabric began appearing on my porch.

All this was donated, all shipped to me, free of charge!

50 pounds of fabric and lots materials to use for the drawstrings!

Even some pretty yarn showed up...

Cbus Modern Quilters planned a sew-in for January  
I cut kits for them to have a good start!

100 kits and lots of fabric not even touched.

The following pictures were taken the day of the 
 CbusMQ gals...please let me know if any are yours
so I can credit your photo.   

A local library conference room was set up!

(just a corner of it here)
with machines and food and lots of fun!

Prepared kits and supplies stacked up and ready to sew!



At the end of the day...these bags are ready to be delivered
to Nationwide Children's Hospital!



A ton of fabric was not touched at this event...
but since its a year long effort we are set!

Thank you Columbus Modern Quilters!
A special shout out to Allison Evans,
our charity coordinator!
To all those who came to sew, brought food
and to those who donated fabric and supplies
many children will smile....because of YOU!

Wilmington LQS

When I travel I luv to check out LQS 

and then tell you about them

I begin with their web site followed by a phone call  

Gotta make sure they are open!

While I was at the beach this winter I checked out

Wilmington, NC and found...

This shop has it all...macines, patterns, books and

MODERN FABRICS!

like these Sun Prints by Allison Glass

Musta just arrived as the rubber bands

were still around the fabric bolts!

 yumminess! everywhere!

KONA Solids

MANY Modern Fabric Designers lined shelves

and look at these FQS

Novelty fabrics and look at these Farm Animals!

Lots of Low Volume

If you like batiks...they had some of those too!

and some traditional prints!

A great Sale Area!

I needed some "Sphere" Zen Chic prints 

for the top I was working on.

FOUND IT.  ON SALE!

Other fun pieces I could not resist.  

Check out the Flamingo Pink called "Cora"

KONA's 2017 Color of the year!

Porto birds and some fun Sheep!

As we were leaving my husband Phil pointed out this sign...

Good place all around!

I didn't get to go back for the Superbow Sunday Sale...

but EVERYTHING IN THE STORE was

30% off!

So where is a favorite LQS you have discovered?