Friday, February 29, 2008

Sew time

Well friends, I've decided to expand my domestic realm and recently joined a quilt exchange. I'm super excited! Thanks to my good friend Jane who linked me up with some other quilters, some experienced and some "wannabes" (like myself). The fabric collection is so bright and beautiful, and my lovely choices just arrived in the mail today-hooray!!

We are doing a rail fence design. And, to all you readers out there, we are still lacking 3 quilters in order to make the full 16 square quilt, so if you are interested let me know and I can give you the details. And honestly there is no need to be intimidated...even if you've never quilted. This is a great way to get your feet wet for first-time quilters and it ends up being less expensive because you make all your squares out of the same fabrics.

Here are my choices: (everyone will be doing white for the third strip in the block)

And if you have any quilting tips I'd love to hear them!

8 comments:

Heather said...

Well you sure know our friend Laura knows and loves to quilt. Look at you starting up all these new hobbies - cake decorating, sewing, Cooking (although you've always loved it), Joseph sure does have a great wife!

The Downs Family said...

have a good time with that!

Natalie | Make Today Great said...

That is so cool! I wish I had my sewing machine with me in SD -- yet another reason to upgrade to a 2 bedroom :) I'm excited to see the final project!

Edith said...

Hey Maren, I'm peaking at your blog from Heather's :) thought I would say hi.
How fun that you are quilting! I have never done it before and I just started quilting a quilt. I love the pattern you are doing, it looks really easy (maybe someday I'll try it)

brooke said...

This is sew fun!

AnneMarie said...

You are so talented! I "wanabe" like you - so domestic!

Jenn said...

Hey Maren! It's your friend, Jenn! Check out our new blog at http://jjzechlin.blogspot.com.

Natalie | Make Today Great said...

I want an update on how the quilt is coming along!