I just finished reading “The Quilter’s Kitchen” by Jennifer Chiaverini. What a quick read. This new book has several recipes in it also that I just might have to try.
Next, I’m moving on to this book:
which is “The Hiding Place” by Karen Harper. I’m about 1/2 way through it and it’s pretty darn good!
And after waiting 2 1/2 weeks (yep, thank you postal service for taking so long to deliver this book to me) I will be reading this next:
The newly realeased “Wanted” by Shelley Shepard Gray. I’m such a sucker for amish books, I tell you - and this one is hot off the presses. My Mom is sending me “Marley and Me” now that she finished with that, so that will be added to the pile also!
Why so much reading lately you ask - I’ve caught the dreaded winter time cold and it’s a got me feeling yucky. I’ve had it slowly coming on for a day or so now. I wish I could survive just one winter season without getting sick like my dear hubby - but it never fails.
On a better note, I’ve been scrap bin diving. My scrap bins were over flowing again, so I was able to cut bits and pieces here and there for about a 1/2 day and made a nice dent there. I added a ton of fabric strips to my stash for those string quilts that I always have going here and there. Plus, Kathie Holland had 2 awesome quilts in recent past issues of American Patchwork and Quilting magazine that I have my eye on making! Below is one of the quilts -but there is another of her designs that I cannot find a picture of - or (and this is the worst part - I can’t remember which issue if was in either) she had another string pieced type quilt with gorgeous read fabric - it had vertical rows of strip pieced fabrics alternating with red fabric strips. OMGosh - it was just a yummy quilt, so Kathie if you are reading this - please help my feeble, stuffed up with a cold brain and tell me which issue that quilt was in!
Charleston V fabric collection from Marcus Brothers should be on it’s way within the next week or so if all goes well. They are processing orders right now, so hopefully we will have that gorgeous pink and brown fabric in our hands soon.
Also coming is Moda’s Kansas Troubles Classics Plaids collection. We have the line of yummy homespuns coming and I’m so excited to start mixing those in with some of my projects. I love homespuns so much and can’t wait for those bolts to arrive. I have wool project ideas mixed with homespuns popping up in my head! I’m getting the itch to play with some wool!
And - keep your fingers crossed - the Aged Muslins should be here with in the next week or so also. I checked on that fabric for everyone yesterday also. 2 of the 4 shades of Aged Muslin are finally ready to ship out to us. Thank goodness! We’ve only been waiting almost a month!
Sounds to me like the end of next week or early part of the following week should be a blast around here with all the boxes coming in!
Oh - and more ecology cloth is on the way also - didn’t want to forget that also!
Don’t forget the fabric sale on our website is coming to a close very soon. January 31st will be the last day for the sale and then we start getting down to business and cutting up the remaining stock for our upcoming quilt shows (the first one is at the end of February!) We gotta get to work on making all those fat quarters and fat quarter bundles everyone enjoys so much. Plus - I have to make room on the shelves for all this new fabric! This is going to be so fun!
Oh - and I’ve had a couple questions recently wanting to know if we are going to get more Bonnie Blue fabrics back in stock. The answer is yes - all the pieces we sold out of are currently on order and we should see those starting to come in over the next week or so also. This fabric line will be printed for awhile longer yet and it is just such a great line of fabric, so we are going to continue to carry it as long as it’s available! We’ll be putting fat quarter bundles, fat eighth and fat sixteenth bundles back on the website as soon as we have the entire collection back in stock!
Well, I’m off to start the day. I’ll be cooking some homemade chicken noodle soup today and snuggling under a quilt reading and hand quilting while I nurse this yucky cold.
