Wuthering Heights

I think it is about 25 degrees outside, wet, damp cold and just miserable. But I just spent the most wonderful two hours, buried under a heated blanket with a box of tissues watching Wuthering Heights on Turner Classic Movies. Yep, the original version from back in 1939.

OH! It is my most favorite movie,, I own it on VHS and still, when it comes on tv I have to drop everything and watch. Oh Kathy, My Kathy!!

Heathcliff!!

It is soooo romantic with unrequited love... and on a cold damp wintery nite,, it was just perfect.

Now I'll go wipe my eyes, kiss my husband and browse some blogs...

I've seen Wuthering Heights,, all is right with the world.

Do You EQ?

Electric Quilt ( EQ ) has a new tag for our blogs,, I use EQ all the time! I'm not an expert for sure but I love working with deisgns, fabrics, and I almost always use it to see if what I think I have is really what I'm going to get...
If you don't EQ,, check it out! http://www.electricquilt.com/


no, I don't have anything to do with the company but it's a great software package to use to design quilts

Using up the Fabric

You know how the stores always put the Christmas fabric on a good sale after the holidays -- I have so much Christmas fabric that I usually don't look ( why don't I just use it???!! ) but I saw some that was full of Santa's and thought it would be great as a One Block Wonder. Yep, I'm still making those and find them so much fun! You really never know what you are getting and that, to me, can be great fun!

Well,, I only bought 6 repeats so I knew it wouldn't make anything very big but I just wanted to play, anyway,,, but LOOK!


I am really tickeled with what I have! I want to do some more tweaking but I'm happy! Look real close,, Santa is wearing a leopard print someone on him,,, LOL!

So, this is what I'm thinking,, right now it is roughly 46 x 37 ( not all the seams are sewn together so of course it will get smaller ) I have a really big dining table and this would be great on it for the holidays...
I flipped the picture and I think I want to make a seperation in the middle of the design seperating the darker from the lighter parts,, like a slash from left to right slanted across the design. Then put a red sashing in there, I want to square up the two sections,, make a big border around all of it and maybe put some of the extra hexs in the border somehow.... aarrrgghhh,,,
I know what I want but it's hard to explain..

anyway, big table, good size table runner... like it?? any ideas??

What would you do with these Santa Hexs???

Dreaming of the Beach

A few months back, my bee decided that we needed another swap to make quilts all alike - and someone had the idea of using the pattern Beach Cottages Isn't this just as cute as can be! So, we all used the same backgrounds for the houses ( each row has a different blue ) and we made 12 houses each then swapped. It's us to us to make the trees, cabanas and sun and finish. I've been working on mine this week, well sorta with other stuff, and I think it's going to be really cute! Makes me want to go to the beach... dip my toes in warm water and drink mai tais all day... dream on!

So, this is my first row, just on the design wall, not sewn yet. House #1 is very special. One of my buds took a picture from a year ago or so, shrunk it tiny and put it in the window of the house - pretty cool!! I really thought that was a great thing to do for our quilts.

I don't know if you can enlarge this enough,, but we are all there! On the beach, dipping our toes and drinking mai-tais... aaaahhhh the life of a quilter!

More later...

A Giveaway, A Sale, no not me

Browsing around on blogs is lots of fun, but sometimes I stumble on places that can get me into REAL problems! I found on this blog a giveaway and a SALE! YES a BIG Sale... Check out the blog for Suzanne Early,, she is closing her shop and everything right now is 30% off,, plus she is having a contest to win stuff.. I'm a sucker for winning! I LOVE to win!

so, check it out and you might find some good stuff that you don't need but really, really, really want!

Suzanne’s Great Big Giveaway (and sale)