A charm pack and some yardage by Aneela Hoey.  Little Apples is her latest with Moda.

Charm packs (small squares of each print in the line of fabric) is a great way for me to go since I have trouble deciding quickly on what fabrics I want from a line.  I can take the charm pack home, decide what I’m going to make, and then if I need yardage of a certain fabric I can call the shop up and have them send it to me.

Another charm pack and some binding yardage from Sweetwater.   Hometown is a great line from Moda.

I also bought home dec weight fabric from Hometown to make another wet bag for Espen’s room.

A wet bag is for all those stinky cloth diapers that are waiting to be washed.  It is lined with PUL so keeps the smell in.  It will hang on the side of Espen’s changing table.

I also bought some yardage of solid grays.  Did I mention that I am really into gray?

Some more gray things I liked.

That bike is darling!

These adorable Japanese prints.

A cloth diaper pattern,  by Favorite Things, because a new cloth diaper is a treat around here.  And a Terry Atkinson pattern because she does such great patterns, I learn so much from her, and who can’t resist pockets/zippers/organizers.

Good thing I sell quilting patterns so my spending doesn’t make that much of a dent!  You can find my patterns and sooooooo  many other wonderful patterns at Country Fabrics and Quilting in Brainerd MN.  I can’t recommend the shop enough–make a trip!!

I finished baby #2′s baby blanket!  Yay!  My first project with crochet and I LOVE how it turned out.  The colors are great, the weight feels good  for any season, and I think it will snuggle around baby very nicely.

Material is dyed for a new rug for the nursery.  I wanted to use what I had on hand so I attempted to dye some orange wool red, TWICE, but I still have orange wool.  My dryer may or may not be a new shade of red…don’t tell Tony.  So the rug will be orange, robin eggish blue, and gray.  I picked wool for the thickness it gives.  Nothing like a good cushy rug under your feet.

This is the frame I made and an old sheet used as the warping.  If my energy holds out tonight I will start the weaving.

Also completed is the top of a quilt for the nursery wall.  I need to quilt and bind it.  A sneak peak for you now.  More to come later on it.

So even though my feet are starting to complain about this extra traveler on board with me, progress is being made.  A good thing.

The quilt I am sharing is” City Tromps.”  I made this quilt this last winter with some of Denyse Schmidt’s fabrics and some gray solid.  I wanted to make a modern, easy to piece quilt that would show the fabrics well.

I quilted it with a bit tighter (for me) basic meander.  I also added the word “modern” in the quilting.  This was one of my first times adding words into my quilting, and I must say that I am addicted.  It adds some spice for you as the quilter, since sometimes a meander can get somewhat tedious.  It also adds quirkiness to the quilt and it is always fun when people catch it as they look at the quilt.

Something else I learned on this quilt, is to just go with the flow.  I totally ran out of gray thread as I was quilting and for a second I panicked, but then I thought I should just use what I had on hand.  So out came the blue thread.  Another quirky element that I really enjoy.  It is not very obvious, but I know that the blue thread is there in one corner and it is kind of like a little secret just between the quilt and me.  Can you see it?

I added a wool elephant applique on the back of the quilt.  I thought long and hard about how I was going to get that guy on the back without quilting over him or around him.  I decided that I would add him after the quilting was done with a bit of fusible web and hand stitching.  Waalaa!

“City Tromps” hangs out on the living room couch, hence the added wrinkles, and works perfect with the pillows I had previously made.  I must like gray.  :)

Pop on over to Bloggers’ Quilt Festival to check out all the amazing quilts people are sharing.  Talent and inspiration galore!!

The first up is my latest Boxed Blessings sample.  This is done out of scrappy civil war prints with a black box frame and binding.  I like it.

For the quilting, I did a basic meander.  Nothing special, but I think it always looks nice.

Boxed Blessings is an Ingrid Barlow pattern available via your local quilt shop, me, or a PDF sent directly to your inbox.  So many ways to get your hands on this pattern!

Next up is Bloom by Thimble Blossoms.   I used all Fig Tree material for it, which I think matches the style perfectly.

I like how the pattern had me use fat quarters for the backing.  Makes it interesting.  I also added an extra strip that I had leftover from the front.

For the quilting I did sweet little flowers and butterflies.  If my next baby was a girl, I would totally hang this on her bedroom wall!

1.  It uses a jelly roll, so you can have all the fabrics from one line in a project.  So often I have a hard time deciding which fabrics to purchase, and a jelly roll allows me to get a little piece of each.

2.  It is simple to piece.  You don’t have to think too hard–a good thing!

3.  It has some modern whimsy.

4.  The quilting I did on it turned out perfect!  Yay!

5.  A pattern you can make up for your friends or call your own.  Gender neutral!

Elias loved checking out the quilt the moment it came off the quilting frame.  Ahhh, it does a mother’s heart good!

I did a tall loop next to a smaller loop for my quilting.  It was so easy since I could follow the strips.  To add some interest, I swirled some words into the quilting as well.  Mushroom.  Woodland.  Gnome.

Hope you all like Urban Twigs as much as I do.  You will be seeing more about this pattern soon!